-Last time you were on the show
was not your first time in "The Tonight Show" studio.
-It was not the first time.
As a matter of fact, it was a couple of years ago.
I was in this studio standing on your mark right there
where you do your monologue.
It was Bring Your Child To Work Day at NBC.
And I'm pretty sure all of the kids who came to work
with their parents thought they got to meet Jimmy Fallon
at "The Tonight Show" studio.
So out comes Willie Geist,
who they assume is the warm-up act.
[ Laughter ]
I'm like, "Here's the story of my career."
Talking about how I worked my way up through cable news
to "The Today Show." What a great story, right?
-Yeah. Sure. -And I'm looking up,
and a lot of blank stares with the kids.
And I say, "Any questions, guys?"
I thought it was going pretty well.
And a kid raises his hand, and he goes,
"When do we meet Jimmy?"
[ Laughter ]
I swear to God.
-I didn't know this was happening.
-Oh, no. No, you were on hiatus.
You weren't even in the building.
[ Laughter ]
And so the next kid raised her hand,
"Is Tina Fey here?"
[ Laughter ]
And it went on like that for like ten minutes.
And finally, one kid who took pity on me,
he goes "Um, what's your favorite kind of pie?"
-There you go. Come on.
-Like, "I'm gonna give you something."
-It's good to be back.
-What is your favorite kind of pie?
-Thanks for asking, Jimmy. I think it's key lime pie.
-Is it really? -You like a key lime?
-I do enjoy key lime pie. -It's a good pie.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Decent tart to it.
It's also sweet. It's a lot going on.
-I don't know if we should cheer for it.
-Key lime pie. -Why not, man?
How were the kids doing? Last time they were here hanging out.
And they were so cute. -Oh, my God.
They love you so much.
They're sorry they couldn't be here tonight.
I was in a suit going out tonight,
which they usually ignore.
They go, "Where are you going out with a tie on?"
And I say I'm going to this event or that,
and they don't look up from their iPads.
I say, "I'm going to see Jimmy."
"What?! You're going to see Jimmy?!"
-Oh really. -They love you so much.
So their big thing is, we're going on --
A week from tonight, we'll be in Puerto Rico.
We're going on vacation to Puerto Rico.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's the best thing you can do.
-Which I love doing.
-Awesome that you're doing that. -I love it.
We're going to do some service projects down there.
We got married in Puerto Rico. We love Puerto Rico.
-Oh, really? -But here's the deal.
They watch you and Tariq on the zip line
in Puerto Rico, and they're like,
"Book us on that zip line." -Oh, no.
-They haven't seen your account after the fact of the zip line,
that you had to be rescued from it.
[ Laughter ]
-It was worse than Rebel Wilson's story.
I mean, it was embarrassing.
I had to be rescued off the zip line.
-Right.
-I still can't look at Tariq in the eye.
-Their main thing is like, "So can we go right from the airport
to the zip line that Jimmy and Tariq did?"
So we're doing the 2-mile, 95 mile-an-hour zip line.
-Dude, it doesn't end. -And it's your fault.
It's your fault that I have to do that.
-I'm not sure if I'd ever do it again.
I got to be honest. -I guess I got to do it.
You can't send your 9-year-old alone.
I guess I have to do it.
-Yeah, you have to. Yeah, you got to do it twice,
one with each kid.
[ Laughter ]
-Meanwhile I saw Tariq outside. He's like,
"It was the best thing I've ever done in my life."
-Oh, we are so different. We are so different.
-A tale of two zip lines with these two, yeah.
-A tale of two zip lines.
You showed this photo the other day, I thought it was so cute.
This is you and your wife Christina in high school.
[ Audience awws ] -Yes, that's high school,
Christina and me, the football years in New Jersey.
And they popped that up on "The Today Show"
when we were talking about the Super Bowl,
they threw it up there.
And I said, and I'll never live this down,
I said "Oh, that's great.
That's a picture of my current wife."
That's what I said. -That's a beautiful thing.
But this is the best part. This is the best part.
You got a tweet from your wife said,
"Babe, did you just show my high school cheerleading photo
on 'The Today Show' and refer to me as your current wife?"
My phone is blowing up." [ Laughter ]
She's your one and only wife. -She's my one and only.
She's working. She's got jobs.
Her friends are texting her.
She's like, "Have there been other wives?"
[ Laughter ]
What I meant to say was,
in that picture, she was my girlfriend,
currently, she's my wife.
But she didn't want to hear that.
It's a very expensive mistake. Very expensive mistake.
-How's everything going on "Sunday Today"?
-It's going great. -It's one of my favorite shows,
I told you. You're forever on my DVR,
forever. I love it. I do.
I watch it. I mean I get up early with the kids now.
But I watch you all the time. -I appreciate it.
You've been on "Sunday Today." -It's a great show.
-Yes, yeah. -It's a great show.
-This weekend, we're coming up on our -- a couple of months
from now, our three-year anniversary.
And this weekend we've got Bradley Cooper,
who is a buddy of yours. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Bradley Cooper and I once had an interview
that was not even really a real interview.
-Okay. So we've talked about --
Bradley and I have talked about this.
I've known Bradley for a while.
And his thing,
that moment you just laughed for 15 minutes
and couldn't get through your interview.
So he's like -- -He had these funny wigs on.
I just can't get into it. -Go on YouTube, it's incredible.
-It's long. -Bradley says he'll be
walking down the street. And people are like,
"Bradley Cooper!" And he's like,
"Ah, what, it's "Silver Linings Playbook"?
-Yeah, "A Star is Born"? -"The Hangover"?
"A Star is Born"" I directed it.
They're like, "You and Jimmy,
when you laughed for 15 minutes."
[ Laughter ]
He's like, "That's my legacy." -I ruined his career.
-Laughing with Jimmy Fallon. But he's such a good dude.
You know him. -He's the best.
He deserves everything, all the accolades, everything.
He works so hard. -The movie's so good.
And you know he's just a genuinely good dude.
And he's got the humble brag thing.
-Oh, yeah. -Where you sit down with him
for an interview and like, there's a makeup artist.
He's like, "I'm good, I don't need make up."
And you're like -- -Come on, dude.
-He does that. -But the truth is
he doesn't need makeup. That's the problem.
-He comes in off the street. There's nobody's with him.
He just rolls in, takes his baseball hat off.
He's like, "Yeah, let's go." -Exactly.
-He and Clooney are both like, "Nah, I'm good.
I don't need makeup. -I was in Walgreens
the other day and I was just getting Valentine's candy
and heard these two girls going, "And his eyes.
Oh, my gosh, his eyes, when he looked at her,"
and blah blah blah. And I was like,
I bet they're talking about Bradley Cooper.
[ Laughter ]
And then she's like, "Yeah.
And then Gaga sang." I go,
"Ah, they were talking about Bradley Cooper."
And I know the scene, too.
Because I looked at his eyes and was like, "Oh, wow."
-Yeah, we both got sucked into it.
-Yeah, oh, my gosh. -When he rolls down the window.
Yeah, "I want to get another look at you."
-Oh, yeah. Yeah. -Yeah.
-"Sunday Sitdown" is now a podcast.
-Yes. -Explain to me.
Talk to me about this. -Well the cool thing is,
is that, you know, you get seven or eight minutes
of an interview that airs on TV. -Like we've done.
-We've done that before. But there are like
45 other minutes that don't make it on TV.
-Yeah. -So the "Sunday Sitdown"
podcast, which you can get on Apple or wherever,
is the full interview, uncut.
We just start at the beginning.
We put an out point at the end. And put the whole thing up on.
So, you know, you get 45 minutes of Bradley Cooper
or Jimmy Fallon, or whoever you're into.
-That's fantastic. -Yeah, yeah.
-Hey, good for you, buddy. We love you. Willie Geist.
-Thanks, Jimmy. -Good luck on your work.
-Thank you. -Willie Geist, everybody.
Check out "Sunday Today", right here on NBC.
Sundays at 8:00 a.m. [ Cheers and applause ]