Jimmy Fallon: Hi guys,
I'm Jimmy Fallon, and I'm about to experience the Race Through New York
For the first time ever, and I'm freaking out right now
That this became a reality,
And I’m about to ride it with the man who is behind the whole thing, the creative genius, Mark Woodbury.
I’m so excited.
This is happening.
What is going on?
This is crazy.
Alright let’s go, let’s go ride the ride.
Race Through New York. Here we go.
Oh my god. Mark Woodbury, how are you buddy, I can’t believe this.
Oh my gosh. Do you understand? I’m freaking out right now.
Mark Woodbury: Check out the marquee. Do you recognize that guy?
Jimmy Fallon: I’m freaking out right now. Honestly, this is surreal.
Jimmy Fallon: So, this is what, people walk through this?
Mark Woodbury: Everybody will come in just the way you did, come straight down this corridor.
Jimmy Fallon: Do you remember the first, the phone call, do you remember the video conferencing?
Mark Woodbury: I do remember it, like it was yesterday.
Jimmy Fallon: I remember going like, “Here’s my idea, my name’s Jimmy Fallon,
, and I have this idea for a ride.”
And I told you the whole idea and you go,
“Yeah that’s great yeah, no.
No, but good luck with whatever you’re doing.
What’s your name again?
I go, “It’s Jimmy Fallon.”
Mark Woodbury: No, no, that’s not true, that’s not true.
Jimmy Fallon: You go, “Yeah good.” You go, “Yeah.” And you go,
“Good luck. If you ever need any passes, let me know.”
Mark Woodbury: It was something like that but not that bad.
Jimmy Fallon: No, something like that, but it wasn’t that bad.
Mark Woodbury: You pitched that story – and it was a great story,
but we just didn’t have a spot at the time. So then what, fast forward five, six years.
Jimmy Fallon: Six or five years, six years later you go,
Jimmy Fallon: “Hey do you want to make that?” Mark Woodbury: “You remember that story?”
Jimmy Fallon: Yeah, “Do you remember that?”
I go, “Yeah, let’s talk, let’s play.”
And I have got to be honest, I can’t believe that you made all this.
Jimmy Fallon: I mean we, every idea that we pitched you go,
you said yes to and you made it happen.
Mark Woodbury: “Can we do this? Can we fly down there and go and get pizza?”
And I was like, “Yeah, we can do that what else you got?
Jimmy Fallon: “Can we go to the moon?” And you go, “Yeah, we can go to the moon.”
Mark Woodbury: Some people were like, “I don’t know if we can go to the moon.”
I said, “Of course we can go to the moon. That’s what we do.”
Jimmy Fallon: What?
Mark this is insane.
Mark Woodbury: So it all came together, you know a great celebration of The Tonight Show.
We’ve got everybody. From Paar to Carson to Fallon.
Jimmy Fallon: Oh Steve Allen. He started the whole thing.
Steve, we have a ride. We have a ride.
Look what you made. We have a ride at an amusement park at Universal Studios.
He would have loved this. God.
Jimmy Fallon: Oh my gosh.
Mark Woodbury: That’s a pretty big window for…
Jimmy Fallon: It’s too big, yeah. It’s too big. I don’t deserve this. This is.
This is. This is above and beyond.
Mark Woodbury: More to come.
Mark Woodbury: So this place is wildly popular.
There’s no traditional queue so you can hang out in here.
We’ve got the, the games.
Jimmy Fallon: There’s Ragtime Gals here singing barbershop quartet.
Mark Woodbury: Back here, Ragtime Gals.
Jimmy Fallon: There’s Hashtag the Panda.
Mark Woodbury: He’s good.
Jimmy Fallon: Oh no.
Mark Woodbury: Speak of the devil.
Jimmy Fallon: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Jimmy Fallon: Hashtag, Hashtag, thank you.
Alright thank you, Hashtag. I won’t make you dance anymore, I promise. I promise. No more dancing, I promise.
Alright, maybe one more time. But that’s it, then.
This is.
I mean.
Jimmy Fallon: Hashtag, it’s going to be okay, man.
Let me help you up. Oh my god.
Please. Just go take a nap, go sit over there.
Go sit over there and go get. No, no, don’t dance, just go over there and just take a nap.
Jimmy Fallon: I have the same poster in my bedroom. I have this same exact,
right above my bed in my bedroom in my apartment.
Jimmy Fallon: Oh my gosh, this is just really stunning.
Wow. Yeah that’s it. That’s my mono mark.
It’s a four-leaf clover.
Jimmy Fallon: What? Oh my god.
Ragtime Gal 1: Well hello there.
How are you doing?
Jimmy Fallon: Oh my god.
Ragtime Gal 1: Good to see you.
Jimmy Fallon: The Ragtime Gals.
Ragtime Gal 1: That’s right. We are the Ragtime Gals.
Ragtime Gals Sing: Hello.
We’re so excited to see you here at “Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Hi Mark and Jimmy.
Hi Mark and Jimmy.
Jimmy Fallon: Hey guys, we’re about to go on the actual ride now.
Thank you so much for watching this. You guys, we’re doing it right now. Here we go.
Oh my goodness. This is great.
Ride Script: It is time for the race through New York.