-Jerry Seinfeld. -You know what would be...
You know what would be my dream in show business of one thing?
Because now I've done a movie. I've done a lot of stuff.
-Yeah. -But if the one thing --
If I could do one thing, do you know what it would be?
-No. -One Sam Rockwell entrance.
-He makes a great entrance. -He makes the greatest entrance.
I watched those videos over and over.
Do you ever watch just a supercut
of Sam Rockwell entrances?
You got to do it.
-He comes out, he does James Brown.
-Yeah. -He does everything.
And he's always game.
Yeah, would you -- Maybe next time?
No, you would never do that. -I can't do it.
He's got a thing with his feet and his body.
He's got a cute little body, and it's...
And it's like a marionette body that -- it's suspended.
-And he floats and he spins. -And the feet are, you know...
-Yeah, he's fantastic. He's great.
-Yeah, he's fantastic.
-Are you a dancer or do you -- -No.
-No. -I used to be.
A younger man, I used to like dancing.
-Yeah. Do your kids say, "Dad, no" or they don't care?
-No. No. -They're fine.
-It's fine. -Your kids like you.
-Do my kids like me? -No, I said -- No.
No, I said the opposite. It was a statement.
I said, "Your kids like you." I know your kids.
-Yeah, you do. -Yeah.
And they actually like dad.
[ Laughter ]
Sometimes, the kids -- they don't like the parents.
-Well, if hat was the case, I wouldn't bring it up.
You know.
Let's slide to the next question.
If these kids hate their father, let's not talk about that.
-No, that's true. Yeah. -Yeah.
-Have you had a chance to be with them recently?
-Be with my kids? Yes, I have many chances.
Many, many chances to be with the kids.
-They must enjoy it.
-Oh, they enjoy it. Because they like me.
-Exactly right. That's exactly the point.
-I love -- I always talk about being a parent.
People talk about quality time.
I like to talk about garbage time.
That's what's really fun with your kids -- garbage time.
-So this is the secret. -Yeah.
Bowl of cereal at 11:00 at night.
That's garbage time. -Oh, yeah.
-That's the best. -That's fun.
-So that's what I like.
What I don't like -- vacationing, family vacationing.
I hate it. I hate going. My wife hates going with me.
The kids hate going.
I still go, because what is the difference
of doing one more thing I don't like
on top of not liking anything anyway?
-What don't you like about a vacation?
-Everything.
But it doesn't matter, because when I do
something I don't like, it doesn't bother me.
I am a -- That's all I'm used to.
I am a very happy person
hating everything throughout my entire life.
That's how I would describe myself.
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And my wife -- she -- You know, it's tough on her.
She gets upset when I have a bad time.
I don't. I don't. -You don't.
-No. I knew it was going to suck.
-You knew it.
-And then I'm going to complain about it,
which is something I do enjoy.
That's what I love.
-You like complaining -- -I love complaining.
My entire act is me complaining.
I try and make it entertaining, but that's all it is,
is me complaining.
-What exactly -- things don't you like about it?
-Name something on a va--
-The -- -Jet Ski. Okay.
Whoo!
[ Laughter ]
Don't you hate when people do that?
-Yeah. -Whoo!
The Jet Ski -- you don't go anywhere on it.
What is it?
It is an amazing jet-propulsion device to go nowhere.
You go nowhere.
Wherever you get on a Jet Ski, that's your final destination.
That's where you're going 25 minutes later.
Thousands of miles to travel.
-You go there. And you end up there.
-What do you do? You travel thousands of miles.
You spend thousands of dollars on this trip.
So instead of just having a conversation with your friend,
you get to talk to them like this.
-Yeah. You do -- Yeah.
But do you get -- -Whoo!
-Do you get to turn off your brain for a second?
Do you get off your phone? Do you just relax?
-No. No, I don't.
Somebody called me the other day.
Cellphone call drops.
Friend calls back, says,
"I don't know what happened there."
You know, how people do that?
"I don't know what happened there."
Yeah, no one was hoping or expecting that
maybe you could explain a random micro-glitch
in an infinitely complex global telecommunications network.
Just call back and go, "You were saying."
That's all.
-"I don't know what happened there," yeah.
-Yeah. "I don't know what happened there."
Like I'm going to go, "What do you mean
you don't know what happened?
You were on the call.
You heard us get cut off,
and now you claim to know nothing about it.
I think you know exactly what happened there.
Who are you covering up for? T-Mobile?
What's the 'T' stand for? Thievery? Treachery?"
-You look fantastic, by the way. You look good.
-Thank you. Thank you very much.
I just had a check-up, and --
[ Laughter ] -Good.
-There's nothing funny about that.
I appreciate you supporting, but that is really a setup line.
I just had a check-up. -Yeah.
-But whenever a comedian says he just had a checkup,
the joke's coming, right?
-Yeah. Yeah, there better be, yeah.
-Yeah, we know.
So, I got the check-up and I had just come out with a book.
That was nice of you to mention that I --
I've done some books, and I just did a book about comedy,
my life in comedy.
-"Is This Anything?" -"Is This Anything?"
And my doctor said to me, "I enjoyed your book."
I said, "Well, thank you."
And then, the next thing I know, I hear the snap of the glove
and the rubber glove and the pants down, the finger thing,
and I go, "Wow, look at me.
Acclaimed and ashamed in the same moment."
-Two seconds. "Thank you very much."
-Which could be the title of my next book.
-"Acclaimed and Ashamed." -"Acclaimed and Ashamed:
The Story of How Far You Have To Go
Sometimes Just to Get a Compliment."
So, as I'm leaving, she says,
"Would you mind signing my copy?"
And I always tell her what a great doctor she is.
And she asked me to sign the book,
and I go, "I've got a better idea.
Why don't you shove it up your ass
so that you can find out, like I did,
what it's like to be validated and violated
in the same moment."
Yeah, yeah, at the same time.
-But I haven't been out with you in a while,
but I know every time I go out, you're a foodie.
You actually are -- -I eat food, yeah.
-Yeah. You're -- But you have good taste.
Have you tried -- -I think I do.
-Tried anything new?
-You know what I had that I never had before last summer
was a seedless watermelon.
Did you even know there's such a thing as a seedless watermelon?
-Yeah, of course. Yeah. -You did?
-It's great. -It's great. I had this thing.
Did you know about this? -Yeah!
-We're eating this thing. I don't know.
It was some freak mutant melon. I don't know how it could be.
And we said, "This is great. We have to get more of these.
How do we get more of these?"
And that we could not figure out.
What do you plant to grow more seedless watermelons?
What do you plant?
[ Applause ]
-This is what I love about you. This is what I love about you.
You come on this show. I go, "What are you up to?"
You go, "I'm going to work on this movie.
I'm going to work on it right now.
It's called 'Unfrosted.'"
-"Unfrosted." -"Unfrosted."
You wrote it, you directed it, you star in it.
It is about the invention of Pop-Tarts.
-Right. -This is what you said to me.
-He's not making this up. -This is what you said.
And I go, "Really? This is it?"
But then I go, "Why Pop-Tarts?
What is this thing, 'Unfrosted'?"
And you go, it was just a joke that you had in your act.
-It was a joke, and my friend Spike Feresten,
who was one of the writers from my series --
Do you remember the episode "The Soup Nazi"?
[ Cheers and applause ] Okay. He wrote that episode.
And he said -- So, we were in the COVID thing.
He says -- We would joke about
we should make the Pop-Tart story a movie.
And, you know, you go, "Yeah, yeah, sure," you know.
And, so, we're in the COVID thing.
He says, "Let's write that Pop-Tart movie."
I go, "It's not a movie.
I don't know -- Where is the movie?"
-Yeah.
-But, you know, we were all -- you remember -- doing nothing.
So got another couple guys from the series,
set up the Zoom, started writing.
The next thing we knew, it was a script,
and then it became a movie.
And we just finished it like a month ago,
and it's coming out now.
It's coming out. -Yeah, and it's --
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's joke, joke, joke, joke. -It's all jokes.
-It's so many jokes. It's really funny.
But it's about, like, a competing company coming --
Who's gonna do it first?
-Well, here's the truth of it. The movie is completely insane.
-Yeah.
-But the true story is, Post, the other big cereal company
in Battle Creek -- they did come up with this idea,
and Kellogg's heard about it like three months
before it was going to hit the shelf.
And they go, "Oh, my God!
We have to have a competing product."
So, they were -- It was, like -- And that's when Andy Robin,
one of our other writers, said, "Why don't we tell
this story like 'The Right Stuff.'"
Remember "The Right Stuff"?
Which was U.S. versus Russia
to who could put a man on the moon first.
So that is how we tell the story of the Pop-Tart.
-Who can make the Pop-Tart first?
-Who can make the Pop-Tart is the same as
who can land on the moon first?
-But is this, like, you know, "Barbie," where, like, Mattel --
-No. No.
No, not like "Barbie."
Because "Barbie" was made by Mattel.
-Yes.
-Kellogg's did not even know we were doing this.
They had no idea. We took all their products.
We took all their characters.
Snap, Crackle, and Pop are in the movie.
Tony the Tiger's in the movie. -Yeah, Tony the Tiger.
-Toucan Sam.
Every -- We took everything.
-And didn't ask.
-I didn't know that we had to ask.
-Are you in...
-There could be some serious legal exposure.
-Yeah, there could be. Wow.
-But if I were to be hauled into court on Pop-Tart charges,
that would make my life.
-Yeah, you would love that. -Yes, I would love that.
-I think they would love it.
Because I know the bit and I also know through you,
you love Pop-Tarts.
-I do. I really do love them. -You are obsessed with them.
And you said -- Because I once asked you
about the Pop-Tart joke, and you go,
"I wanted to write the best joke about Pop-Tarts,
because I love -- I grew up on Pop-Tarts."
-I grew up on it, because it's the first thing
you can make hot when you're a kid.
You know, you could make it, and it's like cooking.
It's like, "Wow, there's heat, and I made it."
-Yeah.
-And so I wanted to write the greatest Pop-Tart bit
so that no other comedian would ever talk about Pop-Tarts.
That was my goal. -Yeah.
And the joke was -- You go into, like,
your mom was making you dinner.
You go, "Mom, don't you get it? This is the future."
-There's Pop-Tarts now. We don't need your food.
-Anything. -Yeah. Right.
-And then you had a joke -- You go --
-They can't go stale because they were never fresh.
-They're never fresh. -Yeah.
-But Tony the Tiger -- let me go back to this,
because it's a great cast.
Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy.
-Jim Gaffigan. -Jim Gaffigan is funny.
There's a thousand cameos. It's joke a minute.
It is so funny. It's just well done.
It's a great comedy.
But hopefully I'm not spoiling it,
and hopefully you don't care, but playing Tony the Tiger
is Hugh Grant.
-Hugh Grant. -So, Hugh Grant --
-Yeah.
-How did you get Hugh Grant to do this?
-He's very unhappy, because the character is Thurl Ravenscroft,
which is the real name of the guy
who did the voice of Tony the Tiger --
Thurl Ravenscroft. -Great name.
-And so I imagined this guy as a frustrated Shakespearean actor
who has to play this embarrassing character
to make his car payments.
-Yeah.
-And that's -- And Hugh Grant is perfect for that.
-He has to say, "They're great!"
-Yeah, "They're great!" -Yeah.
-So, I did not think of, really, Hugh Grant for the part.
And I love Hugh Grant so much.
But he called us and he said,
"I want to be in the Pop-Tart movie."
And I have -- So, I got the script
and I auditioned on my phone.
So he did an audition on his phone.
With a glass of wine in the other hand, by the way.
And, you know, like I care what the audition was.
I go, "Yeah, you're Tony the Tiger, sure."
-Yeah. -Yeah. And I love him.
I love him. -He destroys in this movie.
-He's so funny. And we had lots of fights.
-Yeah. -We had lots of fights.
He's a pain in the ass to work with.
-Yeah. -He's horrible.
-Notoriously, but he says that before he comes.
-He tells you, before you work with him,
"You're going to hate this."
And he's so right.
-He does that when he comes on the show.
He goes, "I don't like doing this."
-Yeah, he's horrible. -He's so funny.
-But one night, he and I had dinner together
and that was the best night of the --
We shot for 10 weeks.
And that night that he and I had dinner --
And we got drunk having dinner. -Really?
-That was the greatest night.
Yeah, because he's so cool and he's that English thing,
you know, that witty.
He looks good in a jacket.
And the waiter -- he just does a little gesture.
The waiter races over.
You know, he's one of those guys.
-Yeah. He sent you a text today, and you showed me.
And so we actually got a screen grab of it.
-Yeah, this is a real text I got today from Hugh Grant.
-From Hugh Grant. It says... -"I just watched the film."
To my great surprise, I liked it.
Laughed out loud. All actors were good.
Even you." Me.
"From Hugh Grant."
-I loved it. I laughed the whole way through.
As a little nod, your character goes on
"Johnny Carson" at one point,
which I didn't even know how you did that.
How did you do that?
-We took -- We rebuilt this exact stage
from the old Johnny Carson New York "Tonight Show."
-Which was here. -Which was right here.
-In this studio. -In this studio.
And Kyle Dunnigan does a great impression of Carson,
and then we face-replaced him.
So, here's me on "The Tonight Show" in 1963.
-This is wild. -So, that's Kyle Dunnigan.
Now, you can't tell it's not Carson.
So, there I am on "The Tonight Show" in 1963.
-With the Pop-Tart. -Yeah.
-Yeah, which is great. I loved it.
I think Johnny would have loved it.
So, I knew you're coming on. I can't wait.
This was about a month ago.
I get a phone call from you. -Right.
-And you go, "Jimmy, I did the movie, 'Unfrosted.'
It came out great.
And I still think -- You know, the edit's done,
but I still think there's room
to get Jimmy Fallon in this movie."
-Yes, there was a way to get Jimmy Fallon in the movie,
even though it was locked.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-So I go, "I'm ready. I'm ready to act."
-Yeah.
-And you go, "I don't want you to act.
I don't want you to act. I want you to sing.
I want you to sing a song."
-Sing the song, Jimmy! -"You sing. Exactly."
You wrote a song. -I wrote a song.
-And Mark Ronson --
-Mark Ronson wrote the music. I wrote the lyrics.
-Andrew Wyatt and Mark -- So, Mark Ronson,
who just did the "Barbie" soundtrack.
-That's right. He did "I'm Just Ken."
-So, you wrote the lyrics.
It's called -- It's about Pop-Tarts.
It's called "Sweet Morning Heat."
-Yeah.
-So, some of the lyrics are,
"Please give me that sweet morning heat
every single day of the week.
You've got all the lovin' that I need.
Give me that sweet morning heat."
-It's a love song. It's a love song.
-You sent me the thing and you go,
"Anyone you think -- If you want to do it by yourself,
you want a duet?"
I go, "I just worked with Meghan Trainor.
She was the best. Maybe she would want to do it."
-Love Meghan Trainor. -And so I called --
I texted Meghan Trainor, and she was like, "I'm in.
Let's do it."
I go, "We're doing the Pop-Tart song?"
So we did "Sweet Morning Heat."
-As a duet. -As a duet.
-Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor together.
-I want to play it for you tonight just a little bit
so you can hear it. -Play a little bit.
-Just a little. [ Cheers and applause ]
Alright, ready?
So, again, it starts with, "Please give me that sweet --"
Here we go.
-♪ Please ♪
♪ Give me that sweet morning heat ♪
♪ Every single day of the week ♪
♪ You've got all the lovin' I need ♪
♪ Give me that sweet morning ♪
♪ Heat ♪
♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ]
♪ Heat ♪ -I mean...
♪ I used to eat you anytime of the day ♪
That's what I'm talking about. It's a bop.
It's a bop. It's so good, and I'm honored to be on it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
So, when it comes out, call your local radio stations
and request "Sweet Morning Heat," please.
I'm honored. I can't even tell you.
It was the most fun thing ever to be involved in this
and with the movie.
-Thank you. Well, you did a great job.
Thank you for doing it. What else do we have for our...
-Well, we have an exclusive sneak peek at the trailer
for "Unfrosted."
-May 30th, it comes out. -Here we go. Watch.
-The Post Cereal Company has reportedly
invented a shelf-stable fruit-pastry breakfast product.
-No. -Yeah.
-Boy. -How do you think Post did it?
-There's always a surprise inside the box.
-I wonder if they used xanthan gum.
-Xanthan! -♪ Rebel, rebel ♪
-Kellogg's is entering the race to reinvent breakfast.
-They're stacking the deck with ringers.
-You Kellogg's people.
-Are you making progress? -It's not to scale.
-What are you guys? 5 years old?
Little John-John draws better than that,
and I think there's something wrong with him.
-♪ You've torn your dress ♪
♪ Your face is a mess ♪ -Mmm!
-Whoever gets to the shelves first is gonna win this thing.
-♪ Rebel, rebel ♪
-Isn't this a cereal company? Why did my husband explode?!
-♪ Rebel, rebel ♪
-Come on, now! That's what I'm talking about!
Jerry Seinfeld, everybody.
"Unfrosted" is on Netflix May 3rd.
We'll be right back with more "Tonight Show." Come on back.