

11 Sep 2026 · 25m · 11 chapters

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon opens with jokes about President Trump’s nearly two-hour GOP midterm keynote and his promise: if Republicans win both House and Senate, he’ll give every American adult $5,000, framed as a “bribe” that would be spent at the Mar-a-Lago gift shop. The segment also riffs on Trump’s endorsement of Texas AG Ken Paxton and on other headlines: Iranian hackers claiming responsibility for an AT&T outage in Texas, Elon Musk threatening to sue a documentary about him, and the FDA linking salmonella to broccoli sprouts.
Nicole Kidman, an Oscar-winning actress promoting Practical Magic 2; she discusses theater roots, Troye Sivan’s “She’s the Best” video, and family “freezer” superstition. Donald Gleeson, an Irish actor promoting The Paper (Peacock) and The Incomer; he shares New York cockroach fears, amusement-park ride experiences, and Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” video.
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Jimmy discusses Trump's lengthy speech at the Republican convention and its implications.
“Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Tonight Show.”
Jimmy humorously elaborates on Trump's promises to Americans if Republicans win.
“At one point in his speech, Trump hyped up Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton, but he did it in a pretty interesting way.”
Jimmy introduces Nicole Kidman and mentions her latest projects.
“The Roots, the Roots, the hands and clap in my eyes.”
Nicole reflects on her career and experiences in theater and film.
“Our first guest is an Oscar-winning actor and one of the biggest movie stars in the world.”
Nicole discusses the sequel to Practical Magic and its significance.
“And it's you and getting the whole team back together.”
Nicole Kidman shares insights about her new movie and audience appreciation.
“Do we set up the movie at all or is it just a sequel?”
Domhnall shares funny and nostalgic stories from his early days in New York.
“We know you're from Ireland, but you lived in New York for a while, right?”
Domhnall and Jimmy discuss family visits and the challenges of small living spaces.
“I had a studio apartment, uh, on Saturday Night Live.”
Domhnall talks about his experiences on amusement park rides in film roles.
“And when I went, I kind of snuck in and one of the stormtroopers came over and said, it's good to see you undercover general.”
Domhnall shares details about his role in the movie 'The Incomer' and its plot.
“teaching me what is a very simple dance.”
Domhnall discusses the second season of 'The Paper' and character developments.
“Do you want to know what perm is short for?”

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0:05From Studio 16, Rock of the Lois Center in the heart of New York City, it's The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. And I join Jimmy and his guest, Nicole Kidman, Total Gleeson, and featuring the legendary Roots Crew. 2338, and now, here he is. Jimmy Fallon!
0:59Thank you! Hey! Thank you very much. We're gonna have fun tonight. Enjoy yourself. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Tonight Show. This is it. This is... Thank you for watching. And I just want to say quickly, if you laugh at all these jokes tonight, President Trump said he'll give everyone in the audience$5 ,000.
1:24Well, guys, the two-day Republican midterm convention just wrapped up, and last night, President Trump made a keynote address and spoke for nearly two hours. It was the first time Trump's been in a room where he was awake and everyone else was asleep.
1:43Two hours. That's not a speech. That's a residency. Trump was standing for so long, by the end of his speech, he was 90 % cankle.
1:57Yeah. Trump's speech was up against the first NFL game of the season. After both events ended, the players were fine, but Trump was checked for a head injury. But everyone is talking about this. Trump said that if Republicans win both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, he will give every American adult$5 ,000. Now, I know that sounds like a bribe.
2:25In Trump's defense, he's never going to pay us. so technically it's not a bribe. There you go. $5 ,000 for everyone. The only catch is the money must be spent at the Mar-a-Lago gift shop.
2:39We have keychains in the corner and... That's right. Trump promised to pay every American$5 ,000 if Republicans win the midterms. It's a little confusing, but the White House just put out this video message to clarify. Watch this.
2:57If that sounds like a bribe, that's because it is, baby. But wait, there's more. If you make J.D. Vence president in 2028, I'll throw in another$5 ,000. Give me two terms and you get not$10 ,000, not$15 ,000, but$20 ,000. And that's not all. If you commit now to a one-party role in this country for the next 100 years, I'll throw in a free MyPillow. 200 years to free MyPillow. What else do you want? Healthcare? Don't get greedy. Not gonna happen. So this November, let's make America dysfunctional and broken, but give everyone cold hard cash to look the other way again. Yay! Wow. So that's... It's really good.
3:30It's terrifying. Oh, and this is wild. At one point in his speech, Trump hyped up Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton, but he did it in a pretty interesting way. I don't know if you saw this. This is real. He may not dress right, he may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I've ever seen, but you know what he is? He's the greatest attorney general in America.
3:58Meanwhile, Ken was like, thank you for the endorsement. He's very ugly.
4:06His breath smells terrible. All right, we're good, bud. Thank you. Switching gears, hackers from Iran are claiming responsibility for an AT &T outage in Texas that left thousands without internet, TV, or phone service. That's the problem when you hack AT &T. no one can really tell. Everything's normal. Everything's... No bars. Everything's normal, yeah. It's like claiming responsibility for breaking the ice cream machine at McDonald's. It's like, yeah, it never worked. Never worked. Well, listen to this. Elon Musk is threatening to sue the director of a new four-hour documentary about him. Yeah, apparently the documentary is super explosive.
4:46I mean, not Tesla explosive, but explosive. And finally, the FDA just said that a multi-state salmonella has been linked to broccoli sprouts. Oh, no. Lettuce and broccoli sprouts. What's next? Flossing? We have a great show. Give it up for the Roots, everybody. The Roots, everybody. The Roots, the Roots, the hands and clap in my eyes. Until you feel a better answer back. TV, you're the big boy person in Cadillac. Yes! That's right! Welcome to the show. What a show we have for you tonight. Oh, she's my favorite. One of the biggest movie stars in the world. You can now see her in the highly anticipated movie Practical Magic 2, which is in theaters now.
5:30The one and only Nicole Kidman is here tonight!
5:45Wowza. He stars in the Peacock series The Paper. You can also see him in the new movie The Incomer, which is in theaters September 25th. Donald Gleeson is joining us.
6:09Our first guest is an Oscar-winning actor and one of the biggest movie stars in the world. You can see her in the highly anticipated movie Practical Magic 2, which is in theaters today. Everyone, please welcome Nicole Kidman!
6:30Nicole! Hi! That's just about the nicest greeting. Thank you. Yes, they love you. Yes. Do you get embarrassed by all the love? Yes, I'm quite shy. Yes, you are. Yeah. Have you ever been on stage or... You've done theater before. Yes. Yeah, I've done theater. Years ago, I did a thing called The Blue Room, and then I transferred that to Broadway, and then I did a play about a female scientist called Rosalyn Franklin, who... So you do love the... ...Photograph 51. You love the live audience. You're used to this. I thought you were gonna say you love the limelight. I was like... You love show business, don't you?
7:09Yes, you love the limelight. You're having a very musical moment right now, I will say, because you're in Troye Sivan's new music video called She's the Best, which I... Yes. Amy, yeah. Which I would have written for you as well, She's the Best. I know you worked with Troy in... In a film called Boy Erased. Yeah. Which, yes. And then he called me. He's Australian. But he just texted me and said, would you be in my next music video? And I was like... You're always up for... You're always game. You're like, dude, I love you, man. You support young artists. Exactly. You did it. I was like, let's go.
7:44But then you... And you knocked it out. And I showed up. You crushed it. But then do you know... Well, he wrote a great song and kind of... But do you know about another great song? Do you know Adela? Yes. You do? Adela, who I love ain't in L.A., but I also love her new song called Nicole Kidman. That is the name of her song. And she's doing... She's doing you in the video a bunch of different films of you. Nicole Kidman, I mean... Yes, I can't believe it. She wrote a song called Nicole Kim, and I'm like, who is that person? Yes! Isn't that cool? Yeah, but in her video, she did all the films I've done.
8:22Half of them I can't even remember, so it was really good. Yeah, a good reminder, yeah. She's so talented. Look at you in Moulin Rouge! Come on, that's what I'm talking about. No! She looks way better on the trapeze. Moulin Rouge, that was one of the first... Have you ever been on a trapeze, Jimmy? You've got to do it! When I interview you, I feel like... I'm on a trapeze. You're like, well... Yeah, I don't know. We don't know where we're going to go now, yeah. No, I've never done that. I could never do that. I can't do that. You couldn't wear diamonds and go on a... And look as cool as you look?
8:54No, I can't do any of this stuff. But what did make you do Moulin Rouge? Because that was a risky movie when it first came out because musicals weren't coming out in the theaters. Yeah, it's crazy, actually. That was 25 years ago. Is that right? Yeah. What was it? Was it Baz who... Baz Luhrmann? Baz Luhrmann actually saw me in the play The Blue Room. shows you, you never know where your next job's gonna come from. And I was doing it on stage, and he sent me a dozen red roses and said, she sings, she dances, she dies. Do you want to play the role? She sings, she dances, yeah, she dies. You go, okay, yes.
9:28I was like, I'm intrigued. Yeah, I'm intrigued, yeah. You knocked it out of the park. Let's talk about Practical Magic 2. This is, it's happening. It's out today. It's in theaters right now. Go see it. It's so good. It's so fun. The sequel to Practical Magic, it's, uh, I mean, did you know that people loved this movie so much? Well, when it came out, it was sort of not received in the best... I mean, there was a core following for it, but it was just one of those things that never happens in the film industry, where films usually kind of come out, and if they're not huge successes, they die. Yeah.
10:06But this one found its audience through, I think, social media and people just, you know, the witches out there. Yeah, exactly. People are psyched. They worked their magic and found this film and then sort of so many people. And then I had a girl who came and worked for me who was a super fan, and that was her one request, is that I make the sequel to Practical Magic. She's amazing. She still works with me. And it's you and getting the whole team back together. Sandra Bullock. Yeah, Sandy, my sister, my soul sister. You guys have the best chemistry. We do. You do? Yeah, yeah. We're like oil and water because we're so different.
10:46Like, I love going out and I love being in the world. She's much more like, I want to stay home. So we somehow managed to, but because we have that kind of, I think it's just years and years and years of friendship and knowing each other. And we've both been through a lot. Yeah. And we're just tight. But I see you guys go out. We're tight. I see you show up. We were out last night. Come on. You gotta go on. Yeah. There were no photos of where we were. Yeah, but it's... Maybe there was some coming in, but not coming out, so... Do you go out, Jimmy, still? Oh, yeah, oh, my God. Really? I go clubbing every night.
11:21I mean, I can't... Are you kidding me? I'm constantly hearing the beat in my head. I can't get enough, man. I don't know what I would do. Have you been to Ibiza? No. No? No. Ibiza? Yeah. No, I didn't even know how to pronounce it. Ibiza. Ibiza. Oh, Ibiza. No, I've not. Been to Ibiza. What it's like is though, you've never heard of it? I've heard of it, but I just have the most fun place on earth. Well, I just feel like I would not fit in there, would I? Really? Maybe. What do we do in Ibiza? Dance. Oh, I like to dance. Go out to raves. You go out to raves? Yes. Nicole Kidman? Yes. Does anyone here go?
11:59Yeah. Yeah, there are ravers out there. But do you go out as you or do you... I gave away my cover. I did a interview where I said I do wear a little black wig or some sort of disguise, and I go out. Yeah, so I'll have to wear something different. But yeah, yeah. No way. Yeah. I would totally do that with you. You don't have to do it with me. I'm just... It's just a good thing to do. I mean, yeah, it's just... Yeah. This is a fun thing to do together just to bond. That's all. I mean, you're always going out with Sandy all the time. I'm just like... I can't get her to go out. to Ibiza. Maybe you could.
12:35I'm definitely in. Yeah, absolutely. Without a doubt. I would totally go. It'd be so embarrassing. I didn't know how to dance. I remember I went to... I'll go and see Adela, though. She's playing. I think she's playing here. She's coming... September 18. She's coming to our show. Oh, is she? Yes. There we go. Yeah, she's coming to our show. I was going to ask you, because in the movie, your characters are very... You're witches. So are you superstitious at all? Do you ever have any... Any magical things happening in your... I have a thing in my family where my grandmother and my mother, when they were pissed off with someone or angry or someone was in their bad books, they would write their name on a piece of paper and put them in the freezer.
13:21Wait, you know that? Someone out there does that? Is that a thing? Well, it was a thing in our family. Wow. I've been known to do it. You were in the freezer. Oh, stop. Don't use it. Never in your life was I in the freezer. Are you kidding me? You're out of the freezer now. I'm out now. Okay, yeah, oh my God. I would never be in your freezer. Oh, please. Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? Does anyone else do the freezer? No, but that's wild. I'm Irish, so we just hold grudges. We don't even worry about the freezer. We just don't talk to the person. Right, you're just up front about it. Yeah, even if they're relatives, we don't care.
13:55Yeah, absolutely. It kind of feels good, though. Yeah, it's fine. I can get out my frustration. Congrats on the movie. How do we set it up? Do we set up the movie at all or is it just a sequel? Just say, how do we do this? I'm sorry. It's your job. I know it is my job. But I want you to do a little something. What is going on here? I know, but I'm sorry about that, yeah. So anyway. All right, but how do we set up this film now? This is years later. You have daughters. No, it's not, nothing's written on there. No, no, no. Nice try. Nice try. It's you, Sandra Bullock. You have a great cast. I know Diane Wiest is back.
14:31Yes, we have our... Stockard Channing. The aunts, Stockard and Diana back. And also, we're just so grateful, because the audiences have really, really supported us through this whole press tour and... Yes, you're crushing it. ...buying tickets, and so we're very, very grateful to you all. Come on, that's so funny. The one and only Nicole Kidman, everybody! Practical Magic 2 is in theaters now. More tonight, Joe, after the break. Stick around, everybody. All these beats and takes the blind to find a gate from... ...for five. How many do we go by me doing that here? Can't she ever do this way? It moves.
15:11Yeah. Our next guest is a Tony-nominated actor who stars in season two of The Paper, which is streaming now on Peacock. You can also see him in the new movie The Incomer, which hits theaters September 25th. Please welcome Donald Gleeson.
15:33Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here. We know you're from Ireland, but you lived in New York for a while, right? I did. I did a play here when I was 22 years old. So, yeah, I came over here to do a play when I was just out of college. What do you remember about being in New York? Nothing. You were young? I was young, yeah, and everyone was like, you must be living it up in New York. But I came over, and one of the first things I saw was a cockroach, and I was like, I'm never leaving the apartment. and then I was afraid of getting cockroaches in the apartment. Like, the cockroach I saw was, like, that big.
16:05Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had, like, a top hat and it came. He was huge. He smoked. He was, yeah, yeah. He flicked his cigarette at me and I was like... So I didn't want them, so I had no food in the apartment and then I was worried that I would lose my voice, so I had no air conditioning in the apartment because that's bad for your voice. So, and then I didn't want to talk to people during the day. Look, it's a sad story. Oh, my God, yeah. Wow, that must... You're not living it up at all. No. And then my ma... I was here for eight months. And my mother came over to visit, and she stayed in, like, the apartment, and I wouldn't let her have any food.
16:39I was like, when you're under my roof! Yeah, yeah, yeah. No cockroaches. I want anything happening to you. Yeah, yeah. Did you have, like, a big apartment? It was a studio apartment. And your mom would stay there? Yeah. Don't ask where. No. Wait, I... My parents used to come. I had a studio apartment, uh, on Saturday Night Live. They would come, and they'd stay over my studio apartment. and they would sleep in the bed, I would sleep on the floor. Oh, man. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, and then after SNL. So I would be on the ground, you know, and my mom would wake up early and she would call people, like, on the phone, and she'd be like, yeah, it was a great show last night.
17:11It's a studio apartment. I mean, she's standing over me frying bacon, and I'm like, Mom, you think I live in a giant, you know? I would have been like, ma 'am, where the hell did you get that bacon? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cockroaches are gonna, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Donal, you're in giant movies. You're in Star Wars, you're in Harry Potter. I mean, these are giant, giant big franchise movies.
17:37I don't want to ask you about the films, because I know they're giant and they're fun and all that stuff, but I want to ask you about the rides you're on. You're on so many amusement park rides. Yeah. I have more lines in the amusement park rides than I do in the movies. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah. Is it fun for you to go to a ride and see you? Have you ever snuck in? It's crazy, yeah. I mean, I went to the opening of the Harry Potter one, and that was amazing, but you're supposed to be there, because it's the opening. Yeah, of course. And I did not go to the opening of the Star Wars one, but, like, I have quite a big part in the Star Wars one.
18:04You do? Yeah. And, like, my character's telling you what to do and where to go and all the rest of it, in his English accent. I can do an English accent, Jimmy. It's not a big deal. But... I'm not making it a big deal. Yeah, yeah. It's not a big deal. You don't have to applaud. You don't have to applaud. Thank you. It's just of age. It's wild. It's wild. But it was so cool, because there's, like, with people playing stormtroopers on the ride. It's massive. Of course. And when I went, I kind of snuck in and one of the stormtroopers came over and said, it's good to see you undercover general. Yes!
18:34Like that when I was doing the ride. They stayed in character. Yeah, they stayed in character. And when I was leaving, they all saluted me. It was amazing. Respect, come on. They know how to do it. By the way, Disney is fantastic. And then if life couldn't get crazier and bigger, you ended up in Taylor Swift's video for Opalite. Yeah.
18:54Now, I heard that this came out of a talk show. You were on Graham Norton? Yeah, I was on Graham Norton with, like, all these amazing actors and Taylor. And she came on to talk about her album was about to come out. Yeah. And she had watched the paper that I'm in as prep for the talk, which is incredible. Like, that's just such diligence. And Cillian Murphy was on as well. Yeah. And he said that he really liked my dancing in the paper. And my character dances a lot. It's very stupid. And so I made a joke, like, yeah, I'm hoping to get in a Taylor Swift music video. And she made this face, like, that's interesting.
19:28Wow. The wheels started turning. Two weeks later, got a call that she wanted all of us and Graham Norton to be in her music video and made it happen, like, two weeks after that. It was insane. That's how she does it. Yeah, I know. She's amazing. She's amazing. I will say your dancing in the video is fantastic. Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. So, yeah. So they only told me about the dance, like, two days before. And then her amazing choreographer, Mandy, spent all of the evening the night before, like, teaching me what is a very simple dance. But it took so long. And you haven't known real sadness until you've seen an Irish man with red hair in his underpants just...
20:10Well, no, that wasn't with Mandy. That was when I went back to the hotel. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, yeah. Practicing all night long. I was so terrified. But it worked out great, and I'm really proud of the video. Yeah, you did it. Yeah, thank you so much. I also want to mention Nuevi, new movie coming out on September 25th called The Incomer. Yeah. Can you tell us about that? Yeah, so I play a guy who works for the Scottish Council, a really shy guy, who's sent out to this really remote island to evict these two people who they found out have been living there. It's a brother and sister, and they've never met anybody from the mainland.
20:42They've only seen each other their whole lives. And they dress like birds. They're real weird. And so when I arrive on the island, and they attack me and fall in love with me at the same time. They're like, they don't know what to do with this new person, and it's really heartfelt and funny and beautiful, and I'm really proud of it. Yeah, and you have a... Go see it. I will say you have a fantastic perm in this movie. Yes. That is a great hair. Thank you. That is legit. Thank you. That is legit right there. Do you want to know what perm is short for? Yeah, it's permanent. Oh, I'm glad you knew that.
21:16I did not know that. Your real hair. That's my real hair. Of course it's my real hair. No, I don't know. I don't know. What I worried I am by my real hair. They told me it's permanent. They told me it would grow out in five weeks. I had it for five months. I don't look good with big... I looked like Orphan Annie for five months. It was terrible. Let's talk about the paper. Congratulations on this show. Thank you. It's well done. You're very funny in it. Thank you. The writing is great. It's produced by Greg Daniels, who also produced The Office. And were you familiar with The Office before you...
21:54I mean, yes. Like, the show, I'm so proud of the show. I think our season's, like, a lot... It's much funnier. It's more romantic. All the ensemble's amazing. Like, it's so good. And Greg is sort of the heart of the show. He got his Hollywood Walk of Fame today. Did he really? Yeah, yeah. So it's just absolutely incredible. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah. I'm not there because I'm here. I'm so happy for him. Yeah, yeah. But obviously I loved the U.S. office. Yeah. And I actually, when I was in my... I first saw it when I was here when I was 22 in New York. I didn't have air conditioning. I didn't have food in the fridge.
22:28But I had the new office DVD. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. And I used to watch it. And it's full circle now. Isn't that wild that you end up with those things? You go, how could I own this when I can't even afford food? I could afford food, Jimmy. Oh, sorry, sorry. I just didn't want the cockroaches. The cockroaches, I forgot. I didn't want to draw the cockroaches. Yeah, yeah. So now I'm working with Greg. How do we set up season two for the paper? So the end of season one, and my character is the editor of this newspaper, they won all these awards. Things went really well. And, you know, he's fighting the good fight for journalism, and then he works with this amazing journalist, Mare, and they both realise they really like each other, and they kissed at the end of season one.
23:04That's right. But, like, so all of his dreams come true, and that's not always a great thing. You've got to manage your dreams. It's really hard. So he sort of, he loves Mayer, he loves the paper, but things get really messy really fast. And so it's just the joy of the whole thing is seeing them try to work it out. It's a great cast and it's super, super funny. It's on Peacock, it's great. Donald Gleeson, everybody. Season two of The Paper is streaming now on Peacock. Stick around!
23:42Come on. Come on. Hit me tight.
23:48My thanks to Nicole Kidman, Donald Gleeson. Well done, bud. And the Ruth right there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Good night, everybody. Thank you.
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Jimmy addresses the latest news, like Trump promising Americans $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms, before speaking with Nicole Kidman and Domhnall Gleeson.



