-Ryan, welcome back to the show.
Lots of love for Ryan Gosling here tonight.
Come on.
[ Cheers and applause ] Welcome back.
-I always make sure my pants are not too tight
before I come on your show,
and then they're always too tight.
-No. -This is too tight.
-You can't get too tight.
Am I right, guys? [ Cheers and applause ]
-What? Oh, well, in that case.
-Oh! Wait, let's not get --
-It's not that kind of show. No, it's too scandalous.
-Unless it is. -Too scandalous.
Oh! Ohh, ohh!
Ooh!
-Congratulations, Duwan.
-Yeah, that was amazing. -That's was a hell of a part.
-That was a great part, right?
Come on. That was great. That was unbelievable.
-I mean... -Talented guy.
I had no idea, we have so many talented athletes
in the audience tonight.
-Do I get a hoodie? -Yeah.
You have to borrow it from Duwan.
-All right, Duwan. -I have to talk to you about.
"I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars.
Buddy, you were unbelievable.
It was the best.
That was awesome.
It was giant. [ Cheers and applause ]
It's just what we all wanted.
I mean, the level of pressure on there.
When the Oscars asked you to perform,
they call you and they go, "Would you want to do
'I'm Just Ken'?"
Do you immediately go, "Yeah, I have to do this," or no?
-100% no.
-You're like, "Please don't make me do this.
I already did it in the movie."
-You can --
There's a lot of ways that can go wrong.
-Yeah. It's live. -Yeah.
-But, man, you came out and you crushed it.
You had dancers, you had the Busby Berkeley moves,
you had Mark Ronson,
you had Slash. -Slash.
-Everything was unbelievable. And you pulled it off.
I mean, it was one of the best performances.
I'm just gonna read a couple of reviews here
just real quick.
GQ said "Ryan Gosling's, high camp
"I'm Just Ken" was the greatest Oscar moment in years."
Harper's Bazaar -- "Ryan Gosling brought the house
down with his Oscars performance."
Uproxx said, "Damn it, Ryan Gosling is too handsome
and talented to be such a charming little goofball."
[ Laughter, applause ]
[ Laughs ] I didn't even know that one.
And then the song "I'm Just Ken" jumped more than 2,000%.
"Charming little goofball." What's going on?
"I'm Just Ken" jumped more than 2,000%
in purchases immediately after the performance.
Congratulations. -Thank you.
-That was well done.
-Imagine the reviews I would have had if I'd had The Roots.
-Oh, I know! You wish.
Next time. Next time put in a call.
But here you are with Slash being super cool.
You were telling me backstage
that your daughters came to rehearsal.
When they come see you do "I'm Just Ken,"
do they go, "Oh, yeah. Daddy's fun. He's awesome."
-Dad's Kenning again.
-[ Laughs ] He's Kenning again.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Were they fans of the movie?
I mean, they were probably with you
during shooting as well, I guess.
-They were. I mean, it was their,
you know, interest in Barbie
and their disinterest in Ken
that sort of started all of this.
-Yeah. -And, you know,
they've just been, obviously, my --
It's really been a team effort.
And they were on the film
and they came to set when I filmed the number.
But it's also been like a lot of this has no context for them.
You know, it's just like a lot of fake tan stains
around the house. [ Laughter ]
Yeah, if you take a nap on your couch, it's like, oops.
Yeah. -So I wanted them
to come to the dress rehearsal
just to give it some kind of context
for what had been going on.
-Yeah because they're, like, still young.
They're like 9 or 7? -7 and 9.
-Yeah, so have they seen big concerts and shows yet?
-No. That was it. -You were their first.
That's fantastic to see Dad.
-They know all the choreography better than I do.
And the songs. Oh, my God, they're backstage,
kind of, like, showing me that, you know.
-They're like dance moms but they're the kids.
Yeah, exactly. "Big smile. Big smile, Dad.
Dad, big smile. Yeah."
You're hosting "Saturday Night Live"
this weekend, this Saturday, for the third time.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You're a great host.
You're a great guest star as well.
-I haven't slept in three days.
-You haven't. I know, right?
You got to stay up because... -Help me.
-...it is live. You got to be up. You got to be awake.
But I read somewhere that Greta Gerwig saw you
on Saturday Night Live and said, "Oh, he's perfect for Ken."
Like from a sketch that you did or something on Update
you did. -Yeah.
This Alex Moffat wrote this sketch called, like,
"Guy who just joined Soho House" or something.
-Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I remember that.
You were this guy that just joined Soho House.
-Like, the first line was, like --
like, "Sergeant Blackout reporting for booty."
[ Laughter ]
-Come on. That's a great line. Good job, Alex.
-Alex Moffat. -That's a good line.
-Who would have thought
that Greta Gerwig was watching that going like,
"That's my Ken."
-Yeah. And it was just perfect.
And now that you're back on the show,
third time, are a little less nervous?
-Thank you, Alex, got me on the job. Thank you.
-Are you less nervous now
doing it for the third time?
-I'm more nervous. -You are?
Yeah, well, because now I know --
before I didn't know, now I know.
Don't go, you know? -You know what goes into it.
[ Laughter ]
-"Now you know," you're very John Lennon,
"Now you know what you don't know."
So deep, yeah.
But yeah, I guess you know what goes into it
and all this stuff.
But it's your beloved up there.
And they got great writers and good cast.
-But I think I laugh too much and I try --
People compare, they're always like, "You and Jimmy
always laughing." -Oh, no. Oh, no,
I can't help it. I'm bad. -How do you not?
I guess you're not the right person to ask.
-I'm laughing right now.
I can't stop laughing.
-But how do you do it? -I don't, you know,
I'm the worst person.
I feel so bad when I break in a sketch
because I think it's funny.
I go, "This is really funny,"
and they're like, "Yeah, but you can't laugh.
You're in the sketch. You can't laugh."
I go, "I know, I know, I'm sorry."
But I don't do it -- You don't do it on purpose.
That's the thing.
-No, but they take it very seriously,
this comedy thing. -I know, but also --
But also they know when someone's a good sport
and a good laugher and they'll kind of go over the edge
to make you laugh and break you.
That's the problem between me and you,
because we're easy laughers.
So people like Will Ferrell attack us.
-Yes.
-They know that we're gonna laugh and they just do something
that will just make us laugh and break.
We don't want to. You're not going in there going --
-Kate McKinnon, she's -- -Oh, my gosh.
-She's vicious. -The alien sketch.
-Yeah. It's -- Come on.
-No, it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
-I dare anyone to not laugh.
-I think you just go and do what you're doing.
Whatever you're doing is working out pretty well for you.
I think you're doing really good.
So. Yeah. Break a leg. This is going to be good.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I got to talk you about your new movie, "The Fall Guy."
"The Fall Guy," this is unbelievable.
It's getting great reviews, by the way.
Congrats on that. -Thanks.
-It's got heart, it's got laughs, and action,
action, action.
Can you set it up for everyone?
-Well, I think first and foremost
it's a love letter to the stunt community.
You know, these are --
I, like, started on a kid's TV show, "Young Hercules,"
and I've had a kind of stunt double my whole life.
And there's always been this weird thing
where they come to set, they do all the hard stuff,
they take the hits for you,
they risk more than anyone.
And then they disappear into the shadows.
And everyone pretends that they were never there.
And it was all -- You did it all.
And it's just a very. -You get all the credit.
-You get all the credit, and they take all the hits.
And it's a very strange dynamic.
-It's interesting, yeah, it is.
-So that stops here. -Yeah!
That's right! -Enough of that.
-That's right. Stunts. -Enough of that.
-We need you.
-So this is a film about a stunt man,
he's trying to help his ex-girlfriend,
played by the incredible Emily Blunt.
-Oh, my gosh, have you ever worked with Emily Blunt?
-I've never worked with her before.
-Oh, my gosh, she's cool, man.
-She's unflappable. -She really is.
-She can't be flapped.
-No. I think that's what that means.
Yes, I think that's what that means.
She can't be flapped. -She can do anything.
There's nothing she can't do.
She's incredible.
And she's so like --
She's almost so chill it's a problem.
Like for instance,
on set we had this kind of monsoon in Australia.
It was something like that.
I might be overexaggerating, but it was a lot --
It was so much rain that they evacuated the set.
-Oh, my God. -And some of the trailers
were starting to float away and I was, like, knee high.
And I saw Emily's car was still out front of her trailer.
So I ran up to the trailer and I opened the door.
I was like, "Emily, you gotta go!"
And she was meditating.
[ Laughter ]
-Wow. Wow.
-She had, like, Headspace on and a little candle,
and she was like, "Ryan, I'll be fine."
[ Laughter ]
-And lifted the trailer up with her senses.
I was like, "You're too chill."
-"You're too chill!" -"You're too zen."
If that's a thing. -Oh, yeah.
You couldn't -- Yeah, she is unflappable.
But you guys work great -- She can't be flapped.
No. This movie, though, you guys are --
It's great chemistry.
And I will say, obviously, you're hoping for it,
but the stunts are incredible
-Thank you. Records are broken.
-There actually is a record broken?
-Yeah, the... -Cannon rolls.
-Yes. The record for most cannon rolls in a film ever.
8 1/2 rolls is done by Logan Holladay in this film.
-Can you explain to me what a cannon roll is?
-Not very well. -Okay.
-Cannon.
-Is it like flapping? -The bottom of a car,
it sends this thing, like, top over --
I do have a clip. May I show you?
-Yeah. -Yes.
Let me show you this record-breaking --
-Some behind the scenes clip of the stunt.
Here's Ryan stunt double Logan Holladay
breaking the world record for most cannon rolls.
Take a look at this.
-Action!
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Logan's good.
-I knew I did a lot of rolls.
I have no idea how many.
But I had a pretty good feeling that we did it.
-Logan Holladay is being recognized
by the Guinness World Record for most cannon roles in a car.
-Oh, my God.
[ Cheers and applause ]
8 1/2 rolls and they planned on doing 8 1/2,
or they just hoped for the best? -The record was 7.
It was held -- It was in "Casino Royale,"
and so he was shooting for 8 1/2 rolls.
-Here's what I thought was actually interesting
is like in the movie,
you get out of that roll and he hugs you.
-Yeah, no, he straps me in to the car for a stunt
he's about to do.
[ Laughter ]
And then he breaks the record,
and then he pulls me out of the car
and pats me on the back for a stunt he just did.
-It's so meta.
-And in any other film, you would never know that.
But in this, you do, so that's why I love this film,
-It's very meta, it's very funny.
It's very well done. Everyone's gonna love it.
You actually did some of your own stunts
and we're about to show on here that --
Yeah. Do you want to set this clip up?
Do you know which one this is?
-Well, I have a fear of heights.
Do you? -I do, kind of. Yeah.
-What happens?
-Like, right now I think I'm too high off the ground.
Normally, I would sit here.
Yeah. Yeah. That's a bit like --
-How does it feel when it's happening to you?
-I can't even really do those virtual goggles.
I go, "Whoa," it's just, you get queasy
and I go, "I can't do it."
-Yeah. -I don't like it.
I don't like it, and so if I choose,
if I have my choice, I don't do it.
-My body feels like it's turning to stone.
And so they set this up at the beginning of the film
where I have a long, almost like --
I think it's, like, a 10-minute oner
and I go -- I'm talking to people on set,
and then I go up in an elevator and we go up 12 stories,
and then they drop me 12 stories at the end of the take.
And I was so scared that, you'll see in the clip,
I put on sunglasses for no reason other
than to hide the fear in my eyes.
-See if you can see the fear of Ryan Gosling,
everyone, here is "The Fall Guy."
Take a look.
-Imagine that.
After this, you and I could both be on a beach
somewhere in swimming costumes,
drinking spicy margaritas, making bad decisions.
-You're good to go. -Imagine that.
[ Indistinct chatter ]
-Everyone quiet, please.
[ Laughter ]
-You all right?
-All right, let's take him to one.
-How are we doing up there, Stark?
-Great. He's great. Here we go.
In position now.
He's at ones.
Way to drop the line for me.
-Three. Two. One.
Action! Action! Action! Action! Action!
-Oh, my God, bud!
Buddy! Come on.
Respect!
Respect, that's what I'm talking about!
Ryan Gosling, everybody, "The Fall Guy,"
hits theaters and IMAX May 3rd.
Check him out this weekend hosting "Saturday Night Live."
We'll be right back with Johnny Knoxville.
Stick around.