On Monday’s Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the host hits the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York City to pick up his new iPhone 16 — and ends up taking a very long walk in Central Park with Apple CEO Tim Cook. And is a walk-and-talk filmed on iPhone 16 of Tim Cook and Jimmy Fallon in Central Park funny? Well, here and there it is.

Along their mildy amusing way, the two chatted about the new handsets, upcoming Apple Intelligence features and favorite hot dog condiments.

Tim Cook and Jimmy Fallon walk and talk iPhone 16, Artificial Intelligence and fave hot dog topping

But one of the bigger laughs in the segment came right at the top, before the walk-and-talk interview. Fallon shows up outside the 5th Avenue Apple Store wearing a Vision Pro headset as he chats up the crowd. Suddenly Cook steps out of the store to hand-deliver Fallon’s new iPhone. Then Fallon, “mistaking” the person for an artificially enhanced employee made to look like Cook, proceeds to rave about the realism and rub his hands all over Cook’s face.

Cook was a good sport about it, and after a handshake, the two set off on a long walk through Central Park — much of it captured on an iPhone on a selfie stick in Fallon’s hand.

Tim Cook the ‘rock star’

“Every launch I try to come to 5th Avenue,” Cook replied when Fallon asked if he visits stores every launch, “because it’s sort of the center of the world and the enthusiasm is so incredible there.”

“Do you feel like a rock star and everyone’s, like, screaming, they’re loving you, it’s like [makes cheering sound],” Fallon asked.

“It’s an out-of-body experience,” Cook replied. “I just remind myself that their love is for Apple, and I just happen to be the person that they attribute it to.”

Answering Fallon’s questions, Cook also revealed that he’s been at Apple 27 years, had “no clue at all” he’d eventually be CEO and people may have once called him “TC” but never “Timmy Cook.”

While sharing tech origin stories, Fallon revealed he majored in computer science in college. He can code in Cobol and, to a lesser extent, in C++. He said he made a program to return video tapes. “Talk about a bad investment,” he quipped.

Watch video of Tim Cook and Jimmy Fallon in Central Park
New iPhone listened in on Apple Intelligence chatter (including Cook’s cherished email summarization)

As the handset at the end of the selfie stick captured audio and video of their walk, of course they had to cover the new iPhone 16 lineup. But they didn’t say all that much about it.

Fallon asked what Cook found most exciting about iPhone 16, and Cook predictably said, “I’m excited about all of it, to be honest with you.” But then he added, “Apple Intelligence is coming next month … it’ll start with things like summarization of your emails, which is huge for me because I get hundreds a day. And this one little click, and all of a sudden [it] summarizes this long email.”

He also name-checked Genmoji and Image Playground as cool upcoming features.

Fallon is psychic, but only about hot dog condiments

Then came the hot dog portion of the interview. Chatting about walking around in Central Park, Fallon asked Cook if he ever got a hot dog there. And he said he might be able to predict Cook’s favorite condiment if he could just summon his massively draining psychic ability for the occasion.

In a mildly laugh-worthy moment, Fallon stopped the walk and ordered Cook to look at him. And gazing into Cook’s eyes, sure enough, he guessed right. Cook likes mustard on his dog. Once again, Cook gamely played along, acting stunned and impressed.

And then came some tourist swag from a Central Park vendor. Fallon acted like Cook needed something real New Yorkers would wear, but selected the cheesiest possible baseball caps covered in glitter. And then, to a hard-rock soundtrack and in slo-mo, the two strode down the path in their ridiculous NYC hats.

“Do locals really wear this?” Cook asked.

“No, they don’t,” Fallon admitted.

Finally, the pair reaches the Upper East Side Apple Store and go their separate ways. The segment ends with an iPhone chime and Fallon looking down to see a message from Cook pointing out Fallon still needs to pay for the iPhone. Maybe use Apple Pay, he added.