-I want to ask you something,
because I follow you on Instagram.
It's a good follow, by the way. [ Light laughter ]
And you posted this.
It's a photo of a -- Is that a yam?
-Oh, yeah. [ Laughter ]
I'm not sure if it's a yam or a sweet potato.
I'll be honest with you.
I can never really tell the difference.
-Oh, that's interesting.
-But I know that the inside of it
is the same color as the outside.
Does that mean anything? I don't really know.
-I think a yam is a sweet potato.
Is that right?
-Oh, maybe a yam is a sweet potato. See?
The things you learn on "The Tonight Show."
[ Laughter ]
-Is a yam a sweet potato? Is that the same thing?
-No. -Oh, thank you.
-Sorry. [ Laughter ]
-No. -What is the --
What is the difference between a yam and a sweet potato?
-That "no" was like, "You are the biggest..."
-"Idiot ever," yeah. [ Laughter ]
-"...I've ever seen."
-What do you guys think this is?
-Sweet potato.
-That's a sweet potato. There we go.
-Okay, yam is a -- -Case closed.
It's been great to see you, Jimmy.
-There you go. Thank you so much.
Kevin Bacon, ladies and gentlemen.
There he is. -Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
But this -- So, this was --
You got in trouble with --
-Well, listen, I was on my way to L.A.,
and I knew that I was gonna be arriving, you know, in 5 hours,
and I knew that in probably 7 1/2 hours
I was gonna be hungry. -Mm-hmm.
-And so I saw a nice sweet potato
sitting there, ready to go,
and I just threw it in my suitcase.
And, of course, TSA flagged it.
And, listen, I love the TSA. -Sure.
-I think they do a great job. I think that they got a job
where everybody is pissed off or nervous or whatever.
-Tough gig, tough gig.
No one's gonna be happy with TSA agents.
It's tough gig. -Oh, such a -- such a tough gig.
-So, and you tried to smuggle it.
You creep. [ Laughter ]
You sick -- You sick -- -But I'm telling you,
as soon as the guy called me over,
it's like he was on his way opening.
I was like, "I think it's my sweet potato."
[ Laughter ]
-You tried to smuggle a sweet potato.
-No, actually, what I said was,
"It might be a yam, but I'm not sure."
[ Laughter and applause ]
-"Let's look at the X-ray, make sure it's a full on yam."
-Yeah. -Yeah, you don't know, yeah.
You're not allowed to travel with yams.
Sweet potato, you can travel with.
Yams, illegal. -Right, right.
-Totally illegal.
You're not allowed to travel with a yam.
Sorry, sir. -"Not in this country."
-"Not in this country, mate." [ Laughter ]
But you -- So, you got busted.
I love Kevin Bacon just travels with a yam.
-Well, listen. I yam what I yam.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, my God!
-Sorry. I'm so sorry.
-No, oh, no! [ Cheers and applause ]
I'm jealous I didn't do it. -I'm so sorry.
-I'm jealous I didn't do that joke.
-So, so sorry. [ Laughter ]
-I want to talk about your show, "City on a Hill."
Congrats on this. -Thank you.
-It's getting good reviews, good buzz.
You want to set it up for people that haven't seen the show?
-Yeah, I play a very, very corrupt FBI agent.
Just pretty much every scene that I have,
I'm doing something either self-destructive
or destructive to the people that I love
or inappropriate or foul-mouthed.
I'm constantly snorting coke, drinking.
[ Laughter ]
-So it's for kids. So it's for kids.
-It's definitely not. [ Laughter ]
-Kids love it. -It's definitely not for kids.
In fact, as you'll see from this clip,
I rarely get through a sentence
without saying something inappropriate.
So there'll be some bleeping.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Do you curse in real life?
-I do curse. I do curse, yes.
-I never really heard you -- -I know.
I don't curse around you because...
-Thank you.
-...I know how you feel about that.
[ Laughter ]
-Thank you, I appreciate that. -No, of course I curse.
I'm from Philly. -Oh, yeah, yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Sorry.
-Roots. Oh, The Bacon Brothers.
You guys are on tour this summer?
-Yes, yes, we're on tour. We're --
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, it's been good.
-It's fun, right? -Yeah, it's fun.
We're going back out.
We're in Vegas, I think, probably Saturday.
-And then we start a West Coast run.
-I haven't been to Vegas in a long time.
Do you like doing the live gigs?
-I love playing live, because --
You know, like, when I started out,
I did theater, a lot of theater.
And the thing about it is, is that you share
that experience with those people that night,
and it's never exactly the same night after night.
-Yeah. -And anything can go wrong.
So there's always a little bit of butterflies, you know,
when you're waiting to go on stage.
And that's something that I think is, creatively,
very, very inspirational.
Just to get a little bit of fear.
You know, when I walk onto a movie set,
which I absolutely love, I don't --
It's like being in my living room,
I've spent so much time in my life.
But if you're gonna share something
with this group of people, you know [bleep] happens.
I mean, you have to think, like, I play --
The other night, my guitar --
-That's the first time you cursed on the show.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, there we go.
There we go. -We just talked about
how you don't curse, and then -- -I know, I know.
[ Laughter ] That's right.
And you just did it. -Sorry, sorry, sorry.
-No, maybe you're just really comfortable with me.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Maybe. Yeah, maybe this is a new level between us.
-This is a new level of Kevin Bacon.
-You [bleep] [ Laughter ]
-You can't say -- You definitely can't say that.
-I [bleep] love this guy. -You can't say that.
[ Laughter ]
Give me a dumb thing that's happened out
on a live gig that you're just like --
-Well, the guitar went out the other day on a scene --
on a song where you really, really needed it.
And it was one of those ones where it's kind of like
in and out and in and out.
And we kept starting again and starting again.
I'd be like, "Here it is." ♪ Da, di-di, da ♪
♪ Da don, da dink -- ♪
"Okay. Sorry, reset that."
-It's so embarrassing when your instrument goes out.
-It's so embarrassing. -It's so --
-But you have to realize that people --
You know, I said to the people, "I bet you --
You know, this is why you like coming to live music because,
you know, [bleep] like this happens."
[ Laughter ] Sorry.
Sorry, stuff like this happens. Or maybe --
Sorry, sorry, sorry. [ Cheers and applause ]
Or maybe -- See, I've been playing that part for too long.
[ Laughter ]
"Or maybe this is why you come to --
this is why you'll never come to live music again."
-No!
-"Because stuff like this happens."
And then, the other night, there was a --
We were down in Georgia, and there was a bug --
It was an outside gig.
There was this bug flying around the stage.
And at first, I thought it was a drone.
I'm not kidding. It was...
[ Laughter ] ...gigantic.
We do not have this kind of flying thing.
It was the size of a bat. -Really?
-Yeah. And I don't know what it was,
some kind of crazy Georgia, you know, stinging, like, bug.
-And you got to act cool and do your song.
Yeah, you're like -- you're like, "Oh!
Get out of here."
-♪ Here's a sensitive -- ♪ [ Laughter ]
Yeah.
-I want to check you out this summer.
But first, I want to show a clip.
Here's Kevin Bacon in "City on a Hill."
Take a look at this.
-Well, as usual, you're not seeing the big picture,
the vast panorama. -Oh, I am.
I am.
See, you're pissed at me
because I didn't do what you wanted.
And now you're willing to [bleep] this case
to school my ass.
-We had an agreement, you and me.
Focus on the heist, the guards,
Father Kenickie case, pump the grand jury.
But you?
You wander off like some kid
that hears the [bleep] ice-cream truck
to chase guns in Roxbury. And what do you get?
You get [bleep] on your shoes.
So, you want to listen to me?
Do what it was that we agreed to?
Fine. I'm happy to be of service.
But you want an ice-cream sandwich?
Go [bleep] yourself.
-Oh, come on! [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah!
"You want an ice-cream sandwich?!"
[ Cheers and applause ]
Oh! That's how you do it right there.
Kevin Bacon, everybody!