List of Jimmy Fallon sketches

The following is a list of recurring games, sketches, and other comedy routines from the NBC late-night talk show ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'', and its predecessor, ''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon''. The sketches feature host Jimmy Fallon, house band The Roots, announcer/sidekick Steve Higgins, the show's writers, celebrity guests, and audience members. Most of the skits below appeared only on ''Late Night'', while some have carried over to ''The Tonight Show''.

Weekly routines

''Tonight Show'' #Hashtags

Nearly every Thursday (formerly Wednesday) on the show, Jimmy reads off viewer comments from a topic for discussion he started the night or the week before on Twitter. Topics have included "#MyParentsAreWeird", "#WhyDontTheyMakeThat", "#BeachFail", and "#MakesMeMad". As Jimmy frequently announces before he reads his favorite comments, each hashtag would usually become a trending topic on Twitter in the United States within a few minutes after its posting.

Jimmy previously created a spin-off named "''Late Night'' Instagrams". On March 22, 2019, Jimmy unveiled a similar spin-off segment called "''Tonight Show'' Grams", instead of the usual "#Hashtags", in which he would send out a hashtag for discussion and showcase videos and photos that viewers have posted for the show on Instagram.

Thank You Notes

Nearly every Friday on the show, Jimmy writes thank you notes. He claims that Friday is the day he catches up on "personal stuff" like checking his inbox, returning e-mails, and writing his weekly thank you notes. He explains that he is running behind and asks the audience if they wouldn't mind if he took time out of the show to write them, and asks James Poyser to play some accompanying music (a sped-up version of U2's "October"). During the segment, Jimmy often tries to get James to laugh while James tries to maintain a straight face. The notes are sarcastic in tone and involve current events, people in the news, or things that annoy Jimmy (e.g. "Thank you, pony tails, for turning the backs of girls' heads into horses' butts").

The sketch airs on Thursday during the week of Thanksgiving, in deference to the holiday. The sketch aired on Thursday, March 28, 2013, because the show was off for Good Friday that year. It also aired on Thursday, February 5, 2015, during the ''Tonight Shows week in Los Angeles (the show did not air on Friday that week). During the period of the COVID-19 quarantine when the show taped at 30 Rock without a live audience, the sketch aired on Thursdays because the show only taped four days a week, taking Fridays off.

In Jimmy's at home COVID-19 quarantine episodes in most of 2020 and early 2021, a recording of the music was played on an iPad by Jimmy's daughters while he did the skit.

Jimmy also wrote out a special Winter Olympics-themed set of thank you notes during NBC's prime-time Olympic coverage on February 26, 2010 (a Friday); anchor Bob Costas "played" the usual thank you note-writing music (by pretending to play along on a keyboard while a pre-recorded track of the music played in the background). Costas and Jimmy reprised the bit with a Summer Olympics-themed set on August 10, 2012 (also a Friday).

Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Jimmy behind the desk to write out some thank you notes of his own on Friday, December 13, 2013.

Regis Philbin joined Jimmy with a little help to write out some thank you notes of his own on Friday, June 19, 2015.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly wrote the first thank you note in space, during his year-long mission to the International Space Station.

President Barack Obama joined Jimmy in writing out some thank you notes on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

Jimmy Kimmel, the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, wrote thank you notes on April 1, 2022, while replacing Fallon as a host.

Shawn Mendes joined Jimmy Fallon in writing thank you notes on Friday, April 29, 2022.

It was announced on January 31, 2011, that Fallon had signed a book deal to publish entries from the series as two books, the first of which, ''Thank You Notes'', was released May 23, 2011. The sequel, ''Thank You Notes 2'', was released on May 22, 2012. The new book also has a limited edition which has a sound chip that plays the "Thank You Notes" theme music (to which Jimmy replies "We don't even need James Poyser any more", then the camera cuts to Poyser looking depressed).

In the theme park attraction Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Jimmy Fallon, along with the audience, are shot to the moon, where he writes a thank-you note addressed to the moon.

WeTweet

Nearly every Tuesday, Jimmy showed five different posts and asked the audience to respond to them, whether they like it or not, along with Jimmy himself, Higgins and The Roots. The post gathering the most likes, and, in case of a draw, least dislikes, is posted on Twitter during the show’s commercial break. The results are seen live, and, prior to revealing them, Fallon and Tariq give their opinions and predictions on the tweet.

Former weekly sketches

Pros and Cons

Every Tuesday on the show, Jimmy weighed the pros and cons of a topic that's currently in the news, with the pros being the setups and the cons being the punchlines. (e.g. Pro: With Tiger competing, this year's Masters promises to be the most exciting golf tournament ever. Con: That being said, it's still golf.) Special editions of the sketch included: "The reissue of the Rolling Stones' album ''