NBC late night’s Taylor Swift party isn’t over just yet.
Following her headline-making appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers this week, the network will air a special “extended cut” of Swift’s Tonight Show appearance on Friday, October 10.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Taylor Swift (Extended Cut) is set to feature additional footage from Swift’s wide-ranging sit-down with Fallon that didn’t make the original October 6 broadcast — a conversation that marked her first U.S. late-night talk-show appearance since 2022.
Viewers who tuned in Monday night were tipped off from the opening seconds that the evening belonged to Swift. The show’s usual logo glimmered in orange, a not-so-subtle signal that the pop phenomenon was about to take over Studio 6B. “The mother of all guests, Taylor Swift, is here tonight,” Fallon declared at the top of his monologue, quickly thanking “all the Swifties around the world” for watching.
Even The Roots got swept up in the frenzy. Questlove and Tariq Trotter cut off Fallon mid-monologue, urging him to “stop wasting time and bring her out already.”
From there, The Tonight Show broke format. Instead of a desk bit or commercial break, Fallon jumped straight into introducing “the biggest pop star on the planet,” bringing Swift out less than five minutes into the broadcast.
Swift stayed on for two more segments, including a lighthearted game and an extended chat about specific tracks from The Life of a Showgirl, taped on a special set built for the occasion. Despite the marathon runtime, producers still left significant material on the cutting-room floor, teasing “extended cuts” online at the end of each segment.
Friday’s Extended Cut will assemble that unaired footage into one broadcast.
As LateNighter previously reported, NBC’s special Friday late-night lineup won’t stop there: Late Night with Seth Meyers will follow with a rare new Friday-night episode. The installment—taped Wednesday and held for Friday broadcast—is set to feature Rose Byrne, former MLB player Sean Casey and MLB Network analyst Mark DeRosa, plus comedian Caleb Hearon.
Pop star shit is crazy.