It's time for a brand-new game.

This is "Can It Be Ballad-ed?"

-♪ Can It Be Ballad-ed? ♪

♪ Can It Be?

-And joining us tonight, please welcome

the one, the only John Legend!

Oh, come on, now!

-Jimmy! -Thank you for being here.

John, here's how it works. Okay?

I have a list of topics, okay, that you've never seen.

-Okay. Yup.

-And I'm going to randomly choose some of these,

and you'll have to make up an entire song,

a full John Legend ballad,

with original lyrics based on that topic.

I can try to help you out, but I don't think you'll need my help.

-Okay.

-For the first one, let's do Shamrock Shake.

-What is -- Is that, like, a flavor of shake, right?

[ Laughter ]

That's, like, a special --

-It is for St. Patrick's Day. McDonald's releases a mint --

It's, like, a mint --

It's a green, glowing shake.

And it's a milkshake, but it's minty.

And it's green, and it's pretty -- Yeah.

It's just -- It's like -- -Okay.

-It's like the McRib of beverages.

-♪ I wanna do the Shamrock Shake ♪

♪ It's something that McDonald's makes ♪

♪ Oh, on St. Patrick's Day ♪

♪ On St. Patrick's Day ♪

♪ Ay-ay ♪

♪ Wanna do the Shamrock Shake ♪

♪ Ooh, it's something that McDonald's makes ♪

♪ On St. Patrick's Day ♪

♪ I'm not even Irish ♪

-[ Laughs ]

-♪ But I want the Shamrock Shake ♪

-Oh, my gosh! Come on, now! -All right.

-You -- Wait until you watch this back

'cause you'll be like, "I kind of want that for my next album."

-Okay. I'm using it. -You got to use it.

-Next album. -Absolutely, man. All right.

How about "The Queen's Gambit"? Have you seen that show?

Do you want me to explain it to you?

-I know the show. I loved it. -Okay.

So, it's chess playing, drug taking.

Orphan. Janitor taught her how to play chess.

Um, what else?

The red hair. Good fashion.

Bob. Bob. What do you call that hair?

-Bob? -She had a bob.

Maybe his name was Bob. She had her redhead bob.

Checkmate.

-Ooh. Checkmate. -Right? That's a good ender.

♪♪

Like, something...

-♪ Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

♪ Who knew chess could be ♪

♪ So sexy? ♪

♪ Who knew chess could be ♪

♪ So full of drugs and booze? ♪

♪ She said, "Checkmate" ♪

♪ And I said, "Yes, baby" ♪

♪ She said, "Checkmate" ♪

♪ And I said, "Yes, baby" ♪

♪ Ooh, checkmate ♪

-♪ Checkmate ♪

-♪ Ohh-ohh, checkmate ♪

-♪ Yes, baby ♪

-♪ Aahhh ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪

-♪ Yes, babe, yes, babe ♪

♪ Checkmate ♪

That was a little "meandery." I'm working on it.

-No! No. No. It was fantastic.

You can't hear me, but I'm singing on this side, too.

-Okay.

-I was doing kind of a little stylistics.

I was going...

♪ Checkmate ♪ -♪ Checkmate ♪

♪ Yes, babe ♪

-[ Laughs ] Perfect. -All right. Good.

That was -- Wait till -- That's the new theme song for that.

-All right. -Let's try one more here.

Let's do Zoom Happy Hour.

-♪ I'm on a Zoom ♪

♪ It means I'm not in the room ♪

♪ So is it even happy hour? ♪

♪ Is it even happy hour ♪

♪ Why do they call it happy? ♪

♪ Why do they call it happy? ♪

♪ When I'm on a Zoom ♪

♪ When I'm on a Zoom ♪

♪ Ohh, I'm on a Zoom ♪

♪ It means I'm not in the room ♪

♪ So is it even happy hour ♪

♪ I'm not feeling happy now ♪

♪ I'm on a Zoom ♪

-♪ Zoom, Zoom ♪

♪ Zoom, Zoom ♪

-♪ I just wanna touch people again ♪

[ Laughter ] -That was called

"Zoom Happy Hour (I Just Wanna Touch People Again)".

That is incredible.

My thanks to the one and only John Legend.