-Looking good, bud. I always love seeing you.
Thanks so much for coming on the show.
-Thank you for having me. It's good to be back.
-I've known you for a long time now.
And this makes me feel so happy to say --
congratulations. You're a new dad.
You're a dad. -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, it's pretty -- -Papa.
-Pretty wild.
You know, our little girl's home, and she's doing amazing.
It's just, what a gift a baby is.
-It really is, right?
Is everyone giving you advice and giving you books?
-Yeah, it turns out everybody I know
is a newborn-care specialist.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Everyone's an expert. -Doctor, yeah.
All these PhDs I didn't know they had.
-Yeah, I know. How are --
How are the bros as uncles? -Amazing.
You know, they've got kids of their own, the two older ones.
Franklin Jonas, the youngest of the three,
who's now -- out of the four of us --
he's 21 now, if you can believe that.
-No. -First time you met him,
he's probably like 4. -Yeah.
-But he -- yeah, he's the favorite uncle,
by far, of all the uncles. -He's -- oh, 'cause the --
-Well, he's the closest in age to the kids.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, I guess technically, yeah, you're right, yeah.
And how did you -- Did you celebrate Mother's Day
with Priyanka? -I did.
It was her first one, so did a little thing at the house.
Got her a citrus tree that I'm gonna plant this week.
-Wow. -YouTube "how to plant a tree."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Any significance in that? -Uh, just, you know, new life,
new things growing, and the beauty of,
you know, citrus trees.
[ Laughter ]
-I want to talk to you about your Vegas residency, because...
-Yeah. -...that's coming up soon.
-Can't wait. -I mean, that's gonna be --
Can you imagine? That's exciting.
That's like, gotta be a musician's dream come true,
right? -It's a dream come true.
I can't wait to go to Vegas and actually leave
with my money in my pocket. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah, wow, yeah. Exactly.
-Giving them my money. -Yeah.
Do you have any crazy Vegas stories?
-Yeah, got a few. -Yeah. Any you can say on TV?
-Some really, uh, great choices there,
some really, really not-so-smart choices.
[ Laughter ] Um, but, no, there's one
Halloween in particular. I've actually been in Vegas
twice on Halloween just by happenstance,
but the one, I was there with some friends
who are very close friends of mine,
both guys that were in my wedding,
you know, guys that I did a Broadway show with
here in New York, and they're older than me
by 15, 16 years.
And so you would think, at that point, a bunch of grown men
who were given glow sticks at the Diplo show
would know that the glow sticks that had a battery pack
on the bottom, that's very dangerous
to hit each other with.
But we were a little intoxicated at that point.
So we forgot about that, and, uh,
I just sort of whacked my buddy in the head,
and he was like -- And he calls me "Jerry,"
which is my middle name -- goes, "Jerry, you son of a bitch!"
[ Laughter ]
And he just starts gushing blood.
But it worked out because it was Halloween
and everyone just thought it was a costume.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-No, no, that's not -- That didn't work! No!
-Yeah. And the best part of the story is,
he didn't sue me. [ Laughter ]
-He's your best friend. Yeah, what a good guy.
Did he have to get stitches? -He hasn't sued me yet,
I should say. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] There's still time, yeah.
-No, he sort of waited to get stitches
till the following morning.
And it was very clear he needed them, but...
[ Laughter ]
You know, we were all having fun.
-Yeah, poor guy gets hit in the head with a glow stick.
What are you gonna do? -Yeah.
-I want to talk to you about this, 'cause --
-Oh, yeah! Love it.
-I was talking to your brothers about this.
-By the way, your bits with Joe were hilarious.
-He's -- come on. He's a -- he's a natural.
He's a natural. -He's a funny guy.
-Yeah, he is funny. -He's a funny guy.
We are slightly competitive, especially when it comes to you,
and, you know, the bits that we get to do.
So I'm hoping that the Auto-Tune thing we did today
just kind of gets, like, two or three more views than his.
-Yes, of course, yeah. Everyone like it on YouTube.
Yeah. Send it around. We want it to go viral.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I wanna -- -Oh, I should sanitize my hands.
-Yeah, I got sanitizer for you. -Thank you.
-Yeah. I want to talk -- talk to me about this popcorn.
You're in the food business right now.
-Yeah, so, you know, in addition to being a new father,
I am also a popcorn guy now. -Yes.
No, but this -- -It's a natural transition
from Disney star, music star, to popcorn guy.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-But, basically, our good friend, Greg,
who played bass in the Jonas Brothers backup band
for many years, from the very beginning,
and is now a part of our management team
and also one of my best friends...
-Yeah. -...his dad would make
this popcorn at all the shows on the East Coast,
and we just fell in love with it.
And I just said, over time,
like, "Can I please make this a thing?"
And he finally agreed a couple years ago.
So, during the pandemic, we just had fun
designing it and making it. We just launched it in Walmart
couple months ago, and it's been crazy.
-It's delicious. -It's delicious, right?
-And this is Rob? This is --
-That's the guy. -That is Rob,
if you can see him on the back there.
-That's Greg's dad, Rob. -That's Rob, so --
-So, from his kitchen in New Jersey to, you know,
the shelves at Walmart, and now this show.
-Yeah, now it's on "The Tonight Show."
There you go, Rob's popcorn.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I love it. -It's so good.
-It's not too sweet. It's not too salty.
-Correct. -It's, like, almost like there's
something else in there. Is it garlic? No.
-Yeah. All the ingredients on the bag.
There's carrots. Carrot's the magic ingredient.
-Carrots? -Yeah, I know these things
'cause I'm a popcorn guy now. -[ Laughs ] Yeah, exactly.
I saw one video you did where you threw the popcorn
in the air and your brother... -Do you want to try?
-...caught it in his mouth. -Yeah.
-I can try it. -I mean, I'm not very good
at it, but you can -- you can try to catch the popcorn.
Here we go. [ Drumroll ]
Ready? -Yep.
-Oh! [ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Come on, man! Can we see that again?
[ Laughter and applause ]
Come on, bud! -That was awesome.
-You don't mess around, buddy. -Wow.
-We don't play around on this show.
Come on. -That was incredible.
I am, like, genuinely impressed by that catch.
-Yeah, that was fantastic. We make a good team.
I want to talk about "Dancing With Myself."
-Yes. -This is a new show on NBC.
We're psyched here at the network, obviously.
-I know you had Shakira here. -That's right, Shakira.
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah, she can dance.
-She can dance. -She -- She can dance.
Would you say that you're a pretty good dancer?
-No. [ Laughter ]
No. -Really?
-So I think the -- the biggest misconception
about the Jonas Brothers, if I had to name one...
-Yeah. -...that people think,
because we're a pop group of guys, kind of boy band category,
that we dance. But we don't.
Especially Kevin. He can't dance for [bleep]
[ Laughter ]
No, I'm playing.
-Well, I guess you're always playing the guitar.
-Playing the guitar, but I did some theater and stuff,
so I do have some experience. So, the thing I was drawn to
about this show, which I think is
the brilliant thing about the idea that Shakira had,
was that it's not about being the best dancer.
It's about having the most fun. It's about, you know,
getting out there and expressing yourself.
And so many people were in their homes for 2 1/2 years
making videos for TikTok or Reelz, whatever,
who were on our stage, who, you know, have tons of
different jobs and walks of life and ages groups,
just up there having fun and dancing,
which is what it should be. So it feels more like
a wedding dance party, or just a great dance party,
than a serious dance competition.
-Yeah. -'Cause God knows, I should not
be the one to judge that. -What do you do if --
what do you do if you go to a wedding or a party
or something and they go -- and a song comes on?
-Um, you know, as you know, my wife, Priyanka,
and she's Indian, and so we --
we dance to a lot of Bollywood music.
-Yeah. -I find that it's the easiest
to dance to, 'cause I can just do this move all the time.
[ Laughter ]
No matter where I am, sitting, standing, and it works.
And I look like I know what I'm doing.
-Yeah, and you just do that. -Yeah.
-Ooh, that's good. Yeah, okay, that's interesting.
-It's nice. -That's your move.
-It's a comfort zone, and you can keep the drink in your hand,
too, while you do it. [ Laughter ]
-That's exactly -- very, very important right there.
I want to show everyone a clip of your new show.
Here's Nick Jonas in "Dancing With Myself."
Take a look at this.
-Dennis, I loved watching you dance.
I actually started to kind of do your signature move there.
What do you call that one? -The Dennis.
-The Dennis? Okay, that's easy to remember.
Where are you from? -Born and raised
in Brooklyn, New York, but now I live in Jersey.
Raising the family in Jersey. -What part of Jersey?
I'm from Jersey. Hey, hey, guy, hey.
-I get off route 18, so I do route 9 and route 18.
-Beautiful, I used to get off route 18, too.
This is a beautiful thing. -Hey, hey, yo.
-Hey, guy. Listen, you're fantastic.
I think it would be fun to have a Jersey guy here.
-Nick Jonas, everybody. [ Cheers and applause ]
"Dancing With Myself" premieres May 31st at 10:00 p.m. on NBC.