Trump Pressures Paramount for Rush Hour 4 | Denis Leary, Zoey Deutch | Wednesday, November 26

Summary

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Episode: Trump Pressures Paramount for Rush Hour 4 | Denis Leary, Zoey Deutch | Nov 27, 2025
Date: November 27, 2025

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Episode Overview

This lively pre-Thanksgiving episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is filled with Jimmy’s trademark humor, relatable holiday stories, and spirited celebrity interviews. Comedian and actor Denis Leary drops by to discuss his new holiday movie “Oh, What Fun,” share hilarious personal anecdotes, and play “Wheel of Opinions.” The episode also features actress Zoey Deutch, who chats about her engagement, her acclaimed new film “Nouvelle Vague,” and joins Jimmy for a French-language Christmas movie guessing game. Rounding out the night is a smash-up musical performance teased by Jimmy, plus the show’s beloved Hashtag segment.

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Monologue & Opening Banter

[01:11–05:37]

• Theme: Thanksgiving Eve Shenanigans

  • Jimmy riffs on “Drinksgiving” and the chaos of Thanksgiving Eve, including hometown bar rituals and shopping madness.
  • Grocery Store Commercials: Jimmy contrasts calm “last week” ads with wild, competitive ads for the holiday rush at Kroger's.

    “Buckle up, bitch. Kroger's the new octagon. We've got one turkey left, and you gotta fight for it. Prepare to get kicked in the diblets and punched in the gizzard.” — Jimmy Fallon [02:12]

  • Holiday Travel: Jimmy jokes about overcrowded airports and the perils of bringing pungent vegetables on flights.

    “Oh, I think it’s great. If you want everyone on the plane to murder you, can you just deploy the oxygen mask?” — Jimmy Fallon [03:18]

  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade:
    • 34 balloons, 28 floats, 1,000 clowns — “Even the clown from IT was like, hey, that’s too scary.” [03:50]
  • Poetic Moment: Parody of “Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving.”

    “After three nights with your family, you finally head for the door, but your flight just got canceled. So settle in for three more.” — Jimmy Fallon [04:39]

• Quick News Gags:

  • President Trump pushing for “Rush Hour 4” at Paramount
  • Bath & Body Works scenting Grand Central, Penn Station’s “not so pine” fragrance
  • Oldest bus driver in Texas: “These passengers, like, Texas, we’re supposed to be in Delaware.” [05:34]

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Hashtag Segment: #MyFamilyIsWeird

[07:32–10:31]

Jimmy shares audience-submitted stories about quirky family holiday behaviors.

• Notable Stories:
  • Family Meow:

    “My family has a family meow sound we make to find each other in stores.” — jgood2 [08:20]

  • Bird Truck: Uncle keeps driving with a bird nest in his truck until birds hatch and fly away.
  • Nail Hoarder:

    “My brother would clip his nails and be too lazy to get up, so he’d just store them in his belly button.” — Chad0616 [08:51]

  • Birthday Cake for Jesus: Singing “Happy Birthday” to Jesus at Christmas with “cha cha cha.”
  • Produce-Themed Outfits:

    “I match my shirts to match the fruit and veggie theme. I think it’s safe to say I’m the weird one.” — Beaverweed [09:47]

  • Liquor Store Mishap:

    “My mother accidentally drove into her liquor store. Our last name is Champagne.” — champofnewyork

  • Giblet Jammies: Grandfather’s Thanksgiving “sweatpant” tradition.

Jimmy closes with, “Stick around. We'll be right back with Dennis Leary, everybody.” [10:31]

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Interview: Denis Leary

Charity, Sleepwalking, and Dangerous Toys

[11:05–21:03]

Comics Come Home & The Cam Neely Foundation

• Jimmy praises Denis for decades of charity work.
  • “You helped my dad out. His dad stayed at the Neely House in Boston recovering from his cancer, saved his life.” — Jimmy Fallon [11:33]
  • 30th anniversary of Comics Come Home, Jimmy promises to attend.

Sleepwalking Holiday Mishaps

• Leary Confesses: He’s a sleepwalker and once almost ruined Christmas.

  “I am downstairs in my underwear. I’ve taken all the ornaments and decorations off the tree, all the lights and the star, and I’m throwing it out the side door of the house.” — Denis Leary [13:25]

• Submarine Sleepwalk: After watching Crimson Tide, Denis slept in a dresser drawer, mumbling “don’t tell Denzel.”

Dangerous Childhood Toys

• On Creepy Crawlers:

  “It's just an open hot plate. Swear to god. Goes up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit…The trademark name is Plastigoop.” — Denis Leary [16:41]

• Rifleman Rifle:

  “Came with plastic bullets… I put the first bullet in, went like that—boom—hit my sister in the eye. They took the present away.” — Denis Leary [18:04]

• Bow and Arrow Story:

  “An arrow goes into my forehead. Could have blinded me...I walked up three flights of stairs, because we lived on the top—with an arrow in your head?” — Denis Leary [18:52-18:56]

Promoting “Oh, What Fun”

• New comedy with Michelle Pfeiffer:

  “I’m a huge fan of hers…they said, ‘Listen, we have a comedy Christmas script… with Michelle Pfeiffer.’ I went, ‘I’m in.’” — Denis Leary [19:34]

• Premise: Mom (Pfeiffer) does everything, gets left out, snaps, and goes cross-country for a “holiday moms” contest.

  “It’s literally like if your mom snapped and just took off and we can’t find her for the holiday.” — Denis Leary [20:10]

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Game: “Wheel of Opinions” with Denis Leary

[21:22–26:47]

Rapid-fire opinions about divisive holiday topics.

• Thanksgiving Dinner Time:

  “Dinner should be served at 3:30 at the latest?…I say, at halftime of the first [football] game, which is like 2:30.” — Denis Leary [22:06 & 23:07]

• Real vs. Fake Christmas Trees:

  “My wife was like, fake tree, because I don't want to clean up...Then the kids were, like, negotiating for us to have a real tree…but they're only there for one day!” [23:26]
  “After the kids grow up, no tree. There’s no reason for a tree.” — Dennis Leary [23:59]

• Best Gift: Cash

  “The best gift ever…[Adults] love it. Five hundred bucks. $1,000. Whatever it is. ...I’m not going shopping.” — Denis Leary [24:44 & 24:59]

• Elf on the Shelf / Booze Hiding:

  “We had to hide the booze from my alcoholic uncles. ... That was our elf on the shelf.” — Denis Leary [25:31 & 26:14]

• Family Year-End Holiday Newsletters:

  “I love them. I absolutely love them…They go right in the fireplace.” — Denis Leary [26:32]

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Interview: Zoey Deutch

Engagement, Nouvelle Vague, and a French Game

[27:32–36:07]

Engagement Happiness

• Zoey tells the story of her engagement in Corsica, hints given by her fiancé Jimmy.

  “He tried nonchalantly to be like, ‘Hey, so I planned dinner on Monday.’...I was like, I’ll be nice. So I just said, okay. And he knew that I knew.” — Zoey Deutch [28:35] “It really was one of the best nights of my life.” — Zoey Deutch [29:37]

New Film: Nouvelle Vague

• About Godard’s Breathless, with Zoey as Jean Seberg.

  “Nouvelle Vague is a movie about the French New wave film Breathless by Godard, which is considered one of the greatest movies of all time.” – Zoey Deutch [30:07]

• Discusses director Richard Linklater, filming in Paris, shooting in French.
• Quentin Tarantino watched the film twice at Cannes.

  “I realized I'm a totally different person when I speak French—all of a sudden, I'm timid and shy.” — Zoey Deutch [32:30]

French Movie Title Game

[33:04–35:57] Zoey quizzes Jimmy on Christmas movie titles as they’re (often comically) rendered in French:

• “Mom, I Missed the Plane” = Home Alone
• “The Crystal Trap” = Die Hard
• “The Christmas Tree Has the Balls” = National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

  “Last one. Les cepons a les bull, which translates to the Christmas tree has the Balls… We're gonna be on Christmas vacation.” — Zoey Deutch & Jimmy Fallon [35:13-35:51]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jimmy on Thanksgiving chaos:

  “Tomorrow you give thanks to your friend who stopped you from making out with your high school gym teacher.” [01:18]

• Dennis Leary on sleepwalking:

  “So I look and there’s my wife, and she goes, hi, honey. And I go, hi. In my underwear. Holding the tree, freezing cold.” [14:10]

• Zoey on engagement:

  “He was like, okay, love that. Should you wear that on Monday?” [29:24]

• Denis Leary on practical gifts:

  “More time for drinking.” [25:28]

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Key Timestamps

• 01:11 – Monologue: Drinksgiving, Flying with Veggies, Thanksgiving Chaos
• 07:32 – Hashtag: #MyFamilyIsWeird
• 11:05 – Denis Leary Interview: Charity Work, Childhood Memories
• 21:22 – Wheel of Opinions: Holiday Hot Takes
• 27:32 – Zoey Deutch Interview: Engagement Story, Nouvelle Vague Release
• 33:04 – French Christmas Movie Titles Game

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Episode Takeaway:
The night before Thanksgiving, Jimmy Fallon and his effusive guests tap into all the holiday feels, with laughter, nostalgia, and just the right amount of affectionate family weirdness. Denis Leary’s deadpan humor and Zoey Deutch’s charm shine as they take viewers on a comedic tour through everything from precarious childhood toys to the nuances of French holiday cinema.

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Transcript

[Jimmy Fallon]

From studio 60 in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's the tonight show. Starring jimmy fallon. Tonight joins jimmy descantes. Dennis query, zoey doyce. And featuring steve's legendary ruth cruz. Two, two, two. Oh, and now here he is, jimmy fall. Yes. Now. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Welcome. That's right. Hey, that's right. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Love you. Thank you.

Come on.

[Dennis Leary]

That's fantastic.

[Jimmy Fallon]

That feels good. I love you. Thank you. Enjoy yourself. Thank.

Thank you, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Tonight Show.

This is it.

[Dennis Leary]

Guys.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I'm excited about this. It's the night before Thanksgiving.

Yes.

Right now, you're either at your hometown bar doing shots of Jaeger, or you're at your childhood home doing shots of Ozempic. It's just a great time of year. It's beautiful. That's right. Tonight is known as drinksgiving because a lot of people hit up their hometown bars, which is why tomorrow you give thanks to your friend who stopped you from making out with your high school gym teacher. Like, thank Mr. Palmer. I like your mustache. Right now, everybody is busy grocery shopping for the big day. And I noticed that the commercials for the grocery stores are a little different the closer you get to Thanksgiving.

Really?

Yeah. Like, look at. Here's a Kroger's ad that was airing last week.

[Dennis Leary]

Kroger has everything you need. So if you're looking for fresh and affordable options, stop in today.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Happy shopping.

Kroger.

Isn't that nice? Yeah.

Yeah.

And with Thanksgiving a day away, here's the ad they're running right now.

Buckle up, bitch. Kroger's the new octagon. We've got one turkey left, and you gotta fight for it. Prepare to get kicked in the diblets and punched in the gizzard. Oh, you've got everything on your list. Psych. The self checkout line's a mile long. And you. No, no. Those machines work.

[Dennis Leary]

Help is on the way, my ass.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Well, then you get home and realize you forgot the yam. Glam, bam. Thank you, yams. Shoulda ordered instacart. Suck up Kroger. It's like TJ Maxx, but with food. Isn't that amazing? Look at. Great. Wow.

At least they're warning you how's indeed different.

[Dennis Leary]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Meanwhile, this year, a record 82 million Americans are planning to travel for Thanksgiving. The busiest airports will be Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Denver. Meanwhile, Newark is turning the lights off and pretending they're not home. Get down get down. Yep. The busiest airports are Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Denver. And your dad is connecting through all of them to save $35. I gotta leave at 2 in the morning. All right, dad, but the TSA said that you can bring vegetables like brussels sprouts, beets and cauliflower on board. Oh, I think it's great. If you want everyone on the plane to murder you, can you just deploy the oxygen mask? Now? This guy brought broccoli on the plane. Was this Spirit air? Just open the door. Let's get some fresh air. It's Spirit airline and everyone's excited for this. Tomorrow is the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade.

Our favorite.

That's our favorite. The parade will feature 34 balloons, 28 floats, and 1,000 clowns who will haunt your dreams forever. Even the clown from it was like, hey, that's too scary. Too many clowns. Yeah. Thanksgiving is tomorrow. And even though everyone's focused on the big meal, there's still a lot that happens before the holiday. In fact, it reminds me of that famous poem, twas the night before Thanksgiving. Oh, yeah, thank you very much. Twas the night before Thanksgiving and in your parents house, they put the peloton in your old bedroom. So you're sleeping on the couch. Mom's making stuffing and potatoes fully loaded. Dad tried to deep fry the turkey and the backyard exploded. And after three nights with your family, you finally head for the door, but your flight just got canceled. So settle in for three more.

[Dennis Leary]

Happy Thanksgiving. Beautiful poem.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Well, switching gears, according to a new report, President Trump is pushing the owner of Paramount to make a fourth rush hour movie. Meanwhile, president Zelensky is sitting in Trump's office like, no, no, I'll wait. You guys see this? As part of the new ad campaign, Bath and body works is pumping a pine scented fragrance through grand central station. Meanwhile, over at Penn station, there's also a fragrance, but it definitely ain't pine. And finally, a 95 year old man in Texas has been named the world's oldest bus driver. These passengers, like Texas were supposed to be in Delaware.

We have a great show.

Give it up for the roof, ladies and gentleme.

Thank you, guys. Thank you. Welcome to the show, everybody.

Just a reminder, we have an all new show tomorrow night after the football game. It's Thanksgiving night. Big show for us. I'll be debuting my music video for my new holiday song, ugly sweater.

Ooh, yeah, you are.

Ed Sheeran will be here. Ed Sheeran will be here. We're doing something fun with him. Joe Keery will be on Joe Keery is going to talk about stranger things, the final season. And Brad Paisley is performing off his new holiday album.

So be sure to tune in with the whole family tomorrow night after football.

It's gonna be good. But first, what a show we have for you tonight. One of my favorites. He is a hilarious comedian and Emmy nominee who stars in the new holiday movie oh, what fun, which premieres December 3rd on Prime Video. Dennis Leary is here tonight.

Come on.

Oh, what fun. It's him. It's Dennis and Michelle Pfeiffer. And it's a holiday comedy mov called oh period. What period fun. Like oh, what fun. It's fantastic. Plus, she stars in the Netflix film nouvelle vague, which is streaming now. Zoey Deutch is joining us.

[Dennis Leary]

Love her.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Getting great reviews and we got fantastic music tonight. They are a collaboration between the Avett brothers and Mike Patton from Faith no more. Avett Patton is here tonight.

Yes. I'm so.

It's great. Guys, it is time for tonight's show Hashtag.

Here we go.

Now, this is where I send out a hashtag and you guys respond to that topic. And since it's Thanksgiving week, I send out the hashtag my familyisweird. So you sent in stories about how weird your family is. There are a lot of weird families out there. You'll see soon. It was a trending topic in the US So thank you for playing along with us. We like to do the hashtags here on the show. I'd like to share some of my favorite my family is weird posts from you guys. Here we go. This first one's from jgood2. He said my family has a family meow sound we make to find each other in stores.

Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

Wrong family meow. A family meow sound so they could find each other. It seemed like it would travel.

Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

Nah, that's not my family. That's a different family. This next one's from ayumphrey. He said my uncle left his work truck doors open so often that a bird built a nest in his glove compartment. He kept driving with the birds inside till the babies hatched and flew away. Aw, that's sweet. That's not weird. That's sweet.

[Zoey Deutch]

That's not weird.

[Jimmy Fallon]

It's both weird and sweet. This next one's from Chad 0616. He said my brother would clip his nails and be too lazy to get up, so he'd just store them in his belly button until next time he felt like getting up. That is good. That's nice and weird. That is perfectly what we wanted. Thank you very much. Chad 0616. He stored them in his belly pack. Oh, my gosh. This one's from ivittave. He said, my mom makes a birthday cake for Jesus every year at Christmas and makes us sing happy birthday to him in between each line. My brother always includes the cha cha cha. That's what Jesus would want. He would want the cha cha cha. This next one's from Eaverweed. Beaverweed. Don't ask. He said.

[Dennis Leary]

Oh.

[Jimmy Fallon]

He. I work produce in a Walmart so I match my shirts to match the fruit and veggie theme. I think it's safe to say I'm the weird one. He sent a photo. There he is right there.

Ace.

I like it. Beaver weed.

Thank you, bud.

This next one's from champofnewyork. He said my mother accidentally drove into her liquor store. Our last name is Champagne. That's kind of awesome. That's. Yeah, that's kind of. Hopefully she's fine. This Last one's from at JSS607. He said my grandfather wears sweatpants to Thanksgiving dinner. He calls them giblet jammies. There you have it, everybody. Those are our slideshow hashtag giblet jammies.

Stick around. We'll be right back with Dennis Leary, everybody. Our first guest is a very funny.

Comedian and Emmy nominated actor starring in the new film oh, what Fun which premieres globally on Prime Video December 3rd. Please welcome Dennis Leary.

That's exactly right.

Oh, my goodness.

[Dennis Leary]

Hello, guys.

[Jimmy Fallon]

It is Jimmy. Always great to see you, Dennis West. Love to the show. I just want to say real quick, before we get into everything, you do a great charity. You've done it for a long time. Comics come home.

[Dennis Leary]

Yes. In Boston for the Cam Neely Foundation.

[Jimmy Fallon]

And the Cam Neely foundation who helps people dealing with cancer.

[Dennis Leary]

Yes.

[Jimmy Fallon]

And you actually helped my dad out.

[Dennis Leary]

His dad stayed at the Neely house in Boston while he was saved. My dad recovering from his cancer, saved his life. Anyways, it's a big night of laughs. We do every year at the Boston Garden. Jimmy has done it a million times. And our 30th anniversary is next year. And he has agreed to appear one more time, of course.

[Jimmy Fallon]

What are you talking about? I'm definitely going to have 30th year, Jimmy.

[Dennis Leary]

I mean, come on, 30 years 30 years.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Look at you for doing this for 30 years. You're the greatest.

Look at us.

[Dennis Leary]

Look at the two of us.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Of course I'm going to be there.

[Dennis Leary]

How much work have we had done?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, my God. This. I don't even look. I don't even look anything like myself. I don't know who I am anymore.

[Dennis Leary]

You know, I can't remember. I was on the show. This second show. Your debut. Not. Not the Tonight show, but late night. Yeah, late night.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Thank you for doing.

[Dennis Leary]

De Niro was your first guest the first night. I was the second night. Jeez.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I know we've known each other a while.

[Dennis Leary]

How years ago was that?

[Jimmy Fallon]

It's got to be 16.

[Dennis Leary]

Is it really? Wow. 16.

[Jimmy Fallon]

The time flies. Yeah, but look, we're here at the Thanksgiving show. It's a big show for us.

[Dennis Leary]

Yes.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Tomorrow's Thanksgiving. What? Do you have any plans celebrating Thanksgiving?

[Dennis Leary]

My family is already arriving at my house. Okay, speak. So there's probably yelling and screaming and fighting over what movie or football game to watch. And that will be all weekend. So I'll be just in the TV room watching football, and my food will be served to me. Hopefully there.

[Jimmy Fallon]

That's where you at.

[Dennis Leary]

There'll be that many people at the house that they'll have to give it to me there. But that's my preferred station for holidays, is in front of the TV watching football or hockey, but mostly football.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You told me backstage that you once almost ruined Christmas for you, for your family.

[Dennis Leary]

Oh, my God. I totally forgot about that until we talked about it. So I almost grinched my own family, which is. Let me explain. So I sleepwalk, okay. And I literally, like, get up and do stuff and don't remember. Or I get discovered in the middle. I've done crazy things. So my wife knows this. Of course. So my wife wakes up Christmas Eve one year, and she hears me grunting, like, off in the distance somewhere in the house. She goes to the top of the stairs. I am downstairs in my underwear. I've taken all the ornaments and decorations off the tree, all the lights and the star, and I'm throwing it out the side door of the house. Just like the bridge up the chimney. That's what she sees.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You have no idea what's going on.

[Dennis Leary]

Well, I think when it's happening, what I think is so strange. Like, I thought that it was my. I was supposed to end Christmas for the kids. Anyways, what happens is my wife.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You can't.

[Dennis Leary]

You can't scream at a person that's sleepwalking. Because they can flip out, okay? My wife knows this. So she. What I realize all of a sudden is I look and there's my wife, and she goes, hi, honey. And I go, hi. In my underwear. In my underwear. Holding the tree, freezing cold. No, the tree's already outside. I already flew outside, right? And I go, hi, what's up? She goes, what are you doing? I'm like, oh, I'm. I'm getting rid of the Christmas tree and all the ornaments and everything. And she's like, yeah, I see that. But see, the kids are asleep, and they're going to wake up and see that you threw the Christmas tree outside. And she kind of goes like this to me, right? Like that. And I wake up. So I wake up and I go, what's going on? She's like, you tell me.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah.

[Dennis Leary]

So we had to redecorate very quietly. Redecorate the Christmas tree.

[Jimmy Fallon]

That would have been a disaster.

Oh, my God.

[Dennis Leary]

Can you imagine?

[Jimmy Fallon]

But I didn't know that you were even saying sleepwalk.

[Dennis Leary]

Yeah, I sleepwalk all the time. Years ago. I'll tell you another one. Years ago, there was a movie called Crimson Tide, Submarine movie with Denzel and Gene Hackman. Gene Hackman was the bad guy. So my wife and I went to see the movie, and she had gotten this giant armoire that was in the master bedroom with these big drawers, right? So she wakes up in the middle of the night after we came home from the movie, which I loved, and she's like, what's going on? And I'm curled up in a fetal position with my pillow inside one of the drawers. And she goes. So she goes, what's going on? And I go, don't tell Denzel. So it was like. It was on the submarine. I was on a submarine, right? But, like, when she woke me up, she was like, it was doubly disturbing because you fit yourself in this drawer with a pillow. But also, you were on Denzel. Gene Hackman's side. Denzel was the good guy. I was like, yeah, don't tell Denzel. I'm out of my mind. Out of my mind.

[Jimmy Fallon]

When you were growing up, the holidays. What were the holidays like for you as a little kid? Like, what? Do you remember any toy that you wanted to get?

[Dennis Leary]

We always got. We got one big toy from Santa Claus, right?

[Jimmy Fallon]

That's nice.

[Dennis Leary]

And you could always tell what that was in the apartment when you came downstairs. My brother and I were in the attic, so we had to come down. You would see the one toy my parents Santa Claus wouldn't wrap the presents. That was their explanation. Right. So that one toy would be.

[Jimmy Fallon]

On this point, Santa Claus didn't wrap my presence either.

[Dennis Leary]

Yeah. So unbelievable.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, they really took it easy.

[Dennis Leary]

Crazy son of a bitch. They wrap the present.

[Jimmy Fallon]

They didn't wrap anything.

[Dennis Leary]

Yeah. So I grew up in the 60s and early 70s, right. So I don't know if you guys remember this, but you remember Creepy crawlers, what that is?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yes.

[Dennis Leary]

Okay. So if you remember that, forget the Easy Bake Oven, how dangerous that was. That came first. Right. The year after, the Easy Bake oven almost killed a million kids.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dennis Leary]

They come out with.

[Jimmy Fallon]

It was an oven that kids would plug in there.

[Dennis Leary]

So Creepy Crawls is not even an oven. It's just an open hot plate. Right. Swear to God. Goes up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. And you pour, you pour. They have these molds of, like, you know, creepy crawls, like bugs and spiders. And you pour plastic goop into it, Right? Literally. The trademark name is Plastigoop. They literally took the C out of plastic. Some guy was like, hey, let's take the C out and call it Plastigoop.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Plastic goop.

[Dennis Leary]

Yeah. You pour it in, it heats up in bubbles. And then you're supposed to take it out with, like, these tongs. No kid did that. You reach in with your hands and get burned. So my brother got burned, my sister got burned, and I was like, I'm not going in, you guys. You know? And then the year after that was, the Rifleman show was huge. And they had the Rifleman rifle. I don't know if you remember that. It's Chuck Connors. And he had a loop on the rifle so you could fire it like this without pulling the trigger. It was cooler, right?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah.

[Dennis Leary]

It came with plastic bullets. Think about that. The bullets they fire into riot crowds, right?

[Jimmy Fallon]

My son's toy.

[Dennis Leary]

And I literally came down and I saw that and I went, oh, my God. It came with three bullets. And I opened it up, went like this, put the first bullet in, went like that.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Boom.

[Dennis Leary]

Hit my sister in the eye. They took the present away.

[Jimmy Fallon]

That's the end of that. Yeah.

[Dennis Leary]

Screaming we spent the morning screaming and crying. And then the capper was a couple years after that, Cliffy De Courcy, who lived in the building across the street. His parents, we live downtown, Worcester, Massachusetts. Like the city, the most city kids you can imagine. His parents got him a hunting bow and arrow for Christmas. We're like 12, right?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Where are you going to use?

[Dennis Leary]

So I'm going three from the building next door across the alley to my building, right? And as I'm entering the alley, I hear my brother go, hey, look up. And I look up. Boom. An arrow goes into my forehead. Could have blinded me. And him and Clippy de Courcy literally dropped the bow and arrow and disappear like that. And I walked up. Stuck in your head? Yeah, stuck in my head. You can still see the scar if you look real close.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yes, I can. I see it right there.

[Dennis Leary]

I walked up three flights of stairs because we lived on the top.

[Jimmy Fallon]

With an arrow in your head?

[Dennis Leary]

With an arrow in my head. It didn't really hurt. It didn't hurt until I walked in the door and my Uncle Jerry was sitting there dressed, drinking a beer. And he goes, hey. And then it goes. Blood coming out.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, my gosh.

I've never met anyone that's so hilarious.

[Dennis Leary]

It was like going to Vietnam.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yes.

[Dennis Leary]

It was during the Vietnam War.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yes. But here you are with this great, funny holiday movie.

[Dennis Leary]

Yes.

[Jimmy Fallon]

It's called oh, what Fun. It's Perfectly fun. Entertaining for the whole family.

[Dennis Leary]

No kid. No. Kids get shot with an arrow.

[Jimmy Fallon]

No, no, no. It's so good, though. And Michelle Feifer is fantastic in it as well. Yeah, yeah.

[Dennis Leary]

It was like, for me, I never even met Michelle Pfeiffer. And I'm a huge fan of hers. Me, too. I'd never come across her. And I got a phone call. My friends, the producers were friends of mine, and they said, listen, we have a comedy Christmas script. It's really funny. It's kind of like the Ref a little bit. And it's with Michelle Pfeiffer. And I went, I'm in. And they were like, well, no, we'll send you the script. And I was like, dude, you're calling me up to do a Christmas comedy with Michelle. Michelle Pfeiffer. I'm in. Like, I don't eat this shit.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah. Are you kidding me? Yeah, of course. Yes.

It's called, oh, what Fun.

Yes.

How do we set it up?

[Dennis Leary]

And who the premise is this? And this is sort of like speaking to the moms out there. Michelle is one of those moms, of course, like most moms, does everything for the family. Setting up the Christmas stuff, getting the cooking, the dinner, everything. And our family in the movie has a tradition of going to this Christmas Santa Claus Christmas show with the grandkids. Right. Used to be the kids, now the grandkids. And we leave for the show and forget her. We take two cars and she's not in either. Car. And she snaps. And she goes on this Christmas cross country trip to go to the Zazzy Tim show, which is Eva Longoria, which is like a daytime talk show that has a holiday moms contest that she asked us to enter her into, but we forgot. So she snaps and she loses it. So it's literally like if your mom snapped and just took off and we can't find her for the holiday.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Dennis Leary, everybody. Oh, what fun.

Premieres globally on Prime Video December 3rd.

When we come back, we're playing Wheel.

Of Opinions with Dennis Leary. Stick around, everybody.

Oh, welcome back. We are hanging out with the one and only Dennis Leary. Now.

Dennis, everyone knows you're a pretty opinionated guy. So with that in mind, it's time to play a game we call Wheel of Opinions. Here we go. All right.

[Dennis Leary]

Now, I know this game. The last time I saw it played here was. It was spade, right?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yes, Spade. It's fantastic. Yeah. So this, so this is what we always love, our favorite comedians. Come on and play this. If you hit this button here, it's going to activate a generator that will give you a random topic. Whatever it is, you have to give your opinion on it. And because it's the holiday season, all topics will be holiday themed.

[Dennis Leary]

Mm.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You ready for this?

[Dennis Leary]

I'm ready.

[Jimmy Fallon]

All right, go for it, buddy. What? Dinner should be served at 3:30 at the latest.

[Dennis Leary]

At the latest now.

[Jimmy Fallon]

At the latest. At the latest. That's really great.

[Dennis Leary]

Let me explain myself, and I think I speak for a lot of dads out there, but people like one of my sister in laws loves football too, so there's a game at one. Okay. Now that game's probably going to get over at 4. 3:30 is a bad time. I mean, if the game sucks. Yeah, let's serve the dinner at 3:30. But really we're going to be watching a game at 1 and then a game at 4:30 and then there's a game at 8:20 I think it is.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, right.

[Dennis Leary]

Like we're going to be watching football all day. So again, I think we should have trays in front or put a giant TV in the dining room.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Right.

[Dennis Leary]

My wife said no.

[Jimmy Fallon]

She said no. She said no, no, you can't do that.

[Dennis Leary]

So I, I say early.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, 10 in the morning.

[Dennis Leary]

I say at halftime of the first game, which is like 2:30.

[Jimmy Fallon]

All right, perfect.

Let's, let's get people like that. Let's try another topic. Go. Christmas tree's real versus a fake tree. Ooh, I'd love to know.

[Dennis Leary]

So here's the thing. When my kids moved out because they're grown up now, my wife was like, fake tree, because I don't want to clean up in. You know, And I'm like, oh, I'm in. But then the kids were, like, negotiating for us to have a real tree, but they're only there for one day now.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah.

[Dennis Leary]

You know, because they have to go to their partner's play, so. I don't know, man. I think fake is the way to go, because I don't want to clean up all those pine needles unless there's going to be a lot of people around. Yeah.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah. You got to really earn it. It has to be worth it.

[Dennis Leary]

Honestly, I would sit. Don't ask me. I am the Grinch who threw the Christmas tree.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You threw it out.

[Dennis Leary]

Yeah. I think no tree. After the kids grow up, no tree. There's no reason for a tree.

[Jimmy Fallon]

My parents would have a fake tree. There's no reason for a tree. My parents would have a fake tree, and they always kept it in our musty basement. And every year, we'd use that same fake tree. And it just smelled of mold and musk. And that smell reminded me of the holidays. I looked forward to it. I loved it. I loved it. Oh, here's the. See? It smells so gross, but I loved it.

[Dennis Leary]

That's a family tradition.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Family tradition in the Fallon house. Yeah. Here we go. Let's try another topic.

[Dennis Leary]

Okay.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Ready?

Yep. No tray. Okay. Giving cash as a gift.

[Dennis Leary]

The best gift ever.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Really? Really?

[Dennis Leary]

Oh, yeah. I mean, think about how happy every kid is when you sneak them a $10 bill when they're small.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Right?

That's true, Matt.

[Dennis Leary]

Give them 100 bucks, they go nuts.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Okay. Love this.

[Dennis Leary]

Adults love it. 500 bucks. $1,000. Whatever it is. Right. I'm not going with chopping. Are you going shopping? I'm not going shopping. I want. Oh, I have to go online. Look for the thing that you like. Hey, listen, it's Christmas. I'm successful. Here's some cash, Right? Buy whatever you want.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, my gosh. You are the best. All right, let's do it again.

I love it.

I love this.

[Dennis Leary]

I'm taking a romance out of the holiday.

[Jimmy Fallon]

No, I love all of this.

[Dennis Leary]

More time for drinking.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Of course.

[Dennis Leary]

Come on.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yes.

Come on.

[Dennis Leary]

Trying to help you people. Okay. Speaking of drinking. Okay. We don't do the elf on the shelf in my house. When I was growing up, we didn't do the elf on the shelf. What we had to hide was the booze from my alcoholic Uncles. So my parents literally. My parents would literally say, we're putting the good whiskey up on the high shelf in the bathroom closet where the towels are. Don't tell Uncle Billy, okay? Okay, got it. And you'd see him later that day. He'd be walking around, looking in the hallway, opening things up.

[Jimmy Fallon]

He knew it was in there somewhere.

[Dennis Leary]

He knew it was in there somewhere. So that was our elf on the show.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Hide the booze. That's hilarious.

[Dennis Leary]

That was our elf on the show.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I like that.

[Dennis Leary]

I know.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Let's do one more. Let's do one more. Okay.

Here we go.

Thank you for doing this.

[Dennis Leary]

I'll do this all night.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I know. It's fantastic. Holiday cards with year end family updates.

[Dennis Leary]

I love them. I absolutely love them. I love it. Especially the really long ones that are like five, ten pages long. Because you know what happens? They go right in the fireplace. Right in the fireplace.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Merry Christmas, everybody. Dennis Leary. His new movie, oh, what Fun, begins streaming December 3rd on Prime Video. We're talking to Zoey Dorrit.

Jackson Frank Cigarette. Our next guest is a fantastic actor who stars in the new movie Nouvelle Vague, which is streaming now on Netflix. Everyone, please welcome Zoey Deutch.

Cute.

Yes.

It's so cute.

We have little tiny gourds.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yes.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Why not?

Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Almost Thanksgiving.

[Zoey Deutch]

Happy Almost Thanksgiving.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Thank you for coming back to this year.

[Zoey Deutch]

I was here this exact time last year with you, and I remember it distinctly because you and Cher were dressed up as turkeys.

[Jimmy Fallon]

That's correct.

[Zoey Deutch]

And I wasn't on acid.

[Jimmy Fallon]

No.

We want people to feel that way with our show.

Yeah.

No, yeah. That was super fun. Cher's always game, but you're always game to do fun things. I want to get into everything. First of all, congratulations. You just got engaged, bud.

Come on, Tom. I'm so happy for you.

[Zoey Deutch]

Here's to a man. To a man named Jimmy. What can I do?

[Jimmy Fallon]

His name is Jimmy. That is a great name.

[Zoey Deutch]

It's a great name.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Aw, look at the happy couple.

[Dennis Leary]

Come on.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Congrats to you.

Thanks, man.

And congrats to Jimmy. He's a very lucky man. How did he do it? Was he smooth?

[Zoey Deutch]

Yes. Yes, yes, yes. No. I mean, he was. Yeah.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Romantic.

[Zoey Deutch]

Totally. It was perfect. I sort of saw it coming. I probably shouldn't say that, but I sort of. I saw it coming.

[Jimmy Fallon]

We were.

You felt it a little.

[Zoey Deutch]

I felt it a little. We were on vacation in Corsica and I had, like, meticulously planned the trip. I'm like. I moonlight as a travel agent and we arrived there and he tried nonchalantly to be like, hey, so I planned dinner on Monday. And I was like, so did I. I'm sure you saw on the Google Doc. But I was like, ok. I was like, I'll be nice. So I just said, okay. And he knew that I knew. He immediately. I found out later, texted my best friend and was like, she didn't ask one question. She didn't ask what restaurant, what type of food, how do you know it's a good restaurant? She knows.

[Jimmy Fallon]

She knows. She must know.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah. Also, like, the next night when I was getting dressed, I. I was like, ah, trying on things. And I put on a white dress. And he was like, okay, love that. Should you wear that on Monday?

[Jimmy Fallon]

I was like, jimmy, he's giving all the hints.

[Zoey Deutch]

No, no.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, he's giving all the hints.

[Zoey Deutch]

But I didn't know how he would do it or what he would say or what the ring would look like. And so I was surprised by all those things. And it really. It was one of the best nights of my life.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Aw.

Congratulations, buddy. That's fantastic. I'm so happy for you.

[Zoey Deutch]

Thank you. I can't say is such a weird word, though.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah. I don't know if you really get used to it because you don't really say. I mean, it depends how long you wait to get married, but you don't say it for that long.

[Zoey Deutch]

But, like, it just sounds a little pretentious. You're like, you know what I mean? It's like my Fiat. So I just sort of say Beyonce.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's my Beyonce.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah, I know how he feels.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, I know. But anyway, let's talk about your new movie, Nouvelle Vague. How do we set it up and what it's about?

[Zoey Deutch]

Yes, Nouvelle Vague is a movie about the French New wave film Breastless by Godard, which is considered one of the greatest movies of all time.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Jean Luc Godard.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah. And I play one of the leads of Breathless, Jean Seberg, the amazing Gene Seberg. And it's a movie about an ambitious young artist, artistic integrity. It's funny, it's inspiring.

[Jimmy Fallon]

It's gorgeous too.

Yeah.

[Zoey Deutch]

Really, really proud to be a part of it.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Getting great reviews. I know. It premiered at Cannes Film festival. Got a 12 minute standing ovation, by the way. That's. Here's you. This is you and your director, Richard Linklater. Man, I love Richard Linklater.

[Zoey Deutch]

He's the best.

[Jimmy Fallon]

He is unbelievably talented and creative and fun.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah, he's the best. And this theater in Cannes is actually a part of the film, so it was kind of meta. We were watching the movie in the theater. It was very beautiful. And I didn't realize until the end that Mr. Tarantino was.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Hey.

[Zoey Deutch]

I was like, that's pretty cool.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Okay. Is he a fan of the movie?

[Zoey Deutch]

Allegedly. He saw it twice that day, so.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I think it means the best.

[Zoey Deutch]

No, he's so cool.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I love Valentino.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You did such a great job recreating the moments from Breathless. And I want to show just a comparison of. This is. This is the original right here, and this is you right here.

[Zoey Deutch]

You know, it was so cool to be able to be in Paris and recreate 1959 and how Paris felt and looked like. And Breathless, if you know, for those that don't know, it was. It was very punk rock for the time. And it was totally spontaneous, no script. It was all sort of off the cuff. And we did the total opposite. We were meticulous. We rehearsed everything. Everyone worked really, really hard. Yeah, it was an amazing, amazing cast and crew.

[Jimmy Fallon]

You won a lot of awards already for this. Congratulations, by the way. That's a big deal. That's cool. Yes. You won that one. You can take that with you. Well deserved review. Oh, my God. But do you know how to speak French?

Well?

[Zoey Deutch]

No, I didn't. Well, I didn't know. I didn't know how to speak French, so. Yeah, I studied for a couple years leading up to the movie. I had a very patient French tutor.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah.

[Zoey Deutch]

Very, very patient.

[Jimmy Fallon]

And you filmed it. You shot and lived in Paris.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah. And the whole movie is in French. It's a totally French cast crew. It was funny, too. Like, I realized I'm a totally different person when I speak French. All of a sudden, I'm, like, timid and shy. It'd be like if you started speaking Spanish and you were, like, you know, quiet and, you know, you didn't want to.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Un pequito.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah. Sort of like new vibes.

[Jimmy Fallon]

And I was like.

[Zoey Deutch]

And I was sort of. It was like an identity crisis. I was like, how. How is one perceived in a different way?

[Jimmy Fallon]

How's your French now?

[Zoey Deutch]

You know, I still remember. I still remember some. And I thought we could play. I thought we could play a little game because I quizzed you once before on Yiddish.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah, it was fantastic.

[Zoey Deutch]

I thought that I could quiz you on some French. What do you think?

[Jimmy Fallon]

I love this. All right.

[Zoey Deutch]

I thought I'd quiz you on some movie titles.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Okay.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yes.

[Jimmy Fallon]

So you're gonna say the Movie titles in French.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yes. We're okay. Yes. Because after I learned French, I realized that sometimes things get, like, literally lost in translation. Okay, so, for example, for example, in France, the movie Jaws is called Les Dons de la Mer, which means the teeth of the sea.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Wow.

[Zoey Deutch]

So, okay, here's how this will work. I'm gonna read you the French title.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Okay.

[Zoey Deutch]

I'm gonna give you the translation of what it means in English, and then you have to guess the movie.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I love this.

[Zoey Deutch]

Sound good?

[Jimmy Fallon]

I love this. This is a great film. It's a fun game.

Let's all play.

Let's all play.

Let's all play.

[Zoey Deutch]

Also, to help you narrow it down, I'm doing all Christmas movies.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, fantastic. Oh, I got this.

[Zoey Deutch]

Okay.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I love this first.

[Zoey Deutch]

Maman J la vin. Which translates to thank you translates to mom, I missed the plane.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, le man. Mom, I missed Home Alone. It's Home Alone, Mama Miss.

[Zoey Deutch]

You're fluent.

[Jimmy Fallon]

I just. I can't help it.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah, you're like.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oui, oui, oui, oui. Ennis ciplon. Yeah, I can be in the sepulchre.

[Zoey Deutch]

You're really good at this. Thank you. Okay, the second one. Piege du Cristal, which translates to the crystal trap.

[Jimmy Fallon]

The crystal trap.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Maybe Indiana Jones.

[Zoey Deutch]

No. Okay. No, but thank you. Do you want a hint?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, yeah, maybe. I guess un petite baguette.

[Zoey Deutch]

Une petite. I'll give you a little baguette.

[Jimmy Fallon]

A little baguette.

[Zoey Deutch]

It's sort of debatable if this movie is a Christmas movie.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, Die Hard.

[Zoey Deutch]

That's right.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Wow.

The crystal.

Oh.

Cause they're in the building.

[Zoey Deutch]

Yeah, they're in a crystal trap.

[Jimmy Fallon]

The crystal trap.

[Zoey Deutch]

Last one. Les cepons a les bull, which translates to the Christmas tree has the Balls. You know this one? You guys know the Christmas Tree has the Balls?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Yeah. The famous film. The Christmas Tree has the Balls.

[Zoey Deutch]

You love this one.

[Jimmy Fallon]

It's a Wonderful Life.

[Zoey Deutch]

No. Does anyone want to guess?

[Jimmy Fallon]

Uh, Christmas Story?

[Zoey Deutch]

No. Christmas is right. What are we gonna do on the holidays? We're gonna be on Christmas vacation.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Oh, my God. No way. Is that right? Shout out to Chevy Chase. That's fantastic.

[Zoey Deutch]

The Christmas tree has the balls.

[Jimmy Fallon]

The Christmas tree has the balls.

[Zoey Deutch]

They have the balls.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Zoe, thank you for playing this game with me. And you always come on.

[Zoey Deutch]

Christmas balls.

[Jimmy Fallon]

Thank you. Yes. That's the thing.

Zoey Deutsch, everybody. Nouvelle Vogue is streaming now on Netfl. Netflix. More Tonight show after the break. Stick around, everybody. Oh, my face to Dennis Leary. Zoe Deutsch.

That's how you do it.

And the roots right there. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Say good night, everybody. Thank you.

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