Despite the Thanksgiving holiday, Jimmy Fallon went back to school Tuesday night as the Tonight Show host debuted a new installment of his popular “Classroom Instruments” series—this time with Gwen Stefani.
Stefani, Fallon, and The Roots performed the singer’s signature 2004 hit “Hollaback Girl” on Tuesday night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Stefani presumably recorded the performance when she visited the show as musical guest on Nov. 18, promoting her new album Bouquet.
The toy instrument version of “Hollaback Girl” finds the group raising pompoms (as helpfully mentioned in the song). Fallon also plays the woodblock, keyboardist Kamal Gray takes xylophone, Questlove uses giant hand clappers, and Gwen Stefani sings into an actual banana (“b-a-n-a-n-a-s”).
Fallon has been doing Classroom Instruments segments since his days hosting Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, when he and The Roots first debuted the segment performing “Call Me Maybe” with Carly Rae Jepsen in 2012. Since then, more than 30 have been made. If they figure out the rights, perhaps a collection of those will be his next almost-chart-topping album?
Back in April, Fallon brought the bit to a For Your Consideration awards season event in Los Angeles. The host performed an impromptu rendition of “Wild Thing” alongside Keke Palmer and a theater full of Television Academy members.
The last traditional installment of the segment came a month before that, when Fallon and The Roots performed the Ghostbusters theme with Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Ray Parker Jr.
