-You know, Kelly Ripa

is the most brilliant individual.

She is a classy, lovely woman, on my dearest friends.

-She did a great job on the Oscars, as well.

-She did great, too. So it's a highlight of my day

seeing her. We have a good time every morning.

-You started the year off a little rocky, with, I got say,

one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my lifetime.

-[ Chuckles ] -It really makes me laugh.

You falling off the chair.

Did you see this? Did any of you see this?

This is real. Dude, this is what probably --

-This is what I'll be known for? -[ Laughs ]

-The Radio Hall of Fame and falling out of the chair.

-It was -- 'Cause I've been to the show.

They're pretty high chairs, first of all.

-Well, for a guy my size, yes, everything's high.

-[ Laughs ] No, no, no. But you're pretty high up.

-You're lucky I'm in this. -And then --

What, were you catching beach balls or something?

-You know, Gelman decides to spend $12 on the new season,

and normally we have little balloons that fall down.

Well, he went big and got these grand, gorgeous, shiny,

Disco balloons that caught my eye

when they first started to come down in the New Year,

and I couldn't stop staring at them.

So, I'm trying to catch one of the balloons,

and then... -Yeah. Yeah.

-It happens. -But the reaction --

Kelly's reaction, you can just tell it really happened.

-I think she's...

[ Overlapping stammers ]

-Well, hopefully, we'll play it more than once, but here it is,

Ryan Seacrest falling out of his chair.

-That's Jasmine Gold from Buffalo, New York.

-Whoa! -Oh, my God!

-[ Laughing ] -Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Oh, my gosh. He's fine. -I got it!

-You got the ball! You landed! You stuck the landing!

-I stuck the landing. -You stuck the landing!

-Listen, let me tell you -- -That's what it's all about.

Stick the landing! -Ripa's lucky.

There was a moment I almost brought her down with me.

You know, I grabbed -- But what I realized,

we have this beautiful hardwood floor

that clearly is just cement with a sticker on top.

-[ Laughs ] That's a hard fall. -I learned that --

I've got a bruise on my thigh.

-She turned around, and she was like, "Oh, my --"

Her reaction was so real, I was like, "That's a real fall."

-The show's called "Live!" so we couldn't do it again.

-[ Laughing ] Yeah, exactly.

Well, we're not live, so we can do it one more time.

Can we show Ryan falling one more time?

We're gonna slo-mo it. Whooop!

Whoop! Aaaand beautiful leg!

Honestly, Jerry Lewis could not have done it better than you.

That was a great fall. -The leg over was graceful,

wasn't it? Yeah. -Oh, it was so good.

That made me laugh. That is a classic moment.

-People will come up to me now and say, "Hey, listen,

how are you?" "I'm...fine. How are you?"

"No, how are you feeling?" "I feel great."

"I saw you fall in the chair." "That was the beginning

of the year." -That was two months ago.

-Yeah, it was two months ago. -[ Laughing ]

Yeah, get over it. It was a classic moment.

"American Idol" coming back. -"American Idol" is back.

You've got Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry.

It is a new season. I'll tell you something.

When I first started, when Kelly Clarkson won,

and she came on the show,

and we were looking for a pretty specific pop star.

Now there are no genre walls in music,

and so we're seeing all kinds of different true artists

who write their songs and perform,

and I think that's evolved the show quite a bit.

-Oh, that's fantastic. It's good, yeah,

because it's been -- what was it -- almost 20 years?

-It's been almost 20 years. -Wow.

-Yeah. -That's amazing. It's a great --

[ Cheers and applause ]

I'm so happy that you're still doing it.

-And this season, it's just great.

We have people who are doing everyday things for their jobs.

One guy's a garbage man. One guy is an Uber driver.

And they just say, "You know, I'm gonna go for it

and see what happens," and there's real talent

in these people across the country.

-Yeah, it's great. And you get along with them --

the talented ones and even the ones that kind of --

"You got to come back next year."

Yeah, I'm sure, yeah. -Yeah, yeah.

-That's what I love. I want to show a clip.

Take a look at a little bit of this Sunday's premiere

of "American Idol."

-That show that rock is still alive.

I don't feel like Idol has something that's me yet --

like in your face, like hyping everyone up,

like all of that energy.

Your hair looks so nice. -Thanks.

-I wish mine looked as nice as yours.

-Fortunately, someone helps me with it.

-Ryan Seacrest is pretty -- pretty hot.

I listen to your radio station. -Thank you for listening.

I appreciate that. Well, good luck, man.

-Thank you. -Nice to meet you.

[ Cheers and applause ] -He's buttering you up.

-Yeah, I have no pull. -He's not a judge, yeah!

He's the host. -I question his judgment,

but he's probably a great artist.

-Ryan Seacrest, everybody.