both teams had coaches who were white, bob hart for basketball, and bob heart landed at normandy in world war ii. with a progressive, had a wonderful big heart. his last name hart also, but he knew this was where he wanted to be. he went to ohio wesleyan university in columbus. he wrote his senior thesis of the unfair treatment of the negro soldier in 1942. that was in 1946. 20 years later he's on the sidelines leading a black high school to the state championship. >> host: why did you wait 50 years to write this? >> wil: i was born in columbus, but left to work on other newspapers, and it wasn't in my consciousness that the high school had won two state championships. and i was home about five years ago, after finishing my book, and i ran into gar net davis who was on the baseball team that year. we were walking down the street and talking about eating pie in this similar year 1968-1969. and that they won this wonderful basketball championship. and he said to me, he said but wil, i was on the baseball team, we won a state championship that year too. and i said no way. and he said no, we

i don't know what else these other ones -- the phone thing was like an all bob new harte record.we're all calm here. >> this is such a hard category. who could forget the paper towels in the middle of the hurricane? who could forget him standing next to vladimir putin, taking his side against the intelligence community? it is endless. >> how about him standing next to governor brown who actually is coming off his very sophisticated these days, talking about you have to do more raking? as if he's ever had a rake -- >> that's the comic genius of the trump administration. these things happen every day. think about, just recently in the oval office with pelosi and schumer, poor mike pence wishing he could eject from the whole scene. the president talking about how you need i.d. to buy a box of serial. and -- cereal and people are changing their hat so they can vote multiple times. >> one of the best things about the phone episode and happened the other time. he's talking on the speakerphone and has the phone up to his ear which is highly unnecessary. i think it has to be kanye west.

ariana grande, kevin hart, priyanka chopra, chadwick boseman, bob dylan.best of 2018 tomorrow night. you do not want to miss it. but we have -- [ applause ] it's really fun. we have an amazing show tonight. from the new movie, "on the basis of sex," felicity jones is here. [ cheers and applause ] plus, he's the host of the new netflix series, "the fix." the very funny jimmy carr is here. [ cheers and applause ] and she's nominated for two grammys including best new artist. bebe rexha is here tonight. it's gonna be good. [ applause ] guys, it's time for "tonight show" hashtags. here we go. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] hey, we do this thing every week where i send out a a hashtag, and we ask you guys to respond to that topic. and since it's so close to christmas, i sent out a hashtag called #alliwantforchristmasis, and i asked you guys to fill in the blank, and send me funny things you want for christmas. within 30 minute, it was a a trending topic in the u.s. so, thank you for playing along. [ cheers and applause ] now i thought i'd share some of my favorite

reporting here live in san jose, bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> comedian kevin hart is dropping out as the host of the academy awards there. this comes after hart comes under fire for homophobic tweets and jokes that recently resurfaced on social media. he posted this video to show what happened. >> i just got a call from the academy and that call basically said kevin, apologize for tweets of old or we're going to have to move on to find another host. talking about my tweets in 2009 and 2010. that's the past. the reason why i passed is because i addressed this several times. this is not the first time this has come up. i have he -- addressed it. i've spoken on it. i've said where the rights and wrongs were. i've said who i am now versus who i was then. i've done it. i've done it. >> hart deleted some of the tweets that were spread online, but many in which he called people gay or used a slur for gay men were still up there, as of last night. in a later tweet, hart apologized to the lgbtq community. the academy of motion picture, arts and sciences is not responding to nbc news fo

bob dylan. to kick things off, from back , in septembre's animal expert robert irwin showing animals to a man who is petrified ofhem, kevin hartenjoy. [ glass breaking ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: sit down.: >> kevm not gonna do it. i'm not gonna do it, man. >> jimmy: sit down, dude. >> kevin: i don't know what what's in it. >> jimmy: i know.t don't worry ab. it is going to be fine. >> kevin: no. >> jimmy: please, sit down. >> kevin: that not -- that's t how i operate. no. >> jimmy: nothing will pop out or jump out. >> kevin: i don't know that. i don't know that. go ahead. let's just do it -- i look -- people -- i don't look uncomfortable. go ahead. [ laughter ] just do it. >> jimmy: our next guest is a a 14-year-old animal expert. >> kevin: what? [ cheering and applause ] 14? [ laughter ] he's 14? >> jimmy: he's 14 years old. from the australia zoo, he has a brand-new show with his family called "crickey! it the irwins." >> kevin: no. >> jimmy: which premieres october 28th at 8:00 p.m. on animal planet. please welcome back to our show, robert irwin, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: there is nothing over t