for now 20 years. Is that true?

-Yes. -Yes.

-My kids -- well, they´re now 36, 33, 32, 29,

but when they were little, they said,

"Dad, we´ve never asked for you to call anybody up

that´s famous to bring, but we have one request,"

and they wanted to meet Adam Sandler,

and I said, "Who is Adam Sandler?"

[ Laughter ] -Of course.

-Oh, my goodness. "Oh, Dad."

-And they saw that movie you were in.

-"Billy Madison." Yes, yes. -"Billy Madison."

-This was back in "Billy Madison" days.

[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you.

Yes, they liked the "Billy Madison."

He didn´t watch it, but that´s okay,

but the kids, they called me --

I got a call out of nowhere,

and you know I was very young and excited,

and someone said, "Dustin called.

He wanted to meet you."

And I said, "oh, my" -- you know.

I´m very nervous ´cause I grew up loving Dustin

and "Marathon Man,"

and just every movie Dustin´s in was such a --

"Kramer vs. Kramer" was such a huge part of all our lives,

and anyway, so I was supposed to be at Dustin´s house at dinner.

-For dinner. -You got invited for dinner.

-Yeah -- I´m sorry.

He invited me over to meet his kids.

So I was supposed to go to Dustin´s house at 5:00.

I was living in a little hotel,

and I left my hotel at 12:00 so I could get there,

make sure I wasn´t late, and I --

[ Laughter ] -Five hours early.

-Five hours. I was like, "What the hell."

And I was in my little red Yugo, and I drove there.

And I didn´t know Los Angeles that well.

But anyways, I got to the house that early,

and then I sat in my car.

-And we´re waiting for you,

10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes.

An hour. -I was late

´cause I was terrified to go meet Dustin Hoffman.

So I just sat in my car -- [ Laughter ]

-Sitting in your Yugo?

-Yeah, but I was very scared because he is Dustin,

but then when I came in there,

he was the warmest man like he is,

and the best with his kids, and we had dinner,

and I´ll never forget, we -- you guys --

you and the kids were playing an acting exercise.

-Improv.

-You were doing improvs at the table,

and Dusty was making each one of his great kids

give a place, right? -Yeah.

-And everyone was -- everyone in the family was awesome,

was very talented and saying funny jokes

or very smooth lines, and blah, blah, blah.

And all I remember was praying, "Please don´t get to me."

[ Laughter ]

"I don´t want to fail in front of the whole family."

-That´s a lot of pressure. -Yeah.

-Lot of pressure to meet somebody.

-Did we? -You got to me,

and, I don´t know, I think I choked on some food.

I got out of it. I don´t remember.

-Did you -- did you -- I heard stories that you used to

play basketball together or something.

Is that -- -Do you remember that at all?

-No. You played with my son.

-I play with Jake. -With Jake.

-But when you first -- that day,

you loved me so much when we had dinner,

you thought I was such a nice guy,

that you invited me to play basketball,

and it was you and Tom Cruise

against me and your son, Jake,

and you guys kept thinking I was like Wilt Chamberlain

´cause I was so tall.

[ Laughter ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You don´t remember that?

-No, I don´t, but I know that

I´m the tallest one in my family and always have been.

-But then you went to the Golden Globes.

´Cause I heard -- -Yes.

He doesn´t know that either.

I don´t think you remember that either, but I was at your house.

Dustin -- [ Laughter ]

Dustin was getting a lifetime achievement award,

and I happened to be at the house,

and then for no reason you looked at me and you go,

"You want to come?"

And I was like, "Do I want to come" --

I didn´t even know what the Golden Globes was.

I was like, "Yeah, yeah, I´ll come."

"You got to wear something nice," or something.

I said, yeah, sure.

And you got the biggest award of the night,

and I was at your table,

and everyone who was up on stage was like Redford,

and I remember Christopher Walken,

they were all looking at me like why is this [bleep] here?

[ Laughter ]

Anyway.

-But now you´re in a film together,

and you´re great in the film,

and I want to talk about all that stuff.

But I mean, I just think it´s cool,

and I think you have a great chemistry, and I could just --

I mean, meeting you right now,

I´ve never met you before, but I´m intimidated.

-Yeah. -You are?

-Yeah. -We have very similar noses.

[ Laughter ] -I love that.

Oh, yeah. Not bad. We do. Yeah.

No -- Please, that´s a compliment.

God. I love it.

I remember the first time I met you,

you were very, very nice to me.

-That´s right. I remember, yeah.

-You told me that you were doing a stand-up,

and he was like 13 or something. -You were young.

You were like 15 or 16 when you came to see me.

-Yeah. Yes.

-Every time for like a year or so,

whenever I get off stage,

the first guy I´d see is little Jimmy Fallon going,

"Good set, Sandman," or something like that.

[ Laughter ] -I never said that.

I never said that. -Something like that.

-That is so not true.

Good set, Sandman. -Sandman.

"How do you do it?

How do you do it, Sandman? Teach me.

Teach me, Sandman." [ Laughter ]

-Now I´m getting embarrassed. Yeah, but I would show up.

I remember I would show up to everything, everything,

´cause I knew, like, if you were going to be at the Improv

or something, I would just show up --

-Oh, yeah.

-And I just idolized you. I still do.

-You were the nicest -- 100% the same kid --

the same way you are now, you were back then.

You were the nicest kid, always, and just --

besides being a funny bastard, he´s such a fan of everybody,

and, like, that´s why we´re all so happy

you are Jimmy Fallon today, buddy.

You´re doing good things.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-I remember -- I remember you introduced me to Chris Farley,

and you and Farley, and I was like,

"Oh, my gosh, Chris Farley."

And I thought he was going to be, like,

jumping through a thing, and he was like -- he´s so calm.

-Oh, yeah. -And he had glasses on,

and he goes, "Hey, nice to meet you, Jimmy.

It´s a pleasure. Oh, you´re a fan?

What sketch do you like? That one?"

I go, "Yeah." And I was telling him what sketches I love

and just staring at him, and then he went right over

from me to you, and you both started going --

Like, and started fighting,

and, like, turned it on in like two seconds,

and it was the greatest. -Oh, God, yeah.

He was so sweet, and he did not like --

by the way, one memory of Farley,

when I told him I went to Dustin Hoffman´s house,

he was like, "What?" [ Laughter ]

He was so angry that

your kids picked the wrong guy, he thought.