The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Episode: Trump Holds Oval Office Meeting on Venezuela | Sydney Sweeney, Tom Pelphrey
Date: December 2, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon brings a festive blend of holiday humor, political satire, celebrity interviews, and games. Featuring Sydney Sweeney discussing her adventurous holiday traditions and upcoming film, and Tom Pelphrey chatting about fatherhood, football obsessions, and his role in the new HBO Max series "Task," the show keeps its tone lively and comedic throughout.

Monologue Highlights

Starts at 01:01

Jimmy opens with classic holiday humor, political jokes, and pop culture send-ups, setting the energetic mood.

Key Points

• Holiday Mashups: Jimmy jokes about houses decorated for both Christmas and Halloween, and the battle between “Happy Honda Days” and “Lexus December to Remember.”
• White House Christmas: Comments on First Lady Melania Trump’s décor:
  • “51 Christmas trees and 2,000 strands of lights. That's nice. I kind of wish they'd spice it up a little bit… maybe the nativity scene… just put the animals that Trump identified on his last cognitive test. Baby Jesus with a manger. And then a cow and a dinosaur.” (02:00)
  • Satirical suggestion: “Behind each Advent calendar door is the name from the Epstein list.” (02:05)
• Trump and Venezuela:
  • “Today, President Trump held an Oval Office meeting about the next. That's reassuring. Step one was launch missiles at fishing boats. Step two is. Okay, now what?” (03:07)
  • “Trump walked in like, make this quick. I got 515 tickets to Zootopia 2.” (03:12)
• Cyber Monday:
  • “Cyber Monday. You get great deals today on the items that will be stolen off your front porch tomorrow.” (03:26)
• Stranger Things Season 5:
  • “It was so popular Netflix showed this message: 'please stop watching.' Everyone was like, this is so scary—especially the part where I was with my family for five days and Netflix wouldn't load.” (03:32)
• Zootopia 2 Box Office:
  • Playful fake testimonial: “Parents say my kids watched in silence for nearly two hours. Thank you, sweet Lord Jesus almighty. Mama needed this so bad after Thanksgiving. Anyway, I'm gonna take the kids to see it again and tell them it's Zootopia 3.” (04:15)

Memorable Quote

“Even the hurricanes were like, I think they're dealing with enough right now.” (05:10, on hurricane season ending with no U.S. landfall)

Amazon Five Star Theater Challenge

Starts at 06:29

A game where Jimmy dramatically reads Amazon five-star reviews and the audience guesses the product.

Segment Details

• First Review:

  • Dramatic, “alpha” energy.
  • Audience guesses “wallet” (correct):

    “As someone who seeks to embody the essence of the alpha... it unleashed my inner bull energy.” (07:25)

• Second Review:

  • Quirky, slightly creepy description.
  • Audience guesses “Furby” (correct):

    “Day one, adorable giggles... Day three, woke me up at 3am whispering... Day five, I'm starting to ask it for life advice. Day seven, it blinked at me like it knew and I blinked back. We reached an understanding. I fear it. I love it. Five stars.” (09:45)

Guest Interview: Sydney Sweeney

Starts at 11:54

Thanksgiving & Holiday Traditions

• Friendsgiving:
  • “I had a luau. I had a hula dancer and a fire thrower. And then a spelling bee where we all dressed up as nerds... realized we all needed to go back to school.” (12:20)
• Shrek's Giving:
  • “I threw a Shrek themed Thanksgiving party… everyone dressed up as their favorite Shrek characters. Here's you as dragon at Shrek's Giving.” (13:01)
• Grandy (Grandmother) Stories:
  • Nearly burned the house down after leaving a cutting board on the stove while in a Shrek costume. “She says her Shrek costume, the burner turned on on its own... the whole thing went off.” (14:03)

Christmas Plans

• Considering jumping out of a helicopter and skiing:
  • “I've jumped out of a helicopter before and I've skied before, so I figured if I just put the two together, I got this.” (14:52)
  • Jimmy: “Just have a normal, regular hangout.” Sydney: “This is normal.” (14:35)

Euphoria Season 3

• On wrapping up filming: “It was super bittersweet... most of the crew I had worked with since I was 20.” (15:54)
• Teaser for Cassie: “Self discovery.” (16:40)

The Housemaid Movie

• Producing and starring alongside Amanda Seyfried:
  • “I am like the biggest Mamma Mia fan... all my dreams came true.” (17:14)
  • Premise: “It's about a couple that is perfect from the outside, but as you start to peel away layers, it's not what it seems. And my character, Millie, starts to uncover all of these hidden secrets.” (17:46)
• Release Date: In theaters December 19th.

Guest Interview: Tom Pelphrey

Starts at 18:29

Family & Football

• Kaley Cuoco:
  • Shout-out as a supportive partner backstage.
• Fantasy Football:
  • “She undersold it. Eleven teams.” (19:29)
  • “I don't golf. I got a little bit of the sickness. Dominating for the most part.” (19:40)
• Giants Fandom Nostalgia:
  • Shared stories about childhood, tailgating with his grandfather and union friends, and obsession with the Giants.
  • Face painting, meeting legends:

    “Usually I don't go to a game without painting my face.” (21:05) “When I see you, I feel vulnerable... because you're so kind and you really listen.” —Tom to Jimmy (21:47)

Fatherhood

• Talks about baby daughter, Matilda:
  • “She's the best. She's my favorite thing... She runs my life.” (23:07–23:29)

HBO Max Series “Task”

• Working with Mark Ruffalo:
  • “My review is Tom Pelphrey can’t miss. He does not miss. You are one of my favorite actors. You crush it.” —Jimmy to Tom (23:35)
  • Ruffalo’s vibe on set:

    “He’s just physically fun, physical, fun, smart. He would just wander off into the trees and come, you know, rustling back. Five minutes later, he's like, here, Tom, you can eat these berries... don't eat those berries.” (24:29)

• Show Premise:
  • “I'm a guy who's trying to provide for his family, and me and my friends are kind of running an operation where we rob houses of drug dealers to take the cash. And we get caught up doing that, and we attract the attention of the bigger drug dealers—which is a motorcycle gang—and the attention of the FBI.” (25:31)
• Streaming Now: On HBO Max.

Notable Quotes & Moments

Sydney Sweeney

• “All my dreams came true. It was amazing.” (17:25, on working with Amanda Seyfried)
• “Self discovery.” (16:40, one-word Euphoria S3 spoiler)
• “I've jumped out of a helicopter before and I've skied before, so I figured if I just put the two together, I got this.” (14:52, on her wild holiday plans)

Tom Pelphrey

• “Usually I don't go to a game without painting my face.” (21:05)
• “When I see you, I feel vulnerable... because you're so kind and you really listen.” (21:47)
• “She's my favorite thing... She runs my life.” (23:07, about his daughter Matilda)
• “He would just wander up… Mark would just wander off into the trees and come, you know, rustling back. Five minutes later, he's like, here, Tom, you can eat these berries and you can eat these berries. Don't eat those berries.” (24:29, on working with Mark Ruffalo)

Jimmy Fallon

• “Even the hurricanes were like, I think they're dealing with enough right now.” (05:10)
• “My review is Tom Pelphrey can't miss. He does not miss... You are one of my favorite actors. You crush it.” (23:35)

Key Timestamps

• Monologue (Holiday, politics, pop culture): 01:01–05:18
• Amazon Five Star Theater: 06:29–11:54
• Sydney Sweeney Interview: 11:54–18:29
• Tom Pelphrey Interview: 18:29–26:06

Overall Tone and Style

The episode maintains Jimmy Fallon’s trademark upbeat, self-deprecating, and playful vibe. There's irreverent humor, warm camaraderie with guests, and a mix of topical jokes with personal anecdotes.

TL;DR

• Jimmy delivers a hilarious monologue riffing on holiday chaos, politics, and pop culture.
• Audience plays a guessing game with dramatic readings of Amazon reviews.
• Sydney Sweeney reveals her over-the-top Thanksgiving, almost burning down her grandmother's house, teasers for Euphoria, and excitement about her new movie "The Housemaid."
• Tom Pelphrey chats about football fanaticism, meeting Giants legends, being a dad, and working with Mark Ruffalo on HBO’s “Task.”
• Plenty of quotable moments, silly asides, and celebratory energy throughout.