-First, we're about to face off in a game of Drinko.
Drinko, do you want to explain how the game works?
-Yes. Welcome to Drinko. In this game, the two of you
will take turns climbing my stairs
and dropping two of your disks down the Drinko board.
The disks will plink down and land in these plastic cups
containing some of my favorite beverages such as...
Girl Scout Thin Mints,
cream-cheese water, and garlic shot.
Your opponent must drink the cocktail
of the two chosen drinks.
-Alright. Thank you very much. -Cheese water?
-Drinko, what did you say again? Did you say --
-Cream-cheese water! -Alright.
-♪ It's water with cream cheese! ♪
-That's my favorite --
That's a great Harry styles song.
♪ Cream-cheese water, ah, cream-cheese water ♪
Alright, Miles, why don't you go up there first
because you're our guest? -Sure.
-Climb up the steps of Drinko and enjoy yourself
a good beverage. -Yes. Thank you.
-Yeah, no problem.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Drinko, you okay?
-Drop the disk whenever you're ready, Miles.
-Alright. -Here it comes.
Cream-cheese water!
-Alright. Your first cup will be the garlic shot.
-Garlic shot! -[ Sad tuba plays ]
-It's a garlic shot. -That's healthy.
-That's healthy for you. That's not that bad.
And then you're gonna mix that with another beverage
once you drop the second chip.
-Drop your second disks.
Here it comes.
Coming down the stairway.
Ginger kombucha. -Ooh. Not bad actually.
-Ginger kombucha.
-Oh, my -- I'm -- This is great.
-Miles, you have ginger kombucha...
Thank you, Drinko.
-I think they sell these -- -You wanna take those?
-You can buy this shot in a store right now for like $14.
-Yeah, that's actually not bad.
You've got ginger kombucha and garlic shot.
Not bad. -Ooh.
-Place it in this nice cup right there and enjoy yourself.
A garlic shot.
[ Audience groans ]
-Mmm! -Alright.
♪♪
Good luck. Good to see you.
-Oh!
-Oh, that'll help. That'll help.
-God, it's --
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Ahh. I feel lighter. I don't know. I feel --
I'm so much healthier than you right now.
-Your Adam's apple was shaking as you were drinking.
[ Gurgling ]
-Yeah. -Now it is your turn, James.
-What do you want me to do, Drinko?
-I want you to ascend the staircase
and drop two disks in me. -Okay.
-Drinko's getting a little bossy.
-Drinko.
-I'm sorry. On me. All over me.
-Alright, all right.
-Climb the -- Unh! Eh! Ah!
Unh! Eee! Ooh! Ooh! Ohh...
Drop the disk, baby.
♪♪
-Alright. I want to stay away from cream-cheese water.
-No. -I'm going to throw up
if I do cream-cheese water.
Is that good right here?
-Here we go.
-No! Stay away from that side! Yes! Good, good, good.
Oh, no, oh, no!
-No! Yoo-hoo!
-Yoo-hoo! Yes!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Drop the second disk.
-Ugh. Let's just do it. Alright. Here we go.
-Come on, cream-cheese water!
[ Drinko grunting ]
-No, no, no. Please. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
-Hey!
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
Oh, James.
You must drink my cream-cheese water.
-I hate this game. I --
I just -- It's not. -That's the cream --
-It is not!
♪♪
Why in the world?!
-♪ Cream-cheese water ♪
Two drinks, one cup.
[ Audience groans ] There you go.
♪♪
-Ugh! -Cream-cheese water.
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, it might pair well with Yoo-hoo.
-You can do it, James. You can do it.
Oh, that's the Yoo-hoo.
♪♪
-[ Groans ] I really -- This type of stuff. I can't --
I can't do it. I can't. Like --
-You can do it. You can do it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-[ Coughs ]
♪♪
[ Coughs ]
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Wow!
♪♪
Ohh!
-How's that? -Not so bad.
-It's so gross. -Yeah.
-It's so -- What's the worst part is,
it's still in the beard.
[ Laughter ] It is so gross.
Gosh, that is disgusting. Okay.
-Cream-cheese water.
Are you ready for the final round?
-Yeah. Okay. This is gonna be a race.
We're both gonna climb up there. It's not over now?
-No, one more round. -What's the final round?
-Both of you climb up and drop a disk.
Whosever first disk lands first is the winner,
and the loser has to drink the cocktail of both beverages.
♪ Let's go ♪
♪♪
-Oh. Wait. What is it?
-Both of you climb up the stairs.
-Alright. -Both of you drop a disk.
-We're dropping two disks? -Yes, at the same time.
Whoever's disk gets there first wins.
The other person has to drink the drink, the loser's drink.
-I think the Drinko guy is drunk. I don't think --
-Oh, yeah. -That's why they call me Drinko.
[ Laughter ]
-Drinko, wait. Where do we find you, Drinko?
-Ready? I'm going to count to three.
-Drinko, where did we find you?
-You didn't find me. I found you.
[ Laughter ]
-Alright. So we're both dropping --
We're both dropping at the same time.
-At the same time. I will count down, "3, 2, 1, drop."
Are you ready? -Yes.
Where are you putting yours? On the line?
-Right here. -Okay.
-3, 2, 1, drop.
♪♪
-Oh, I'm toast. -Yo!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-What'd you get?
What did we get? What did we get?
Is it more cream-cheese water!
This is the best game ever!
Drinko, Drinko, Drinko! Drinko, Drinko, Drinko!
What did we get? Yoo-hoo...
-Well, I think I've got the...
-And the garlic shot again? Dude.
-Oh, garlic shot. -What do you -- What do you --
I'll give you -- You can add one more thing to mine.
-Okay. -Bone broth.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Audience shouting suggestions ]
-Mustard juice.
♪♪
Cream-cheese water. -No.
[ Cheers and applause ]
They -- The audience turned on me so fast.
It's like...
-They loved you when you come out.
-I come out. They're like, "Oh, 'Top Gun," this and that."
For this, they're like... -"Cream-cheese water."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -You guys are mean.
-Good luck. Are you -- Do you have a good, strong stomach?
-No. I do have, like, a fairly sensitive gag reflex.
-I can't think about what I did. The Yoo-hoo helped me.
The Yoo-hoo helped me.
That's not Yoo-hoo. That's garlic.
And that's the Yoo-hoo. -Here comes the Yoo-hoo.
-I'm gonna add a little cranberry into this one.
-Oh, my God. -Take it to the "finish."
-That's a lot to chug. -Turn and burn, baby.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, my God! Legend!
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
Legend right there!
-i haven't seen you since "Top Gun: Maverick"
was the number-one -- -Yeah, yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.
-The number-one movie that -- I think it's --
I think it's -- I think it's the fifth highest
grossing film in American history.
-Yeah. -Congratulations, buddy.
-Yeah, still climbing. -You did it.
-Every day. -Yeah, every -- that is correct.
-Yeah. -Uh, it's bigger than
we even thought it was gonna be.
-Oh, for sure. -It was fantastic.
-I know, people just -- people really love --
Well, they love Tom Cruise, which -- as they should.
He's dedicated... -Of course.
-...so much of his life to entertaining audiences.
But people just love "Top Gun."
-Yeah. -They cannot get enough of it.
-I love the story, though. I love you.
You did it so -- you were -- it was just --
Everything was great. -Thank you.
-Jennifer Connelley. -I know, right?
She's so good. -The greatest in everything.
But we had -- -Val, a nice --
a really touching performance from Val.
-I lost it. I even knew that was
gonna happen, and I -- I watched it, and I was like --
I still lost it.
-How did you know it was gonna happen?
-I have an inside scoop. -A little inside --
-Yeah, yeah. -Well, you're in the biz, Jimmy.
-Well, you know, I had Jon --
Jon Hamm was on the show a couple times.
And he told me that, you know, you met the royals...
-Yes. -...because you screened it
in London. -Yeah, yeah.
-And it was like -- and it -- and he was telling me, he goes,
"Yeah, it was really interesting and fun."
And he said that the cast was all told,
"Hey, be very polite. Don't say too much."
-Oh, they give -- they give you, like, a full kind of rules,
like do's and don'ts.
And there's, you know, a lot of etiquette, which deservingly so.
So, yeah, I was actually -- I kind of had a sheet to prep
to make sure I didn't mess it up.
-But then he said -- -Yeah.
-Well, I have just a photo. And I just want you
to explain the photo, 'cause here's you talking.
-Yeah. -There's Jennifer Connelley.
-Right. -Little concerned.
-Yeah. Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Laughing. -Sure.
-Right? Kate Middleton laughing.
And then -- -Yeah.
-He's going, "Mm-hmm." -"Mm-hmm."
[ Laughter ]
Yeah. -And so what is happening?
Can you tell us the story of what's going on with this?
-I think right off the bat, I messed up.
You're not supposed to, like, extend your hand
right off the bat unless -- unless they do.
But I felt the vibe, so I was like, "I'm --"
[ Laughter ]
I was like, "I'm going in. I'm going in."
-"Felt the vibe." -And to their credit,
they were very disarming, and this and that.
But, yeah, if you -- I think right there,
I'm honestly lost in Prince William's -- in his --
in his eyes. [ Laughter ]
-Tell me about this, though. -His eyes?
-No. But yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I mean, blue as the bluest ocean, Jimmy.
What do you want? -You get right in there,
and you go, "Hi," and you just start going gaga?
-Kind of. Like, um, and Kate is very --
You know, she's... -Yeah.
-...beautiful and very, you know, cordial and...
-Stunning, yeah. -...holds herself so well.
-Regal. -Yeah, regal.
And with William, I don't know. I just --
[ Laughter ] I blacked out.
-I just think -- this photo, I just think --
And then Jennifer Connelley looks at you, she goes,
"That was weird what you just did to him."
[ Laughter ]
-'Cause she knew, 'cause I was standing next to Jen.
So I was kind of -- I don't know.
I was kind of riffing on what --
what this interaction was gonna be like.
So I think she was already on alert about --
if she thought I was gonna go a bit rogue
about the whole thing.
But I think he's a lifelong fan now.
-Yeah, now -- now he has to be, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
He felt the vibe was the best. You know --
-Just picking up what he was putting down.
-I want to give a shout-out to your grandma, by the way,
if she's watching. -Oh, for sure.
-Hi, grandma. -Yeah.
-You're so proud of your grandson here.
She's on Twitter, and she said, "They're looking for an actor
to replace Daniel Craig for a 007.
I think my grandson, Miles Teller,
has proven that he has everything they're looking for.
Talent, looks, strength, worldwide appeal,
and, oh, so cool." [ Laughter ]
"He can be that guy!! Wouldn't he be great?"
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Yeah.
-You had no idea she was going to do this?
-No. And I'm not -- look.
I set her up her Twitter many years ago.
-Yeah. -I'm not gonna tell her
what to do with it. -No.
-Do what you want, grandma, you know?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah.
-If you want to -- if you want to --
-But I am actually here to make an announcement.
[ Laughter ] -Wow.
-Still not 007.
-All right, well, hey. You know -- it's so --
-Nobody's -- nobody's called.
-No one's called yet. -Yeah, yeah.
-We got to get Barbara Broccoli on the phone here
and make this official.
I mean, I could see you as 007.
-Yeah, why not? -I mean --
-Yeah, you know? What do you guys think?
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Why not?
-Mix it up. -Mix it up.
Why not do it? -But I am available.
[ Laughter ]
-This is one of my favorite times of the year,
because this is "Saturday Night Live"
season premiere time... -Oh, my God.
-...and I'm so -- As a comedian, even before
I was on "Saturday Night Live," I get excited in September.
I go, "Oh, this is 'Saturday Night Live.'"
There's some new cast members. -I know.
-And it's just fun. We want it, we need it.
-Definitely new cast members this year, yeah.
-Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is fantastic.
-I know, I know. -Are you nervous?
Are you excited? -I'm very --
Yeah, I mean, it's all those things.
Like I -- in my family, growing up,
"SNL" was, you know, an institution.
It still is. -Yeah.
-You know, the years that you were there and before that --
you know, Cheri Oteri and Will Farrell and Chris Kattan
and Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon,
like, those were -- -Love it.
-It was a real thing. And, you know, my sisters and I
would do the skits, and our close family friends,
it was our collective dream to one day, you know,
either be a cast member on "SNL" or to host,
so, it's very --
-Did you get any advice from any other --
-That's why I'm here. Give me some advice.
-Oh. [ Laughter ]
-Like, what do you -- -Uh, yeah.
Try everything. -Yeah.
-Try and believe in the writers. -Sounds like college.
-Believe -- yeah, exactly. [ Laughter ]
Believe in the writers. Believe in the producers.
They're all the best of the best.
And they'll all just -- and you do it.
Whatever works is gonna work.
Just try everything and just go all out.
It's just -- honestly.
And they all love you already.
I already heard word back from down the hall.
-Okay, good. -Yeah, and they said,
"Yeah, he's a good guy." -Okay, good.
-"We love Miles Teller." -Good, good.
-Yeah. -Guys, I'm freaking out.
-No, yeah. It's good.
-No, I'm excited. -You should.
You should freak out the whole time.
-You know, you're -- I get -- I just --
I'm excited to see how it all works.
-It's live TV, man. -You know what I mean?
-It's fun. No one does live TV anymore, so it's great.
-Yeah. -So congratulations.
Break a leg. You're gonna be great.
You're gonna be great. -Thank you.
-And you got Kendrick Lamar, too.
-Oh, my God. -So everyone's watching
this Saturday. It's gonna be fun.