-Please welcome back to the show
the one, the only, Jack Black, everybody.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you. Whoo!
Thank you. -Nobody --
Nobody makes an entrance like Jack Black.
You okay, bro? -I had an idea.
I was gonna rock with the band to kill some time
'cause I don't have anything to say.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I was like, "Don't worry.
Let's just rock with the band, sing about Seth Meyers,"
and I didn't have a mike though.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I got over there and I just started singing.
Could you hear any of the lyrics?
-No, we didn't hear anything. [ Laughter ]
Were they some pretty -- Were they pretty --
♪ -Seth Meyer, he's not a liar ♪
-See, these are really good lyrics.
♪ -Something else, man is on fire ♪
[ Laughter ]
-You just didn't think it through.
You left out some of the details before you got into it.
-I miss you, man. How have you been?
-I've been really good. [ Laughter ]
I miss you. It's always great to see you.
-You're crushing it out here. I love your work.
[ Laughter ]
-Let me give you -- Let me let you take a little bit
of a breather just to show that this is not something --
This is not just a one-time thing.
This is the premiere of "Jumanji,"
and you brought it for that red carpet as well.
-I do.
-This is a man who is getting a lot of height,
in front of The Rock no less. Look at that.
-It's true. -You had some rest time.
You found some time for yourself.
-I did. [ Laughter ]
I took a little breather.
When you go that hard, you have to take a breather.
-You have to take a breather.
Your children -- We were talking backstage.
You got a decade on me with your kids.
They're 13 and 11.
And were they psyched? Did you bring them?
Did they like the premiere?
-Will I be out of breath all the way
through this segment is the question.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Will I catch my breath before we cut to commercial?
And the answer, I'm afraid, is no.
[ Laughter ]
♪ Seth Meyer, he's not a liar ♪
♪ Ooh, mama, mama, back on fire ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
I didn't work out -- Thank you.
I didn't work out the second half of that stanza.
-Yeah. -Something, something.
-You put four -- you need -- you need, like a fourth rhyme.
-What were we talking about, my boys?
-Yeah, your boys. Were they a fan?
Are they proud to see their dad on the big screen?
-They are fans, but they are reluctant fans.
-Okay.
-They're at that age, 11 and 13, where they're, like,
everything I say and do is inherently uncool.
But I think that's natural.
-Yeah, but it must be hard because I think a lot of dads,
like, never were cool. -Yeah.
-You were cool. Like, it must be hard for them.
Do you feel, like, they don't quite fully understand?
-I know that they love me underneath their teenage angst.
-Right.
-And they did have a blast at the premiere.
-Uh-huh. Good. [ Laughter ]
-And my boy -- my oldest boy, Sammy, said,
"I'm gonna review this movie."
He reviews a lot of movies and he puts them on his Instagram.
And I said, "Sammy, you do not have to review -- I'm in it.
It's gonna be weird if you review a movie your dad's in."
He's like, "No, no, I really liked it.
I'm going to give it an 8.5."
-Wow.
-And I was like, "That's certified fresh."
-That's not bad, yeah. [ Laughter ]
-But I was like, "If you're gonna review my movie,
can't we get it up to a 9? 9.2?"
-Does he get nines? Are there a lot of nines?
-Oh, yeah, "Joker" got a 10. -Oh, so that's rough.
-And I know what you're thinking.
"How could you let your 13-year-old see 'Joker'?
That's bad parenting," and I say, it was genius.
It was -- I enjoyed it, and my boy loved it.
Sometimes I do the wrong thing.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
And you don't beat yourself up for it.
-I do beat myself up for it. -Yeah.
-Parenting is hard.
You're always wondering if you're blowing it.
-When you walked out of "Joker" after it was over,
did you have a moment of, like,
maybe let's not let Mom know about "Joker"?
-There was a moment during the movie,
and those of you who saw it probably know which part
I'm thinking about where I was like,
"I hope that Tanya never sees this movie
and sees what I've exposed my --"
Yeah, 'cause there's definitely possible trauma
that could take place if you take a kid to that movie.
-You got to take your kids, because of filming "Jumanji,"
you got to take them to Hawaii, yeah?
-Yeah. -Did they enjoy that?
Did they have a good time? -Yes, the boys had a blast.
Well, you know, the new "Jumanji,"
we got a lot of different locales.
In the first one, it was all jungle, and it was in Hawaii.
We shot in the jungles of Hawaii.
-Yeah.
-You don't think of jungle when you think Hawaii,
but in the center of the island,
there was a lot of jungley places and --
[ Laughter ]
And so, they could have come to any of the locations
'cause we went snow this time, in Canada.
We went to the desert dunes in New Mexico,
but they wanted to come to Hawaii, and we partied at the --
There's, like, some water slides at this one --
Oh, who cares?
[ Laughter and applause ]
I got tired in the middle of that story.
-You lost it.
You started thinking about how sweet it must have been
to be on a water slide.
You don't have to talk at all.
You're just on a sweet tube, letting gravity do the work.
-Just go crazy with the scissors later and just edit this
into one streamlined segment.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Just where you're just, like, popping from story to story.