welcomes -- from "american idol," ryan seacrest, randy jackson and keith urban, standup comedian anthony jeselnik, and the music of for king and country. [ cheers and applause ] and now, jay leno! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television captions by vitac

welcomes -- from "american idol," ryan seacrest, randy jackson and keith urban, standup comedian anthony jeselnik, and the music of for king and country. [ cheers and applause ] and now, jay leno! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television captions by vitac www.vitac.com

welcomes -- from "american idol," ryan seacrest, randy jackson and keith urban, standup comedian anthony jeselnikthe music of for king and country. [ cheers and applause ] and now, jay leno! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television captions by vitac www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: thank you! thank you, everybody! welcome to "the tonight show," ladies and gentlemen. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen. today -- today was a big day in hollywood. the oscar nominations were announced today. very exciting. >> rickey: yeah! [ cheers ] >> jay: "lincoln" -- "lincoln" leads the list with 12 nominations, which is a a first. that is a first. not most nominations. the first time hollywood has ever voted for a republican president. that was amazing. [ laughter ] amazing! and congratulations to our good friend denzel washington. >> rickey: yeah. >> jay: he got a nomination for "flight." best actor for "flight." [ cheers and applause ] that was a great movie. about a pilot who's an alcoholic, or as we call that now, a documentary, but it was still -- [ laugh

>> i do the opening and then, tomorrow night, we have lisa lampanelli, anthony jeselnik and bobby leens. >> and i go to the westboro baptist church. you know those haters who protest the funerals? they're terrible people and i couldn't imagine what makes someone like that. so, i went there and did my own protest and roasted them. but not out of love. out of sort of -- [ cheers ] >> jimmy: do people get angry with you when you do it? [ scattered applause ] >> no one's ever gotten mad at me. no one's ever gotten mad at me. >> jimmy: 'cause you do a thing i love called "the roaster coaster." >> right. >> jimmy: and it's basically you on a segway with a podium, with a microphone. [ laughter ] and he just goes around the city and you just rank on people. >> i ride around, roasting people. it's like a little bit of a -- kind of a -- what do you call it? >> jimmy: a childhood dream? >> yeah. i get to say whatever i want and ambush people. and i went out on new year's day and roasted people's new year's resolutions. because people are always so annoying when they make promises they can't keep

i want to thank my guests, ryan seacrest, keith urban, randy jackson, anthony jeselnik and for king andountry. tomorrow night, ben affleck. but jimmy fallon happening now. jimmy! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. d here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, my goodness. that's what i'm talking about right there. beautiful, beautiful crowd. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. it's going to be fun tonight! [ cheers and applause ] oh, my goodness. we're going to have a good time tonight. a lot of fun. welcome, everyone, and thank you for watching at home. here's what people are talking about. the 2013 oscar nominations were announced today. yeah. [ cheers ] a lot of surprises. a lot of people snubbed. you don't want to get snubbed at the oscars. a lot of people snubbed. but the big surprise -