-Welcome back, everybody!
We are hanging out with John Oliver!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Now, John, as talk-show hosts,
we have to be knowledgeable on a wide variety of topics,
and we also need to be able to think quickly on our feet.
-Do we? Okay. -Yes. With that in mind,
I thought it would be fun to play a new game we call
"Ten in Twelve." -Okay.
-Here we go. [ Cheers and applause ]
-♪ Ten in Twelve ♪
-All right, here's how this game works,
and thank you for always playing something with us.
-Yeah. -We're gonna take turns
picking a card from this pile. Each card has a category on it.
Could be anything -- types of animals, names of TV shows.
Whatever. Then we'll have 12 seconds
to name 10 things in that category.
-Okay. You know the moment just before you see a car crash?
[ Laughter ]
-Is that where we are? -We're in that moment right now.
[ Laughter ] Yeah.
-All right. I think -- I think this could be fun.
-Okay. Okay, sure. -10 in 12.
-We'll see about that. -All right, here we go.
-So, you go first. -I will go first.
-10 in 12. -Yeah, okay.
-What's your category? -My category is first names.
I can do this. -Okay.
-10 first names in 12 seconds.
Ready? -Yeah.
-John, Jack, James, Jasper, Jamie, Samantha, Steven...
-There are other letters. [ Laughter ]
-...Terry, Larry, and Ted.
[ Dings ] No?
-Did he get it? -No, what did I do?
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Did you get it? [ Dings ]
-Did I do it? -I lost --
-I got 10! All right, good.
Harder than you think. This game's harder --
Now "Family Feud" seems really difficult.
-I'm more embarrassed by the fact I genuinely lost count.
[ Laughter ]
-And it was only going 1 through 10.
-I thought I was doing 15. Okay.
-Well done. -All right, thank you.
-Okay. -You are up.
Just tell us the category, and then whenever you're ready,
that's when we start the countdown.
-Um, okay. Holidays.
-Okay. 10 holi-- that's hard.
[ Audience "Oohs" ] -Ooh!
[ Laughter ]
This is an audience that has no faith in me whatsoever.
[ Laughter ]
-All right. 10 holidays in 12 seconds.
Whenever you're ready. -Kwanzaa, President's Day,
MLK Day, Labor Day, my birthday, your birthday,
Questlove's birthday, Tariq's birthday...
-Oh, my God. -Is that not a holiday?
Christmas, Hanukkah. [ Buzzer ]
-Yeah, I think -- [ Dings ]
-Wait. You got a buzz and a ding.
[ Cheers and applause ] I think he did it.
Yes, you did it. That was right down to the wire.
-There was --
-There was four birthdays in there.
-As long as you're not -- As long as you're willing
to not deny that the... -Our birthdays are holidays.
-...that birthdays of members of your staff
are worth celebrating, then I'm fine.
-No, I would never -- I would never, ever do that.
-That's what I presumed. So, I think we're good.
Happy birthday, by the way.
Questlove, his birthday's this week.
There we go. -Happy birthday.
[ Cheers and applause ] Happy birthday.
-Let's do another round.
-Happy birthday to all who celebrate birthdays.
-All who celebrate birthdays. -Yeah.
-All right, mine's words that begin with "B."
-Wars that begin with "B"? -No, words.
-Oh, I thought you said wars. -No, not wars.
-I was like, the Boer War. [ Laughter ]
-Okay. Okay. -No.
Words. -Words.
-Words that begin with "B." Here we go.
Uh, uh, uh, balls, bat, bastard...
[ Laughter ]
[ Buzzer ] -Stop.
Don't do another one.
Don't. [ Sad tuba ]
Oh, man. Oh, God, that is --
-That's all I could come up with.
-There is nothing I'm happier with
than the nice guy, Jimmy Fallon, the crack in that,
all it takes is just name three words beginning with "B."
Bastard! [ Laughter ]
-I couldn't think of -- -What about "M"?
I guess, uh, mouse, mistletoe, mother [bleep]
[ Laughter and applause ]
-It doesn't take me -- doesn't take me much to crack.
Hard to crack the shell, man.
-I think -- I think yours have been easier than mine.
-Holidays is tough. Yeah, words that begin with "B."
-Okay, all right. Ready?
-Yes. -Parts of the body.
[ Laughter ] -Okay.
-Okay. I got this, I got this.
-Yes. -Ready?
-Yes. -Toes, feet, ankles, shins,
knees, thighs, hips, hands, fingers, elbows, shoulders.
[ Dings ] Yes.
-You cheated! [ Cheers and applause ]
All right, that was good. A little -- that was -- yeah.
[ Air horn ] A little cheating there.
Yeah. Okay.
This next round -- this is the last round.
We're down to the final round. -Yes.
-Okay? -Yeah.
-We're gonna switch things up here, okay?
We're gonna join forces to see if we can name
10 things together. -Oh, yeah?
-Okay? Yeah, yeah. -We're playing as a team now.
-Okay. -Okay? And if we get 10 --
-Who's going first? You serve, or I serve?
-I think you serve, because you're my guest.
-Oh, thank you, Jimmy. -Well, thanks for being here.
-I appreciate it. -All right.
We get 10... -Okay.
-...we're both champions. And we win -- we win everything.
[ Laughter ]
-Colors. -Colors. We got this.
-We have to -- We have to get this.
-No, we have to get 10 colors. -We have to get 10.
Okay. Ready? -Yes.
-Okay. Don't. Okay.
Black. -Blue.
-Red. -Yellow.
-White. -Green.
-Pink. -Lavender.
[ Laughter ]
-Taupe. [ Laughter ]
-Mauve. [ Buzzer ]
[ Cheers and applause ] -We didn't get it?
-We didn't get 10? [ Dings ]
Yes! We got 10!
Mauve! -We got it?
-Mauve! We got it. -We got it?
-Mauve was the last color. -Is --
-Is mauve a color? -Is taupe a color?
[ Dings ] Yes? Mauve is a color?
Yes! Look at us!
[ Cheers and applause ] -Never in doubt.
-John Oliver, everybody! -Never in doubt.
-"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver"
returns for its 10th season, Sunday, February 19th,
11:00 p.m., on HBO/HBO Max.
We'll be right back with more "Tonight Show," everybody.