Roots crew. Questlove 784 Saint Vincent steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much oh this is a hot crowd tonight new york city. [ cheers and applause ] welcome. Welcome to the tonight show, everybody. This is the show to be at. [ cheers and applause ] youre here. You made it. Thank you very, very much. [ wolf whistle ] thank you, sir. [ light laughter ] well, heres what people are talking about, you guys. Happy wednesday. First of all [ scattered cheers ] yeah. Today, Time Magazine named its person of the year this morning. And its the silence breakers whove reported sexual harassment. [ cheers and applause ] thats right. They announced it on the today show. [ light laughter ] [ laughter ] al roker was like, heres a a look at the elephant in your neck of the room. [ laughter and applause ] steve hey jimmy and following more allegations of sexual harassment, 30 Democratic Senators called on al franken to resign as senator of minnesota. But hes already got a backup plan. Hes going to run for senator of alabama. Steve oh. [ applause ] jimmy thats an interesting move. You know . Steve you never know. Jimmy this is interesting here. I read that none of president trumps tweets made the list of the years most retweeted posts. [ light laughter ] but trump took the news in stride by creating thousands of twitter accounts and retweeting himself. [ laughter ] he was like, just a million more to go. A million more accounts. [ applause ] today, trump announced that the u. S. Will recognize jerusalem as israels capital. He mentioned all of the nations affected. But he had a little trouble pronouncing one countrys name. Check this out. God bless you. God bless israel. God bless the palestinians. And god bless the united shlates. Thank you very much. [ laughter ] steve what . [ laughter ] what . Jimmy i swear. Steve what . Jimmy i swear that is real, man. Steve oh, my god jimmy no, you got to see [ light laughter ] can we see it again . Its just so good. God bless you. God bless israel. God bless the palestinians. And god bless the united shlates. Thank you very much. [ laughter ] steve oh, my god. Jimmy looks like someone looks like someones been hitting the eggnog a little early this year. [ laughter and applause ] united shlates. Hi, honey. I think trump realized his mistake later on, and he sent a a tweet saying, i merssed up, shrad. [ laughter ] united shlates. Shates. [ laughter ] oh, i saw that Vladimir PutinJust Announced he is seeking reelection. Steve what . [ light laughter ] jimmy really . Whos running against him . [ light laughter ] thats like running for class president when youre home schooled, you know . [ laughter and applause ] think im going to win . Well, i got a chance. I read that for the second year in a row, the mall of america has hired a black man to play santa, which is great. But unfortunately, its once again led to some controversy about santas true ethnicity. Well, here to comment on the issue is our christmas correspondent, yamaneika saunders. Jimmy hi, yamaneika. [ cheers and applause ] nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. Yamaneika, talk to me. All right. Let me just clear this up real quick, okay, jimmy . Jimmy yes. Santa could only be white, okay . No, seriously. Relax, relax. Think about it. Santa breaks into homes on christmas eve. [ light laughter ] if he was a black man, he would have been shot in the ass. Jimmy all right. Yeah. And then trump would have put up, officer saves christmas. Jimmy okay, all right. [ light laughter ] you dont think santa could be black . Well, you know, it is kind of realistic that santa could be black. I mean, he does like him a fat white woman now. [ laughter ] but no, jimmy, listen, listen. All right. All right. Okay. You think a black santa would allow all these boring ass Christmas Songs . White christmas . Im dreaming of a white no if santa was black, it would be im dreaming it was all a dream i used to read word up magazine [ cheers and applause ] hey hey, hey jimmy thats a good one. Thats a good point. Thats a good point. Thats a good point. [ laughter ] my rolls came out. Sorry, santa. [ laughter ] look [ light laughter ] Christmas Gift that keeps on giving. [ laughter ] jimmy yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Look, i wish santa could be black. I mean, how come all the important men got to be white . I mean you already got jesus, and the last samurai. Thanks, tom cruise. Jimmy the last samurai. [ light laughter ] let black people have santa. Jimmy yeah. Come on. We used to have a black president jimmy thats true. And then we had a white santa. Jimmy yes. So now we have a white president , we should like switch off, and have a black santa. [ laughter ] jimmy i think thats a good idea. Why not . [ applause ] im fine with it. Were good. I think thats a good idea. Actually, you know what . Wait. Wait, wait. Now that i think about it, we might not have a white santa longer anymore. You know . Jimmy why . Whats up . Well, you know jimmy, its 2017. And any day now, im sure one of the elves is going to come forward ustoo. [ laughter ] saying that santa groped them, or stood under the mistletoe and whipped out his yule log. [ laughter ] jimmy all right, all right. Yamaneika, any final thoughts . Yes. Maybe this year, instead of focusing on santas skin color, we focus on what he really represents like joy, and peace, and love. And lets just agree that santa that comes down your chimney can be whatever the hell you want him to look like, you know . And in my instance, he looks like idris elba. Jimmy all right. There you go. [ cheers and applause ] yamaneika saunders, everybody. Yamaneika, thank you. Yamaneika saunders. Guys, check this out. I read that ikea is teaming up with an Electronics Company to make home speakers. But you should be careful, because if you turn the bass up too high, all of your ikea furniture will fall apart. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] and finally, you guys, the other day, louisiana senator john kennedy was speaking to reporters about the drama surrounding the gop tax bill when he made a pretty interesting comparison. Check this out. Ive been in politics a long time. This is this is perfectly normal. Part of politics is drama. And everybody up here has politics in his blood, kind of like herpes. [ laughter ] jimmy then his wife was like, id like to ask a follow up question if you dont mind. [ laughter and applause ] we have a great show tonight. Give it up for the roots [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much, roots welcome, everybody. Welcome to the show. Good to see you, higgins. Welcome, and thank you for watching at home. Guys, we got some good news here at the show. We got nominated for a a Critics Choice Award today. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. It is for it is for best talk show announcer. Higgins, congratulations for that. Steve oh, my god [ cheers ] united shtates. Jimmy the United States the whole united shtates voted. [ laughter ] steve all of them . Jimmy yeah. Its for best talk show. Were so honored. So thank you so much to the critics of the broadcast Television Journalists association. I want to congrat say congrats to all the other nominees, ellen, jimmy kimmel, james corden, Harry Connick jr. , and andy cohen. Steve ah jimmy such great company. [ cheers and applause ] such great company. Steve very good. Jimmy thats exciting. The awards air january 11th at 8 00 p. M. On the cw. Be sure to check it out. The Critics Choice Awards. [ cheers and applause ] thats a big deal for us. We love that. Guys, we have a huge show tonight. He stars in the new animated movie, ferdinand [ cheers ] i know, we love him. The one and only john cena is here tonight [ cheers and applause ] steve come on jimmy cant see me. Steve love that dude. Jimmy he is the greatest. Steve hes the best. Jimmy later in the show, john cena and i are going to perform some mad lib theater. Steve ooh. Jimmy so stick around for that. Its fun. [ applause ] plus, from the new amazon pilot, love you more, Bridget Everett is on the show. [ cheers and applause ] you know how they do this . On amazon, they do these things ill talk to bridget about this, but they have a pilot. Its called love you more. And what you do is you watch the show on amazon, and on the app, or whatever you got it on, and you watch that. And then when the shows over, they said, do you like the show . And you can vote yes or no. And then if it gets enough positive votes, theyll make a a series out of it. Steve wow. Jimmy so her career balances in your hands. Tonight. [ light laughter ] yeah. Bridget everett is here tonight. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy love you more. Shes the best. And we have great music. Im so excited hes here steve i cant believe he is. Jimmy oh, my goodness beck is in the house [ cheers and applause ] beck i like this jam. Steve oh no, youre not going to cape it, are you . No, dont cape it [ cheers and applause ] oh, my god hes caping it jimmy got to cape it sometimes. Well be right back, everybody, with john cena [ cheers and applause ] hey thhi looks like someone scored some holiday deals. Yeah. But did you check ebay . Yeah, wait. No. What . Have a good one. Check ebay and get price match guarantee on all the hottest gifts this holiday season. Ebay discover card. I justis this for real . Match, yep. We match all the cash back new cardmembers earn at the end of their first year, automatically. Whoo i got my money hard to contain yourself, isnt it . Uh huh let it go whoo get a dollarfordollar match at the end of your first year. Only from discover. Wthis weekend hundreds of deals up to 30 off with cartwheel in the target app. Save big with weekend deals every weekend. Only at target [ cheers and applause ] jimmy our first guest is a a 16time wwe World Champion and a talented actor who stars in the new animated movie ferdinand, which is in theaters december 15th. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome john cena [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy i mean, do you feel the love right now in the room . I always say i always say [ cheers and applause ] rowdiest crowd in late night right here. Jimmy this is the rowdiest crowd, absolutely yeah. Remember the last time i was here and everybody rushed the desk . Jimmy yes, of course. [ cheers and applause ] took your clothes off. We literally, we fought for our lives. It was jimmy yeah, we fought for our lives, thats how crazy our crowds are. Carting people away jimmy yeah. The last time everybody rushed this desk. Jimmy you look sharp. Dont do that this time. Jimmy you look stylish as always. Thank you for coming back to the show. [ cheers ] no, thanks for having me. Its great to be here. [ cheers ] thank you, guys. Jimmy where are you spending the holidays . What are you doing for christmas . Any plans . Hopefully a little time with my family, a little time with her family. Jimmy what was christmas like for you in the cena family growing up . It was awfulsome, and i say that because. [ laughter ] jimmy thats a great new word. Because it was awesome. Because it was like five boys. We all liked all the same stuff so it was like presents aplenty but it was awful because we were very bad kids and we should have got coal every year and santa i hope santas watching hes very nice. And we would all we lived in a twostory house so all of us would wake up at like 04 30 and be at the top step and you cant ever go down the steps because my dad who was asleep but could somehow hear us all. [ laughter ] if he heard a step creak, would be like, stop it but we couldnt go in and wake them up because it was illegal. We had to let them come out of the bedroom. Jimmy no, i know the rules, yeah. So we would try to peek down and then eventually somebody would get brave enough to go in to the bedroom. All right, stop it were going downstairs. And we would go downstairs and it would be like the unwrapping scene in the christmas story where it was just arms and teeth and paper and stuff that needed to be assembled and pieces everywhere, and my old man scratching his head just ready to swallow a shotgun. It was [ laughter ] it was awesome. It was awesome. Jimmy that is just fantastic. Everything needs batteries. Jimmy i totally remember that. I remember i forgot the peeking down the stairs to see if santa came. Oh, man. Jimmy i remember at one point trying to almost, like, grab on to the bannister and the wall and try to just shimmy my way downstairs. Like Mission Impossible or something . Jimmy yeah, and not step on the steps because they always creaked in my house and i didnt want to get busted. You know, i was reading up about you. You know i run your wikipedia page, and i [ laughter ] and i thank you for that. Jimmy i know, youre welcome. Theres one thing i learned, tell me if this is true, but that you learn you try to teach yourself different things, like you learning how to play the piano or youre learning how to speak mandarin. Yeah, correct. Jimmy in your spare time. But youre so busy. But yeah, but man you can like jimmy Rosetta Stone . No, i got a tutor, we talk. Jimmy really . Yeah, yeah. Jimmy mandarins tough. Yes, it is. [ laughter ] jimmy i got a Rosetta Stone. I couldnt even get past the first, like, hour. Okay, so well try something. Here we go. [ laughter ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] john cena. [ laughter ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] jimmy fallon. Jimmy fallon, [ speaking Foreign Language ] the tonight show. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] jimmy thats [ speaking Foreign Language ] ferdinand. Ferdinand, [ speaking Foreign Language ] december 15th. [ laughter ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy fallon. Jimmy thats right thats what you do thats how you do it right there [ cheers and applause ] that sounded right. So jimmy oh, my gosh. So thats all the words you cant say on tv. [ laughter ] jimmy exactly. Thank you for doing that. You got it. It was nothing. Jimmy tell me about tell me about ferdinand, because i loved it. I have two little kids. I love the book, the story of ferdinand, just a beautiful story about a bull who doesnt want to fight. He doesnt want to be a a fighter. Hed rather smell the flowers. And its just a great point to the whole story. But today, you read ferdinand, you were at the library of congress. Yeah, this morning. Jimmy this morning with all these kids and you read them all the book. Look at that. [ audience aws ] how cool is that, man . [ cheers and applause ] thats the best. Thats why we love you. Thats why we love you, buddy. [ applause ] so it was a really fun time. I obviously believe in the movie. I feel very passionate about it. Its a story thats been around for 80 years and its a story about being proud of who you are, even if youre different. Different is okay as long as youre happy. So, weve created a wonderful universe. The guys who made rio, the guys who made ice age have come out and have made this wonderful universe out of ferdinand. I call it a wonderful family film because i think kids and grown folk will enjoy it. Theres a bunch of funny people in it. Kate mckinnon is my calming goat lupe. Jimmy kate mckinnon. She is hilarious. It comes out december 15th and i know every one of you here by being here, you agree to see it. Jimmy yeah, of course, thats the deal. Ferdinand [ applause ] theres a bunch of scenes i loved in the film, but of course the one i i thought was just genius is that at one point, ferdinand has to go through a china shop. Yes. Jimmy to get away. Imagine that, a bull in a a china shop. Jimmy brilliant idea. A bull in a china what would ever happen if that happened . Jimmy its just perfect. I go, of course, that has to be part of the movie. It really made me laugh. It was well done. I want to show a clip. Heres john cena, i think that scene were talking were gonna show, in the new animated movie, ferdinand. Take a look at this. [ speaking Foreign Language ] there he is [ heavy breathing ] oh, no. [ laughter ] okay, think thin. [ light laughter ] alright, you are a 2,000pound feather. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thats well done. John cena, everybody ferdinand is in theaters december 15th. John and i are performing a a little mad lib theater after the break. Check it out, everybody. 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