Michelle Obama got a star-studded farewell in her final late-night appearance as first lady
Stevie Wonder, Jerry Seinfeld, and Dave Chappelle joined Jimmy Fallon for an amazing evening on 'The Tonight Show.'
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Michelle Obama has been a prolific late-night show guest during the last eight years, so it was only appropriate that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon go all-out for Obama’s final late-night appearance as first lady.
Highlights from Wednesday’s episode included the first lady surprising people as they recorded goodbye messages to her (above), comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Chapelle joining host Jimmy Fallon and Obama for a game of Catchphrase, and legendary singer Stevie Wonder serenading Obama with a medley of “Isn’t She Lovely” and “My Cherie Amour.”
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The first lady made plenty of jokes during Fallon’s popular “Thank You Notes” segment, thanking her husband for “not being a lame duck, but my very own silver fox,” and thanking Inauguration Day, or as she calls it, “Let’s Move!”
But she also shared a genuine, heartfelt thank-you to her mother, Marian Shields Robinson.
“I couldn’t have done this without you, Mom,” Obama said. “You are my role model. You are an amazing woman, even though you don’t think you had anything to do with me. She always says, ‘You raised yourself,’ and I was like, ‘I did not! It was you and dad.’
“Just having that multigenerational existence kept us all grounded, because Mom doesn’t really play,” she continued. “Grandma is amazing. I love you, Mom. I’m proud of you, because you represented this country well, too.”
During the episode, Obama admitted to Fallon that leaving the White House had stirred her in ways she hadn’t expected.
“It is nuts. I feel like crying right now, and I didn’t think that it was going to be that emotional,” she said. “It has been surprisingly emotional for all of us.”
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