List of Jimmy Fallon games and sketches

The following is a list of recurring games, sketches, and other comedy routines from the NBC late-night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and its predecessor, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The sketches feature host Jimmy Fallon, house band The Roots, announcer/sidekick Steve Higgins, the show's writers, celebrity guests, and audience members. Most of the skits below appeared only on Late Night, while some have carried over to the Tonight Show.

Weekly routines

''Tonight Show'' #Hashtags

Every Thursday on the show, Jimmy reads off viewer comments from a topic for discussion he started the night or the week before on Twitter. Topics have included "#MyParentsAreWeird", "#WhyDontTheyMakeThat", "#BeachFail", and "#MakesMeMad". As Jimmy frequently announces before he reads his favorite comments, each hashtag would usually become a trending topic on Twitter in the United States within a few minutes after its posting.
Jimmy previously created a spin-off named "Late Night Instagrams". On April 4, 2019, Jimmy unveiled a similar spin-off segment called "Tonight Show Grams", instead of the usual "#Hashtags", in which he would send out a hashtag for discussion and showcase videos and photos that viewers have posted for the show on Instagram.

''Tonight Show'' Superlatives

Done on Sundays mostly during the NFL season after NBC Sunday Night Football games. Similar to a high school yearbook, Jimmy shows pictures of NFL players and says what "Most likely to..." awards they received, to promote the players on the teams of that week's episode of NBC Sunday Night Football, which are simply based on what they look like. He also does it for random celebrities, as well as NHL and NBA players, whose playoffs also air on NBC. For the final version of the skit on Late Night, NFL players listed the awards for the show's writers, before dousing Jimmy with Gatorade. After the skit, Jimmy then gave away tickets to go see that year's Super Bowl to a lucky audience member.

Former weekly sketches

[|Pros and Cons]

Every Tuesday on the show, Jimmy weighs the pros and cons of a topic that's currently in the news, with the pros being the setups and the cons being the punchlines. Special editions of the sketch include: "The reissue of the Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St.", in which Jimmy was joined via satellite by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts; one in which the topic was "The New NFL Season", where Jimmy was joined by Justin Tuck of the New York Giants; and "The NFL Playoffs" with New York Jets placekicker Nick Folk.

This Week in Words

Also on Fridays, Jimmy shows a mash-up of news anchors reading the week's biggest headlines, as well as notable clips from the week, edited together, remixed, and set to music.

TV parodies

''7th Floor West''

In the first two seasons was a parody of the MTV series The Hills, documenting Jimmy's arrival to Late Night and his initial struggles in the beginning of the show, such as whether to wear a red tie or a blue tie on his premiere episode. Season 1 of the series dealt with Jimmy's passive-aggressive power struggle with A.D. Miles, Late Night's head writer. Future Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate appeared as Jimmy's assistant who betrayed his trust by collaborating with Miles. New installments premiered every Monday during the summer of 2009, and have a storyline focused on continuity, much as The Hills does.
Season two finds Miles, having moved to the costume department in the season one finale, unhappy with his new role and wishing he was back among the writing staff. As revenge, he dresses Jimmy in ridiculous clothes in order to make Jimmy look like an idiot. During the season, Jimmy and Miles both run for the position of fire warden of the floor. In the series finale, Jimmy and Miles decide to end their silly feud and be friends again, Jimmy gives Miles his job in the writing department back, and they appointed fire-safety enthusiast Q?uestlove to be fire warden.

Episodes

Season 1

"Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down"
"What's Done is Done"
"It's Come to This"
"That is So Not O.K."
"Jimmy, I'm Jenny"
"He's Got A Lot of Nerve"
"I'm So Over This"
"Watch Your Back, Man"
"I Know What You Did"
"OK, Here's The Deal..."
"It's Already Done"
"Not So Fast..."
Season 2
"The Past is the Past"
"It Can Only Be One of You"
"It's Time"
"That's A Wrap"
''Real Housewives of Late Night''

Real Housewives of Late Night is a recurring parody of the various The Real Housewives of... reality shows with five cast members playing the roles of their fictional "wives". The cast includes Late Night host Jimmy Fallon as power-mad Denise, announcer Steve Higgins as gravel-voiced chain smoker Lydia, Roots bassist Owen Biddle as alcoholic Renee, head writer A.D. Miles as uptight Dale, and 'director' Bashir Salahuddin as compulsive eater Yvonne. Each segment continues from the last in an overarching story similar to 7th Floor West. The plot revolves around alliances and over-the-top rivalries between the characters resulting in exaggerated responses by the characters. Today Show's Fourth Hour hosts Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb appeared on the set of their show during one episode.
When the show was in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, the housewives met up with some of the "wives" of the Indianapolis Colts players, including Dallas Clark's wife Sherry, Pierre Garçon's wife Noelle, Antoine Bethea's wife Daris, Robert Mathis's wife Shay-Shay, and Dan Orlovsky's wife Marianne. During the episode, Denise inadvertently started a fight with the Colts wives when she mistakenly congratulated the Colts on making the Super Bowl, and was informed they were actually the league's worst team that season, with their 2-14 record. This caused Denise and Yvonne to quickly resolve their differences and unite against the Colts wives, causing the Late Night wives to win the brawl.

Episodes

Season 1

"Thick as Thieves"
"Surprise!"
"Let's Get Physical"
"The Renovation"
"Giving Thanks"
"What a Difference 'Today' Makes"
"The Gift"
Bonus footage from the first six episodes aired December 22, 2009
Season 2
"We're Back"
"Glamour Photo Shoot"
"Real Housewives of Late Night in Indianapolis"
''6-Bee''

Named after Late Night's location at 30 Rock, Studio 6B, 6-Bee is a parody of the FOX series Glee. After Jimmy goes to an NBC accountant to request money for cue cards, he is turned down because the $375 they would cost is too expensive. However, Jimmy discovers that the first place prize money for glee club sectionals is $380, so he decides to gather the Late Night crew – including A. D. Miles, Paula Pell, Bashir Salahuddin, and Abby Elliott from SNL – together to compete. As practice, they sing the Bon Jovi song "Livin' on a Prayer".
Later, Jimmy and the Late Night squad discover that the cast of the NBC show Parks and Recreation will also be competing in sectionals – and Parks & Rec has recruited The Roots to be in their squad. Jimmy is so frustrated by the Roots' defection that he sings the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It".
Episode two of 6-Bee won an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Short Form Picture Editing" at the 2010 Primetime Creative Arts Emmys.

Episodes

Episode 1
Episode 2
''Late''

Late is a parody of the ABC series Lost. It deals with the twelve survivors of an elevator crash on the day of the very first show of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. After the crash, the twelve are trapped on a mysterious abandoned floor in the 30 Rock building.

Late character	Played by	Lost analogue
Jimmy Fallon	Jimmy Fallon	Jack
Gorgon Fallon	Jimmy Fallon	?
Future Jimmy	Jimmy Fallon	?
Higgins	Steve Higgins	?
Ron Dempsey	Anthony Jeselnik	Sawyer
Gerard	Gerard Bradford	Locke
Bashir	Bashir Salahuddin	Michael
Chip	Jahquan Wynder	Walt
Arthur	Arthur Meyer	Hurley
Jane	Cody Lindquist	Kate
Eric	Eric Ledgin	?
Miles	A. D. Miles	Ethan / Ben
Carlton the Bathroom Attendant	?	Jacob / Man in Black
Higgins' Father	Questlove	Bernard
?	?	Rose
?	Mick Jagger	Desmond
Arsenio Hall	Arsenio Hall	?

Episodes

"Where Are We?"
"Not Alone"
"Who Are You?"
"My Hairiest Adventure"
"Carlton"
"We Can Do This"
"And Here He Is..."
''Suckers''

On November 8, 2010 was a musical parody of several vampire shows and movies. In the first episode, a new writer at Late Night, Angelique, discovers that several of the show's writers, including Jimmy, Bashir Salahuddin, and Morgan Murphy, are secretly vampires, and is herself "turned" by Miles.

''Jersey Floor''

Jersey Floor is parody of the MTV series Jersey Shore. It takes place on a floor in the 30 Rock building that, in addition to being a regular office floor, has a social scene filled with hot tubs, tanning, gyms and lots of partying. The floor is accessed by a special elevator that "Jersey-fies" its riders when the "Jersey Floor" button is pressed. It features Jimmy "J-Bro" Fallon, Steve "The Inflation" Higgins, Josh "DJ Josh" Meyers, Abby "Lovebug" Elliott, A.D. "Miles" Miles, Bashir "B-Hole" Salahuddin, and Rachel "Drootchie" Dratch. Episode 2 featured guest stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Episode 3 featured cameos from many members of the Jersey Shore cast, including Snooki, JWoww, Sammi Sweetheart, Deena Nicole, Ronnie, and Vinny, who were de-Jerseyfied when they went back to the regular floor with their analogues, then decided they didn't like it and went back to the Jersey Floor.

Episodes

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
''Downton Sixbey''

Downton Sixbey is a parody of the ITV/PBS series Downton Abbey. When the Earl of Downton Sixbey receives word that the current heir to Downton Sixbey, Carson Daly is missing following a hot-air ballooning accident, a distant nephew receives word that he is to become the new heir. However, in the second episode, Daly appears at Downton Sixbey, alive and well.

Downton Sixbey character	Played by	Downton Abbey analogue
The Earl of Downton Sixbey	Jimmy Fallon	Earl of Grantham
Lady Nora	Brooke Shields	Lady Cora
Lady Hedith	Fred Armisen	Lady Edith
Mr. Higgins	Steve Higgins	Mr. Carson / Mr. Bates
Dowager Countess	A. D. Miles	Dowager Countess
Lady Kathryn	Beth Nicely	Lady Mary
Lady Amber	Scarlet Benchley	Lady Sybil
Thompson the Cue Card Valet	Gerard Bradford	Thomas Barrow
O'Flannigan	Miriam Tolan	Sarah O'Brien
Mr. Farouk	Diallo Riddle	Kumal Pamuk
The Nephew	Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson	Mr. Matthew Crawley
Lady Whoopi	Whoopi Goldberg	Mrs. Isobel Crawley
Carson Daly	Carson Daly	Patrick
Lawrence	Bashir Salahuddin	?
Jokeman/Footman	John Haskell	?

Episodes

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3, Part I
Episode 3, Part II
''Mister Romney's Neighborhood''

On October 9, 2012, Jimmy, as Mitt Romney, did a parody of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood called Mister Romney's Neighborhood. Barack Obama also appeared as the mailman. Later, he visited the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and outed Henrietta Pussycat as a puppet operated by a union worker. This sketch was in response to the real Romney's claim that he will discontinue federal PBS funding if he is elected president.

''Jimmy's Corner''

In a parody of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 2013, Jimmy puts on a cardigan and hosts a children's program, but everything is a little off.

The two little Grady girls from The Shining come by to explain a grown-up concept like the sequester or the stock market as well as promising to kill Jimmy
The Roots stop by and discuss a kid's concept, such as:
* Sharing – speaking in unison, they tell how they share everything, including bassist Mark Kelley's wife
* Colors - they sing a song about colors
Jimmy then shows a word jumble, using the letters "P-E-N-S-I"
Dayvon, the Mnemonic Pimp arrives to give the viewers a way to remember things such as:
* the order of the planets
* the notes on the lines of the treble clef
''Game of Desks''

Game of Desks is a parody of Game of Thrones. The premiere, on May 24, 2013, had A. D. Miles overthrowing Jimmy and appointing himself host, and sentencing Jimmy to death by beheading. When the executioner failed by missing the chopping block entirely and Jimmy lived, Seth Meyers was appointed Jimmy's successor.

''Joking Bad''

On September 11, 2013, Joking Bad was a parody of the AMC series Breaking Bad. When the Jimmy learns that he has only six months left as host of Late Night, he teams up with low-level street joke dealer Higgins to sell top quality jokes on the black market. However, after head writer Miles becomes suspicious after seeing video of Colin Quinn with one of the illicit jokes, Jimmy turns to black-market joke wholesaler Gus to move his supply.
Bob Odenkirk appeared in a cameo in character as Saul Goodman, while Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul appeared in cameos ostensibly as themselves.

Joking Bad character	Played by	Breaking Bad analogue
Jimmy Fallon	Jimmy Fallon	Walter White
Higgins	Steve Higgins	Jesse Pinkman
Miles	A. D. Miles	Hank Schrader
Gus	Dion Flynn	Gus Fring
Colin Quinn	Colin Quinn

''Jimpire''

On September 22, 2015 was a parody of Empire, Jimpire sees Jimmy trying to decide who should be his successor as host of the show if he were to die from his finger injury. Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson appeared as their characters on the real show: Howard calmly told Jimmy to stop imitating Lucious Lyon, while Henson got in a fist fight with her analog Steve Higgins. Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots appeared as rappers who first perform solo but then decide to team up as a duo.

''Peanuts''

On December 12, 2017, a parody of both The CW television series Riverdale and the Peanuts specials as Peanuts aired. The skit had the gang's reactions to Linus' death in the pumpkin patch while waiting for the Great Pumpkin. The skit ended with a cameo appearance from the Riverdale cast in a hallway reacting to the Peanuts cast at a school dance.

Other recurring sketches

Musical sketches

Slow Jam the News

The show's longest-running musical sketch, Jimmy joins his house band, The Roots, to serenade the audience on a topic of current newsworthy significance in the style of a slow jam. For years, whenever the sketch aired, former NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams joined Jimmy in slow jams. The following have been topics of a Slow Jam:

A stimulus bill introduced by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
The AIG bonus payments controversy
North Korea's nuclear weapons program
The appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice
The 2008–2010 California budget crisis
The 2011 United States federal budget proposed by President Barack Obama
The 2010 health care bill
The Greek financial crisis
President Obama's address on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the need to invest in renewable energy sources
The debate in Congress about extending the Bush tax cuts
The protests over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposed 2011 state budget bill
The 2011 debate in Congress about raising the debt ceiling
The Occupy Wall Street movement
Super PACs
President Obama's push to stop Congress from doubling interest rates on Stafford Loans. President Obama himself joined Jimmy on this installment instead of Brian Williams, in Jimmy's one-night visit to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 24, 2012.
The January 2013 debt limit standoff
The October 2013 special election in New Jersey to replace Senator Frank Lautenberg. Jimmy was joined in this installment by New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
President Obama's upcoming 2014 State of the Union Address. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney joined Jimmy in this slow jam.
President Obama's executive order on immigration reform
President Obama's time in office with Obama himself joining Jimmy.
Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign with Bush himself joining Jimmy
Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign with Buttigieg joining Jimmy
Kamala Harris' 2020 presidential campaign with Harris joining Jimmy
Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign with Sanders joining Jimmy
Rockapella

Jimmy and men from the show's staff plus one of the guests from that night's episode will perform the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? theme as Rockapella, except they will only sing rhythm and not vocals.

The Vanilla Wombats

Jimmy is the frontman of a punk band similar to the Ramones called The Vanilla Wombats. Each of the band members dresses in black, with a black cape, dark sunglasses, and a platinum blonde wig. Their songs include "My Upstairs Neighbors Are Having Sex " and "I've Finally Accepted The Fact That I Wear Size 36 Jeans".

Jimmy's songs

''Blow Your Pants Off''

Blow Your Pants Off, a CD and vinyl LP of the show's greatest hits, was released on June 12, 2012. The album cover shows a bottomless Jimmy lying down on his stomach, but he says a "stunt butt" was used. It won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

Original songs

Jimmy has performed original songs such as "I'm Gettin' Drunk on Christmas", "I'm Goin' Huntin' for Cougars", one about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill called " Balls in Your Mouth", "The Ballad of Steven Slater", "Gonna Eat That Talkin' Sandwich: The Sarah Palin Song", "The Ballad of Anthony Weiner", and "Walk of Shame". While Jimmy is singing, often some people wearing yellow tracksuits and sunglasses, as well as the [|Product Placement Preacher] start dancing behind him. Jake Gyllenhaal joined in once as one of the Banana Boyz.
In 2010, country singer John Rich joined Jimmy for a duet of "I'm Gettin' Drunk on Christmas" which was later released on iTunes and became one of their most popular Christmas songs of the year.
On September 8, 2011, Eddie Vedder joined Jimmy for a duet of "Balls in Your Mouth".

Audience requested songs

Jimmy has solicited song titles from the audience, asking them to send him titles of songs for him to sing via Twitter; he picks the one he likes the best and performs a song with that title on the next night's show.

Neil Young

Jimmy impersonates singer Neil Young and sings a song. To date, he has sung the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "Pants on the Ground" by "General" Larry Platt, an original song based on the "" Internet meme, Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" and LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It", Miley Cyrus's "Party in the U.S.A." and Iggy Azalea's "Fancy".
During Jimmy's week in Los Angeles in 2015, he performed a duet of "Old Man" alongside the real Neil Young.

Scrambled Eggs

When Paul McCartney was a guest on the show, he confirmed that the working title of The Beatles song "Yesterday" was in fact "Scrambled Eggs". He and Jimmy went on to do a duet of the never-before-heard "original version", which was instead about their favorite food items.

The Miner 69ers Boy Band

Jimmy, Higgins, Tariq and Seth Herzog appeared as a boy band called The Miner 69ers, whose members were some of the rescued Chilean miners, and performed a song called "There's Nothing Finer Than Sex With a Miner".

Captain Kirk's Ballads

On little celebrated holidays such as Election Day and Groundhog Day, The Roots' Captain Kirk Douglas performs a sex ballad called "I'm Gonna Make Sweet, Sweet Love to You Woman on ", filled with double entendres and sexual innuendos.

Bob Dylan

Jimmy performed the Charles in Charge theme song as Bob Dylan. In 2018, Jimmy performed "The Times They Are a-Changin'" with updated lyrics on a live post-Super Bowl episode. Both segments were shown in black and white as a parody of I'm Not There.

Ladysmith Snack Mambazo

After a cloud of smoke obscures the camera, Jimmy, the Roots, and some of the show's African-American writers don dashikis and sing about snack foods in the style of African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. They once sang about Six Flags amusement parks as "Ladysmith Theme Park Mombazo".
The Ben & Jerry's version of the sketch began the show's relationship with that company, which ultimately led to the release of the show's official flavor, "Late Night Snack".

Pearl Jam

Jimmy as Eddie Vedder performed a parody of the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy" about basketball phenom Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks.

Tebowie

Jimmy dresses in an amalgam of Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie's costume, the face makeup from the cover of the Bowie album Aladdin Sane, and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow's uniform and sings a song about events in Tebow's life to the tune of a Bowie song.

a song about an imagined conversation between Tebow and Jesus Christ in which Tebow asks for help in their upcoming playoff game against the New England Patriots. Jesus rejects Tebow's request and tells him to stop calling him.
a song about Peyton Manning's signing with the Denver Broncos
a song about Tebow's signing by the New England Patriots as a backup to Tom Brady

The first song was released as a 7" vinyl record as a 2012 Record Store Day exclusive.

Chicken Band

Jimmy, Blake Shelton, Nick Offerman, and writer Chris Tartaro dressed up in chicken suits and sang The Lumineers' "Ho Hey", but replaced all the lyrics with chicken clucks, singing as the band "The Chickeneers" on a show before Easter in 2013.
In April 2013, Jimmy, Tartaro, Amy Poehler, and Michael Bublé formed the band "cluck." and sang "Some Nights" by fun.
On November 4, 2015, Jimmy and Tartaro were joined by Meghan Trainor and Alanis Morissette to perform Morissette's "Ironic".

Brian Williams: Gangsta Rapper

Numerous clips of Brian Williams from NBC Nightly News broadcasts are edited together to make it look like Williams is rapping classic songs. So far the songs have been Snoop Dogg's part of "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang", Warren G's "Regulate", Ice Cube's part of "Straight Outta Compton", Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations", The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", Young MC's "Bust a Move", Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice", and Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back".
The sketch has not been performed since Williams' suspension from NBC News in February 2015.

Classroom instruments

Jimmy with the Roots join a musical celebrity to perform one of their hits on classroom instruments. These have included:

Carly Rae Jepsen – "Call Me Maybe"
Christina Aguilera – "Your Body"
Mariah Carey – "All I Want for Christmas is You"
Robin Thicke - "Blurred Lines"
Sesame Street Muppets – "Sesame Street Theme"
Idina Menzel – "Let It Go"
Meghan Trainor – "All About That Bass"
One Direction – "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
Madonna - "Holiday"
Adele - "Hello"
Sia & Natalie Portman - "Iko Iko"
The Lonely Island - "I'm On A Boat"
Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
Ed Sheeran - "Shape of You"
Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie featuring kids from SeriousFun Children's Network - "Don't Stop"
Anna Kendrick & Darlene Love - "Christmas "
Camila Cabello - "Havana"
Ariana Grande - "No Tears Left to Cry"
Backstreet Boys - "I Want It That Way"
Aerosmith - "Walk This Way"
Weezer - "Take On Me"
The Who's Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
Jonas Brothers - "Sucker"
Ringo Starr - "Yellow Submarine"
Janet Jackson - "Runaway"
Sting - "Don't Stand So Close to Me"
Brendon Urie - "Under Pressure"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"
The original cast of Hamilton – "Helpless"

Jimmy and the Roots also did a classroom instruments version of "Somebody Come and Play" with the Sesame Street cast at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and performed a classroom instruments version of Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams' "Get Lucky" for the YouTube Rewind 2013.

Shot-for-shot music video recreations

Jimmy, Paul Rudd and the show's writers perform shot-for-shot recreations of music videos. These have included:

Styx's music video for "Too Much Time on My Hands"
Go West's music video for "King of Wishful Thinking".
Dead or Alive's music video for "You Spin Me Round ".
The Ragtime Gals

Jimmy and three other performers sing a modern popular song in the style of a barbershop quartet combined with reggae music.

Covers sung (not in chronological order)

"SexyBack" featuring Justin Timberlake
"Ignition "
"I Wanna Sex You Up"
"Roxanne" featuring Sting
"Sexual Healing" featuring Steve Carell
"That's What I Like" featuring Tina Fey
"Bitch Better Have My Money" featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"Talk Dirty" featuring Kevin Spacey
"Buddy Holly" featuring Weezer
First Drafts of Rock

Portraying their original performers on a documentary program reminiscent of Behind the Music, Jimmy and Kevin Bacon perform a parody of a classic song under the guise of it being an early draft of the actual lyrics. The new lyrics inevitably rely on repetitive variations of the actual lyrics, such as Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'", The Beach Boys' "Surfin' U.S.A.", The Guess Who's "American Woman", ZZ Top's "Legs", and The Kinks' "Lola".

Tweets with Beats

Done on Fridays, Jimmy and Tariq would perform a hip-hop song, recapping current events in the news and using Donald Trump's tweets on Twitter as lyrics, with Jimmy reading them in his Trump impression.

Steel Channel shows

Ultimate Mustache Fighter

A program allegedly aired by NBC's "sister channel" Steel Channel, in which people in wide mustache costumes participate in a "Stache Bash", which were set within an octagonal cage similar to UFC mixed martial arts events. Jimmy and Steve Higgins play the commentators, Brock Leonard and "The Professor" Barry Star, while competitors included Wilford Brimley, Geraldo Rivera, Gene Shalit, John Stossel, Carlos Santana, "'80s Larry Bird", "'70s Burt Reynolds", "'80s Tom Selleck", "'80s John Oates", Dr. Phil McGraw, Albert Einstein, Lionel Richie, Herman Cain and Super Mario, what was originally thought to be Charlie Chaplin's mustache that turned out to actually be the mustache of Adolf Hitler, "'80s Dr. J", and "The Masked Mustache".
The fight is inevitably interrupted by a promo for a different program on Steel Channel, usually Detective Jam Face, but also once Mustaches on Ice. By the time the program returns, the fight had already ended—with Brock and Barry often hailing the unseen finish as being a historic moment.

Kicking Stuff

Another program on the Steel Channel is Kicking Stuff, where a man named Jonathan takes ordinary objects, places them on top of an overturned orange bucket, and then kicks them off. After kicking the object, he points at the camera and yells "Kicking stuff!"
After showing some footage from the show, Jimmy brings out Jonathan and has him kick something live in studio.

Sports Freak-Out!

The Steel Channel's sports report, somewhat of a parody of SportsCenter. Jimmy and Higgins play "extreme" anchors Cory van Funk and Bert Donovan, respectively. The report consists of a few segments: "Check Out This Dude", where they make fun of pictures of athletes; "Point / Counterpunch", where one anchor makes an argument and the other responds by punching him in the face; and "Making Terrible Things Happen With Our Minds", where video clips are intercut with close-ups of the anchors' faces concentrating, and then the person in the clip has an accident. In a recent version, Chris Kattan appeared as a depressed skateboarding teenager who reviews monster truck shows; when the hosts got him to open up about what was bothering him, they cut him off and finished the sketch. The sketch ends with the anchors blowing on an animal horn to summon the "T-shirt yeti", who comes out and throws T-shirts into the audience.

Audience Suggestion Box

Jimmy opens this sketch by saying, "We're always striving to get better here at The Tonight Show." This is followed by him and The Roots imitating a bar from Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, which punctuates the camera zooming in on Jimmy four times. Suggestions ranging from the mundane to the silly are supposedly contributed by audience members. A frequent "suggestion" is to have Black Simon & Garfunkel perform a current pop song in the style of a Simon & Garfunkel song.

Screengrabs

Sort of an updated version of Jay Leno's "Headlines", Fallon shows viewer-submitted screen shots from various media that contain typos or similar accidentally funny errors, using an iPad. The final selection is always a picture of a man who the viewer claims looks like Jimmy, who will then put on a costume to match.

''Bothered'' with Robert Pattinson

In this segment, Jimmy presents videos from a website that Robert Pattinson has set up to discuss things that bother him. Jimmy stars as Pattinson in character as Edward Cullen from the Twilight films, but with his actual British accent. Throughout the segment he sits in a tree and talks about what bothers him, all from the perspective of Pattinson. Also making an appearance is a blow-up doll representing Kristen Stewart.
Things bothering Robert include Daniel Radcliffe, Shark Week, Snickers ads in magazines, Halloween costumes and candy, the novel New Moon and vampires in general, Valentine's Day, the iPad, the World Cup, and Thanksgiving. On March 1, 2010, celebrating Jimmy's first year of hosting, the real Pattinson came on to promote the film Remember Me. During the sketch, he interrupted Jimmy, saying "I don't talk like that!" Jimmy then asked Robert how that made him feel, eventually getting him to say "bothered!"

''Reflections'' with Justin Bieber

Jimmy as Justin Bieber will sit by a reflecting pool and discuss topics that are on his mind. He will begin by talking about his own life, but then start rambling on about more serious topics, such as John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, the subprime mortgage crisis, his fears that China's economy will overtake that of the United States, and the debate over human cloning. It also shows him dancing, eating snacks, and receiving phone calls from other celebrities such as President Obama, Chuck Norris, and Alan Greenspan. At the end the segment, Bieber leaves in a magical fashion, such as walking on water, opening a wormhole, or transforming himself into golden retriever puppy Gary Frick from the "If Puppies Could Vote" sketch.
After the November 2011 paternity rumors involving Bieber, Jimmy-as-Bieber came on the show and performed his new song, " Baby".

Head Swap

Jimmy introduces a segment which will supposedly present images of two celebrities whose heads have been swapped through digital photo manipulation. A "Head Swap" song plays, ostensibly a short introductory jingle using sing-a-long lyrics and illustrated by a series of still photos. However, the song becomes an extended narrative set in the offices of Late Night, depicting Jimmy asking a member of the show's graphics department to create "Head Swap" images. In each instance of the sketch, a different set of bizarre complications ensue, involving Jimmy in outlandish situations which push the actual "Head Swap" to a secondary issue. The conflict is eventually resolved, and only one image of a "Head Swap" is shown as the song ends.

Letters Home / Letters to Santa

Various members of the show's crew, and often one of the guests, read letters they have written to their parents in the manner of children at a summer camp. While they are reading, an overlay of the actual letter slowly comes into view. Lastly, Jimmy takes out some parchment, an ink well, and a large quill and proceeds to write his letter, in calligraphy, in Victorian era-style language with a voice to match.
During the Christmas season, the letters are written to Santa Claus instead. In honor of the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the sketch aired with letters written to Oprah Winfrey.

12 Days of Christmas Sweaters

A yearly Christmas tradition on the show is bringing out a large board with 12 numbered doors in the manner of an Advent calendar. The number of the door opened corresponds to the number of days left before the show's holiday break. Behind each door is a sweater. Jimmy picks a seat number out of a Santa hat, and whomever in the audience has that number wins that day's sweater.
In 2013, an abbreviated version of the series aired because Jimmy hosted Saturday Night Live during what normally would be the second week of the segment.

''Late Night'' Stocking Stuffers

In a manner reminiscent of Oprah on her talk show, Jimmy gives a gift to the entire audience each day during the last week before the show's holiday break.

New iPhone Apps

Jimmy plugs in his iPhone to a monitor to show off some new applications he's discovered. One of these apps always deals with a picture of the head of comedian Paul Reiser. On a recent version, Jimmy used an app designed to locate Reiser, and it displayed "I am 8 feet behind you", then Reiser did a cameo. Another recurring app is "Axl Rose Relaxation Tapes", with the Guns N' Roses frontman singing over relaxing sounds such as wolves howling or thunderstorms, usually ending with him yelling "Take a nap!"
The official Late Night with Jimmy Fallon iPhone app, released November 10, 2010, has a feature called "Jimmy's Phone", which allows users to use some of the apps featured in the sketch, including "Axl Rose Relaxation Tapes", "Moldova Y/N", "iBanana", "Lint Brush", "Wet Cement", and "Bieber yourself".

Who Cares ''Hindenburg''

After Jimmy briefly mentions three trivial celebrity news items, he declares that the stories should be placed into the "Who Cares Hindenburg." Steve Higgins provides new narration to the classic newsreel footage of the destruction of the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg. The newsreel footage has had a news crawl featuring the three news items superimposed over the zeppelin to make it look like a modern blimp. The new narration always ends with the exclamation "Who cares?" A frequent target is Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz.

?uestions

We listen in on Roots drummer ?uestlove as he thinks some quasi-intellectual thoughts such as "what do you do when the fire escape catches on fire?" or "how do you throw out a trash can?".

Andy Rooney

In "Post-Apocalypse Andy Rooney", Jimmy plays former 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney as he gives his thoughts about life in a world after a nuclear war and zombie uprising.
After Rooney's retirement, the sketch became "What is Andy Rooney doing now?", showing how Rooney is spending his free time,.
Jimmy stopped doing Rooney impressions after the real Rooney's death in late 2011.

Obama Expressions

Jimmy, claiming to be an expert on facial expressions, explains the meanings behind numerous expressions made by U.S. President Barack Obama. The expressions are usually explained by a short phrase, until the end of the segment, which features pictures from President Obama's February 2009 meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper; at this point the phrases become overly long drivel about 1980s or 1990s youth popular culture, reminiscing over minute details about the subject. Jimmy once did this segment with photos of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in place of Obama.

He Said, She Said

Somewhat similar to "Obama Expressions", Jimmy shows a series of photos, each showing a man and a woman. Jimmy then explains what the people in the photos are thinking. The first person's thought is somewhat regular while their partner's thought is a humorous rejoinder.

Animal Thoughts

Similar to "He Said, She Said", photos of people with their pets are shown, with the pets' thoughts being the punchlines.

Don't Quote Me

Jimmy reads off some famous quotes that he found on Facebook, along with some other quotes allegedly by the same person, but of dubious provenance.

Speech Timeline

Often after a speech by President Obama, Jimmy will give a timeline of events, starting with actual statements from the speech. The bit will eventually introduce Vice President Joe Biden, who will interrupt Obama in the manner of a spoiled child.

Video Vision

While cleaning his office, Jimmy claims to have found some VHS cassettes from a 1980s production company named Video Vision. The videos are usually short instructional pieces, or holiday guides with bizarre factual errors such as "Christmas was founded in Downtown Europe". They are hosted by Jimmy with a spiked haircut, thick glasses, cheesy sweater and faded jeans, and have many of the hallmarks of video production of the mid-1980s, including low video quality, awkward scene transitions, choppy edits, low-quality special effects, and cheesy graphics which include typos and spelling errors. Portions of the video tape may have been "accidentally" taped over with 1980's sitcoms.

Cupid's Arrow

Jimmy finds some old tapes of men from a 1980s video dating service that used to tape in Studio 6-B called "Cupid's Arrow". The videos are low quality. The men featured are unattractive losers, and Jimmy stated that most of them were probably still available.
The sketch was later made into a Dating Game-style TV show hosted by Tony Sanders with three of the men: Chester Mann, a perverted part-time shoe salesman and freeloader; James Spadge, a nerd with unusual medical conditions who lives with his mother; and Jose, a flamboyant musician who joined the service to prove to his friends he isn't gay; and a female audience member as the contestant, with the video quality downgraded to look like it was from the 1980s. Jose is always the winner.

Product Placement Preacher

To get the audience excited about the show's sponsors, a fake gospel preacher named Rev. Daryl Bivens preaches about the products. Products have included the Big Philly Cheesesteak from Subway, Previlosec heartburn medication, and .

Shout-Outs

After Jimmy gives a shout-out to someone, Questlove asks Jimmy if he can give a shout-out to someone as well. After doing so, other members of the cast and crew, Tariq Trotter interrupt and ask for shout-outs to people or things of their own. At the end, Jimmy quickly recaps each of the shout-outs.

New Velvet Elvises

Jimmy shows a series of velvet Elvises showing Presley in contemporary situations, such as listening to an iPod, skydiving, or appearing alongside people like Neytiri from the movie Avatar, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, or the cast of The Big Bang Theory. One of the velvet Elvises will usually include a pull-string activated "voice box".
The last painting is often of Elvis in a beige jumpsuit performing a particularly boring activity. After Jimmy comments on just how boring the activity is, a Boring Elvis impersonator comes out and sings a song about the activity.

Rejected Catchphrases

Jimmy claims to have had a character left out of various movies and video games, such as ' or '. He shows us a series of outtakes of him spouting bad attempts at catchphrases. Jimmy will also sometimes enlist actors promoting new movies to be in outtakes from those movies with him.

Milky J

After Jimmy passingly mentions the Hubble Space Telescope, a man in the audience dressed head to toe in New York Yankees apparel named Milky J enthusiastically begins listing and showing photos of astronomical features photographed by the telescope, each one punctuated by him yelling "Hubble gotchu!" He also sang a song about it, and later showed a rap video he made. This sketch's timing may be based on the song "Rock You" by The Roots.
He appeared in a recent shout-outs sketch, sending shout-outs to molecular models. Jimmy said he recognized him and Milky J explained that since Hubble is being phased out and replaced by the James Webb Space Telescope, he'd found a new interest. Jimmy then convinced him that Hubble is still something to get excited about, which made him go back into his old shtick.
Later, Jimmy mentioned a new planet, and Milky J showed up and went into his routine, but Jimmy once again mentioned how Hubble is being replaced by the James Webb telescope. Milky J then did a rap video about his trip to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to try to convince them to stop the new telescope from being launched.
Milky J recently appeared in another shoutouts sketch, this time giving a shoutout to gravity: breaking his unfaithful wife's valuables by dropping them and saying "gravity got it".

How You Like Me Now?

Jimmy begins telling a story, but a man in the crowd wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a New York Mets bucket hat interrupts, linking the beginning of Jimmy's story to Late Night via an extended word association, after which he says "how you like me now?". After he does it twice, Jimmy does one as well, causing the man to declare Jimmy the superior player and leave the studio in shame, despite Jimmy's repeated attempts to make him stay.
During the sketch that aired March 11, 2013, as Bucket Hat guy went to leave, Laina the Overly Attached Girlfriend appeared near the exit, wearing an identical Hawaiian shirt and bucket hat. Despite Jimmy's attempts to get the two of them together, Bucket Hat Guy retreated from the exit to the safety of Jimmy's guest chair.

At the Bar with Roger Federer

Jimmy shows a clip from a late-night Tennis Channel show starring Roger Federer called At the Bar with Roger Federer, where the tennis star hangs out in a bar and does strange things, including performing yo-yo tricks, identifying objects by smell, and discussing his love/hate relationship with his good friend but fierce competitor Rafael Nadal. The sketch only airs during Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments, the current one of which Federer discusses during "The Sports" segment. The most recent edition of this sketch involved Federer buying "a round of drinks on the Federer," then serving a tennis ball between his legs so it causes John McEnroe's drink to spill, which in turn provokes McEnroe to stand up angrily and yell, "Come on, Roger! God! You cannot be serious!" The camera then cuts back to Federer, who casually says "That one's on me," as if nothing happened.

Flame Eyes

Less a full sketch and more a recurring bit, Jimmy will look directly into the camera and jets of fire of will emanate from his eyeballs. Sometimes, he will instead shoot laser beams. Less frequently, gobs of cooked spaghetti will come out. Jimmy will also have Steve Higgins, Questlove, and his celebrity guests play along with the gag as well. Jimmy claims the ability to do these things is a side effect of his LASIK surgery.

Wrestler Entrances

When Jimmy has a professional wrestler as a guest, they will usually enter the studio through a cloud of smoke via a trap door in one of the aisles of the audience area.

Small Town Festivals

Jimmy will read a pamphlet from an upcoming small town festival for that weekend. It is only done in the summer.

Tale of the Tape

Jimmy tells a news story where a person/place/thing is compared to something/one else. He then compares the two usually ending in a punchline joke. In the July 21, 2014 episode he compared Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, with a horse.

Good Advice, Bad Advice

Jimmy demonstrates how a common piece of advice, like "let it flow" can take on a very different meaning depending on who you are.

Do Not Play List

Jimmy reviews several terrible albums and songs. Questlove, an avid music collector, always states he thinks the songs and artists are fake since he's never heard of them.

Do Not Read List

Once a month, Jimmy reviews several terrible books and suggests people not read them.

Do Not Watch List

Together with the guys from the Found Footage Festival, Jimmy presents selections from old low-quality instructional VHS videos and suggests the audience avoid them.

Do Not Game List

During the show's Video Game Week, Jimmy showcased some terrible games, such as Hooters Road Trip for the PlayStation, Captain Novolin for the Super NES, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600.

Charlie Sheen commercials

In the wake of Charlie Sheen's post-rehab media blitz, Jimmy appeared as Sheen in two commercials: one selling his cologne "Winning", and the other selling a Time Life collection of CDs containing outrageous quotes by him. Later, in response to the news that Ashton Kutcher would replace Sheen on Two and a Half Men, Jimmy as Sheen made a new version of Kutcher's old show Punk'd called Sheen'd in which he goes around acting obnoxious and bothering people at their jobs. The real Sheen later appeared alongside Jimmy-as-Sheen in an ad for "Clone" cologne.

''Celebrity Whispers''

Jimmy plays British TV show host Peggy Hess, who presents a series of clips of celebrities making small-talk at functions where they are not hooked up to microphones. Whispering voices are added to the soundtrack to show what the celebrities are saying, such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie discussing putting Cool Runnings in their Netflix queue, Pope Benedict XVI showing Barack Obama his fan art of Garfield, and Gary Busey explaining to John C. McGinley how he punched a mountain lion in the face and then became best friends with it.

Questions and Danswers

Jimmy sent a correspondent to the streets of New York to ask people their thoughts on different topics in the news while dancing their answers.

Popular Mathematics

In an effort to make basic math more relatable for kids, Jimmy breaks down basic arithmetic using pop culture references and notable names.

''Father & Son''

A series of animated shorts featuring a father giving advice to his preteen son. This segment only airs on the Friday before Father's Day.

Bargain Bin

Jimmy showcases some items that he has found on sale at various stores. The price-reduction stickers have been strategically placed so that their names are more suggestive, turning a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar into The Very Hung Caterpillar or a DVD of the show Picket Fences into Picket Feces. A bath toy called "Rub-A-Dub Work & Squirt" was left alone.

''Late Night'' E-Cards

Jimmy showcases some interesting electronic greeting cards he's discovered, with the insides being insulting to the receiver.

Walter Kump

Jimmy talks about going onto a website that does computer text-to-speech conversions, and then mentions that the computer voice is based on that of a nerdy man named Walter Kump. He then brings out Kump for an interview, which shows off some of the comical mispronunciations, improper enunciation and misuse of punctuation that are prominent of computer-generated voices.
Kump later announced he has chosen a second career as a rapper and has recorded a music video, which Jimmy let him play on the show.
Kump also appeared after his girlfriend made a video of him falling while he was rollerblading that went viral.
Kump's latest appearance had him announcing he played the hero in an action movie, co-starring Kyle MacLachlan as the villain, and had Jimmy play a climactic scene from it.

On the Bright Side

Jimmy reads a somewhat depressing story from the news and then gives the silver lining.

''Night News Now''

A parody of nightly news programs. It usually includes inane graphs; short, nonsensical weather reports; depressed sports anchors, and manipulated footage of celebrities where their faces are turned upside-down.

Russell Brand Reads ''Us Weekly''

British comedian Russell Brand comments on articles in the latest issue of Us Weekly. Some episodes have Brand reading Star instead. When the real Brand was on in February 2013, he appeared and said Jimmy's impression was terrible and read the magazine himself.
On August 9, 2012, Jimmy joined anchor Bob Costas in studio at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and showed a version of the sketch with Brand reading the special Olympics edition of the magazine.

Said It and Re-Edit

Jimmy boils down a week's worth of a TV show to one sentence to allow his viewers to more quickly catch up on them. The result is a humorous but still appropriate sentence, like Rachel Maddow from The Rachel Maddow Show being edited to say "Newt Gingrich had an ultrasound, and it revealed a small horse inside his stomach." The title of the sketch is a take-off of the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Grill's slogan "set it and forget it".

Mitt Romney's Video Blog

Jimmy as Mitt Romney attempts to reach younger voters with a video blog, however he proves he is out of touch with them instead.

Romney and Obama conversations

Jimmy as Mitt Romney and Dion Flynn as President Obama have one-on-one private conversations about their Presidential debates. Both candidates criticize themselves and each other.
After President Obama was re-elected on November 6, 2012, they re-enacted Romney's concession call to President Obama, with them reminiscing about the election, then performing a duet of Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait".
A similar sketch with Flynn reprising his role as Obama and Jimmy as President of Russia Vladimir Putin was done on the March 19, 2014 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
During the 2016 United States presidential election, similar sketches with Jimmy as Donald Trump talking to candidates and characters, including Flynn as Obama, Hillary Clinton as herself, Ted Cruz as himself, and Tyler Perry as Madea, were done, with Trump and each person having a one-on-one private conversation over the phone and both criticizing themselves.

Rumor Has It

Jimmy will mention celebrity rumors then tell the truth behind them.

In Reply To

Jimmy shows some celebrity Twitter replies to fan questions, and then reveals the original question. The sketch is also similar in spirit to Johnny Carson's "Carnac the Magnificent" bits on The Tonight Show.

Goodnight News

In a parody of Goodnight Moon, Jimmy would be interrupted by a baby's cry during the monologue. He would claim it's the news and that it's been worked up lately that it must still be awake. He would then ask the audience if he can take a moment so he can put the news to bed. Jimmy would then sit next to a bed with a rolled newspaper with eyes, and read from the Goodnight News book to try to put it to sleep. Jokes would be based on current news and rhyme like in the book.

Trump News Network

Citing Donald Trump's distrust of mainstream news, Jimmy appears as the President on "Trump News Network" in which he unsuccessfully spins negative stories about him to portray him in a more positive light, instead having the reverse effect.
From July 19 to August 14, 2018, the sketch became a weekly routine on Tuesdays, with Jimmy as Trump giving his takes on recent news, including ones about him, as well as doing stunts related to news about him, including eating a piece of paper during a breaking news alert, and doing a slam-dunk with a basketball hoop in response to his Twitter feud with LeBron James.

Kentucky Derby Hat Giveaway

A new tradition on the show done in the week before the Kentucky Derby, similar to the popular "12 Days of Christmas Sweaters". Jimmy brings out a large board in the style of a cabinet with 4 numbered doors behind paintings depicting horses and riders in the race, in the manner of an Advent calendar. The number of the door opened corresponds to the number of days left before the date of the Derby. Behind each door is a stereotypical fancy hat like the ones spectators have worn to the event. Jimmy picks a number out of another fancy hat, and whomever in the audience has that number wins that day's hat.

Go On, Git

Jimmy dons a cowboy hat and flannel shirt while chewing a piece of straw and talking in a matching accent, tells things he dislikes to "go on, git".

Running gags

Bad joke giveaway

When Jimmy tells a joke in the monologue that he thinks is particularly cheesy, he will apologize then give away its cue cards to members of the audience.

Gary/Garrison

Jimmy often refers to fictional men as Gary, who are usually unintelligent or acting obnoxious and people are letting him know this. He also refers to fictional misbehaving boys as Garrison.

Hot Sax

Jimmy and the gang take turns miming the saxophone solo of "Old Time Rock and Roll" while a recording of it is played.

Funkin Gonuts

Whenever a story about Dunkin Donuts is mentioned, Jimmy says, "Or as I call it, 'Funkin Gonuts'", the Roots then play some funky music, which Jimmy dances to. After it ends, Higgins says, "Donuts!"

Hashtag the Panda

Following a story in his April 23, 2014 monologue about a depressed panda in China, named Seesha, Fallon mentioned that scientists had put a TV in the cage to cheer up the panda. Fallon then told a couple panda jokes for Seesha, and after each joke, a man in a panda suit would cut in front of the screen and do a short dance. Eventually, he worked his way into the hallway where he kept dancing as the Roots continued to play his song. The panda returned the next night, and Fallon sent out a hashtag called #FallonPanda to gather name suggestions. The next night, it was announced the panda's name was "Hashtag." The panda now frequently returns in monologues following a series of jokes, dancing all the way into the hall to the Roots' music. It was later revealed that Ben Stiller was the man in the Hashtag costume, although when Stiller returned as a guest, Chris Rock had taken over mascot duties. On May 17, 2017, as part of a promotion for her upcoming single, for The Voice coach Miley Cyrus took a turn inside the suit. During the show's first trip to Universal Orlando Resort in 2014, Hashtag was part of a dance-off against Stuff the Magic Dragon, the mascot of the Orlando Magic, which ended in a tie. Hashtag the Panda can be seen at the Universal Studios Florida attraction Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon for meet-and-greets and also appears inside the attraction.

Retiring

When the announcer Steve Higgins says a joke that is both very funny and very cheesy, he will "retire" by waiving to the crowd and walking off the stage. He will then come back, appearing exhausted, then explaining something crazy that happened to him that caused him to come back.
On other occasions, Fallon will "retire." When either man "retires," the Roots play blues music.

Jay Leno does monologue jokes

Whenever his predecessor Jay Leno is a guest, Jimmy will feign an injury during the monologue and Leno will have to "tag in" and take his spot for a few minutes while he recovers.

The angry old man

In this conceit, Fallon sets up the premise that he had found an angry man ranting on the street and wants to give the man an opportunity to vent and get his complaints off his chest. Leno then comes in and gives his monologue in the form of a rant, finishing by storming off the set in a rage, sometimes knocking down a staffer on his way out the door.

Billy Crystal variation

One occasion had Jimmy supposedly got a tickle in his throat while telling Hillary Clinton jokes. Billy Crystal took over for the remainder of the monologues.

Sketches involving audience participation

Games

Regular games

Lick it For Ten

A segment introduced on the show's first episode, in which Jimmy invites audience members to come on stage and lick objects, such as a lawn mower or a bowling ball, for ten dollars. Drew Barrymore and Kelly Ripa have played the game as celebrities.

Wheel of Carpet Samples

Introduced in the show's second week, this segment features a game with loosely defined rules and bizarre scoring whose theme song is an off-key version of The Final Countdown. Three audience members are chosen to spin a wheel containing various carpet samples. The wheel includes a "mystery sample", which is revealed by the announcer to both the audience and the contestants prior to game play. Each contestant spins the wheel just once and is awarded a seemingly arbitrary point value. Each game contains the speed round with a "carpet sample fun fact": a piece of trivia, and the "lightning round" in which the contestant must "name as many things as possible" in three seconds, and a "carpet sample cartoon break", which is followed by a "the making of" featurette, then a "the making of the making of" featurette, then an epilogue of the makers of them. If a contestant lands on a piece that has already been won, Jimmy turns the wheel back five spaces. A seemingly arbitrary winner, chosen by Higgins, wins the sample of carpet on which the wheel stopped during their spin. The other two contestants each receive a consolation prize that turns out to be much more valuable than the winning contestant's prize, usually a $300 gift card to the Apple Store.

[|Cell Phone Shootout]

Jimmy picks three random audience members to come down. They are shown a table covered in various "prizes", including a large-screen plasma TV, tickets to a cleaning products convention, a used trumpet, lingerie, recorded VHS tapes, donuts for the entire audience, a box of rocks, a coffee mug, a year's worth of back issues of Orthopedics magazine, a pipe carved into Jimmy's likeness, a 15-second rave, and other similar kitschy items. A Sharp 108 shows a rapid-fire series of images of the objects available to be won, with each image only visible for 1/6 of a second. When Jimmy gives the cue, the contestants must snap a picture with their cellphone of whatever item is on the screen. The contestant wins whatever item of which they have taken a picture. One unlucky female contestant's phone was so slow to take a picture that all she photographed was the game's logo after the prizes had stopped flashing. As a consolation prize, she was awarded "donuts for the entire audience". A frequent prize is "The Call of the Wolf Waker": a man covered head to toe in furs performs a wolf call using his cupped hands; while he is performing the call, footage of sleeping wolves waking up is shown. Another grand prize was 15 seconds in the VIP room with two Victoria's Secret models.

Dance Your Hat and Gloves Off

In a parody of Dance Your Ass Off, Jimmy invites three audience members on stage and challenges them to put on a neon yellow wool knit cap and yellow rubber gloves and try to get them off only by whipping their body parts around. Jimmy warns that "smurfing" is not allowed. Two points are awarded for removing a hat, with one point each for the gloves; ties are broken based on audience applause. The winner receives $300 in one dollar bills, although the bills are presented in strange ways, such as wadded up and stuffed in a plastic bag, stuffed into the hollow handle of a snow shovel, or taped end-to-end in a long chain. Losers receive a T-shirt. Jimmy closes the segment by reciting a rhyming verse, which in some instances of the sketch becomes absurdly long and about an embarrassing health problem Jimmy has such as genital warts.

Karaoke Contest

Jimmy challenges three audience members to a karaoke contest where they sing quotes from a celebrity, including Nicole Polizzi, John Madden and Mel Gibson; most installments use quotes from American conservative politicians and commentators, including South Carolina governor Mark Sanford; Tea Party convention speakers Tom Tancredo, Joseph Farah, and Sarah Palin; Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity; and, most frequently, Rush Limbaugh. One version featured quotes from the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Another featured quotes from recent Celebrity Apprentice bootee Gary Busey. The most recent installment featured quotes from the cast of Duck Dynasty. The winner, determined by audience applause, receives a karaoke machine, and losers receive T-shirts or hoodies.

Hot Dog in a Hole

Jimmy invites three guests on stage, and they must attempt to throw the most hot dogs through holes carved in the mouths of large celebrity faces. The celebrities are usually related somehow, such as the cast of New Moon, the three men from the TV show Full House, hosts on Fox News Channel, or politicians. In the case of a tie, contestants participate in a sudden-death toss-off. The winner receives a hot dog toaster, and the losers receive a package of hot dogs.

''Late Night'' Air Drum Challenge

Three audience members play air drums along to a short drum-heavy instrumental track played by The Roots. The winner is selected by audience applause, who receives a drum kit donated by Yamaha and Zildjian. The two losers receive drumheads autographed by The Roots.

Celebrity Man Boobs

Three audience members are each shown three close-up photos of different man boobs, and are asked to pick which one belongs to a particular celebrity. The three photos are given punny names such as "Areola 51" or "Yo Flabba-Flabba". Winners receive a man boobs-themed wall calendar, and losers receive a "Man Boobs" T-shirt.

Competitive Spit-Takes

Two pairs of audience members compete. One member of each pair rolls a specially marked die to determine whether they will be spitting or receiving. The spitter takes a sip of water, and then the receiver recites the punch line to a provided joke, at which the spitter performs their best spit-take. Audience applause determines the winning team. Sometimes, Jimmy will have the spitter and receiver switch positions if their first spit-take is particularly good or they have extra time. The winning team receives a pair of hand towels embroidered with the "Competitive Spit-Takes" logo, while the losing team receives a pair of moist towelettes.

Dancing on Air

Three audience members select styles of dance out of Jimmy's "Velvety Dance Bag", and then attempt to perform that dance style after being hung by a harness ten feet in the air. The winner is selected by audience applause. The winner receives a dancing-themed prize, such as Nintendo Wii and a dancing game or Arthur Murray dancing lessons, while the losers receive T-shirts.

Battle of the Instant Bands

Before the show, Jimmy selects members of the audience who are musicians but do not otherwise know each other. They are split into two "instant bands" and are given about half an hour to come up with a band name, design an album cover, and write a song to perform. Winners are determined by audience applause. Winners receive the instruments they played and a $300 gift certificate to Guitar Center, while the losers receive T-shirts.
On the June 15, 2011 show, Jimmy hosted the finalists in Rolling Stone and Garnier Fructis' "Choose the Cover" contest. Prior to the show, a member of the audience was selected and both bands had to write a song about her. Each member of both bands received a Late Night T-shirt, and the winning band received 20 pints of Jimmy's Ben & Jerry's flavor, "Late Night Snack".

Battle of the Instant Dance Crews

Similar to Battle of the Instant Bands, Jimmy assembles two dance crews from the audience and has them each choreograph a dance routine in under an hour. The winners each receive $300 gift cards from J.Crew, while the losers win $100 gift cards.

Battle of the Instant Songwriters

Similar to Battle of the Instant Bands, Jimmy selects three singer/songwriters from the audience and has them write a short song based on a different nonsensical phrase like "turtle sunrise" or "clouds are people too". The winner receives a $300 gift card to Guitar Center, while the losers receive $100 gift cards.

Put It In Reverse

Two audience members are given a scene to perform with Jimmy in reverse. After they complete the scene, the footage is then shown reversed so that it looks normal. The winner is determined by audience applause, who receives a piece of reversible clothing, while the loser receives a tshirt with a reversed Late Night logo.

Spanx But No Spanx

Two teams of three male audience members race in a relay to pass a Spanx body-shaping undergarment over their bodies as fast as possible. After taking the garment off of a mannequin, the first person steps into it and then pulls the garment over his head. The next team member then pulls the garment over his head and off over his feet. The third team member reverses direction once again and pulls the garment on feet-first. After pulling the garment over his head, the third team member then races to deposit the garment in a basket. The other team members may assist in the passing of the garment, but cannot bunch it up or fold it onto itself. The winning team wins Late Night compression T-shirts and a pair of Spanx, and the losers receive regular Late Night T-shirts..

Say What!?

Three audience members "try to decipher the garbled-mouth ramblings of Rickie Johnston, a pig farmer with a real anger-management problem," according to Jimmy. Johnston is a stereotypical redneck, dressed in a pair of overalls, a trucker's hat, and no shirt, in addition to a huge mouthful of chewing tobacco and an exaggerated Southern accent. The game has three rounds, worth 10, 100, and 1000 points. The first two rounds vary, but the third round is always "What's On Rickie's Mini-Dish Tonight?", which involves Johnston acting out a scene from a movie and the contestants must guess its title. The winner of the first installment of the game had the choice between a chocolate-covered horseshoe and a "beer-amid" as a prize and chose the beer-amid. The second installment of the game had as its prize a package of paper plates. The third installment awarded a watch made from a can of chewing tobacco. The losers receive a bag of frozen tater tots, with Jimmy giving Rickie a bag as well.

Name That Guy

Three audience members are shown pictures of non-celebrities and each must guess the first and last name of the person shown. The images of non-famous men flashes quickly with one of a famous man second to last. The first two contestants get a single guy to name, but the last contestant plays the "lightning round", where they try to name eight guys in 20 seconds. They show's grand prize, $15,000, has never been won, but the losers receive a T-shirt with their person's name on it. The spirit of the game is similar to "Wheel of Carpet Samples". Due to "lack of budget", the segment uses scene transition graphics from Home Improvement between contestants. It also features "Name That Guy Fun Facts" like "" was born in Cincinnati, Ohio".
Actor Charlie Day played the game's lightning round on the July 11, 2013 episode.

Models and Buckets

Jimmy claims this is "the game that everyone is talking about." This is followed by five brief video clips of five different people strung together so it sounds like they are saying the sentence, "I love Models and Buckets." The twelve models are brought out and Jimmy will ask them an open ended question, such as "How was your weekend?", with each giving a different answer simultaneously. Jimmy then brings in two male audience members who singularly select alternately a bucket held by each model that is filled with an item such as food, confetti, or packing peanuts to be tipped over the contestant's head by that model. The hope is to find the bucket that contains fake $1 bills. The losing contestant receives a Late Night bucket hat. The initial installment of the game used 16 buckets instead of 12. When only six buckets remain, the game enters the "double trouble" phase, where each contestant selects a bucket to be tipped simultaneously. If a contestant wins early in the game, Jimmy will have the models reset with new buckets and the contestants play a second game for another $100. In one installment, both contestants won $100, and the bucket hat was not awarded. Contestants also a receive new clean clothing backstage afterwards.

Buzzwords

Jimmy had audience members roll a twenty-sided die with a letter on each face and say as many words that start with that letter, with rules such as no proper nouns, no long pauses between words, etc. Contestants win $10 cash for each correct word.

Copy Machine Match Game

While two audience members are blindfolded and wear noise-canceling headphones on stage, Jimmy selects another audience member to come down and photocopy their face; after doing so, that person returns to their seat. Singularly each of two contestants are given the photocopy and the task to run into the audience to find the photocopied person. While they are searching, the Roots play music whose tempo slows or fastens depending on how "hot" or "cold" the contestant is in their search. The contestant that finds the photocopied person fastest is declared the winner and receives a desktop printer/fax/scanner/copier, while both the loser and the photocopied person receive a ream of copy paper.

Karate Piñata

Three blindfolded audience members attempt to break ball-shaped piñatas with smiley faces on them rotating around them using only karate kicks. Ties are broken by "kicking awesomeness". The winner receives $300 worth of Old El Paso boxed taco kits, while the losers receive Late Night black belts.

What's Mine Is Yours

Five audience members each donate one of their possessions to a communal "jackpot". Jimmy spices it up by adding the contents of a wallet in his pocket, including $500.
Each of the five audience members has their name on a tile in a bucket. Jimmy singularly pulls a tile from the bucket to eliminate contestants until only one contestant is left, who wins everything in the jackpot. The other four contestants receive Late Night T-shirts or sweatshirts.

Doll Posin'

Three audience members are singularly shown a collectible doll for five seconds, and then have thirty seconds to assume the pose of the doll as closely as possible using a box of props and costumes. Contestants that have yet to play are placed beneath large blue sensory-deprivation "domes of silence". The winner is chosen by audience applause; in the first installment, the winner received a three-foot-tall Barbie doll, but in later installments the prize was $100 and the doll the contestants were imitating. Losers receive doll-sized Late Night T-shirts.

Darts of Insanity

A series of stunts, each with an associated point value, cycles rapid-fire on the "Dartboard of Insanity". Three audience members singularly shoot a Nerf dart gun at the Dartboard, stopping the cycle on a particular stunt. Whichever contestant completes the stunt with the highest point value is declared the winner. All three contestants receive $100 and either a T-shirt or a "beer koozie sweatshirt", although only the winner receives his $100 in the form of a giant check.
Only a few of the "available" games are ever played. Some of the games are highlighted by Jimmy before the game; some are named and also described – these are usually over the top. Still others only ever appear in the rotation. The last game to be played is always "Dude Spoon". The point value of games can vary from episode to episode.
Available games include:
In the rotation only: Beat Your Meat, Believe it or Snot, Bride of Spanxenstein, Emission Possible, Fish Sandwich, Germs of Endearment, Hog-Tied and Lovin' It!, Honey Nut Pantyhose, Melt Your Face Off, Nip R.I.P., Peanut Butter Pickle Face, Pickle Tickle, Purple Nurple, Sausage-Link Jump Rope, Veggie Wedgie, and Whack-A-Sack
Described: Cat Nips, Expired Milkshake of Pain, Fondles the Clown, Goblet of Shame, Hula Hoop of Horror, Jelly Sock of Death, Rabbit Punch, and Stank Hose
Played: Blindfold Balloon Pop, Dude Spoon, Egg Head, Grab the Balls in Your Nutsack, Guac Head, "Late Night Snack" Slip 'n Slide, Hot Dog in a Hole, Look at Yourself, Nutsack Attack!!, Pumpkin Head, Puppy Chow, Shake Your Balls Off!, Syrup Hat, and Yuck Uggs

Wax On, Wax Off

Two audience members compete, at least one male. One of the contestants tries to answer trivia questions; each correct answer earns the team $100, but for each incorrect answer, the non-answerer has a portion of his chest hair removed with hot wax. Unfortunately, all of the questions are in obscure Jeopardy!-like categories such as "Latvian Prime Ministers", "13th-Century South American Architecture", and "Much Ado About 'Quantum Mechanics'". The last regular question is played in the "double trouble" format, where two portions of hair are at stake. The question is usually in the category "Numbers", and the question is usually "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 1000 – what is it?" The "lightning round" features categories flashing by quickly, with easy categories like music, TV, and movies being skipped over for another difficult category at the end. As a consolation prize, the contestants are given "Ed Zeppelin" T-shirts and a 24-pack of Nad's body hair removal strips. To date, no one has answered a single question correctly.
The person being waxed in the installment that aired May 15, 2011, was New York Jets center Nick Mangold.

Wheel of Game Shows

Another surreal game in the spirit of "Wheel of Carpet Samples". Three audience members play mini-games selected by pressing the "game pud" as the options rotate on the Sharp 108. If a player lands on a picture of actor Steve Guttenberg, however, they lose their turn and owe the show $75. To this end, Jimmy urges the contestants to shout "No Guttenbergs!" as the monitor rotates.
Games available include: "Animal Farm", "Brownie Points", "Dance Dance Dance", "Drawing Board", "Find the Red Tissue", "Grab the Cupcake", "Grocery List", "Guess the Card", "Hands in Your Pants", "Harry Potter Trivia vs. the Roots", "Heads or Tails?", "Hide the Shoe", "iCarly Trivia vs. the Roots", "Jellybean Jar", "Magnet Scramble", "Number Jumbler", "Number Scramble", "Picture Puzzle", "Remember That Episode of Full House", "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Nuclear Warhead", "Snap Judgment", "Tarantula Bonanza", "True or False", "Wet Nap Face Slap", "What's In The Box?", "What's the Difference?", "Where Did You Get That Shirt?", "Word of the Day", "Yes or No", and "You Can't Possibly Win!".
After all contestants inevitably tie at zero points since Jimmy doesn't tell them how to play the games, even after a "tiebreaker", they all receive copies of the Saturday Night Live board game and Led Zeppelin T-shirts where the first "L" has fallen off so that they read "Ed Zeppelin".

Put It On a Cracker

Two audience members compete. Each is blindfolded and fed a cracker with three different foods on top. They must try to name as many of the ingredients as they can. The winner receives a $300 gift certificate to Whole Foods, while the loser gets to interact with a celebrity impersonator .

Ready Set Flow

Three audience members compete. They are each given three nouns they must work into a 30-second freestyle rap. The nouns are generated by "Rhyme Wave", a "robot" with a computerized voice that appears on the Sharp 108. The winner is determined by audience applause. The winner receives a TASCAM pocket studio digital recorder, while the runners-up receive Late Night T-shirts, notepads, and pens to write down their own raps.

Sing It Like You Mean It

Two audience members compete. Each is played a new song by the Roots that they must memorize and then immediately perform. The contestant that has yet to play is placed beneath a large blue sensory-deprivation "dome of silence". The winner is determined by audience applause, who is given a $100 bill and a burned CD with their song rendition on it, while the loser receives a Late Night T-shirt.

Tell Us What You Know

Three audience members compete. Each is given a topic by Jimmy and is given 10 seconds to give as many words as possible relating to that topic. After time is up, they are given a score by the "Brainmaster". The winner is given a special prize in an ornate wooden chest. The two losers receive cans of Turtle Wax.

Sounds... Good?

Three audience members compete. They are each given a song to sing karaoke-style – with the catch that they will be wearing noise-canceling headphones so they cannot hear themselves sing. Also, cowboy DJ Munson Rawlings will be manipulating the pitch of the song, which they must match. The winner is determined by audience applause, who wins a pair of noise-canceling headphones, while the losers receive Late Night hoodies.

Do the Blank

On May 15, 2013, Jimmy invented a new game. Two audience members, a young man and a young woman, were invited to the stage for a dancing competition. Jimmy placed them on either side of a small barrier, then he called out the names of made-up dances which they performed for a few moments, while the Roots played music. The dances Jimmy announced were "The Bro-Bot," "The Freaky Frog," "The Elevator," "The Disco Dentist," "Hand Dancin'," "The Sexy Sway," and "The Flying Tornado." To choose a winner, Jimmy proposed a "Blank-Off" and pressed the "Button of Boogie." A prepared slot machine gave each contestant three "random" words for a final dance: the young woman was given "Pogo Stick Paperboy" and the young man received "The Glowing Thong." The contestants performed their interpretations of these last dances, as before, and then received prizes.

Talk Like Trump

Inspired by Donald Trump's tendency to mispronounce words, Jimmy selects three random members of the audience to see whether they can guess how the President will mispronounce a single word. Once selected, Jimmy would show a clip of Trump speaking, and then he would ask the audience member to guess how he will say a word in the clip. Whether they get the answer correct or incorrect, Jimmy gives them a shirt with the mispronounced word spelt on it as a prize for participating in the game.

Trump [Magic 8-Ball]

Jimmy would claim that Mattel created a new toy called "The Trump Magic 8-Ball", a variation of the classic toy, only with President Trump answering people's questions. He would then claim that The Tonight Show actually has one, and proceed to go into the audience with the toy, which is an over-sized ball with an orange "T" logo on it. Jimmy would explain the game with "This Magic 8-Ball is filled with the wisdom of President Trump. You can ask it any personal question you want, as long as it's a yes-or-no question. Then you give it a shake, and the President of the United States will answer your question." He would then select three random members of the audience to give their own questions to ask the ball. Once asked, Jimmy would repeat the question to the ball, shake, and flip it over to reveal a small clip of President Trump played inside of it "answering" the question.

Other sketches

Shared Experience

Introduced in the third week of the show, this segment consists of the audience and show members participating in an experience together. In the first show, these experiences were to eat a Warhead sour candy, wear a Snuggy, and make a bird call. Other "Shared Experiences" have involved playing with an inflated beach ball and shooting Nerf guns at A.D. Miles while he quietly played Jenga by himself.

President of the Audience

During the show's first week, on March 5, 2009, Jimmy picked three random audience members and elected one of them to be president of the audience for the night. Later that night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow appeared in a breaking news segment and reported that his approval ratings were dropping. Attack ads from his opponent were also shown, accusing the president of being a flip flopper when it came to liking Jimmy's jokes. The old president was later "impeached" on April 17, 2009, and a new president was appointed.
On March 10, 2010, after Jimmy complained that neither of the previous presidents ever showed up to work, he "elected" a new president by picking one audience member at random. Jimmy gave the new president a "presidential starter kit", including a copy of the Late Night by-laws, a quill pen, a carton of cigarettes, a stapler, and a first lady with "shapely arms". After an attack ad on behalf of another audience member, NBC Nightly News weekend anchor Lester Holt gave a news report about the president's short term thus far.

Beef Solvers

A recurring sketch in which audience members are called upon to stand in for celebrities who are having public feuds and come to a mutual understanding. Segments have included two men as Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston, two white women as 50 Cent and Rick Ross, Perez Hilton and Carrie Prejean, Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken, and Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann. One sketch involved four audience members reenacting the feud between Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell, and Ryan Seacrest regarding the new contract offered to Mr. Seacrest as the host of American Idol and the fact that she wasn't made a similar offer by the show's producers.

Freestylin' with The Roots

Jimmy asks audience members random questions. House band The Roots then makes up a song about them on the spot using that information in a music style of Jimmy's choosing. When Ringo Starr was a guest on the show, there was an all-Beatles version; during "Rolling Stones Week", there was an all-Stones version. While the show was in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, the Roots were joined in freestylin' by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
On the September 11, 2012 episode, one of the audience members selected was Andy Murray; The Roots did a song about him winning the 2012 US Open in the style of Scottish band The Proclaimers. On the October 2, 2012 episode, Alec Baldwin was selected; his song was about the seventh and final season premiere of 30 Rock.

What's on Your Facebook page?

The camera isolates on random audience members and a Facebook status for them appears which says an intimate personal thought about them.

What's on Your Playlist?

Same aspect of What's on Your Facebook?, the camera isolates on random audience members and a graphic of an iPod appears showing what songs the person has on theirs, which is usually something extremely personal or obscene.

Think About It

Three audience members are hooked up to the "Think-O-Sync-ometer" by wearing a "wireless Think-O-Read-ometer headband", making sure that the "cerebral cortex nipple" is facing out. They are then asked to concentrate for 15 seconds on a particular subject provided by Jimmy. Then, after pressing the button on the Think-O-Sync-ometer, Jimmy "pokes" each contestant's cerebral cortex nipple, allowing the Think-O-Sync-ometer to "project" the audience member's thoughts.

Audience Voicemails

Jimmy selects members of the audience and puts their cellphones into the "Hacker 9000", which scans the phone and plays the last received voicemail, which is usually something embarrassing.

Audience Artwork

Jimmy provides the audience with paper and packs of markers and asks them to draw whatever they want. He then goes into the audience and reads off some audience members' names and has them show off their drawings.

''Late Night'' Perm Week

Every night during the week of February 7 to 11, 2011, the Late Night crew choose one male audience member with straight hair and gave him a perm. He was interviewed with friends before the procedure, then the perm was revealed during the show. Jimmy wore a perm wig during the sketches.
Late Night Perm Week returned May 21 to 25, 2012, as well as July 15 to 19, 2013.

My Kids Are Weird

Jimmy showcases children with weird talents like reciting 86 digits of π or contorting their body into the shape of a pretzel while eating a soft pretzel. Jimmy then gives each child a Hawaiian shirt and a metal detector.

''Audience Got Talent''

An homage to America's Got Talent, Jimmy selects members of the audience and has them demonstrate a talent or perform a trick.

Correspondent segments

Throughout the show each month, Jimmy would send his Tonight Show correspondent and head writer Arthur Meyer down to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City to interview passing civilians and tourists about various topics.

Deep Issues, Deep Tissues

Jimmy would send Arthur down to get people's thoughts about divisive current events while being given a massage by a massage therapist. Pedestrians would lie down on a massage table while answering questions, usually responding in pain from how deep the massage is. Topics included the Democratic candidates in the 2020 United States presidential election, the importance of voting during the 2018 midterms, whether Trump should sit down with Robert Mueller, and a special edition for Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mispronouncing

Around the release of a highly anticipated movie or TV series, Jimmy would send Arthur down to get people's thoughts and opinions and see if they notice that he is mispronouncing the title of the movie or program while asking them questions. The title would be changed to a selection of humorous and unrelated names that rhyme with the original title with the interviewed people shown usually being unaware of the title change. The segment is somewhat similar to “Lie Witness News” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

The Big Question

Usually around holidays such as Halloween and Easter, Arthur would ask an intentionally long question, often filled with facts about the holiday, ending with him asking a simple question such as “How are you?”

Recurring segments featuring celebrity guests

Beer Pong

Jimmy plays the popular drinking game beer pong with a celebrity guest, those including Serena Williams, Ivanka Trump, Betty White, and John McEnroe. They play the paddle-less version. The first player to sink two balls wins. When Jimmy played Kathie Lee Gifford, they played the "classier" version "wine pong" using glasses filled with chardonnay. When Jimmy played Gina Gershon, they drank tequila shots instead of beer. When Jimmy played with Mariah Carey, they played "champagne pong" using glasses filled with Dom Pérignon rosé.
Current standings:

Contestant	W	L
Jimmy Fallon	18	15
Ivanka Trump	2	0
Candice Bergen	1	0
Mariah Carey	1	0
Jennifer Garner	1	0
Angie Harmon	1	0
Gina Gershon	1	0
Anna Kournikova	1	0
John McEnroe	1	0
Charlize Theron	1	0
Naomi Watts	1	0
Sigourney Weaver	1	0
Serena Williams	1	0
Chris Evans	1	1
Kathie Lee Gifford	1	1
Jessica Alba	0	1
Kate Bosworth	0	1
Salma Hayek Pinault	0	1
Kate Hudson	0	1
Lucy Liu	0	1
Helen Mirren	0	1
Paula Patton	0	1
Michelle Pfeiffer	0	1
Kelly Ripa	0	1
Maria Sharapova	0	1
Gabourey Sidibe	0	1
Sofia Vergara	0	1
January Jones	0	2
Betty White	0	2

Beer Shuffleboard

In a light-hearted attempt to reclaim the honor of his The Proposal co-star Betty White, who at the time was the only celebrity Jimmy had defeated in beer pong, Ryan Reynolds played Jimmy in a game of beer shuffleboard. The two later played another game after a dispute arose over an interpretation of the rules of the game.

''Saved by the Bell'' / ''California Dreams'' Reunion

On the March 27, 2009 episode, Fallon explained that he had watched an episode of Saved by the Bell that morning. The episode he watched was The Prom, where Kelly opted to give the money she had saved to go to the prom with Zack to her father, who had just lost his job. Fallon commented on the absurdity of Kelly's father losing his job at a weapons plant because "world peace had broken out", and also pointed out that the year 2009 is the twentieth anniversary of Saved by the Bell. Fallon then decided to launch a campaign to persuade the original cast of Saved by the Bell to appear in a reunion special on his show. Dennis Haskins, who portrayed Mr. Belding, was the first to agree to take part in the reunion, and appeared on the show the same night Fallon launched the campaign. On April 3, 2009, it was announced that Lark Voorhees, who portrayed Lisa Turtle, would also be joining the reunion, making her the second Saved by the Bell guest. On April 24, 2009, Mario Lopez appeared on the show. After helping Fallon re-enact almost verbatim the climactic scene of the episode Save the Max in which the Saved by the Bell gang put together a pledge-drive to save The Max, he agreed to appear on the reunion.
On June 8, 2009, Mark-Paul Gosselaar appeared on the show as a guest to promote his series Raising the Bar. When he came out on stage, he was dressed as his Saved by the Bell character Zack Morris and claimed that since graduating college, he had been living in Los Angeles, working as an actor named Mark Paul Gosselaar because "there was already a Zack Morris in SAG". After agreeing to appear on the reunion, he received a phone call, on his signature oversized early-1990s–era cell phone, from Jessie Spano; Gosselaar then informed Fallon that Elizabeth Berkley had also agreed to appear on the reunion. At the end of his appearance, Gosselaar sang Friends Forever, a song performed by the Saved by the Bell gang's band Zack Attack. Fallon and The Roots also performed with him.
On March 4, 2010, Fallon said "it looks like the dream is over." However, on that night's show, he reunited the cast of the show California Dreams instead. Dennis Haskins made a brief appearance, confusing the two reunions. California Dreams cast members Brent Gore, William James Jones, Heidi Noelle Lenhart, Kelly Packard, Jay Anthony Franke, Jennie Kwan, and Michael Cade briefly discussed what they're doing now: Gore is working with a non-profit in Los Angeles, Jones is attending Pepperdine University in pursuit of a master's degree in clinical psychology, Lenhart is a mother of two, Packard is a mother of three and had a small part in the then-upcoming film My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Franke is living in Australia with his wife and had recently finished filming a television pilot he created himself, Kwan had toured with the traveling production of the musical Avenue Q and did a lot of voice acting, and Cade works with the company Oxcyon and had a couple of films coming out that summer. The seven cast members then played the California Dreams theme song as the show went to commercial.
In February 2015, the Saved by the Bell cast was finally reunited and reprised their roles for a sketch which had Jimmy as a new student at Bayside High, and revealed Zack Morris had impregnated Kelly Kapowski.

Random Object Three-Point Shootout

Jimmy and a celebrity guest take turns trying to make three-point shots on a basketball goal using objects like a telephone or a bowl of Count Chocula cereal.

Tonight Show Celebrity Photobomb

Jimmy and a celebrity surprise people at the Top of the Rock by photobombing their pictures.

Charades

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each pair with an audience member to play charades. Jimmy has played with Cameron Diaz, Amy Poehler, and teamed up with Poehler to take on the then-husband/wife team of Fred Armisen and Elisabeth Moss. He also teamed up with his former SNL Weekend Update partner Tina Fey to play against their successors as Weekend Update anchors, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers. Jimmy teamed up with Nene Leakes to take on the team of Donald Trump and Lil Jon after Trump announced Leakes and Lil Jon as cast members for The Celebrity Apprentice on that night's episode. Sometimes Jimmy and Steve Higgins will each pair with a celebrity to play.

Celebrity

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each pair with a member of the audience and play a game of Celebrity. The game is played in three rounds, each using 16 possible celebrity names as answers. During the first round, the clue-giver can give as much of a clue as they want. During the second round, the same set of names is used, but the clues are limited to three words. During the third and final round, the same names are used again, but the clue-givers may only use gestures.

Pictionary

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each pair with an audience member, or with two other celebrities, to play a version of the board game Pictionary. Guest players have included Tina Fey, Jennifer Aniston, Melissa McCarthy, Lenny Kravitz, CeeLo Green, Katie Couric, and many others.

Say That to My Face Challenge

Jimmy and a partner battle a celebrity guest and their partner in a game where each player takes turns doing impressions as clues to get their partners to guess mystery celebrity masks each other is holding up.

''Space Train''

While Jimmy is interviewing an actor, he casually mentions a mid-90s action film they were both in called Space Train. After the actor claims not to remember the movie, Jimmy shows a "clip" from the movie. Participating actors include Robert De Niro, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Will Arnett, and Sir Richard Branson.

''The Sibling-wed Game''

When Saturday Night Live writer/actor Seth Meyers appears as a guest, Jimmy will sometimes bring out Meyers' younger brother Josh and have them play a version of The Newlywed Game. Jimmy asks Seth a series of questions while Josh wears a pair of noise-canceling headphones, and then gets Josh to guess what Seth gave for answers. The brothers then switch positions, with Josh answering and Seth guessing.

Party Monkey Tic-Tac-Toe

Jimmy plays a game of tic-tac-toe with a celebrity guest that has them flinging slingshot "party monkeys" into buckets.

Water War

Jimmy plays a game of war with a celebrity in which the winner of each hand throws a glass of water on the loser. After one player uses five glasses, they earn the right to spray his opponent with a large water gun. He has played with Jason Statham, Christopher Meloni, Chris Kattan, Ashton Kutcher, Hugh Jackman, Jon Hamm, Tom Cruise, Ryan Reynolds, and Lindsay Lohan, among others.

Sticky Balls

Jimmy and a male guest each don a suit made of Velcro and throw small red balls at their opponent, trying to get the balls to stick to the suit. After 45 seconds, the balls are tallied and whichever person got more balls on their opponent's suit is declared the winner.

The ''Late Night'' Invitational

Jimmy plays a round of miniature golf in the studio and in the halls around the studio with a celebrity. To date, he has played with Billy Crudup, Will Arnett, Samuel L. Jackson, and Chris Rock.

Total Iceholes

Jimmy and a celebrity guest play an ice-fishing themed game of cornhole with beanbags shaped like fish and an ice-blue target platform. Three points are scored for a bag that goes in the hole, and 1 point for each bag remaining on the board at the end of the game. Each player has 5 bags to throw.

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Score
Jimmy Fallon	3	Drew Barrymore	3
Jimmy Fallon	10	Diane Lane	7
Jimmy Fallon	10	Rosario Dawson	4*
Jimmy Fallon	1	Winona Ryder	0
Jimmy Fallon	1	Miley Cyrus	9
Jimmy Fallon	3	Kirstie Alley	5
Jimmy Fallon	3	Marisa Tomei	10
Jimmy Fallon	10	Christina Ricci	0
Jimmy Fallon	2	Chloë Grace Moretz	3**
Jimmy Fallon	3	Kyra Sedgwick	1
Jimmy Fallon	2	Greg Kinnear	5
Jimmy Fallon	1	Serena Williams	1

*Dawson manually knocked some of her bags into the hole after the game, achieving a posted score of 16.
**Moretz walked over to the platform and dropped her last bag directly into the hole.

Horseshoes

Jimmy and Kid Rock played a game of horseshoes. Tariq served as judge. Later, Jimmy played Tim McGraw, with Higgins as judge.

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Score
Jimmy Fallon	1	Kid Rock	3
Jimmy Fallon	1	Tim McGraw	4

Ladder Toss

Jimmy and a guest play a game of ladder toss.

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Score
Jimmy Fallon	5	Mila Kunis	2
Jimmy Fallon	7	Martha Stewart	0
Jimmy Fallon	4	Julianne Hough	2

The Instrument Game

Jimmy and a celebrity guest alternate playing simple songs on a randomly selected musical instrument that neither have any experience playing, trying to get The Roots to correctly guess what they were trying to play. If there are two celebrity guests, they will compete against each other. Originally, Jimmy and the celebrity would try to guess the songs each other played. The game was introduced to Jimmy by Julianna Margulies, who had played it at a birthday party for William H. Macy. Scarlett Johansson, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen have also played it.

Let Us Play With Your Look

A sketch where Jimmy and a celebrity partner give a "makeover" to an audience member. Both Jimmy and the partner dress all in white, including blonde short-bobbed wigs, with Jimmy wearing a peasant shirt and tights. Jimmy sings "let us play with your look" over and over, rising in pitch until he gives out, while his partner makes over the audience member. The celebrity is the first guest later, and both Jimmy and the guest usually express wonder at who those two weird people were.

Will Ferrell messily brushed an audience member's hair
Alec Baldwin powdered an audience member's face
Zach Galifianakis smeared a great deal of mousse into an audience member's hair
Sarah Silverman smeared a facial mask cream on an audience member's face, in his hair, and on his clothes
Drew Barrymore applied a large amount of hair gel in an audience member's hair; later, she got on a stationary bike and began pedaling as the bike was pulled off-screen
Maya Rudolph put a large number of mismatched hair extensions in an audience member's hair; she then got on a mobility scooter and rode off backwards
Don Cheadle emptied a can of mousse onto an audience member's head and then disappeared underneath Jimmy's desk
Anne Hathaway spritzed water on an audience member's hair and combed it, and eventually just dumped the rest of the water on him; she then backed up and tumbled through the window behind Jimmy's desk
Lindsay Lohan massaged shaving cream into an audience member's hair; Jimmy was dragged behind the curtain after giving out, and Lohan awkwardly hid in the folds of the curtain before eventually finding the part in the curtain. She did not appear later as a normal guest on the show.
Bryan Cranston massaged large amounts of differently colored hair gels into an audience member's hair; afterwards, he put the lid of the mousse container over the audience member's head and then sashayed over to kiss Higgins on his way out
''Jacob's Patience''

Jimmy shows a scene from Jacob's Patience, a fictional 1990s Canadian soap opera he and his celebrity guest appeared on, where the actors used mannequin arms instead of their own.

Will Ferrell appeared in a scene set in a sandwich shop
Zach Galifianakis played a hustler in a billiards hall
Alec Baldwin played a doctor giving Jimmy a medical exam
Chris Kattan played the proprietor of an ice cream shop making Jimmy a banana split
Matthew Broderick played a taco shop owner making Jimmy a burrito
Ben Stiller played an Italian pizzeria owner making Jimmy a pepperoni pizza
Ricky Gervais was a pottery store owner giving Jimmy a lesson on a pottery wheel
Jason Bateman was the owner of a wine store
Steve Carell and his assistant Justin Timberlake were men's clothiers fitting Jimmy for a suit
Seth Rogen was the owner of a Canadian weed store
Miley Cyrus was the owner of a nail salon giving Jimmy a manicure
Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey were a fast food restaurant manager and employee, respectively, making Jimmy a hamburger
Snoop Dogg played a bakery owner who bakes Jimmy some special cookies
Sandra Bullock was a server at Sandy's Scoopery, serving Jimmy ice cream
''Other Voices''

Jimmy plays a clip from Other Voices, a Canadian talk show airing at 3 AM he hosted, which featured his celebrity guest. Their dialogue is supplied off-screen and they must attempt to lip-sync along to it. The first installment featured Jimmy interviewing Steve Carell; Jimmy's dialogue was supplied by Higgins and Carell's was supplied by Chris Kattan. Later, when Jimmy interviewed Simon Cowell and Queen Latifah, Higgins and A. D. Miles supplied the dialogue. When Drew Carey appeared as a guest, in addition to Higgins and Miles providing their voices, Jimmy and Drew had people hiding behind them providing their arms. These are both sketches from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the American version of which Carey hosted.

''Ew!''

Jimmy and a female guest as one of her friends star in a fictional TeenNick show called Ew!, shot in the basement of Sara's house, in which they talk about things that make them say "Ew!". Sara always mentions how to spell her name: "And if you're wondering, that's S-A-R-A, with no H, because H's are ew!" Her nerdy stepdad Gary, whom she hates and is embarrassed by, always interrupts midway through the show, originally in person but more recently via FaceTime.
The character of Sara is based on an actual girl named Sara in Jimmy's audience who loudly said "Ew!" after a disgusting joke during the July 15, 2011, edition of "Thank-You Notes". When Jimmy asked the girl her name, she answered, "Sara without an H."
Jimmy saying Ew! in the style of Sara whenever something disgusting is mentioned during the regular show has also become a running gag.

"The Ew! Show" guests

In chronological order, the show has featured the following celebrities as Sara's friends for guests:

Emma Stone played her friend Megan.
Claire Danes played her friend Katie.
Channing Tatum played her friend Susie Callahan.
Michael Strahan played her friend Kelly Tompkins.
Lindsay Lohan as her friend Stephanie Sullivan.
On April 9, 2013, Sara went backstage at The Tonight Show to meet the Jonas Brothers, who played themselves. After accidentally signing her poster over their faces, Sara was distraught and could be consoled only with a kiss from the Jonases. Before she could get her kiss, though, they were interrupted by Gary.
Seth Rogen played her friend Allison Donnelly and Zac Efron played her friend Brittany Anderson.
Taylor Swift as Natalie Benson.
On October 6, 2014, a song "Ew!" based on the sketch premiered on the show featuring will.i.am as Mir.i.am.
Ariana Grande played her friend Alexa Armstrong, a girl who can sing well and prefers grande lattes.
Michelle Obama appeared as herself to promote her healthy eating program and brought Sara some kale, who enjoyed it without saying Ew!
Miley Cyrus played her friend Becky Campbell.
Jennifer Lopez played her friend Gabby Hernandez.
Demi Lovato played her friend Emily Levinson.
John Cena played her friend Addison Wyatt.
Britney Spears played her friend Abby.
Priyanka Chopra as her friend Mia Singh.
Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon cameo

As part of the pre-show video guests watch prior to riding Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, Jimmy appears as his real self introducing the ride's theme and safety procedures, only to discover Sara and Gary in the audience. When Sara interrupts Jimmy telling him to get the ride started, she introduces herself and Gary, using her catchphrase. Jimmy comments that they aren't supposed to be there yet because the rest of the audience is still outside. Sara then remarks, "Ew! Let's get out of here! Gary, take me to the gift shop!", and the pair leave.

Tight Pants

On May 10, 2012, Will Ferrell hosted. He emerged from the curtains dancing and singing about his white "tight pants". In this sketch that was the most popular among fans, "All of a sudden, Fallon crashed the party with his own tight pants, which did not sit well with Ferrell — who claimed he was the only one who could wear tight pants." The skit was re-run on Fallon's Best of Late Night special. Later, on Fallon's Tonight Show, he revived the sketch with Jennifer Lopez. In 2016, it was reprised with Will Ferrell and Christina Aguilera.
In all renditions, Fallon always leaves and says he'll find a new town.

Shazazz

Whenever Gwyneth Paltrow is on, Jimmy mentions they were in a singing duo named Shazazz several years ago. They go on to perform their top hits, originally in the style of old school rap: "Do It", "We're Gonna Do It", and "Remember When We Did It ". A later version had them switching genres to R&B and performing "Let's Do It", "Why Don't We Do It Again", and "We Did It".

Pleather and Lace

Jimmy reminisced with Liv Tyler about the time they appeared on Star Search in the 80s as the duo "Pleather and Lace", singing a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "All Through the Night".
Later, the duo appeared on the talent search show Star Makerz singing The Human League's "Don't You Want Me". The Star Makerz judges gave them ¼ Zs.

''Password''

After showing a brief clip of the original black-and-white Password from the 1960s, Jimmy played Betty in a game of Password hosted by Higgins on a recreation of the original Password set. Jimmy later teamed up with Robert De Niro to play against Bradley Cooper and an audience member.
Several more games of Password have occurred since then.

''Pyramid''

Higgins emcees a version of the classic game show Pyramid where Jimmy and a celebrity guest each pair with an audience member.

Catch Phrase

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each pair with an audience member and play a game of Catch Phrase. The first pair to two points wins.

Mixology with Rachel Maddow

Whenever she is a guest on the show, Rachel Maddow, a self-proclaimed mixologist, makes Jimmy an obscure cocktail.

Hockey with Denis Leary

When he is a guest on the show, Denis Leary and Jimmy will usually play each other in a hockey-themed game, such as air hockey or "box hockey". They usually make a bet that the loser will donate money to the Cam Neely House for cancer patients in Boston.

Audience Skee Ball

Jimmy and a celebrity guest take turns rolling large, soft balls up a ramp into the audience, where audience members are holding bins and buckets labeled with different point values in a layout reminiscent of that used in a regular skee ball game.

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Score
Jimmy Fallon	100	James Franco	80
Jimmy Fallon	0	John Rich	60
Jimmy Fallon	150	Kristen Bell	140

The Long Pour

Jimmy and a celebrity guest attempt to pour three bottles of beer, one at a time, first into a mug and then from the mug into a large graduated cylinder. The pouring is complicated by a broomstick, both ends of which is affixed to their wrists, so that their arms are completely outstretched when attempting the pour from the bottle to the mug. The person with the most liquid in the cylinder at the end of the game wins.

Bow and Arrow Stand-Off

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each wear a clear plastic box around the upper half of their bodies. The box is divided into three zones: head, torso, and groin. Both of them are armed with a Nerf-style bow and suction-cup arrows. They stand approximately 15 feet apart and try to hit each other with the arrows. Five points are awarded for an arrow to the torso, ten for a head shot, and twenty for a hit in the groin area.

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Score
Jimmy Fallon	30	Jason Sudeikis	50
Jimmy Fallon	10	Robert Pattinson	25
Jimmy Fallon	30	Nathan Fillion	30
Jimmy Fallon	30	Ryan Lochte	25

Home Run Derby

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each hit large foam balls off a tee into the audience using a large plastic bat. The audience is divided into three scoring zones. Each player hits three balls. Where the ball lands in the audience is how much it's worth. When playing against a British guest, they use cricket bats instead.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Pie

Jimmy and a celebrity guest each put their arms and head through holes in stand-up pictures of chefs. In front of them is a pie-flinging machine. They then play rounds of rock-paper-scissors. Each time one of them loses a round, they click their machine one time. After a random number of clicks, the machine will propel the pie into their face. The first person to take three pies to the face loses. One such guest was Glenn Close on June 5, 2013.

''True Facts of Truth''

Jimmy and a celebrity guest appear as disembodied heads in front of a tranquil background and recite not-quite-true facts like "George Washington's face appears on the quarter, the one-dollar bill, and Tobey Maguire's left butt cheek" while new age music plays in the background.

Egg Russian Roulette

Jimmy and a celebrity guest take turns selecting an egg from a carton where 8 of the eggs have been hard-boiled and 4 have been left raw. While Jimmy and his guest sit on stools at a small, high table, Steve Higgins presents the egg carton with humorous but ominous remarks while explaining the rules. The contestants then take turns in choosing an egg from the carton and smash it against his forehead. The first person to smash two raw eggs on his head is the loser.
Guest players have included Jason Sudeikis, David Duchovny, Joel McHale, Tom Cruise, Seth Meyers, and Edward Norton.

Word Sneak

In Word Sneak, Jimmy & the celebrity guest hold 5 cards, each containing random words that must be said in a conversation as seamlessly & casually as possible. Guests that have played include Bryan Cranston and Ricky Gervais.

Yacht Rock

Once a year on the show, Jimmy has a "yacht rock" party, celebrating that genre of soft rock of the late 70s and early 80s. Jimmy will wear a captain's hat and have nautical-themed games. In addition, a yacht rock act will perform one of their hits of the genre:

On October 5, 2009, Christopher Cross and Michael McDonald sang "Ride Like the Wind".
On May 21, 2010, Robbie Dupree sang "Steal Away".
On May 3, 2011, Ambrosia sang "Biggest Part of Me".
History of Rap in 3 Minutes

Whenever Justin Timberlake appears on the show, he and Jimmy perform a medley of popular hip-hop and rap songs from a 30-year span in chronological order. Thus far, they have done six installments.

Drinko

In a spoof of The Price Is Right game Plinko, Jimmy and his celebrity guest drop disks into a Plinko-style pegboard, disks that end up in various liquids that are to be mixed and consumed as cocktails. The board invariably contains gag substances such as pea soup or pickle juice, in addition to alcoholic beverages such as champagne and mixers such as Tang.

Slapjack

A game of Blackjack wherein at the end of each round, the winner slaps the loser across the face with a gigantic prosthetic hand.

Pool Bowling

A game of pool played on a giant billiard table with bowling balls and no cues. The first person to sink three balls, stripes or solids, wins.

Beer Hockey

In this hybrid of beer pong and air hockey, at each end of the table are seven holes with cups full of beer in them. If your opponent succeeds in scoring the puck by sinking it in one of your cups, you must chug, then turn the cup upside down and place it on top of the hole. First player to score three wins.

Flip Cup

A game of flip cup.

Wheel of Impressions

Celebrity guests and Fallon take turns to hit the button of impressions generator, it will land on a random celebrity with a random topic. Celebrity guests and Fallon are challenged to do the impression.
;List of celebrity guests

October 31, 2014: Kevin Spacey
June 22, 2015: Seth MacFarlane
October 30, 2015: Dana Carvey
September 6, 2017: Sarah Paulson
September 18, 2019: Nick Kroll
Wheel of Musical Impressions

Celebrity guests and Fallon take turns to hit the button of impressions generator, it will land on a random singer with a random song. Celebrity guests and Fallon are challenged to do the impression.
;List of celebrity guests

September 2, 2014: Adam Levine
February 23, 2015: Christina Aguilera
May 19, 2015: Jamie Foxx
September 15, 2015: Ariana Grande
February 19, 2016: Demi Lovato
July 21, 2016: Céline Dion
February 3, 2017: Alessia Cara
February 28, 2017: Alicia Keys
October 22, 2018: Melissa Villaseñor
August 14, 2019: Alessia Cara
October 24, 2019: Keegan-Michael Key
Wheel of Freestyle

Celebrity guests and Tariq from The Roots take turns hit the button of freestyle generator, it will land on three different topics. Celebrity guests have to do the rap freestyle containing the three random words.
;List of celebrity guests

November 6, 2015: Lin-Manuel Miranda
October 4, 2016: Lin-Manuel Miranda
December 8, 2016: Riz Ahmed
February 10, 2017: Common
April 18, 2018: Letitia Wright
June 18, 2019: Lin-Manuel Miranda
June 28, 2019: Nicki Minaj
August 12, 2019: Common & Ray Wimley
Slay It, Don't Spray It

Celebrity guests and Fallon take turns hitting a button which generates a well-known song. The lyrics will appear on cue cards, but the music will stop and the cards will be blank. If celebrity guests and Fallon don't finish the lyric correctly, they get sprayed in the face with water coming out of a prop microphone. If they get the lyric correct, the other player gets sprayed. During the final round, celebrity guests and Fallon sing the song together, and they both have to get the lyric correct.
;List of celebrity guests

September 27, 2018: Shawn Mendes
January 10, 2019: Gwyneth Paltrow
February 25, 2020: Nick Jonas
One-time sketches involving celebrity guests

Thanksgiving

In this sketch, aired on Nov. 22, 2009, guest Blake Lively and Jimmy play each other, reminiscing about their previous Thanksgiving Dinners. It is shown through flashbacks that each Thanksgiving both Blake and Jimmy bring the same food item or dish. Blake, enraged, slaps Jimmy. At the last Thanksgiving shown neither bring out a food dish, however Blake becomes enraged anyway when she and Jimmy break the wishbone from the turkey and he gets the bigger half.

Pumpkin Bowling

On Halloween 2011, Jimmy and Heidi Klum bowled two frames apiece using pumpkins of various sizes instead of bowling balls. Klum beat Jimmy 19–18.

Relationship with Stephen Colbert

After Stephen Colbert auctioned off a portrait of himself "enhanced" by artists Shepard Fairey and Andres Serrano for the charity DonorsChoose, he declared on his show, The Colbert Report, that his "BFF for six months," Jimmy Fallon, was going to match the auction price, $26,000. On the next night's Late Night, Fallon demurred, saying, "here's the thing: I never said that." Hearing that, Colbert came out on the Late Night stage and chided him, saying, "if you can't donate $26,000 of your best friend's money without asking him first, what's the point in being best friends?" In quasi-retaliation, Fallon announced that if his viewers would donate the $26,000 to DonorsChoose, Colbert would appear with the Roots to sing Rebecca Black's "Friday". The viewers met the donation goal, with NBC Universal also matching the $26,000, and Colbert, along with Fallon, Black Thought, Taylor Hicks, and the New York Knicks City Dancers, performed the song on the April 1, 2011 show. During the performance, Seth Herzog held up a large placard with a QR code on it; the code led to a "secret" video where Jimmy thanked his viewers for their donations.
In a later segment of The Colbert Report, Colbert noticed that NBC used a picture of the "Friday" performance in Late Nights Emmy packet, and pointed out the irony of doing so since Fallon and Colbert would be up for Emmys in the same category. Colbert then did a "Thank You Note" to Jimmy for promoting his show. On a later episode of Late Night, Jimmy wanted to remain "fremmymies" rather than "emmymies" and countered with his version of Colbert's "The Wørd" ; the show then went to commercial with the logo Late Night with Jimmy Falbert.
When the six months was up, the pair became mortal enemies and went on each other's shows to feud. Anderson Cooper appeared on both sketches asking each host if he could be their new friend, to which both replied "No, Anderson, it's just too soon!"

Who's on First?

On December 20, 2012, Jimmy and Higgins did a version of the classic Abbott and Costello bit "Who's on First?" with Jimmy in the Bud Abbott role and Higgins in the Lou Costello role. During the bit, Billy Crystal appeared as the first baseman, A. D. Miles was the second baseman, and Jerry Seinfeld played the third baseman.

Jimmy and Will Smith's 1920s radio show

On May 24, 2012, Jimmy and Will Smith played their grandfathers, who had a music show on the old NBC Radio Network in the 1920s, and they show some old archived clips of them performing. However, all of the songs they performed were simply crooner-style versions of Smith's old songs, who claims they sound nothing like his music.

Point Pleasant Police Department

Jimmy and Bill Hader played a clip from a TV show in the 1980s they starred in together, in which play officers from the Point Pleasant, New Jersey Police Department, who repeatedly spit food on each other. Since then he did the skit again with Jake Gyllenhaal, Alec Baldwin and Kevin James.

Suspended Suspense

Jimmy and Bryan Cranston show clips from a soap opera they were in called Suspended Suspense in which they played brothers fighting over their late father's estate, all while suspended in the air by harnesses.

Come Dance With Us

Jimmy and Jennifer Lawrence show clips from instructional dance videos they attempted to sell on an overnight show on QVC.

Hello video parody

Jimmy was joined by Lionel Richie for a duet of Richie's song "Hello", which was also a parody of its music video.

In the Dusk of Night

Jimmy and Jon Hamm show clips from a soap opera they starred in together called In the Dusk of Night in which they played business partners fighting about whether or not Hamm's character is having an affair with Jimmy's character's wife. All the while, small animals on remote controlled cars roll onto the set playing loud music. Hamm claimed his outstanding performance was the reason he got the part of Don Draper on Mad Men.

Canyon Confessions

Jimmy and Bryan Cranston show clips from an action show they were in together in which they played BASE jumpers who confessed wrongdoings to each other while on a dive.

Other sketches

March Madness picks

Each year for March Madness, Jimmy picks an underdog team he thinks will go all the way. So far he is 1–3; his first 3 picks lost in the first round, but his 2013 pick actually made the Final Four.
In 2009, Jimmy threw all of his support behind the Tennessee-Chattanooga Mocs, who were seeded #16 and played the heavy favorite, #1 seeded Connecticut Huskies in the first round. Jimmy made signs for the audience to hold up, gave them T-shirts, had their pep band play on the show, did a brief history of the school, and did an interview via satellite with Head Coach John Shulman. He also reviewed a list of notable graduates, which includes Dennis Haskins who made an appearance on stage in support of his alma mater and gave Jimmy a UTC hat. However, the show's support wasn't enough, as the Mocs lost the game 103–47. Coach Shulman and the outgoing senior players attended the March 20th taping of the show as audience members and Jimmy had a brief conversation with the coach during the show.
In 2010, Jimmy picked the Siena Saints. He said he wanted to pick his hometown school. He once again did a school history and reviewed a list of notable graduates, which also includes his sister Gloria. The Roots then performed a ballad about head coach Fran McCaffery. The #13 seed Saints lost in the first round to the #4 seed Purdue Boilermakers 72–64. As a tribute to the team, Jimmy read off the Siena roster and had the audience twirl Saints T-shirts.
In 2011, Jimmy picked the #15 seed Long Island-Brooklyn Blackbirds who played the #2 seed North Carolina Tarheels in the first round. To celebrate, Fallon gave the entire audience Long Island-Brooklyn basketball T-shirts. Later, the Roots sang a song about the LIU head coach Jim Ferry, described by Jimmy as "the sexiest coach in the NCAA", and then Jimmy gave the entire audience Blackbirds thundersticks. LIU's mascot also appeared during Cell Phone Shootout the day before the first game to give high fives to the audience. Jimmy's pick once again didn't make it past the first round, losing 102–87.
Late Night was in reruns the week before the tournament in 2012, so no underdog pick was made that year; however, Jimmy did a Pros and Cons sketch about March Madness upon his return.
In 2013, Jimmy's team was the #4 seed Syracuse Orange, his first pick to have a higher seed than their first-round opponent. Jimmy gave a special shout-out to Syracuse sophomore forward Rakeem Christmas. After Syracuse won their first game, Jimmy gave one lucky audience member a bowl of oranges, which he elected to trade for a "mystery prize": a sack of oranges. After Syracuse won their second game Jimmy gave out another bowl of oranges, which was traded for a citrus juicer. Syracuse's third game was a 61–50 win over the #1-seed Indiana Hoosiers, but fell during a long weekend. After Syracuse won their fourth game, Jimmy gave out another bowl of oranges, which were traded for a gift-wrapped bowl of oranges. Jimmy wanted to show a clip from their Elite Eight Victory, but CBS wouldn't allow it, so they re-created one using an Atari 2600 basketball game. Syracuse was finally defeated in the Final Four by Michigan on April 6.
In 2014–2016, the [|Puppy Predictors] chose the winners.
In 2017, Jimmy as Shaquille O'Neal did a bracket in during Shaq's fictional podcast named "The Shaqcast" in which he picked the winners based on bizarre criteria or the better mascot.

April Fool's Day pranks

As an April Fool's Day prank in 2009, Yoshi Amao came out and did the entire monologue in Japanese instead of Jimmy.
In 2010, most of the band was shown lounging instead of playing the theme song during the introduction while keyboardists James Poyser and Kamal Gray had a pretend boxing match.
In 2011, the band briefly played the theme song intentionally poorly and Questlove's drumming "stepped on" Tariq's announcing of the episode number. Shortly thereafter, Questlove announced "April Fools!" They finished the theme song as normal.
In 2012, April 1 fell on a weekend.

If Puppies Could Vote/Puppy Predictors

In the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections, Jimmy had five Golden Retriever puppies with human first and last names act as "pundits" to predict the winner of various races by choosing which of two bowls of dog food to eat from. After he briefly went through the candidates' positions, he released the puppies from a small cage. The puppies selected:

in the Nevada Senate race: Harry Reid, 4–1 over Sharron Angle.
in the Illinois Senate race: Mark Kirk, 3–2 over Alexi Giannoulias.
in the Pennsylvania Senate race: Joe Sestak, 3–2 over Pat Toomey.
in the New York Governor's race: the original call was Carl Paladino 3–2 over Andrew Cuomo, but a review of the tape revealed one puppy had "controversially" flip-flopped and changed his vote, giving Cuomo the victory.

The puppies correctly called three of the four races, only missing in the Sestak/Toomey race in Pennsylvania.
After the election, an "attack ad" surfaced slamming Gary Frick for his flip-flop in the Cuomo/Paladino race.
In a final bipartisan effort, he rewarded the puppies for their work by letting them eat out of a single bowl.
Jimmy also had the puppies predict the Best Picture winner of the 83rd Academy Awards. They incorrectly predicted Toy Story 3.
Jimmy later had the puppies predict the results of the 2011 NFL season. They incorrectly selected the New England Patriots to be the winners of Super Bowl XLVI. The Patriots did make it to the Super Bowl, but lost to the New York Giants by the score of 21–17.
On the February 24, 2012 episode, Jimmy had the puppies predict the Best Picture winner of the 84th Academy Awards. They incorrectly predicted The Tree of Life.
The night before the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Jimmy allowed Gary Frick to select the winner. She incorrectly picked Mitt Romney as the winner.
On the January 30, 2013 episode, as part of an "Audience Suggestion Box" segment, Jimmy had the puppies predict the winner of Super Bowl XLVII. They correctly selected the Baltimore Ravens over the San Francisco 49ers.
On the February 20, 2013 episode, Jimmy had the puppies predict the Best Picture winner of the 85th Academy Awards. They correctly predicted Argo.
On April 12, 2013 a puppy incorrectly picked Wichita State to win the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The selection method was different for this prediction: each of the four puppies wore the jersey of a different team and the first one that reached the food bowl indicated the prediction.
On May 3, 2013, Jimmy had one puppy predict the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby. Barry incorrectly predicted Verrazano, who came in 14th place; Orb was the winner.
On September 4, 2013, as part of an "Audience Suggestion Box" segment, Jimmy had the puppies predict the winner of the NFL season opener between the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos. They predicted Denver. The puppies were correct when the Broncos, led by Peyton Manning, did win.
On April 30, 2015, as part of an "Audience Suggestion Box" segment, Jimmy had 16 puppies predict the winner of the 2015 Kentucky Derby, all of them representing one of the top sixteen horses racing. The puppies correctly predicted that American Pharaoh would win the derby.

''Harry Potter'' Super Fan Contest

Jimmy brought down two self-professed fans of the Harry Potter series and had them compete at a series of contests to try to win a prize package provided by Warner Brothers.

Bean Taste Test: Contestants attempt to identify one of Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans by taste for one point.
Guess the Title: Jimmy read the name of on the Harry Potter films as translated into a foreign language that the contestants had to identify for one point.
Repeat After the Living Painting: Jimmy brought out a "living painting" who recited a recipe for Dragon Dung Fertilizer that the contestants had to remember and write down later, earning one point for each correct ingredient.

Because the contestants were tied after round 3, they went to a tiebreaker, where they had to chug a pint of butterbeer as quickly as possible.
The winner's prize was a three-day trip for two to London, staying at a four-star hotel, and the winner would film a Harry Potter movie scene. The loser received a Late Night T-shirt.

The Twelve Things of 2010

Jimmy and a choir of the show's staff sang a song about the twelve biggest news stories of 2010, to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas". The sketch returned in 2011 as the "Late Night Topical Carolers".

Target Demographic

In Target Demographic, Jimmy details a very specific type of viewer which is attractive to advertisers due to their excessive wasteful spending on material goods. The first version was "Blonde Connecticut Housewives". The segment has also examined "Jersey Shore D-Bags", "Indian Doctors", and "Balds". This sketch was only done in the early days of the show and has seemed to be retired.

University of Oregon Power Ballad

Leading up to the 2011 BCS National Championship Game between the Auburn Tigers and the Oregon Ducks, Jimmy noted that, while most schools have school fight songs, no school has a school power ballad. After some deliberation as to which of the championship teams to choose, he decided to create one for Oregon, "We are the Ducks", which was performed by former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach.

Pro Bowl Shuffle

Jimmy and the show's staff, plus Will Arnett and Horatio Sanz, did a parody of "The Super Bowl Shuffle" called "The Pro Bowl Shuffle".
Jimmy played New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Arnett played Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, Sanz played Pittsburgh Steelers strong safety Troy Polamalu, Bashir Salahuddin played Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, and A.D. Miles played New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning. In non-speaking roles, Owen Biddle played Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, Questlove played Detroit Lions tackle Ndamukong Suh, Damon Bryson played Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson, Kamal Gray played Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, with unidentified gentlemen playing Cowboys tight end Jason Witten and Chicago Bears defensive end Julius Peppers.
Black Thought played Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson, Captain Kirk Douglas played Giants wide receiver Steve Smith, F. Knuckles played New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush, with an unidentified gentleman playing Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, even though those four players were not named to the 2011 Pro Bowl at the time.

Mad Libs ''Twas the Night Before Christmas''

Jimmy enlisted the help of Zac Efron, Jesse Eisenberg, Howie Mandel, Jack McBrayer, Patton Oswalt, Maya Rudolph, Jason Segel, Martin Short, T.I., and Brian Williams to recite a shortened version of the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas in a Mad Libs fashion.

2012 Democratic National Convention

During the week of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy opened each show with an impression of a speaker from the previous night at the convention: San Antonio mayor Julian Castro, former president Bill Clinton, and singer James Taylor.

The Evolution of ___ Dancing

In a parody of the viral video hit "The Evolution of Dance", Jimmy and First Lady Michelle Obama performed "The Evolution of Mom Dancing", a series of such dance moves as "The 'Go Shopping, Get Groceries'", "The 'Raise the Roof'", "The 'Sprinkler'", "The 'Just The Hands Part of Single Ladies'", "The 'Where's Your Father? '", "The 'Pulp Fiction'", "The 'Out of Sync Electric Slide'", and "The 'Dougie'". The sketch was in honor of Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign to end childhood obesity.
Later, Jimmy and Justin Timberlake performed "The Evolution of End Zone Dancing", featuring some real touchdown dances like the "'Ickey Shuffle'" and "The 'Dirty Bird'", as well as other dances, such as "The 'Touchdown Robot'", "The 'Old-Timey Railroad Car'", "The 'Earthquake Waiter'", "The 'I Thought I Just Saw Aaron Hernandez'", "The 'Football Spin' ", and "The 'Justin Timberlake' ".
Then there was an edition which featured Jimmy and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie performing "The Evolution of Dad Dancing".
On February 17, 2014, Fallon teamed up with Will Smith for "Evolution of Hip Hop Dancing".

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List of Jimmy Fallon games and sketches

Weekly routines

''Tonight Show'' #Hashtags

''Tonight Show'' Superlatives

Former weekly sketches

[|Pros and Cons]

This Week in Words

TV parodies

''7th Floor West''

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

''Real Housewives of Late Night''

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

''6-Bee''

Episodes

''Late''

Episodes

''Suckers''

''Jersey Floor''

Episodes

''Downton Sixbey''

Episodes

''Mister Romney's Neighborhood''

''Jimmy's Corner''

''Game of Desks''

''Joking Bad''

''Jimpire''

''Peanuts''

Other recurring sketches

Musical sketches

Slow Jam the News

Rockapella

The Vanilla Wombats

Jimmy's songs

''Blow Your Pants Off''

Original songs

Audience requested songs

Neil Young

Scrambled Eggs

The Miner 69ers Boy Band

Captain Kirk's Ballads

Bob Dylan

Ladysmith Snack Mambazo

Pearl Jam

Tebowie

Chicken Band

Brian Williams: Gangsta Rapper

Classroom instruments

Shot-for-shot music video recreations

The Ragtime Gals

Covers sung (not in chronological order)

First Drafts of Rock

Tweets with Beats

Steel Channel shows

Ultimate Mustache Fighter

Kicking Stuff

Sports Freak-Out!

Audience Suggestion Box

Screengrabs

''Bothered'' with Robert Pattinson

''Reflections'' with Justin Bieber

Head Swap

Letters Home / Letters to Santa

12 Days of Christmas Sweaters

''Late Night'' Stocking Stuffers

New iPhone Apps

Who Cares ''Hindenburg''

?uestions

Andy Rooney

Obama Expressions

He Said, She Said

Animal Thoughts

Don't Quote Me

Speech Timeline

Video Vision

Cupid's Arrow

Product Placement Preacher