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Speaker 1: This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: My chance to talk with artists, policy makers, and performers

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Speaker 1: to hear their stories. What inspires their creations, what decisions

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Speaker 1: is comedian, television host, actor, singer, producer, and author Jimmy Fallon.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what a podcast is? You know that

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Speaker 1: is because you're like old school entertainment. Now you're the

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Speaker 1: host of The Tonight Shore. I couldn't get any more

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Speaker 1: older than that format. Real to real. You're part of

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Speaker 1: a legacy of people who are dead or nearly dead.

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Speaker 1: As a kid in Upstate New York, legend has it

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Speaker 1: that Fallon's kindergarten photo had a caption that read most

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Speaker 1: likely to take over from David Letterman. In fact, after

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Speaker 1: a detour to Saturday Night Live and Late Night, Fallon

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Speaker 1: eventually succeeded Carson and Leno at The Tonight Show at year.

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Speaker 1: Since then, he's taken the legendary NBC franchise beyond monologues

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Speaker 1: and celebrity interviews to create some of the most viral

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Speaker 1: moments in recent TV history. Whether He's mom dancing with

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Speaker 1: Michelle Obama, lip sync battling with Emma Stone. We're doing

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Speaker 1: his perfect Neil Young impersonation next to the actual Neil Young.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon has become the omnipresent prince of comedy in

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Speaker 1: our news feeds. Do you always do this shirt? List?

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Speaker 1: Listen to me. What I want to know is what

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Speaker 1: you're doing right now? Was this the plan? No? What happened? No,

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Speaker 1: there there was no plan about this at all. My

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Speaker 1: ultimate goal was to be on Saturday Night Live. That

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Speaker 1: was the dream, beyond dream. I didn't even know I

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Speaker 1: was the ultimate dream. I'm in Socratuse, New York, Upstate

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Speaker 1: New York. I had my sister Gloria, and my mom

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Speaker 1: my sister is really funny. Oh yeah, the whole family's board.

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Speaker 1: But you grew up people thought you were funny. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you tried to be funny. Yeah. Like if we

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Speaker 1: would make me do stand up and they would go,

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Speaker 1: go do Rodney. So they encouraged you to perform. Yeah

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Speaker 1: do Ronnie do Rodney Dangerfield and you would yeah, you

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Speaker 1: I remember that. I used to imitate him, and I

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Speaker 1: heard of that technique? Before learning the joke, Rodney even said,

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you my wife, you know, she

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Speaker 1: So the other day, so I used to guy. I

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Speaker 1: think there? And go? God, he's funny. Steve Martins. So

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Speaker 1: I listen to? Jose Men is Bob Newhart old school guys? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I love the Smells Brothers. But they weren't not when

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Winters? I love Jonathan Winter. Did you want to

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Speaker 1: but that was the local comedy club. And they said,

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Speaker 1: I have two minutes ready of an impression, any impression

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Speaker 1: than one. I did. You don't have to do it now,

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Speaker 1: But what are some of the impressions you could do

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Speaker 1: in my act? I think now, but I did. I

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Speaker 1: But it said it was a troll doll with the

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Speaker 1: spokesman for this troll doll. Let's start up. First, Jerry Seinfeld,

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Speaker 1: I go, okay, what got of dolls? Are theys? The hairs?

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Speaker 1: then did the big joke. The closure was it was boewinkle.

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Speaker 1: It was topical at the time. Crush. That was a

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Speaker 1: good thing. It was on two minutes. I ran through

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Speaker 1: it and I won first place. You won first place? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so where does that lead to? What happens? I

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Speaker 1: all these people. Should you should you get into that

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Speaker 1: talking like, oh, yeah, so your your name is Jimmy, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I just got goo phone. The least you can do. Really,

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Speaker 1: it's the least you can do. What's funny. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for doing the least you can do it. But but

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Speaker 1: that's a perfect insight into you, which is the comics

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Speaker 1: You're not mean. Did you try me materially when you

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Speaker 1: fun of people. No, I never really did that. Nod

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Speaker 1: would have some of that, but that wasn't you. That

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Speaker 1: tonight show. It's like sometimes we get into them like

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Speaker 1: tonight show. But prior to that, your nature is to

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Speaker 1: be I want everyone to be in on the job,

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Speaker 1: and you don't do anything in anybody's expense, which is

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Speaker 1: kind of a mirror I remember, you know, I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: My comedy wasn't like that. I think I also I

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Speaker 1: used to tape all these comedians from the eighties where

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Speaker 1: you did the Kevin you're opening for Kevin James. You're

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Speaker 1: doing the comedy clubs in your how old? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: Saint Rose in Albany, how long for three years to

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Speaker 1: study what communications? You idiot? No, I can. I did

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Speaker 1: computer science first. Karthri even more of an idiot. I

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Speaker 1: you use that in a sketch? Can we get someone

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Speaker 1: to do Robert Smith from the Cure? I mean we topical,

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Speaker 1: we need that now? Why would you even audition with that?

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Speaker 1: But I did kill. It was great. I killed, and

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Speaker 1: Marcy Clank came out to As soon as I found

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Speaker 1: your way out to audition, everybody comes out to you.

428
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Speaker 1: The gout. The audio guy put the microphone on. You goes,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Jimmy Couluk, who just won't let

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Speaker 1: you know a little advice one does. We would like

431
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Speaker 1: to live, so don't let the throw you. Okay, buddy,

432
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Speaker 1: good luck, good thank you. A going and get my

433
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Speaker 1: hair done. The girl's like, okay, there's your makeup or whatever?

434
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Speaker 1: Your hair? When did they go and just to make

435
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Speaker 1: a camera ready because they're beating it out to California.

436
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Speaker 1: Just remember, hey, I've seen these auditions. Lauren doesn't like

437
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Speaker 1: to laugh, so just go out there and just let

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Speaker 1: that throw you go. Okay, he's in the wrong business.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's in the comedy business. Why would he

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Speaker 1: be this. He doesn't like to laugh. So I go

441
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Speaker 1: out and I start doing my my act. My outfit

442
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Speaker 1: is awful. I'm wearing I look like I'm auditioning for

443
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Speaker 1: a search to Sola. Everything is so tight, A tight

444
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Speaker 1: brown shirt and he's tight. It was so embarrassing. My

445
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Speaker 1: hair was spiked up because I saw a picture of

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna forget her name now, actress and she's British

447
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Speaker 1: and she had spiky hair. I forgot her name. She's young,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember. Okay, Kate that can stale has spiky hair. Yeah, okay,

449
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Speaker 1: she had short, spiky hair. I'm just cute. So I

450
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Speaker 1: changed my hair to look like Kate Beck and sALS hair.

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Speaker 1: So Kate Beck and Sale is the barometer for you

452
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Speaker 1: in terms of fashion. Thank you. A lot of people

453
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Speaker 1: think it's Brando exactly it was for me, it was

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Speaker 1: Kate Beck and Sale had my hair spiked out and uh,

455
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Speaker 1: and it did the other thing. And as soon as

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Speaker 1: I got off the stage, I remember thinking like it

457
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Speaker 1: was also emotion. I was thinking like, look, no matter what,

458
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Speaker 1: you can always tell your kids. I was on the stage.

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Speaker 1: I was on the stage Studio eight age where Steve

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Speaker 1: Martin did his word Richard Pryor did that. So the

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Speaker 1: second one, when you come back, is in studio just them,

462
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Speaker 1: just Marcy and Lauren and Iala and Tina. I want

463
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Speaker 1: to say. I was there and she the head writer

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Speaker 1: then about to become the head right now yet and

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Speaker 1: and and when and when you kill and it's oh,

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Speaker 1: McKay was there. That's great. And when you kill and

467
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Speaker 1: you're done, and Higgins was there. Sorry, did Lauren say anything?

468
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Speaker 1: So when you've done, Marcy said something to you. She

469
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Speaker 1: grabbed me on the way. I just want to say,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the best auditions I've ever seen. That's

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Speaker 1: what they all tell me really, They said, your second

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Speaker 1: audition was one of the short list of people. Where

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Speaker 1: they were when you were done with that audition, They

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Speaker 1: all went, he's in, he's in. I was floating. I

475
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Speaker 1: didn't remember. I didn't touch the ground. I got in

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Speaker 1: the elevators. I took a picture of the elevator floor,

477
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Speaker 1: the carpeting. There are peacocks, NBC peacocks. When you're done,

478
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Speaker 1: how much later after what do you find out? I

479
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Speaker 1: would say six weeks. Oh they waited that long that

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Speaker 1: that was awful. And then I go in to see Lauren.

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Speaker 1: Lauren comes to l A. They go, Lord like to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. Didn't give a definitive yes or no.

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Speaker 1: Six weeks later, I'm in l A. I'm doing finishing

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Speaker 1: up in this movie The Entrepreneurs. And then Lauren has

485
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Speaker 1: an office at the Paramount lot and you go and

486
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Speaker 1: I was sitting there as waiting, you know, his assistants

487
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Speaker 1: are outside. You just kind of hang out. I was

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Speaker 1: there till maybe four hours. I waited for Lauren. Then

489
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Speaker 1: finally said, okay, you can't come in, and so I

490
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Speaker 1: walk in. Everything is white, everything's cream colored or white.

491
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Speaker 1: And he was like, it's it's seriously like going to

492
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Speaker 1: heaven or something, and Laurence city amount of desk. His

493
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Speaker 1: feet were up on the desk and he goes up right, Jimmy,

494
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Speaker 1: do you do you wear wigs? And I go, oh,

495
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Speaker 1: I do this to my hair And I want to

496
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Speaker 1: say kate bag and sad, but I said, I spike

497
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Speaker 1: it up and he goes, no, I mean in character

498
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Speaker 1: have you done characters? We wore wigs because we want

499
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Speaker 1: you for the show. And that was just so Lauren himself,

500
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Speaker 1: face to face, was the person in the toach die.

501
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Speaker 1: It was just I don't start crying, right. It was

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you proud. That was my last thing

503
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Speaker 1: I said to him. I'm gonna make you proud. And

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Speaker 1: Jimmy did make Lauren proud, going on to anchor Weekend

505
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Speaker 1: Update with Tina Fey and eventually getting the host job,

506
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Speaker 1: and all of television explore the Here's the Thing Archives,

507
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Speaker 1: where another Late night legend, David Letterman, talks about when

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Speaker 1: he reached the big time. This was it. The Tonight

509
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Speaker 1: Show is gonna make or break you. If if you

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Speaker 1: don't do well, you'll never be heard of again. There's

511
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Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a guy bombing this first

512
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Speaker 1: time when the night show and then having a delightful

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Speaker 1: career that just doesn't happen. You're gone. Take a listen

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Speaker 1: at Here's the Thing dot Org. This is Alec Baldwin

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Speaker 1: and you're listening to Here's the Thing. This is Alec Baldwin,

516
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Speaker 1: and you were listening to Here's the Thing. I first

517
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Speaker 1: met Jimmy Fallon back when I was hosting Saturday Night

518
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Speaker 1: Live and he was new to the show. Since then,

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Speaker 1: a lot has changed for Fallon. It's been a remarkable

520
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Speaker 1: a few years. I want to actually write the step

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Speaker 1: down because I kind of forget how it all went down,

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Speaker 1: but I remember. We'll give you a copy of this

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Speaker 1: tape then. It's pretty fun. I appreciate it. You give

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Speaker 1: out tapes, gut eight track tapes. Player. Yeah, you give

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Speaker 1: me a player as well. I have any TRACTI football.

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Speaker 1: It was a good guy. I talked to you. He's

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Speaker 1: not with Ruin Arlage. Go ahead, you know, I do

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Speaker 1: want to tell the story before I forget about you, though.

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Speaker 1: Can I just talk about you for one second because

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Speaker 1: I think you're listening to you would go ahead? So

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Speaker 1: this is this is a true story. This is probably

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Speaker 1: my fourth episode. Ever, it's you're hosting, uh, and it's

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Speaker 1: the Ghost of Christmas Past President Future. Yeah. And we're

534
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Speaker 1: rehearsing and you go, what is your name? I go,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon. You okay, Jimmy Fallon. I'm about to say

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Speaker 1: your name more than anyone's everybody on TV ever, Jimmy Fallon,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon. Oh, Jimmy Fallon. Sound like that, and you

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Speaker 1: ket you kept saying Jimmy Fallon. No matter what ever

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Speaker 1: happens in your whole life, you could diss me every

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Speaker 1: day in press, you could come, you could bricks in

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Speaker 1: my window. I will love you for the restaurant. If

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Speaker 1: the Fellons love you, my parents love you. My parents

543
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Speaker 1: hate people that say one little remote bad thing about me.

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Speaker 1: We love you, your bulletproof. And then do you remember this?

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Speaker 1: This is the part that I had to write this

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Speaker 1: down because this is crazy. Now in the sketch, this

547
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Speaker 1: is only my fourth show. I go, yeah, I'm the

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Speaker 1: Ghost of Post Future. Apparently I become famous and go

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Speaker 1: and I end up hosting the show in two thousand eleven.

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Speaker 1: So I go, come with me to the future, and

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Speaker 1: we go to the future and it's the future that

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Speaker 1: so it's a fake stall life opening. There's a down

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Speaker 1: part of Robot. I'm the dumb part of two thousand.

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Speaker 1: But there's all the same cast members. The fat guy

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Speaker 1: from Chicago, there's the quirky girl, there's you know, all

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Speaker 1: the cast member looks like kind of similar cast to

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Speaker 1: what S has. And when I come out to host

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Speaker 1: is December twelve, two thousand eleven. Now, since that my

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Speaker 1: life did whatever happens in my life, I get Late

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Speaker 1: Night and do I host a show in real life

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Speaker 1: and real time on December twelve, two thousand Eleven's that

562
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Speaker 1: is that insane? That's insane. There's no you can google

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Speaker 1: it YouTube and check it all out. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: really happened. It's we predicted the future. Take us through

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Speaker 1: the process. Because when people think of Late Night, which

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Speaker 1: is obviously been churning and royaling over the last couple

567
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Speaker 1: of years with Letterman leaves, and this one comes in

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Speaker 1: and this one comes in, and and also they think

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Speaker 1: of late and think of messes, there's some messy transitions,

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Speaker 1: especially at NBC. You know, meet the presses of what

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Speaker 1: But I'm not asking to comment on that. I always

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Speaker 1: got meet the press. They begged you, I think Todd

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Speaker 1: to get a haircut. Look like he didn't listen to me.

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Speaker 1: That's why he's fired. To the extent that you can say,

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Speaker 1: because some of this is obviously proprietary and private, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the way these things are done, how does that whole

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Speaker 1: thing be you're doing late night? And when do you

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Speaker 1: first get any intimation that you're even in the running

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Speaker 1: to become the host of the Tonight show? Gosh, I

580
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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I think who says it to

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Speaker 1: you or someone says it to your agent. No, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't an agent, as Lauren. If anything, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think we would just you know, we got to dinner

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Speaker 1: and just talk or something and said, you know, what's

585
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Speaker 1: going to be the next thing? Is there next thing?

586
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Speaker 1: Or eventually will that? Did you want to host this

587
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Speaker 1: actual at that point? Yeah, I mean there's no knowing

588
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: knowing that having that job and you've reinvented that show.

589
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: I'm not say saying these figure about it. I don't

590
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: have people come on the show for me to say

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Speaker 1: these things that I don't mean it and everyone loves you. Yeah,

592
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Speaker 1: but every time you see this, you hold up like

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Speaker 1: a different sponsor you're sponsored by you just hold up

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Speaker 1: a sign said subway, eat fresh. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: do these things. All these compliments are sponsored. This compliment

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Speaker 1: is underwritten by Squarespace lick stamps dot com. I like

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Speaker 1: those commentators on the sports seems like I'll tell you Alan,

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Speaker 1: I think it's got a broken leg, but we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that. If you want a good breakfast, then the

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Speaker 1: Hardys has the best deals at three for one saucer,

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Speaker 1: Big muff is over at hard Is and deal have

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Speaker 1: the best, eat the hardest, and you got Joe Franklin.

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Speaker 1: Just remember you remember Joe Franklin, of course and paints. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's the greatest. Can I finish saying you don't want

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Speaker 1: to say to you apologize. You are the host of

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Speaker 1: a show, and more than any other man that's done

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Speaker 1: that job. Are a host. You welcome people, You welcome

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Speaker 1: the audience, you welcome the audience at home, you welcome

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Speaker 1: your guests. Not everybody was that good at that. I

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Speaker 1: like that. I think you also you have to like

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and I'd like late Night. I would

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Speaker 1: have been happy at late Night. But but what I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say was, you've given up things in order

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Speaker 1: to do that job. You made movies. Do you miss

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Speaker 1: making movies? No, you don't do stand up anymore. I

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Speaker 1: don't need to know what was it, But do you

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Speaker 1: miss it? I don't because I'm doing a monologue in

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Speaker 1: front of people, which is stand up. You get to

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Speaker 1: do everything. I wasn't talking about that. Who created your show?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? But the Tonight Show now is

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Speaker 1: very different than the Tonight Show was when its previous

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Speaker 1: host was. It wasn't that far away from Late Night.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the same thing because you basically took

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Speaker 1: a lot of the Late Night components abo at the

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Speaker 1: moment and you you dressing up as Neil Young. Not

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are doing that. Yeah, the Johnny

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Speaker 1: Carson wuld dress up as Willie Nelson, would Johnthan Win,

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Speaker 1: It didn't have the same effect. Yeah, if Johnny Carson

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Speaker 1: dressed up, we were like, what's Johnny doing? Dressing up

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Speaker 1: with Neil Young? Which when you do, when people sit

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Speaker 1: there and they go, wow, that's really cool. You know,

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Speaker 1: we faked out some people when I first did Neil Young.

633
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: You faked me out. I did for about I say,

634
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: Hollywood Reporter or something. We have it. I have it

635
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: the I have a screen grab of it and say, like,

636
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't know how Fallon convince Neil Young to sing

637
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: the theme song to uh whatever it was Charles and

638
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: Charge or something like Anthio, but he did it. Anyway,

639
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: It's really funny. Here's no Young singing and it's just

640
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: me dresses Neils in the seventies. It's not like Neil

641
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: addressed like that now, but it's like great brown hair.

642
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: Oh totally, but they thought they go, it's great that

643
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: we've got to fake them out. But either way, it's fun.

644
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, Lauren has been a big

645
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: help with the whole thing, just talking to him and

646
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: seeing what's going on. I think once Jay called me

647
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: and said, I think I'm rounding the the last lap here,

648
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: and I would love it if I think you got it.

649
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: I think you should take the Tonight Joe and make

650
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: it yours and keep it number one. And I was like,

651
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: oh my god, in a way, did you feel that

652
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: that was somebody telling you you were going to get

653
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: the Tonight show? Yeah, well that's as good as it gets.

654
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 1: I guess, I mean that's him from him, Yeah, I mean,

655
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: he's hell kept it. When when when an NBC incorporated,

656
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: whether it's Lauren or any of people who work there.

657
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: When did they come to you and tell you you're

658
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: gonna do the show? Now? I think I met with

659
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: Steve Burke came down to the office and met with

660
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: me and goes, who is the head of Comcast? Whos NBC?

661
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: And Lauren's like, it's gonna be fun meeting with Steve already,

662
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: because Lauren knows before I know, he knows it's my

663
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,959
Speaker 1: birthday before right, He know's what I'm getting. He knows

664
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna be arrested. The third gives you open You're

665
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: gonna lat's a fitbit. Uh. So I go, okay. So

666
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: Steve comes down and I kind of know that it's

667
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: gonna be good news. He goes, well, we'd love for

668
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: you to do it tonight, Joe. I want Jay to

669
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: be happy because it's you know, like you said, it's

670
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: just always been a nightmare. He said, I'm not gonna

671
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: make this a not a nightmare. I'm making this as

672
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: smooth as can be. And Jay's involved all the way.

673
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: So I talked to Jay every step of the way.

674
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: You know. I went out to l A and Steve

675
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: when out Dlien met with Jay and she was, again,

676
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: we'll do this the right way, because we never had

677
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: anything any be for anything mean Jay. I think we

678
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: wrote him into a sketch like everyone was so afraid, like,

679
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: how do we we don't screw this up? How would

680
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: Jane go? Just it's all cool. We're both adults. I'm

681
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: in no rush. I'm happy, I'm in New York. I

682
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: have my wife, you have a baby. I mean, this

683
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: is Everything's great. I don't need to move to l A.

684
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: I don't want to, so I'm very happy. But did

685
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: anybody think that that was problematic for you to be

686
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: in New York? Yeah? I talked to Lauren about it.

687
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: That would be great. I just kept it here and

688
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: just kept it in the studio that Johnny Carson was at,

689
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: which is where we're doing. They were receptive to that

690
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: right away. No, the Lauren was. But then we got

691
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: on the phone with everybody, the president of NBC and

692
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: Steve Burke and Yeah, and all his executives and and

693
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: I just remember saying they go, well, what are you thinking?

694
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: You know, we could do it this, you know, and

695
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: Jay's studio, and what is the timing for it on?

696
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: I just said, I'd love to keep it in New York.

697
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: Long past, long long silence, and they go, oh, well, okay,

698
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: well let's well, you know what, let's call you back,

699
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: let's all think about it. I was like, okay, and

700
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: then I was in and then I called Lauren. I go,

701
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: why did that go? He was like, we'll see what

702
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: they say. But it would make sense to bring it

703
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: back to New York, where Johnny started, where it was,

704
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 1: where it was when the Time show first began. It

705
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: would be something at least different that you could, you know,

706
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: and I'm used to the building. I've worked at that

707
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: building for NBC for you know, and then for people

708
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: who don't know, A tremendous expense was laid out by

709
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: NBC to renovate the building and renovate the facility for

710
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: you it was like they were starting all over again. Yeah,

711
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: it was actually gonna be a bigger thing to cut

712
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: all that out. I go, I don't want a balcony,

713
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: because you know. I talked to of course, Phil Himes,

714
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: one of the best lighting directors in the world, and

715
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: he was like, you don't want a balcony because then

716
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: you're doing a bit underneath the You go in the

717
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: audience all the time. If you're doing a bit underneath,

718
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: the people upstairs can't see what you're doing, and then

719
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: they won't even laugh. At Filis. I would do Saturday

720
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: Night Live over the ark of several years, and I

721
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: love Philips because he said that. He said me, stay

722
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: over here and stand right there on that piece of tape.

723
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: You know you could move around more when you were young.

724
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: You know, when you were young you were good looking.

725
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: Stand here and put your face in that light. Because

726
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: you were much older. You always give it to everybody,

727
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: know he does. He gives it to everybody. Jimmy, get

728
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: that hat off, you know whatever, and he God, what

729
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: are you yelling at me? I'll take the hat. You

730
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: can't see your Face's funny, just your costume. This is

731
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: what you're wearing. Oh god, is that your hair? Was

732
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: that a wig? Jeez? You know it's my hair. The

733
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: first night you do the show, nerve, come out, come out.

734
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: The curtain is there. It's exactly. It's so show busy

735
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: and awesome. It was the most show business and traditional

736
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: and awesome. I loved it so much. That was so fun.

737
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 1: But we invited him. Sigourney Weaver was actually there because

738
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: their dad created the Tonight Show and the Today Show.

739
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,479
Speaker 1: We had this bit that I did where people would

740
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: give me a hunter bucks saying I never thought that

741
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: you'd do the Tonight Show. This is it, I said,

742
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: my buddy, who bet me? I never do the Times?

743
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: You owe me a hundred bucks. De Niro came out,

744
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: was the first guy to come out and throw the

745
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: hundreds done and shook his head like and then it

746
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: was everything. Tina was Mariah carry, Kim Kardashi and Lindsay

747
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: Low and uh Sarah, Jessica Parker was great. Joe Namath,

748
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson came out, Joan Rivers. Joan Rivers came out

749
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: and it was her first Tonight You appearance since Johnny,

750
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: since the fallout, and it was emotional. Dude. She came

751
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: out and she kissed me and then I started crying.

752
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: It was awesome, I said to Lauren once, and of

753
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: course he was wise to ignore my ideas, but I

754
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: wanted the show to come on and you see the

755
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: old Tonight Show. You here done, Dona and Carson comes out,

756
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: then he go it was like a record skipping you like.

757
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: Then Jay's theme plays like it's a line and then

758
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: you come out like you did that kind of did that.

759
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: Spike Lee directed the opening video of our show. But

760
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: when you see right now with it's New York City,

761
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: I go, I want it black and white because the

762
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: Roots were trying to think of the theme song, and

763
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: the Roots had the selling hey do do do do

764
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: do Hey Hey, I go, that's good. I want something

765
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: like you think of New York. I want like Woody

766
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: Alleny type of black and white jazzy. So the show

767
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: starts in black and white and here d dom do

768
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: no Dun Dun, dune dune and turns into color. Then hey,

769
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: then it's like, okay, so we all took the ride.

770
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: I know it's only but we took that ride from

771
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: old to New and it's classy and new great, and

772
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: we have the giant curtain, which is like, there's nothing

773
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: like a giant curtain. And you come out with the

774
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: giant curtain, and I remember just going, this is it.

775
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: I go to Lauren before the show. I go the

776
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: day before I go. I think I want to come

777
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: out and explain who I am, where I'm from, and

778
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: who the Roots are, and who Steve Higgins is and

779
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: what a talk show is. Because there's kids out there

780
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: that don't know what a talk show is. They don't

781
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: grow up with it. They stream everything, they don't they

782
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: see clips of stuff. They don't know what to talk

783
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: to you is. And if there was any young Jimmy

784
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: Fallons like me out there watching the first night is

785
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: when people watch any show, they'll give it a shot.

786
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: So this is a big audience, a big opportunity for

787
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: me to explain what talk shows are. So here's what

788
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm doing. That's my name, my managed, Jimmy Fallon, fourty

789
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: years old. And you know, blah blah blah, and I

790
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: come out here and I make jokes about the news.

791
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: So in the first time it's made jokes about the

792
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: news and then hopefully you laugh and you're in a

793
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: good mood and you go to bed with a smile

794
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: on your face. That's my ultimate goal. I know this

795
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: is a big job. This is a legacy that I

796
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: never thought i'd get. But I hope to keep it

797
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: number one in classy and the best it can be

798
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: and I'm only gonna get better. And what I love

799
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: most about the show since you've done it is that

800
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: and everyone who's done the show, and all these shows,

801
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: you know, have their talents, but yours is the most

802
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: guest proof. You're the most versatile guy that's ever done.

803
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: This job is like nothing you can't do. So the

804
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: show is going to be entertaining because you showed up.

805
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: If the guy shows up and he's good, but that

806
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: doesn't work your flows, you do something. You've got so

807
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: much stuff. Now you have a family, you have a wife. Yes,

808
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: Nancy producer, Um where did you meet on the set

809
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 1: of Fever Pitch? She was producing the movie, was trolling

810
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: the cast. You know, she was not She was this

811
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: beautiful girl who she was having to be the producer

812
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: of the film. She works to Drew Barrymore, their partners,

813
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: and she produced the movie. And I met her, you

814
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: know when I got cast in the movie. And I

815
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: remember was driving through the streets of Boston about to

816
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: do a scene like five in the morning or and

817
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: it's just raining, gloomy in Boston and just very dark,

818
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: and you know that type of Boston color. It's just

819
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: kind of rainy and foggy. And there's this girl in

820
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: white corduroy pants with a pink sweater and maybe a backpack,

821
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: a green backpack or something, and bright bright white explorer

822
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: had a monkey with and I go, I go go with.

823
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: Uh said, can you say I'm in love with you? Uh?

824
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: And so I go, She's in my head like I

825
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: was so pretty. And then my driver, you know, the

826
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: he was the Union guy, and goes, oh she's hot.

827
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that hot. I go, hold on, it's

828
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: our producer. It's had some respect you seriously, So I

829
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: go it. We just started hanging out and just being

830
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: friends and just found out we had a lot in

831
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: common musically, listen to the same music. And after this

832
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: show that we'd hang out, we have some drinks and

833
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: listen to like Harry Nelson or Randy Newman, stuff like

834
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: that no one likes, but she liked it. And so

835
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: we just started getting along. And then we're selling the

836
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: movie in London. The movie came out, selling the movie

837
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: in London, and uh, I see you, and I go,

838
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: I miss hanging out with you. That was so fun.

839
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: She goes, I miss hanging out with you. And that

840
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: was it. So then from then and we just never

841
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: friends the same. Um. I mean, I know you work hard,

842
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: it's a full schedule. Does your job and the way

843
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: you live your life now because you become so successful

844
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: do you find you have less time for some of

845
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: the things you wanted to do with your friends. You

846
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: don't get to see him as much as you used

847
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: to know you do, you see, that's a great excuse

848
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: to nazi them. No, I prefer it this way. Yeah,

849
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: it's much better this way. Yeah. I see you enough. Yeah,

850
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: we see each other enough, don't we. Do you have friends?

851
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: Were you and I see each other more than enough?

852
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: This hour? Right now? We're good for three years. Now,

853
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: I'll see you next summer on the beach with a

854
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: piece of corn. Yeah? But but but but do you

855
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,479
Speaker 1: find like you have dear friends of yours, close friends

856
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: of yours? Are they around or do you have that

857
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: show bus this thing like I do, where we got

858
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: to pick up where we left off, and everybody's spinning

859
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: around the global that I don't really have that many friends.

860
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: My wife's my best friend. Yeah, I just says the

861
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 1: other day because we had to go some dinner party

862
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: thing and my wife and they want to split us up,

863
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: you know they do that. They go, all right, Nancy

864
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: sits here, and you're gonna sit I go, NaN's gonna

865
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: sit with Harvey Weinstein. I don't want to do this.

866
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: I want to sit next to my life. I love

867
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: my life. Yeah, I prefer to prefer to I can

868
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: talk to her. That's why I'm married. I met my wife.

869
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to meet new people. I don't want

870
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: say with your wife, Yeah, you have to sit with

871
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: you would be my wife, the wife, your dear dear friends.

872
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: They're out there in the whole galaxy spinning around. I

873
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: see you know the same group of people that we

874
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: just it's Lauren, it's justin, It's you know, Drew. It's

875
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: just kind of the same people to come in and

876
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: out and and my family and my actual family. What

877
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: keeps you saying? Now, I'm not breaking, so I don't know.

878
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't everything's keeping me saying. But my thing is

879
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: is that you have such success. Maybe there's some douchebag

880
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: DNA and you somewhere but no one can find it.

881
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: Is that it's what he could. The show keeps me

882
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: whatever I think of it. I think of a dumb idea.

883
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 1: I go, but is this remotely funny that we're gonna

884
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: sing the Hello video? And Lena Richie's head is the

885
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 1: bust and he's like a statue in his head turned

886
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: out it's really Lina Richie and I'd sing hello and

887
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: they go, we'll pitch you to him. Then Lina Richards

888
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: like love it, Let's do it. It's like all right,

889
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: you just think of ideas and they happen, so I

890
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: write them down. Don't know the dumb ideas that I have.

891
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: I have a thousand ideas. The p muffin is one

892
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: of them. But who is your critical eye on the show, Lauren?

893
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: Lauren is the person. He is your yeah, consultant producers

894
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: to Josh Leeve is a good producer. Gavin our head writer, Miles.

895
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to these guys and the writers.

896
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: They have your ear. Yeah, and then they give you

897
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: notes and I go, do we need to do that?

898
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: And I don't know, you know, Lauren will come in

899
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: and go, I wouldn't do that, do this thing, do

900
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: this that. He's still a writer at heart, and he

901
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: points at the key Carsley, that would be better if

902
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: you ended on that line. You know, you're right. Is

903
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: there a person you've tried to get on the show

904
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: that you couldn't get on the show? The Pope? Literally

905
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: literally yeah, I tried for the Pope. It turns out

906
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: being serious. Yeah, yeah, turns up. He's like, you can't

907
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: come over here. He came to New York and it

908
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: was down the streets at St. Patrick's. Yeah he's not

909
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do. But who else booking is

910
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 1: such a big part of your show. Yeah no, nobody, nobody,

911
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: the Queen. I'd like to have the Queen on be fun,

912
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: but everyone else's just you know, he's been real lucky

913
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: they've come. Yeah, great New York City. It's alive, it's fun,

914
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: and once you do it, you go, oh yeah, this

915
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: is great. We had the best. I made sure we

916
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: had the best sound, the best audio. So if you're

917
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: a band and you come on and play these because

918
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: you have to do this thing to sell your records

919
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: or your tours, this is the best sounding show on television.

920
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: I got the guys that did Lincoln Center to do

921
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: my studio similar to yours. Oh my gosh, I feel

922
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: like we're in a bunker. But anyway, Springsteen comes on

923
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: and he loves it because it's not the stadium and

924
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: it's not a club, but it's it's only two hundred seats.

925
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: It's a hot ticket, and everyone's there wants to be there.

926
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: They're not there because there was nothing else to do.

927
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: What do your parents think now? They're the most proud

928
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: thing in O my world. My mom still gives me criticism,

929
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: but they both love me. They're so proud of everything,

930
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: my sis. And they see you the same way. When

931
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 1: I went to that party at your house a couple

932
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: of years ago. We were there and your parents, like

933
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: your father almost looked at me, like, you know, who

934
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: could believe Jimmy. It's got the same job as Johnny

935
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: Carson would have figured out. I know. My mom goes.

936
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: She called the other day, she goes, you know that

937
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is great on the show. Thanks watching. He

938
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 1: looked really good with his long hair. He does his

939
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise. Yeah, I really liked his long hair. I go, yeah,

940
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: he looks good with long hair. He's Tom Cruise. Yeah,

941
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: I really like his long hair. I go. I heard

942
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: you the first three times there, Okay, I'm giving you

943
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: a hint. Grow your hair out. It's too short. Hang

944
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: up the phone. Oh I started hooking out. I started

945
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: making hands returning green. My short started to rip. My

946
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: mother is like a sitcom character, like the neighbor in

947
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: like a sitcom like Cravit. She watches the food Network

948
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: and she's seen every episode of Chopped twice. I don't know.

949
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: I don't get the reference anything she's saying because I

950
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: don't watch as much Food Networks as she does. So

951
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: she like, you don't know Walter. He goes like, I

952
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: put a little cheese on it. You know, it just

953
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: makes some slogan. I go, I don't know that guy. No,

954
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: you don't know Carla. She's like, y'all I want to

955
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: do and I go, I don't know these references, mom,

956
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: but i'd love that you're making these jokes. I don't

957
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: know them, So I act like I don't know them

958
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: and just tell the story. And are you have your

959
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: parents on the show, like like davidd No, we wouldn't know.

960
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have your mama. No, they were already. My

961
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: dad was one of the first show. He was well,

962
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,919
Speaker 1: not on purpose, but they were in the audience because

963
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: it was my parents are there, and so I could

964
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: do the thing. I go, welcome, I glad you're all here,

965
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: and I go, now I'm going to do the monologue.

966
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: So let me run through the curtain and do what

967
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna see every night. So come out, do my

968
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: first joke. Um, it was something. Wasn't even it was okay.

969
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: And then I said, and who'd have thought I'm hosting

970
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show. I never even finished school or somewhere

971
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop out or something. So it was a joke.

972
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: I didn't really drop out high school. And my dad

973
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: yells from the audience, we paid a lot of money

974
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: for that's cool, he heckles me. The first Tonight Show ever,

975
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: my dad heckles me, what's wrong with people? I go

976
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: to we are you kidding me? And everyone's clapping and

977
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: they're laughing at it's my dad, the heckled me, and

978
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: I go, and I go. First of all, I went

979
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: to public school, so you didn't pay a lot of

980
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: money for that school. So the whole thing is crazy.

981
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: Chill out, wait till the commercial security. Yeah, put some

982
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: of the end. I haven't stopped talking anyways. Now they

983
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: honestly can't stop talking about me. Well, I'll end with

984
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: this and that as I meet a lot of people

985
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: who are content and not very talented, and you are

986
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: the most talented and the most content person I've ever

987
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: met in this business. Good for you, Good for you,

988
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: thanks so much for you can watch the Tonight show

989
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: starring Jimmy Fallon every weeknight on NBC and at nbc

990
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: dot Com. This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to

991
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: Here's the Thing.