-Thank you for being my first guest in the year 2022.
Thank you. I'm honored. I'm honored.
-Thank you. Thank you.
It's going to be a good year. -You know it.
It's going to be -- Yeah.
Do you typically make any New Year's resolution?
-To be a better person than what I was last year.
-How is that possible with you?
-It's possible. I fall short sometimes.
Yeah, I fall short. -Do you really?
-It's like "Oh, I'm going to eat healthier. I'm going to do this.
I'm going to lose weight." No, I never stuck to that stuff.
-No. -No.
I figure if I just say I'll be a better person,
a better father, better friend, better son, better whatever,
I can stick to that. -I like that.
That's awesome. -Yeah.
-I do. [ Cheers and applause ]
Happy to come back. I love when you're here.
Obviously, the audience, we love you too,
but I want to talk to you about this,
because you went to Dubai recently.
-I did. -Now, how did you end up there,
and what's going on in Dubai?
-Steve Harvey is a very good friend of mine.
-Love Steve.
-And he had his celebrity golf tournament there,
you know, for his various charities.
And so he invited us over, so we all went over there, man.
And it was a great time.
It was me, Yvonne Orji from "Insecure."
Ahmad Rashad. -Yes.
-Akon. [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, right? -Akon plays golf?
-Akon, yeah. Well, well!
[ Laughter ]
I'm not going to say that.
And I got an issue with this.
Akon has never played golf before in his life, right?
[ Laughter ]
Never played golf before in his life.
-Yeah. -But won the tournament.
-That's my man. [ Cheers and applause ]
-No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. -That's my man.
-No, no, no.
Alright, so, he came -- his team came in first.
Steve Harvey's team came in second.
My team didn't even place at all.
[ Laughter ] But this is it.
Akon was playing ahead of me.
And Steve and his team were playing behind me.
So I got to see how horrible both these teams were.
-Yeah. -And they both --
One took first place, one took second -- third place.
And I didn't place at all. -It's rigged.
-Yeah, very much so.
I'm not going to say it was rigged, but it was rigged.
[ Laughter ] -What is Dubai like?
I've seen pictures. What is Dubai?
-Dubai is unlike any other city that I've been in, man.
They say it's the city of the future.
When I was there a few weeks ago, it was --
they're having the World Expo there, which is the first time
it's been held in a Muslim country, which was beautiful.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's still going on.
And it was also World Day.
It was their birthday.
Dubai's only 50. I'm 51.
I'm older than Dubai.
-Wow! That's interesting.
-I'm older than Dubai.
-But you're back in New York for a little bit?
-I'm back in New York for a little bit. A lot of bit.
-I'm excited about this. -So am I, man.
-You're doing "Law & Order" again.
-Back to "Law & Order." Detective Kevin Bernard.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Come on, bud!
-Yeah. -Dude, this is big.
-Yeah, yeah. -How does it feel to come back?
-It feels great, man.
I'm back in a well-worn saddle that just grips your ass.
-There you go. That's exactly the way to put it. Yeah.
-Yeah.
-It's fun to have you back on NBC.
This is going to be fun, bud. -Yeah, good to be back.
-And New York. -Yeah.
-We got to hang out, figure out something.
How's Mom doing, first and foremost,
'cause you know I love your mother.
-Mom is doing great. -Doris.
-Yeah, Mama Doris is doing great.
She's single now, thanks to our last appearance on your show.
-No. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -No, because of that?
-Those who remember, it don't work!
-No, he didn't like it? -He didn't.
He never called my mama after that night.
[ Laughter ]
Hey, man, why you laughing?!
[ Laughter ]
He never called -- My mom was so excited.
She was like, "Baby, baby.
Look, me and Anthony had fun with your -- at your expense
on 'Fallon' tonight, but watch the show."
To this day he hasn't called my mama back, Fallon.
-Ah! -So this what you got to do.
When I bring my mama to New York,
we got to set my mama up on a new date.
-Oh, of course. Doris, easy. -Alright.
You hear that, Mama? -Easy-peasy.
And, Doris, we don't need him anyway 'cause it didn't work.
-Stop, man! Stop! [ Laughter ]
But it don't work!
[ Laughter ]
-I heard your mom is doing --
I heard your mom is doing something with Eddie Murphy.
-She is, man.
We both are, but my mom is in Eddie Murphy's new movie
with Jonah Hill and a bunch of other people.
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.
You know, everybody always, "Does your mom get star-struck?"
I was like, "Yeah and no. She plays it cool."
She was in a scene with Eddie and one of the A.D.s says,
"Ah! I think we have to do it again."
And out of nowhere, my mama said, "[Bleep] I hope we don't."
[ Laughter ]
And Eddie Murphy turned to him
and was like, "Was that Anthony Anderson's mama?"
He was like, "Yeah." He said, "Man, she is funny!"
[ Laughter ] -I love it.
Hey, Mom, we're setting you up when you come back to New York.
-Hopefully with somebody who works.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
When we come back, I want to talk about the final season
of "Black-ish" and also about
having Michelle Obama on your show.
More with Anthony Anderson when we come back.
Come on back, everybody.