please welcome jake johnson.s and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: nice to finally meet you. >> nice to finally meet you, jay. i'm honored to be here. >> jay: and i know you're from chicago, my favorite food town in the world. [ cheers and applause ] big chicago eater are you? >> yeah, you know, unfortunately i am. >> jay: yeah. you seem in good shape. >> now i'm in okay shape. >> jay: yeah. >> but when i booked "new girl" i was coming right off of living in chicago, you know, mr. beef's -- >> jay: mr. beef's on orleans, it's fantastic. >> deep dish pizza. >> jay: oh, and the seven layer pizza. >> yeah, the good stuff. >> jay: yeah, yeah. >> so i booked the pilot. and i'm really excited. it's the job of a lifetime. >> jay: right. >> can't believe it. and i get a call from my manager saying, congratulations. i know how you like method actors. you know, the daniel day-lewis' and the de niro's. he said, "now it's time for you to go a little method." and i go, "what do you mean?" and he goes, "you have to

from "new girl," jake johnson. the music of phillip phillips. and "headlines." and now, jay leno! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: thank you very much. welcome to "the tonight show." thank you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] hey folks -- did you hear this story? hear about this? man here in california, actually, not far from here, about 20 miles, went bankrupt collecting beanie babies. [ laughter ] this guy spent $100,000. his life savings, collecting beanie babies because he thought one day his collection would become so valuable it would pay for his children's college education. [ laughter ] i think it's safe to say nobody ever paid for this guy's college education. okay. [ applause ] speaking of -- speaking of morons we have a a new nominee for idiot criminal of the month. beaverton, oregon. guy tried to rob a gun store with a baseball bat. [ laughter ] guy goes into a gun store, "it's a robbery." they're calling it the most ineffective use of a bat since the miami marlins. that's how bad. [ rim shot ] [ cheers and applause ] hey, here's a story i r

that's going to be out in very limited release in chicago with olivia wilde and another chicagoan, jake johnson anna kendrick from "pitch perfect," one of your favorite movies. and it's a really solid relationship comedy, and it's also going to be available on-demand, so people should check that out. and there's another film coming out in late august on the 23rd called "you're next," which is this home invasion thriller that's been sort of on the festival circuit for the last couple years. it's finally getting out into theaters from lionsgate. people flocked to "the purge" back in may and june. go see this one. that this is a lot more fun, a lot better time at the movies than that one was. - so, summer still holds a lot of success potentially here. - absolutely. a lot of films are going to be opening in august that are probably not going to hit $40, $50 million, but these couple films that we've been talking about are really the ones to watch, the ones that open up before the kids go back to school and then we sort of get past labor day and we start talking about festival and awards season. - e

from "new girl," jake johnson. the music of phillip phillips. and "headlines." and now, jay leno!eers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: thank you very much. welcome to "the tonight show." thank you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] hey folks -- did you hear this story?

. >> jay: i want to thank my guests kristen bell, jake johnson and of course phillip phillips.stin chenoweth. but jimmy fallon happening right 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. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh! that's a beautiful crowd right there. new york city crowd representing. welcome -- welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. you guys feeling good? [ cheers and applause ] that's all that matters. welcome, everybody. welcome. thank you so much for tuning in. thank you for being here. here's what people are talking about. i don't know what's wrong with people. i just -- i just saw that six employees at l.a.'s cedars-sinai hospital have been fired for snooping through kim kardashian's medical records. yeah, kim was upset. she said it was an invasion of her privacy, and this is nice, all three of her cameramen agreed. [ laughter ] >> steve: o