Focker confessions and pop medleys fill Jimmy Fallon's week

De Niro, Stiller and Grande stretch their visit across an interview, a guessing game and a deliberately overdramatic soap opera.

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Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller and Ariana Grande Talk Focker In-Law and Intense Heimlich Maneuver Scene

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0:23Fallon displays a photograph of Grande meeting De Niro backstage in 2015.
0:53Stiller recalls feeling intimidated by De Niro and laughing during their first scene together.
4:20Grande recalls rehearsing the Heimlich maneuver on Stiller with the stunt team on her first day.
6:58Grande plays Olivia, Henry's new girlfriend, whose suitability Greg Focker questions.
8:08A film clip shows a dinner confrontation escalating into choking and Olivia's forceful rescue.

Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller and Ariana Grande didn't just take their seats for a movie interview. Their visit supplied a small entertainment package: memories from the Focker films, an interrogation game and a soap opera in which dramatic slow claps have become a directorial obsession.

The interview was the most watched of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon's 23 uploads, reaching roughly 1.7 million views. Fallon brings out a photograph of Grande meeting De Niro backstage in 2015, while Stiller remembers being intimidated by his future screen father-in-law and laughing during their first scene. Now Grande's Olivia is the girlfriend facing Greg Focker's scrutiny in Focker In-Law, putting Stiller on the suspicious-parent side of the equation.

Elsewhere in the visit, True Confessions has the guests questioning one another's improbable stories. The staged "My Family's Money" sketch supplies the excessive applause. Among the interview's comments, viewers compare the trio to Only Murders in the Building and marvel at this particular casting combination.

Music gives the week another substantial thread. Tinashe's "Popstar" and "Melatonin" medley drew the third-largest audience among the new uploads. The channel's busiest regular videos right now, though, are performances posted earlier: Ashe's "Stop The Wedding!" and ADÉLA's "Nicole Kidman" and "Ain't In LA" medley.

The channel added 100,000 subscribers over the week. It remains the largest by subscribers among these late-night and talk-show peers, although its weekly views were quieter than most, including Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show. On Fallon's own stage, the musical guests are giving the celebrity couch plenty of company.

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Seeing Ariana Grande, Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro in the same film was not on my 2026 Bingo card.
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This trio is giving me Only Murders In The Building cast vibes
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