And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 743. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you so much. Welcome welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the welcome welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it. [ cheers and applause ] youre here. You made it. Youre here. Heres what people are talking about. You guys, today is the first day of fall. [ cheers ] that special time of year when neighbors take turns blowing leaves into each others property. [ light laughter ] its beautiful. I do love it, though. Its a nice thing, the leaves change from deep green to president ial orange. [ light laughter ] its just really nice. Lets get to some news here. Last night kim jongun released a rare statement attacking President Trump and referred to him as a dotard. Then trump said, sticks and stones may break my bones but words i dont know will never hurt me. [ laughter and applause ] dotard, what does that mean . Thts right, in response to trumps u. N. Speech, kim jongun gave an address where he called trump a a mentally deranged dotard. [ light laughter ] the comments had everybody looking the word up on the internet. Heres the definition. Dotard someone in a state of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness. [ light laughter ] well, whether he knows the word or not, trump seems like he is trying to make the best of the situation. Check out this ad he just released. My fellow dotards. Now is your chance to own my signature line of dotard products, like this beautiful make dotards great again hat. [ light laughter ] this stunning, worlds biggest dotard mug or woo the ladies with my seductive cologne, le dotard. [ light laughter ] available where fine dotard products are sold. Im dotard trump and i approve this message. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] steve wow. Jimmy hes really embracing it. Steve wow. Hes really embracing that. Jimmy the way to do it. And this is big, today john mccain says he will not support the Republican Health care bill, even though it was written by best friend in the senate, lindsey graham. Yeah. You can tell graham feels betrayed, because tonight, he released his own cover of look what you made me do. [ laughter and applause ] yeah. I saw that this morning First Lady Melania Trump planted vegetables in the white house garden. She started digging at around 11 00 and by 12 00 she was able tunnel out of the white house. [ laughter and applause ] i saw that this week, a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of vodka overturned in north carolina. [ cheers ] the driver is fine. He said hes shaken, but not stirred. [ laughter and applause ] guys, its the end of another crazy week, and since theres too much to talk about, instead of giving you a full week in review, we decided to put together a little montage that just focuses on the key words used this week. Its something we call this week in words. [ cheers and applause ] trumps foreign policy. Is kind of. A mess. After. Taking on. The world. In his first address. And now hes calling out some countries. Using. Nicknames. As well. And some in fact, are going to hel whoa, whoa, whoa. Escalating rhetoric. Provocative. Extreme. Rocketman. Rocketman. The reckless regime. Iran. Is corrupt. Venezuela is cruel. Authoritarian. Authoritarian. Authoritadrian rule. [ light laughter ] toys r us. Filed for bankruptcy. Premiering this sunday. Star trek discovery. Mueller. Manafort. The russian question. Russia used facebook in the 2016 election. Nambia, nambia. Doing pretty well. Thats not a place in africa, or anywhere else. [ ding ] learning about countries that you cant pronounce. Thats what the unated nations is all about. [ light laughter ] jimmy we have a great show tonight. Give it up for the roots. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much, roots. Thank you, higgins. We have a huge show tonight. Will grace is coming back to nbc next week. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy and the entire cast of the show is here tonight. Steve whoa [ cheers and applause ] jimmy talented, talented, good looking people. Were doing something fun and musical with them tonight. You dont want to miss it. Plus, we love this guy. Hes the coanchor of saturday night lives weekend update. Colin jost is stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] steve yeah. Jost jimmy then later, he hosts lunch with bruce on sirius xm radio. Bruce bozzi jr. Is dropping in tonight. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy and we have music from green days Billie Joe Armstrong. [ cheers and applause ] steve what . Thats a show jimmy thats it, right there. I think [ cheers ] there was a mishap with his boombox. Steve with his boombox. Jimmy little mishap. [ talking over each other ] jimmy currently hes in litigation right now. Steve really . Jimmy i think hes gonna win. [ light laughter ] cause this shouldnt happen. Steve no. Your boombox should not burst into flames. Jimmy it should not. Steve especially if youre listening to it, old school style. Jimmy yeah. But he crushed it, man. Thats what he does. He blows things up. Hes the best. Hes the greatest. [ cheers ] Billie Joe Armstrong. [ cheers and applause ] you guys, today is friday. Thats usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. You know, i check my inbox, i return some emails and of course, i send out thank you notes. So i was just wondering [ cheers and applause ] i was running a bit behind today. So i thought if you guys wouldnt mind, id like to write out my weekly thank you notes right now. Is that cool with you . [ cheers and applause ] i appreciate it. You guys are the best. James, can i get some thank you note writing music, please . [ light laughter ] steve wow. [ light laughter ] seems thrilled. Jimmy keep that attitude through the whole weekend, yeah. [ light laughter ] thank you, ninjago, for being the name of a new lego movie. Also, how donald trump pronounces nigeria. [ laughter and applause ] steve ninjago. Jimmy ninjago [ light laughter ] thank you, toys r us, for filing for bankruptcy. Im not surprised youre bad with money when you cant even figure out which way an r is supposed to go. I mean, come on. [ laughter and applause ] steve come on. Jimmy you didnt notice . Hat steve come on, you didnt know that . Jimmy no one noticed that . Steve no one noticed. That went through the chain of command, everybody goes, thats cool. [ light laughter ] jimmy chain of command. Thank you, donald trump, for calling kim jongun rocketman during your speech at the u. N. And thank you, Donald Trumps hair, for looking like a candle in the wind. [ laughter and applause ] wall. [ light laughter ] thank you, cheese graters, for being the dairy version of making it rain. Steve yeah [ laughter and applause ] jimmy thank you, kim jongun, for being all over the news once again. Meanwhile, kourtney jongun and khloe jungun are like, um, hello . [ laughter and applause ] steve come on. Jimmy why kim all the time . Byeee steve dotard. Jimmy byeee [ light laughter ] thank you, dorm rooms, for basically being jail cells with a minifridge. [ laughter and applause ] steve how long you in for . Jimmy thank you, egg whites, for letting me know what it would look like if snot came in a milk carton. [ laughter ] steve whoa jimmy hey steve heyyo jimmy whoa steve whoa jimmy my kids watch this show, man. [ light laughter ] steve have some respect. Jimmy have some respect. You come out here, you say that snot word. [ light laughter ] its unbelievable, man. Steve what are you, a a dotard . Jimmy whats that . Steve what are you, a a dotard or something . Jimmy dont call me dotard. [ laughter ] hey, man. Steve whats that . Jimmy you ever realize we have the same voice . [ light laughter ] steve come to think of it, we do have similar intonations. Jimmy i love you, man. Ill see you this weekend. Steve wall. [ light laughter ] jimmy thank you, flannel buttondowns, for making me look like a couch from 1974. [ laughter ] there you guys have it right there. Those are my thank you notes. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with more of the tonight show. Come on back, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] get to kohls for fall savings take 40 off carters save on jumping beans tops and bottoms and cuddl duds plush throws are just 24. 99. Plus, take an extra 20 off when you spend 100 or more youll get kohls cash too right now, at kohls. Woman so this happened. Zoe brought over some limearitas to avas rooftop and thats when we knew it was going to be one of those nights. Thats elyse busting out her dance move from summer of 08. Looks like were staying here tonight. Limearita. Make it a margarita moment. Are you taking the tissue test . 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[ cheers and applause ] im Debra Messing as you probably know you might remember me from the cast of the show grace is the character that i play an interior designer and wills roommate im Eric Mccormack and i play will the show is coming back and im playing him still you can see it this fall on nbc remember when we used to call it must see tv get down will and grace is coming to town get down will and grace is coming to town will and grace is coming to town im Megan Mullally and i dont dilly dally the show is back even though we had a finale its more fun than you can ever know on the show on nbc not set in chicago im seean hayes im the one who played jack 11 years later now im bringing him back might just be the best show in the whole universe but its still nbc so we cant [ bleep ] curse get down will and grace is coming to town get down will and grace is coming to town will and grace is coming to town im jimmy fallon and im not in the show i asked to do a cameo but they said no it airs next thursday on nbc then watch a little later and youll see me get down will and grace is coming to town get down will and grace is coming to town get down will grace is coming to town get down will and grace is coming to town will and grace is coming to town [ cheers and applause ] jimmy will grace is back thursdays, starting september 28th right here on nbc. 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[ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy they love you. They love you. A standing o. Come on. They love you. We love you. Thank you. Welcome. [ cheers and applause ] so happy. So excited to have you guys here. Thank you for coming on. And thank you for doing that musical number with us. You guys are so talented and so i was just saying today in rehearsal. Oh, my god, get to the question. Jimmy the question is, you guys have fun. You guys like each other. You guys actually its not fake. You really laugh, and you have fun, and you like each other. When people when people watch the show, they get that feeling. So they want to hear funny stories. And one sorry, the one i always tell is years ago we had a sex [ laughter ] youve been working out. We had a Sexual Harassment seminar, as everybody at nbc has to have. And probably everybody on the crew has had. Jimmy of course. And an hour and a half of what not to do and what not to say and whats correct behavior. Jimmy Sexual Harassment. Sexual harassment. At the end of this, the lawyer said, i hope everyone got the message. And sean stood up, and with his pants and his underwear arrange his ankles [ light laughter ] and said, this was so helpful, thank you so much. [ laughter ] i watched him across across the parking lot. Jimmy sean, you originally, didnt you audition for will . Or you were supposed to do will . Well they wanted me to read for will. Like, i had a movie at sundance. They wanted me to read for will and then i had [ light laughter ] the Sundance Film Festival is hilarious. Jimmy no, yeah, yeah. Its great, really funny. And then i flew back i didnt have the money to change my ticket to fly back for an audition. Then they, of course, found the brilliant Eric Mccormack. And they asked if i would come in and read for the other guy. And thats [ light laughter ] jimmy did you know what the other guy was . I didnt. I didnt. Jimmy no. I just i braced myself. I didnt know what it was. Jimmy you nailed it, and megan, you read for grace . Or you were supposed to be no, yeah. I initially read for grace, and they were like, flat line, next. And [ laughter ] so then a couple weeks later. My agent called, and said they want you to audition for will grace. And i said, i already did, dumbass. And they [ laughter ] they said, no. No, there is another part. And i said, there arent any other women in it. I didnt even remember the part. And then i went in to read. And i thought, okay, well, she could be pretty weird. And i went in to audition, and then they didnt remember me from auditioning for grace. So everybody, nobody has a good memory on our show. [ light laughter ] jimmy yeah, apparently. It worked out. I mean it totally worked out. I got to say, you guys look so good. I think thats one of the reasons why i think this is actually good, because everyone looks great. I saw this [ scattered cheers ] you really weve been cryogenically frozen for the last eleven years. Jimmy you really do. Look at this bathtub shot of you guys. I mean you guys look fantastic. But from the waist down, i look terrible. [ laughter ] why thank you. Hes very, very old. Jimmy did you think that did you think that this was ever going to happen . Or did you ever think you would come back, and do this . Oh, never in a million years. Never in a million years. Jimmy how did it come about . What happened . We just all got together after ten years of not we had never been in the same room in ten years. And we came together to do this little video called hot lunch. And it was to get people to go out and vote. Jimmy yeah. And we just did it. And then all of a sudden there are 7. 5 million views, and nbc was like, wait a second. Jimmy yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hello . Yeah, yeah. That might be something we should look into. Jimmy theres something odd. Theres something to this. Yeah, but everyones coming back. Jim burrows is the director. Yes. Jimmy i mean, legendary. All of them. Jimmy really . All eight years. We have the same camera guy, the same hair and makeup, the same set designer, the same costume designer, its like, its crazy. Jimmys like our i mean hes like our dad. Hes like our grandfather. Hes done every single episode from the pilot through to the political thing that we did in september. We just shot our 200th episode. We just shot our 200th and when we came back to do the first episode, that will air next week, after the first take of the first scene the audience went bananas. We felt good, and i looked over, and jimmy was wiping tears away. [ audience aws ] i said, jimmy, why are you crying . He said, i havent heard laughs like that in a very long time. [ light laughter ] jimmy i mean come on. You know that your show has won so many emmys, but youre the only youre one of three casts where every cast member has won an emmy as well. You, all in the family [ cheers and applause ] you guys, all in the family, and golden girls. Yeah. Yep. Wow. Yeah. Jimmy the only casts where every Single Person has won an emmy. And we basically come back as the golden girls. Thats our [ laughter ] jimmy no spoilers. No spoilers. I was ready for that. Jimmy yeah. Thats what i was totally ready for. Jimmy i want to show everyone a clip here. You guys, here is the opening scene of the new will grace. Take a look at this. Hes a man, but hes aged into a lesbian. Steven tyler . Jon voight, Newt Gingrich . Yes. [ ding ] [ laughter ] shes dont get me started. Jada Pinkett Smith . Yes. [ laughter ] [ ding ] oh, we want to love her, but she makes it impossible. Caitlyn jenner. Of course. [ ding ] [ laughter ] oh uhh rich, hostage . Melania. Beret. Patty hearst yes [ ding ] [ light laughter ] woo [ cheers and applause ] jimmy come on. Beret. Jimmy i cant wait. The cast of will grace, everybody. [ cheer