tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- will smith and martin lawrence. matt smith. sical guest, megan moroney. and featuring the legendary roots crew. >> questlove: 1982. >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: come on, that's a a crowd. that is a great crowd. thank you very much. enjoy yourself. welcome, everybody. welcome, welcome, welcome to "the tonight show." you are here. you made it. thank you for watching and at home. [ cheers and applause ] well, guys, some big news from washington. today, president biden signed an executive order to temporarily close the southern border. say what you want about biden, but he takes immediate action five months before an election. that's what i would say. [ laughter ] i'm going to be honest, i'm not sure biden's plan is going to work. i mean, forget the border, we can't even secure the deodorant at walgreens. [ laughter and applause ] seriously, how do you get the key to that thing? [ cheers and applause ] "i just want that -- forget it." i feel bad for biden.

i kept listening to my jimmy smith records.ike i said, when he decided to go solo, that's when the three of us that were left formed a band, and that was it. >> i know you before with a lot of great artists. we will talk about that in the next segment. we have just a minute left, send us out with something. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i hope you've been with us. we've been listening to john turk, a legend in the bay area. grew up in vallejo and has played for all the greats we can aim from etta james to lou rawls, bb king, and you can see him on a regular basis at glide at 9:00 and 11:00. added that begin? how did you connect all this great music with the spirituality of glide? >> it was fate and a fluke. i was supposed to be there for just two weeks. the choir director was playing with an r&b group in south africa for a couple of weeks. while he was gone they needed somebody to play the keyboard. so a buddy of mine that played the drums at glide already called me up and asked me if i wanted to do the gig for a couple weeks. i said, short. so,

jimmy . hey, everyone. will smithwrence are here for true confessions of nat smith from house of the dragon and music from meghan maroney. it's a great show tonight and happening now. former sharks captain and a sharks legend joe pavelski does not intend on playing next season. he made those comments today after his current team, the dallas stars, were just knocked out of the playoffs. you can read more about th story a says told the mercury news it had to cancel because lack of resources time funding chamber says it is making plans to try to resume art and wine in 2025, which would be the festival's 50th anniversary june event. is free and it's super popular. some regular attendees and vendors say they're especially disappointed because no one gave them advance notice that the festival was being canceled. it is a great time. there will be prepared to pay more for garbage in san jose today, the city council passed a rate increase. single family households will have to pay 4% more per month. buildings with several fami

>> uh-huh. >> jimmy: how would they do "mr. and mrs. smith" without mr. and mrs. smith? like november 28th. >> jimmy: yeah? >> and the kids know there's a christmas present, and they're like, "mom, where's the christmas present?" we worked really hard on that. >> jimmy: it's not like that. it's like it's november 28th and the kids don't know santa's even coming. [ laughter ] that's what it's like. >> but if you tell them, "yes, santa's like -- here's what it is," you might ruin christmas. >> jimmy: telling kids santa's come would go ruin christmas? [ laughter ] >> we grew up in very different houses. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah because see -- >> i'm just realizing that, oh my gosh. >> jimmy: so you can't say. you won't say. >> yeah. >> jimmy: we'll just keep our fingers -- >> it will be more fun if you see the second season. you want to wait. >> jimmy: not if you're not in it, it won't be fun, it will be the opposite of fun. >> who says we're not in it? maybe we are, maybe we're not. >> jimmy: yeah variety" magazine says you're not in it. >> oh, that's a tabloid. >> jimm

jimmy: really? >> it was like -- a really hard one -- oh, it was agent smith, like, interrogating morpheus. >> jimmy it's like this really -- he's like a shakespearean actor, that guy, he's incredible. "oh, i'm going to nail this." i went in there and i was like -- oh, god, it was so embarrassing. >> jimmy: you probably had a high voice and the whole thing. >> yeah, i was prepubescent. [ laughter ] didn't know what was going on. i remember going -- it was like -- "human beings are a plague." [ laughter ] "you are a plague, a disease. and i am the cure." [ laughter ] the teacher's like, "zac, stop right now. just stop, stop, stop, stop." >> jimmy: the opposite of summer, really, you took a trip to the north pole? >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: why did you go to the north pole? >> bucket list. >> jimmy: that's on your bucket list? >> yeah. it happened super last minute. a couple of friends said they were going up there. >> jimmy: no santa claus up there. >> right? >> i'm not going to say that. he's probably up there. we went to try to find him. we heard he was in this ice cave. we landed, did a dog sled thi

♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: my thanks to will smith, martin lawrence, matt smith, megan moroneyonce again! [ cheers and applause ] and the roots right there from philadelphia, pennsylvania. thank you for watching. stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers." goodnight, everybody. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: from 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers." tonight -- kevin bacon, author chris colfer, comedian sydnee washington. featuring the 8g band with roni kaspi. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, seth meyers. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." we hope you're doing well and now if you don't mind, we'll get to the news. president biden issued a statement yesterday in support of his son, hunter, amid his federal gun trial. and said quote, "i am the president, but i am also a dad." or as fox news reported it, biden not sure who he is. [ laughter ] in a new interview, former president trump said that his hush money criminal trial was tougher on his fam