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. The sketches feature host Jimmy Fallon, house band The Roots, announcer/sidekick Steve Higgins, the show's writers, celebrity guests, and audience members.

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.

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 would not 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. 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.

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 taking turns with Fallon hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! as an April Fools joke.

Shawn Mendes joined 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.

WePost (formerly WeTweet and Tonight Shocials) 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 X (formerly 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 post.

Originally known as WeTweet, the segment was rebranded as WePost in October 2023 in response to the rebranding of Twitter as X. In February 2024, it was rebranded again as Tonight Shocials before reverting to WePost on May 9, 2024.

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 Exile on Main St.", in which Jimmy was joined via satellite by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts; one in which the topic was "The New NFL Season", where Jimmy was joined by Justin Tuck of the New York Giants; and "The NFL Playoffs" with New York Jets placekicker Nick Folk. The segment was initially retired in 2018, but revived in 2021. In May 2022, the segment was dropped and replaced with WeTweet.

This Week in Words Also on Fridays (until 2018), Jimmy shows a mash-up of news anchors reading the week's biggest headlines, as well as notable clips from the week, edited together, remixed, and set to music. The segment was briefly revived in 2020, but then retired.

Tweets with Beats Done on Thursdays (until 2018), Jimmy and Tariq would perform a hip-hop song, recapping current events in the news and using Donald Trump's tweets on Twitter as lyrics, with Jimmy reading them in his usual Trump impression.

Trump News Network Citing Donald Trump's distrust of mainstream news, Jimmy appears as the President on "Trump News Network" (a knock-off of CNN) in which he unsuccessfully spins negative stories about him to portray him in a more positive light, instead having the reverse effect.

From July 19 to August 14, 2018, the sketch became a weekly routine on Tuesdays, with Jimmy as Trump giving his takes on recent news, including ones about him, as well as doing stunts related to news about him.

Ask the Fallons Done on Tuesdays for "At Home Edition", Jimmy and his wife Nancy Juvonen take a stroll outside and answer fan-submitted questions on Twitter about their lives (e.g. "How did [Nancy] meet Drew Barrymore?")

What Are You Doing Wednesday Done on Wednesdays for "At Home Edition", Jimmy shows viral videos that he finds funny and uplifting.

TV parodies

House of Cue Cards On August 12, 2014, House of Cue Cards was a parody of the Netflix series House of Cards. The skit featured Jimmy, channeling Frank Underwood with Ellen Barkin and Jay Leno appeared as Jimmy's wife, a parody of Claire Underwood and himself, respectively. A. D. Miles appeared as Jimmy's aide Miles and Steve Higgins appeared as "Red" from Orange is the New Black.

Jimpire On September 22, 2015, Jimpire was a parody of Empire. This skit sees Jimmy trying to decide who should be his successor as host of the show if he were to die from his finger injury. Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson appeared as their characters on the real show: Howard calmly told Jimmy to stop imitating Lucious Lyon, while Henson got in a fist fight with her analog Steve Higgins (saying she's the one and only Cookie Lyon). Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots appeared as rappers who first perform solo but then decide to team up as a duo.

Peanuts On December 12, 2017, a parody of both The CW television series Riverdale and the Peanuts specials as Peanuts aired. The skit had the gang's reactions to Linus' death in the pumpkin patch while waiting for the Great Pumpkin. The skit ended with a cameo appearance from the Riverdale cast in a hallway reacting to the Peanuts cast at a school dance.

#Bandersnatch On January 18, 2019, there was a parody of the Netflix interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. This skit featured Jimmy and Higgins at a meeting with the viewer choosing bizarre actions for them to do like "Hula Hoop While Clapping" or "Slap Each Other in the Face".

The Longest Days of our Lives The Longest Days of our Lives is a parody of the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives based on the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows Winston (Jimmy), his long-lost brother Fontaine (Will Ferrell), and their mutual lover Vanessa (Kristen Wiig). The plot points get more absurd by the moment (e.g. Vanessa getting pregnant on Zoom). The skits usually end with a series of exaggerated gasps by the cast.

Episodes Chapter 1 (aired Wednesday, April 8, 2020) Chapter 2 (aired Friday, April 17, 2020) – Matthew McConaughey guest stars as Dr. Denunzio. Chapter 3 (aired Friday, May 1, 2020) – Jake Gyllenhaal guest stars as their son Blake, with real soap stars Susan Lucci, Maurice Benard, Mary Beth Evans, and Heather Locklear gasping at the end. Chapter 4 (aired Friday, June 26, 2020) – Tariq Trotter stars as a private investigator.

Fallonlore: The 30 Rock Sessions On December 1, 2020, there was a parody of the Disney+ documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. This skit sees Jimmy performing a never-before-released album with Questlove and Black Thought. Chris Martin appears, singing a duet of "Fuzzy Wuzzy" with Jimmy.

FallonVision On March 3, 2021, a parody of the Disney+ television series WandaVision as FallonVision aired. The skit had Jimmy conduct an interview with Elizabeth Olsen over decades of late-night talk shows, including his tenure on Late Night and The Tonight Show. The skit ended with a cameo appearance by Kathryn Hahn in a parody of "Agatha All Along".

Other recurring sketches Musical sketches Slow Jam the News The show's longest-running musical sketch, Jimmy joins his house band, The Roots, to serenade the audience on a topic of current newsworthy significance in the style of a slow jam. For years, whenever the sketch aired, former NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams (or, as Jimmy calls him, "Brilliams" or "Bri Will" or "Bri Will.I.Ams") joined Jimmy in slow jams. The following have been topics of a Slow Jam:

President Obama's executive order on immigration reform President Obama's time in office with Obama himself joining Jimmy. Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign with Bush himself joining Jimmy Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign with Buttigieg joining Jimmy Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaign with Harris joining Jimmy Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign with Sanders joining Jimmy

Neil Young Jimmy impersonates singer Neil Young and sings a song. To date, he has sung the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "Pants on the Ground" by "General" Larry Platt, an original song based on the "Double Rainbow" Internet meme, Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" and LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" (duets with Bruce Springsteen), Miley Cyrus's "Party in the U.S.A." (with David Crosby and Graham Nash, in a partial "reunion" of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" (with Crosby, Stills & Nash).

During Jimmy's week in Los Angeles in 2015, he performed a duet of "Old Man" alongside the real Neil Young.

Bob Dylan Jimmy performed the Charles in Charge theme song as Bob Dylan. In 2018, Jimmy performed "The Times They Are a-Changin'" with updated lyrics on a live post-Super Bowl episode. Both segments were shown in black and white as a parody of I'm Not There.

Chicken Band Jimmy, Blake Shelton, Nick Offerman, and writer Chris Tartaro dressed up in chicken suits and sang The Lumineers' "Ho Hey", but replaced all the lyrics with chicken clucks, singing as the band "The Chickeneers" on a show before Easter in 2013.

On November 4, 2015, Jimmy and Tartaro were joined by Meghan Trainor and Alanis Morissette to perform Morissette's "Ironic".

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