-♪ Freestylin' with The Roots ♪
-Come on! That's what I'm talking about!
Yes! Oh!
Hot, tough crowd tonight.
Roots, you ready to do this?
-Yes!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-All right. Raise your hand --
Raise your hand if you want The Roots
to write something about you.
Right here. You feel it? Right there? Okay, yeah.
-Oh, my God. -Here you go.
-Okay. -Okay.
-Oh, my God. -All right, okay.
All right, good. All right, everybody, you can have a seat.
This is gonna be -- -Have a seat.
-[ Laughs ]
-What -- What is your name? -Deanna.
-Deanna. Okay, good. -Whoo!
-Deanna, where are you from?
-New Hampshire, but I live in New York now.
[ Laughter ]
-So, you're from New Hampshire. -Yep.
-But you live in New York now. -Yep.
-I love New Hampshire. Where in New Hampshire?
-It's near -- It's Hampstead. -Oh, I know Hampstead.
-Oh, you do? -Sure.
-Oh, it's nice right? -Yeah.
-It's nice. It's nice.
[ Laughter ]
-Deanna, it is fall here in New York,
and now you're here in New York.
You were in New Hampshire, where it's beautiful in the fall,
but here in New York -- wow.
-I love fall. -Yeah, me too.
-My favorite season. -Yeah, I knew that.
[ Laughter ] 'Cause I can feel this.
But what is your favorite part of fall?
-[ Sighs ] I'm like not --
-What is your favorite thing to do?
-[ Speaks indistinctly ] -Um -- Shh!
[ Laughter ]
-Just her friends, not you guys.
-I'm going to say I love the weather,
I love the clothes. -You do?
-Yeah. Like velvet, like --
-Velvet, of course. Everyone wears velvet.
[ Laughter ]
The fall is velvet, of course. That's the first thing.
Not thick sweaters or any of that stuff.
No, fall, I go velvet. Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
And it looks beautiful, by the way.
-Oh, thank you.
-Yeah, I'd say fall fashion then.
-Yes, fall fashion. -And going outside.
Guys, we have our pal Deanna here from New Hampshire,
but now she lives in New York, and it's a long story.
I don't want to get into it.
But her favorite thing to do in the fall is the fashion.
Come on. You've got the velvet.
[ Laughter ]
You've got to -- you've got to -- Velvet!
That's what you do in the fall.
So, for this first song, since Halloween is coming up,
can you guys do maybe like a "Monster Mash" kind of song,
like some Boris Pickett type of [Vocalizes]
♪♪
♪ Yeah, wha-ah-ah ♪
-♪ Well, my friend named Deanna was visiting from out of town ♪
♪ She came from Hampstead, New Hampshire ♪
♪ But she's here in New York now ♪
♪ Pal Deanna, when the spirit of autumn's gotten into you ♪
♪ You wear fall fashion ♪
♪ Wearing velvet is your favorite thing to do ♪
♪ You do the flop ♪
♪ You do the velvet flop ♪
♪ You do the flop ♪
♪ You know she could not stop ♪
♪ She wore the what ♪
♪ She wore the velvet top ♪
-♪ She wore the velvet ♪
♪♪
♪ Wah-ooh ♪ [ Laughs ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, thank you.
-All right, let's see. Who else? Who else? What do you want?
-Jimmy Fallon! Me! -You?
-Me! Me! -You feeling it?
All right, here we go. You feeling this one?
-I'm feeling this. -All right, good.
Here you go. Hold this. -Okay.
-Sorry. I'm reaching over. I apologize.
What is your name? -Alyssa.
-Okay, Alyssa, very good. Alyssa.
Now, I said Halloween is coming up.
What is your favorite Halloween candy?
-Kit Kats.
-No hesitation.
-No hesitation. I know this.
-No hesitation. -I got this.
-Kit Kats.
Really? That's your jam? -Yeah.
-They're so very simple. -They're so good.
-It's just wafer and chocolate. -Exactly. Bingo.
-Give me a break. I love it.
All right, what is your least favorite Halloween candy?
-Ooh, that's hard. Um, I don't know.
Ooh, yeah, Raisinettes or something like that.
Candy corn, actually.
-Yeah! Totally! I agree. I can see that.
Candy corn. Ohh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I totally see that.
It's like three levels of the same flavor?
No, I'm -- I'm out. -Exactly.
-Guys, we have our pal Alyssa here.
Her favorite Halloween candy is Kit Kat immediately.
Give me a break.
And then her least favorite Halloween candy,
candy corn.
The whole -- Candy's in the name.
The whole thing. Corn's in the name.
It's just a thing that doesn't work.
I totally got your back.
For this one, Bruce Springsteen is on Broadway right now.
[ Cheers and applause ] -There we go.
-Recently opened right here in New York City.
We love Bruce Springsteen here.
So can you guys do, like, a fun Bruce Springsteen-style song?
[ Imitating Springsteen ] Come on.
♪♪
-Okay, okay. All right, all right.
♪ My friend Alyssa is here ♪
♪ She never felt a kiss more sweet ♪
♪ Kit Kats on Halloween ♪
♪ Her favorite thing from trick or treat ♪
♪ Her least favorite thing was the candy that is corn ♪
♪ She said, "Get that stuff away from me ♪
♪ Are you out of your mind? ♪
♪ Don't try to feed me any candy co-o-o-o-o-rn" ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-All right.
Thank you very, very much.
I'll just cut through here. Do you mind?
I'll just cut through. How are you doing, buddy?
Nice to see ya. Tall. very tall man.
Yeah. Hey, how are you?
Nice to see ya. How you doing, buddy?
Nice to see you guys.
Hey how are you doing, guys? Good to see ya.
What's up, dudes? How are ya?
Hi. How are you?
Nice to see you, pal. How are you doing?
Hey, buddy. Thank you. Hello. Thank for you being here.
Hey. How are you?
Now I'm out here.
[ Cheers and applause ] The other side.
This is where I wanted to be, this side of the room.
Hello!
Oh, my goodness.
Hey buddy. How you doing?
Nice to see you, brother. How you doing?
-His shirt. His shirt. -What's that? Yeah?
Oh, yeah, you've got some Roots shirts right there.
Yeah. Would you like to do this?
-Can he do it? -No, you can do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go.
Here we go. Very, very good.
Here. Take this. -Okay, thank you.
-What is your name? -Olivia.
-Okay, Olivia. Olivia. Beautiful name.
Now, Lin-Manuel Miranda is on the show tonight.
He recently wrote a song for Puerto Rico
called "Almost Like Praying."
He's raised millions of dollars for Hurricane relief efforts.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I love the dude. He's unbelievable.
He's the creator of "In The Heights"
and "Hamilton."
If there was a Broadway musical about your life,
what would it be called?
-[ Laughs ] Uh, "The Sassy Life."
-"The Sassy Life"?
-Yes. [ Laughs ]
-[ Chuckles ] I love it.
I love "The Sassy Life." I think it's great.
"The Sassy Life." You're very sassy.
I love it.
And what actor would you pick to play the part of you?
-Oh.
Can I have a singer instead of an actor?
-Yeah, of course. -Oh, Adele.
-Really? -Yes.
-I would love to see Adele as Olivia
in "The Sassy Life" on Broadway.
That would be fun.
Here to help freestyle this last one
is the creator of "In The Heights"
and "Hamilton,"
Lin-Manuel Miranda.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Whoo!
-Get sassy.
-[ Laughs ] Sassy.
Sassy, right? There he is.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Thank you for being here, Lin!
Thank you for being here! -Hi, Jimmy.
-We love you, man. -I love you.
-Lin, this is Olivia right here.
-Hi, Olivia. -Hi.
-And her Broadway show
would be called "The Sassy Life."
-Oh, it sings. It sings, Jimmy. It sings.
[ Laughter ]
-And she would love to be played by Adele.
-Ooh, fantastic. -Yeah.
Yeah, all right.
So now, because we have Lin-Manuel here,
can you guys do it, The Roots,
can you do it in like a "Hamilton" style song?
[ Laughter ]
Lin, do you mind? Okay, yeah.
-3, and...
♪♪
-♪ How does a sweet, super sweet ♪
♪ Sweeter than Sweet'N Low and stevia ♪
♪ Grow up to be a sassy gal, Olivia ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ I've loved her ever since she showed up like Adele ♪
♪ Wearing those floral prints ♪
♪ And, unh ♪
♪ Everyone will want her to be their wife ♪
♪ But she showed up too sassy to be your sassy wife ♪
♪ I live that sassy life, I live that sassy life ♪
♪ Oh, yeah, the price is steep, and she's rollin' in the deep ♪
♪ It's Olivia ♪
-♪ Olivia ♪
-♪ Olivia, Olivia ♪
-♪ Olivia ♪
-Stay right there. Thanks to these guys.
Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda... -♪ Olivia ♪
-...and thank you to The Roots.
We'll be right back with Ricky Gervais.
-♪ Olivia ♪
-♪ Olivia ♪ -♪ Olivia, Olivia ♪
-♪ Olivia, Olivia ♪
You're so sassy!
-♪ Olivia ♪
-Olivia, you're so sassy!
-♪ Olivia ♪
-♪ Olivia, you're so sassy ♪
-♪ Olivia-a-a-a-a-a-a ♪
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