-How are you, my friend?
-This feels -- It feels great.
-This is very -- It's surreal to introduce you.
-I don't know how to sit.
-We've known each other -- Right, you don't know.
-I don't know this side. Yeah, exactly.
We probably have more in common than two --
than any other human beings on the face of the Earth.
-Yeah.
-We both were on "Saturday Night Live."
-Yep.
-We both did Weekend Update. -We did.
-We both hosted "Late Night." -Yeah.
-We both have two babies. -We both have two babies.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We are mirror -- -We are mirror images.
But I want to say that introducing you
is such a nice thing for me to be able to do
because you introduced me the very first time
I did Weekend Update when you were hosting.
-That's right.
-This is 2001 -- this was like October probably of 2001.
And we have the clip because you and I look different.
-Oh, no. [ Laughter ]
-This is just Jimmy introducing me in 2001.
-What does my hair look like? Oh, no.
-Well, a tough night for the New York Yankees.
They lost to Arizona, 15-2. [ Audience awws ]
The series is tied at three games apiece.
Here with the commentary is our own Seth Meyers.
-Thanks, Jimmy.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I think we look exactly the same.
-We look exactly -- -Exactly.
What was I doing with that?
I was in -- I felt like I was in a caveman phase.
-Also, our suits were worse.
-I never owned a suit before Weekend Update.
-That was the first time you ever had a jacket?
-Yeah, it really was.
Lorne was like, "You need a suit and tie for Update."
I was like, "I don't know what that means.
A clip-on? Can I use a clip-on?"
I mean, so many good memories.
-Do you miss it? Do you still miss "SNL"?
I know now you're kind of two shows past it
'cause "Late Night," now you're doing "The Tonight Show."
-Yeah. I do -- Every now and then you miss the excitement
of the feeling of the last-minute sketch
that you don't know it's going to get written or whatever.
Do you remember when Mick Jagger hosted?
-I do.
-We were all nervous because it was like Lorne said,
"Mick said he'll do something." -Yeah.
-And I go, "Okay."
And everyone is just afraid of Mick Jagger,
so no one pitched him anything.
And I'm like, "We should pitch him an idea."
So I go, "I'll pitch him something."
I go, "What if I'm his reflection in the mirror?"
And I'm like...
[ Speaking gibberish as Mick Jagger ]
And Lorne goes, "Please don't do that."
[ Laughter ]
"Don't do that. It's insulting to Mick.
And the bit has been done in the mirror.
Groucho Marx did it. Lucille Ball did it.
You're not gonna break any ground with this."
I go, "Okay, that's fine. I'll come up with an idea."
So I go and write the sketch,
and then they go, "You have to go pitch it to Mick."
I go, "I don't want to talk to Mick."
I mean, he's - It's Mick Jagger.
So I went in, and he's so cool-looking.
It's Mick Jagger.
And he's like, "Lovely to meet you, hello."
And I go, "I have ideas. My name is Jimmy Fallon."
I pitched him my idea.
I go, "It's me and you working at a mall."
He goes, "No. I don't like that."
[ Laughter ]
I go, "Oh, okay.
Here's one where we're the Rolling Stones,
but we're like a wedding band Rolling Stones."
"Uh, no, not really my thing." [ Laughter ]
I go, "How about an idea of --" He doesn't like anything.
So I leave.
I go, "He doesn't like anything."
So then it's Friday,
which usually the sketches have to be written on Tuesday.
It's Friday and Lorne goes,
"Mick's still up to do something if you have any more ideas."
I go, "Okay."
So I came up with ideas. I went back and he looks at me.
He's like, "You again." And I go, "Hi. I have an idea.
Maybe I'm -- you're Keith and I'm Keith
and he's cloned himself so he can party with himself."
He goes, "No, I don't like that."
I go, "Oh, my gosh."
So I go, "What if it's you --
you're hosting the show and I'm your reflection in the mirror.
And I'm going like that..."
And he goes, "I love it! That's great."
Oh, my gosh. [ Laughter ]
Dude, good news is --
-And it's very -- it's a very iconic sketch.
There it is. Look at you guys.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Good news is, he loves it.
Bad news is it's the mirror sketch.
-And you had to go tell Lorne.
You had to give him the bad news.
-Of course. Yeah, the bad.
I go, "He wants to do it, but it's the mirror sketch."
-You -- I mean, it was my first year.
You'd had been on the show a few years.
I remember you, Horatio
were very nice to me in the early days.
And I remember thinking, "Oh, if I hang out with those guys,
I'm going to meet famous people.
I'll go out drinking with famous people."
And I would say the one -- the person we went out drinking with
who was the most fun was famous, but not the kind of like --
I was hoping to meet Hollywood starlets.
-Yeah.
-And instead, we went out drinking with David Wells.
[ Laughter ]
-Yes. That is true. -Yeah.
-Yeah, no, Wellsy -- yes, the great pitcher
for the New York Yankees.
-Yeah.
-In fact, do you remember the story?
-Which one? -The one. The one and only.
-Which was the one?
-The one and only is this one.
I know, we had a lot of good ones.
But he's a great guy.
No, this is -- gosh, we can't do this anymore.
But we were at the "SNL" after party
with you, Horatio, Lorne, and David Wells.
And it's probably 5:30 in the morning.
-Yeah.
-And I'm -- I go, "I've got to go home, man.
I'm just exhausted, man."
We had a few drinks.
[ Laughter ]
5:30 in the morning.
Or Lorne left at like 4:00 or something like that,
but then we stayed until 5:30, I want to say, 5:00.
I left and went home.
Woke up the next day around 1:30 in the afternoon.
I turn on the TV and it's the Yankees game,
and David Wells is pitching.
[ Laughter ]
-So I go, "It's got to be one of those classic games."
-Yes, classic.
-Yes, classic, where they replay the game.
I go, "That's pretty funny 'cause I was just with him."
And it's not, it's a real game. -Yeah.
-So I call up Horatio.
I go, "Dude --" and I wake him up at 2:00 in the afternoon.
I go, "Dude, turn on channel 11.
The Yank-- David Wells is pitching right now.
He's like, "Wells? There's no way."
I go, "I know.
He goes, "We left him. It was 5:30."
I go, "I know, dude."
And he turned it on. It was pitching.
And that was the game he pitched the perfect game.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-That's insane!
It's because of me he was that calm!
He owes me everything.