Jimmy Fallon is turning his next post-Sunday Night Football episode into something of a Focker family reunion.
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, and Ariana Grande will all join The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Sunday, November 8, promoting their upcoming comedy Focker-In-Law. Rapper Lil Baby is booked as the night’s musical guest.
Focker-In-Law, the latest installment in the Meet the Parents franchise, is set to hit theaters November 25. Stiller and De Niro reprise their roles as Greg Focker and Jack Byrnes, respectively, while Grande plays Olivia Jones, an FBI-trained hostage negotiator who is dating Greg’s son Henry, played by Skyler Gisondo—and may soon become the newest member of the Focker family.
All three Focker-In-Law stars are familiar faces on Fallon’s Tonight Show. Grande has made 19 appearances on the program, while De Niro has appeared 14 times and Stiller 10 times—a combined 43 visits to Fallon’s desk.
The special Sunday edition of The Tonight Show will air following NBC’s Sunday Night Football matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears and local news.
It will be the show’s second of four planned post-Sunday Night Football episodes this season.
Fallon’s post-football editions have consistently ranked among The Tonight Show’s highest-rated broadcasts, with the show typically using the NFL lead-in to book headline guests and turn the off-night episodes into events.
His first this season, on September 27, got an unexpectedly late start after the Los Angeles Rams–Denver Broncos game ran long. The Tonight Show ultimately didn’t begin until 12:56 a.m. ET—the latest of Fallon’s post-Sunday Night Football editions to date.
Despite the late hour, that episode still drew The Tonight Show’s third-largest live-plus-same-day total audience of 2026 at the time and its second-highest demo performance.
Fallon has two more post-football Sunday shows scheduled after November 8: one on November 15, following the Pittsburgh Steelers–Cincinnati Bengals game, and another on January 10, following the NFL’s final regular-season game.
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