-We were at an event and you had some scheme.
You were being crazy. -Mm-hmm.
-And you wanted to dance with Jennifer Lopez.
-Yeah. -And you wanted me to go over
and dance with her, too. -Okay.
We came up with this idea together, first of all.
We both saw J-Lo -- this is like 10 Jello shots in.
And I have never done Jello shots, I didn't go to college.
-They were good, right? -Yeah, they were great.
-Thank you. -And so we were dancing,
we see J-Lo and we're like "Well, we gotta
ask J-Lo to dance."
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-Jennifer Lawrence, you're a little upset with me.
-Yeah. -And I think I know why.
But, not really though, because --
-'Cause we have different versions of this story.
-I think I'm totally right with what happened.
-Oh, really? -That's correct.
-Well, I look forward to changing that.
[ Laughter ]
-Well, we were at an event and you had some scheme.
You were being crazy. -Mm-hmm.
-And you wanted to dance with Jennifer Lopez.
-Yeah. -And you wanted me to go over
and dance with her, too. -Okay.
We came up with this idea together, first of all.
We both saw J-Lo -- this is like 10 Jello shots in.
And I have never done Jello shots, I didn't go to college.
-They were good, right? -Yeah, they were great.
-Thank you. -And so we were dancing,
we see J-Lo and we're like "Well, we gotta
ask J-Lo to dance." -Yeah.
-And so we were -- I was like "Okay, so we'll do..."
-Kanye West was playing. -...is we'll do a spin...
-Yeah. -...and then we'll go,
"Dance with us." like together.
-No, we did a thing, yeah. -Yeah.
-We had a thing, we had a routine.
-And then... -We had a routine.
We were both gonna spin. -Yes.
-But then we were thinking about because J-Lo was behind us.
-Yeah. Yes. -Right? She was over there?
But we're trying to work out our moves
without showing her the moves. -Yeah.
-And we were like, "Alright, we gotta spin."
-So we both decided on a 360, and then we would hold our --
well, we can't -- the audience is here.
-So, spin, spin out this way. -I don't know if you know
a lot about television, but. -Thank you, Jennifer.
-And then, "Dance with us." -And then, "Dance --"
No, that's what you're saying, but this, again --
Kanye West was on, it was very loud.
-I didn't know that Kanye West was playing that night.
-Well, at the time it was there were digital --
-How many Jello shots did I have?
-No, it was digital, there was digital
Doberman Pinschers barking. And that's what his concert was.
So you wouldn't know it was Kanye West, but yeah it was him.
-Okay. -It was like [Imitates barking].
And so that was happening. And that was Kanye.
And then we're trying to work out the moves, and again,
-Okay, yada, yada, yada, basically I do it.
-Mm-hmm. -And then I go like this,
and I look and he's gone. [ Laughter ]
And it's just me, looking at J-lo and going,
"Dance with...me." And then she was just like --
[ Cheers and applause ] "No. No!"
because then she was just like,
"I think I'm just gonna observe."
You made me look like a freak in front of J-Lo,
do you know what that feels like?
-Oh, stop it! That's not what happened.
-God. -Here's what happened.
-Alright. -I know her manager.
Here we are, we're working on it.
The dogs are barking at me. [Imitates barking]
And I'm like, "Here's the plan."
I turn around, as I'm spinning around,
I see her manager, and I see him and he looks at me and he goes,
"No." So I-I turn the other way and you went and I watched.
-And you didn't grab me! -And started dancing.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I was having fun by myself, a dance party, man.
[Indistinct speech]
"Dance with us," yeah. So that's what happened.
-Well I wish this manager had warned me.
-Well, no, you don't even know the manager.
But so J-Lo, Jennifer Lopez, if you're watching,
we both did want to dance with you.
-Just dance with us. -Just dance with us.
What's the big deal? Right? Come on, we're fun.
-Do some Jello shots. -Just play us some, like,
barking dogs and dance with us, I mean what's the big deal?
[ Laughter ]
-I'll bring the dogs... -I'll bring the dogs and yeah.
-...you bring the Jello shots. -Let's make them angry.
-Just dance with us. -We just want you
to dance with us, it's very simple.
What do you mean you can't hear? -I don't ask for a lot.
-You can't hear our voices over the music?
We want you to dance with us. -Don't we seem like
the kind of people you'd want to dance with?
-I mean, big deal our mouths are small.
-[ Laughs ]
-That doesn't affect our dancing.
[ Laughter ]
I apologize for leaving you hanging like that.
-just our social life. -Just -- yeah, exactly.
I met you -- well, I met you years ago.
But I met you fairly quickly at this Met benefit,
back in New York. -Right.
Yes, I've heard. I've heard about this.
-With Jennifer Lawrence? -Yes. [ Laughs ]
-And so it was me and Jennifer Lawrence
I don't know if you guys heard this story.
I talked about it once or twice. -Well, I heard about it
after you guys talked about it. -[ Laughs ]
Well, Jennifer goes, "I wanna dance with J-Lo."
And I go, "Wait, you're talking about a J-Law, J-Lo, J-Fal
production? -Yeah.
This could work! -So this could work.
So she goes, here's what we'll do,
we'll start dancing and Kanye was onstage.
-Right, Kanye was about to perform, actually.
-Was about to perform. -And everybody was, like,
rushing the dance floor, if you remember.
-Yes. -It was like a mosh pit
over there. Yeah. -Yeah and there was some type
of music on and Jennifer Lawrence goes,
"I want you, let's spin around three times, like we're dancing
and then we'll look at J-Lo at the third spin
and put our hand out and say, "Will you please dance with us?"
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I don't know, I don't know if I want to bother --
-I don't love this bit. -I don't know, I don't want to
bother you, you know, you were just kinda sitting there.
You were in, like, a booth and you were next to your manager
and it was all good, and I go, "Okay."
And then I was like, I had a few Jello shots,
and I go, "Alright, maybe I'll --"
-"Let's go for it." Yeah. -Then I thought, if I go,
"Oh, just go for it." So then I turned around
and we started dancing and I go, we did the first spin.
So I did the first spin and I did the second spin,
and around the third spin it was like slow-motion,
I saw you and I saw your manager who goes.
-[ Laughing ] In slow motion.
[ Laughter ]
-And I just kept spinning and Jennifer Lawrence turns around
and goes, "Will you please dance with me?"
And you were like, "What is going on?"
-You bailed on the bit. -I totally bailed on the bit.
-That is not okay! -I ran away.
I acted like I didn't do anything.
She was so mad to me, wouldn't talk to me.
-Yeah. Because I remember it well, too.
You know because it was you and her.
And I was like, "Oh, there they are."
And I think I was -- was I standing on the couch
to see the performance? -Yes, that's exactly.
-So you know how you get up on the club and you're kind of
like on the couch dancing so you can see everything.
-No, I don't know that at all. The club? No, yeah.
-You guys know. You guys know, The Roots know.
-Yeah, yeah. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Usually when I'm at the club I have --
-Oh, you're low key? -I'm low key, yeah, yeah.
-Not me, I'm like up dancing and whatever.
So I'm standing up there and I remember
seeing you guys come over and I remembered Jennifer saying,
"Let's go out to the dance floor and dance."
That's how I remember it. -Oh, okay.
And not, "Let's go dance." like out there,
where everybody's dancing, and I was like,
"No, I'm good. I'm good right here." you know and she --
-Yeah. And you didn't see me at all.
-And I kinda felt like she was sad. Do you know what I mean?
Like, she was like, "Oh." I didn't mean it like that.
I just meant, like, it's crazy out there, it's like a mosh pit.
Like, we can't go out there. -Well, she didn't talk to me
for, like, months. I had to talk to her about this.
We talked it out. -I wouldn't talk to you either.
-I know well I -- -You bailed on the bit.
-I bailed on the bit, but I always follow through.
And so I was wondering, tonight, will you dance with me?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Jennifer Lawrence, hope you're watching!
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