Jimmy kimmel [cheers and applause] jimmy thats very nice. Im the host of the show. Thank you for watching thank you for joining us here on television. On the good old American Broadcasting Company where there are no passwords required, theres no logins, theres no ad tiers or monthly fees, all you have to do is sit through 25 minutes of commercials every night. Very convenient. The reason i bring this up is because netflix you know that channel with all the documentaries about getting murdered . Netflix is finally cracking down on password sharing. They used to allow it, they were okay with it but starting soon, very soon, if you want to share your netflix password, youre going to have to pay an extra fee every month which to me seems like a bad business strategy. They could lose a lot of nonpaying customers this way but theyve done this before and its expected that they will charge subscribers in the United States an extra seven or 8 per shared account, which say what you want about cable, it was a lot cheaper all you had to do was buy a splitter and climb on the roof of the house next door. Speaking of cable, fox news yesterday agreed to shell out 787. 5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems, those of the people who make the machines that we used to vote. Its one of the largest defamation settlements ever thanks to a mountain of evidence that indicated fox repeatedly aired lies about the election in fraudulent. This morning i was wondering how fox news was going to cover the stories about themselves, so i went on [laughter] oh, you know already . Well, i didnt know, i went on their website and this is what they had on the home page at 7 30 a. M. Here in l. A. We got parking garage collapse in new york, we got something about the pentagon week, a youth wrestler sucker punched his opponents, that was big. If afghanistan, a fight between the Guardian Angels and aoc labeled claws out. A survivor contestant died, a cheerleader is in the hospital after road rage incident. Jane seymour looking good at 72. Same afghanistan story again nothing about the huge payment for lying to their viewers. Maybe its in a timely, tiny little stories. Dana perino has a podcast cool. Tucker carlson investigates influencers who want you to eat bugs. And something about retirement. No mention of the settlement. What an oversight that is. Man, oh, man, is Rupert Murdoch going to be mad when he finds out about this. Now that dominion won this case the big question for me, anyway is what happens to the mypillow guy . You know, dominion they are suing him for basically the same thing, for almost as much as suing him for 1. 3 billion which he definitely doesnt have. [laughter] he may have to pay that in fiber fill because my hes not backing down. Hes not like fox. No, he is much too delusional for that. Fox news settles with dominion for 700 and some Million Dollars so my phone is blowing up all of these are you going to make this deal too . Ill tell you the deal im going to make. Even if dominion or any of them offered me a billion dollars, i would say no. Jimmy now hold on now. Why would they offer you a billion dollars . Is it possible mike thinks hes the one suing dominion and not i dont know. Im not sure he understands how being sued works, but go on. Why cant one Machine Company come clean . One. Of heart, dominion, smartmatic any of you. Why cant one of them just say you know what, just look at this, look inside, Nothing Happened they didnt do anything. Nobody got in there. China didnt hack in there. You know why . Because they cant do that because thats guilty. Guilty [laughter] jimmy the lawsuit just went up to 2. 3 billion. [applause] hes not just being sued by dominion. He, like fox, is also being sued by smartmatic, the other voting Machine Company and believes strongly that fox news screwed up by giving in. They made a terrible mistake what they did. It doesnt make sense when you go into mediation for our First Amendment right of free speech and you make a deal a dirty deal behind closed doors, and ill tell you what we are out here, i will tell you where mine ends. Mine ends when those machines are melted down and turned into prison bars and weve got everybody going that was behind this going let us out, we are sorry we try to take your country. So god bless you and keep the faith. [laughter and applause] jimmy [laughs] want to know what the saddest part is . Hes talking to nobody. We are literally the only ones who are hearing this. Us and that poor guy in the box next to him all day. Fox news admitted that a statement they made about dominion were false but they did not make an onair apology. They went right back to work focusing on the hard news stories that affect real americans every day. There is so much thats contributing to the erasure of women, whether it be changing language i mean, its now offensive to use the term mother, and now it is no longer breastfeeding, its chest feeder. Jimmy thats right. Its a scourge. And the umbilical cord is now called a baby bungee. Mind your ps and qs. In florida, which is kind of the fox news of states, remember that controversial bill they had for Elementary School kids in florida . Today the florida board of education voted to extend that to include high school students. Start with the good news. The good news is there are apparently schools in florida. Okay . [laughter] the bad news is the florida board of education, which is almost an oxymoron the moron part for sure, and probably some oxy in there too. But the florida board of education under this expanded law, teachers will no longer be allowed to discuss gender or Sexual Orientation with their students, not even 12th grade students. This is what ron desantis has been pushing as he tries to prove hes more ridiculous than donald trump. Meanwhile, one of his biggest donors and closest friends, a guy he appointed to the board of governors overseeing floridas Public University system, came out yesterday, this guy committed suicide in december after they wrote about a failed attempt to pay hush money to the father of a teenage girl he allegedly tried to bribe with taylor swift tickets in exchange for photos. He asked for nude photos and then she came to his office to pick up the tickets. The story says he asked her to show him the real thing and then she told her dad, the guy offered the dad money to be quiet, the father said no and the guy shot himself and that is who governor meatball appointed to make decisions about Public Education in his state. But if you have two gay parents please do not mention it aloud. You can think it, but quietly. And the craziest thing is, this comes from a state that is shaped exactly like a penis [applause] this is what we should be worried about. North korea is what we should be worried about. Kim jong un, who we havent heard much from lately, popped up today to announce that north korea has their first Spy Satellite ready to launch, which doesnt make a lot of arent you supposed to not tell people you have a i dont know if he gets the word spy. But lets be honest, this Spy Satellite is probably just gluing a ring camera to a stump rocket. Joe biden released his tax returns yesterday, which after four years of darth taxi bader still seems weird to me that he would release these without being sued but the bidens shared their annual federal income tax return. They made 579,514 last year down slightly from what they made in 2021. Some of this from his salary as president , some is from his parttime job as a greeter at the walmart in virginia. The white house claims biden has released the most tax returns of any president while in office which is the trumpiest possible way to say it. It did shed some light on how they make money. He makes a lot of it through his licensing deals, biden vodka biden colon, biden steaks, biden university, biden water, the board game. Joes taj mahal resort and casino, the biden golf Course Series of biden Trading Cards and jolting joes vibrobelt which is on sale right now. The former governor of new jersey Chris Christie is said to be mulling a run for president against trump which would be a bold move because right now the New Hampshire primary poll has Chris Christie at 2 , which is right under rabies and they spelled his name wrong too. You probably dont remember Chris Christie ran for president in 2016 but he doesnt have much in the way of name recognition nationally. And he would also probably have to face mike pence, who is expected to announce in the coming weeks. He is also polling at around 2 which is not good. I wonder if even mike pence has the recognition to become president. So to find out we went to hollywood boulevard to ask people strolling by who is this man and this is what we learned. Do you know do this man is . He looks familiar but i cannot tell you his name off the top of my head. Do you know who this man is . No. Do you know who this man is . I dont. Who is this man . I dont know. Simon cowell . Do you know who this guy is . Yeah. Who is he . He is the former Vice President. Whats his name . Ron paul . What you think he calls his wife . Darling. Something deep and oldish in the nicest way possible. What if i told you he calls her mother . [laughter] his wife . Mother . Yep. Do you know who this man is . He looks familiar, but is that like somebodys husband . It is somebodys husband. The Vice President s husband. Its the Vice President s husband. Hes famous. What is his wifes name . [laughter] kamala anderson. Do you know who this man is . Yes. Who is it . Joe biden. Do you want him to be president again . No. Do you think joe biden was a better Vice President than mike pence . Yes. Do you think mike pence and joe biden look alike or not really . A little bit. But you wouldnt confuse them. No. What do you think about that picture . It looks like mike pence. Do you think they look alike or not really . A little bit. Which one is whiter . Biden. Who is this man . Putin. What do you know about him . Man, hes at war with sweden right now. Does he look like someone who could be in the space force . No. Is this [bleep] Neil Armstrong . It is. Oh, my god, okay. He scares me used to be the Vice President whats his name . [laughs] i knew it, its right on the tip of my tongue, i just cant think of it right now. I know youre putting me in the spot right now, but but whats his name . Give me the first letter. M. M . Give me his last name. P. Are you sure . Doesnt he look pensive and that picture . He does. Hes pretty cool. He looks kind of mad on that picture right there. He looks pensive, right . Yes he does. Okay, mp are his initials. Michael. Yes. Penicillin. Michael penisson. [applause] balloons, you did it michael penisson jimmy close enough, you know . Fun show for your tonight, from somebody somewhere, Bridget Everett is here. Music from gorillaz with beck and we will be right back with Patrick Stewart next. Next. Stop. We got it . No. Keep going. Aga . Next. Next. If you dont. 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Tomorrow night tomorrow, Jake Gyllenhaal and Whitney Cummings will be here with music from boy genius, so please join us for that. First guess tonight is a celebrated actor and captain of the starship enterprise, you can watch and bid farewell to crew and klingon alike on the final episode of star trek picard tomorrow night on cbs all access. Please say hello to Patrick Stewart. [cheers and applause] its great to have you here, o captain my captain. Youre not the only captain we have here tonight. Really . Jimmy pretty excited captain pablo is here in the audience tonight. Hes got an imaginary starship that hes flying around in. I wonder how he did it. What was the show he was in . All he did was pay 239 bucks on amazon and suddenly hes the captain. Little did you know it was that easy. It was, wasnt it . Jimmy it kind of was. Yeah, i missed out. Jimmy do you remember the last time you were here . The last time you were here i was not here. Ive been here before . Jimmy you have. [laughter] jimmy youve been here with me but the last in you were here was march 12th 2020, which may ring a bell to some people because it was like the last show we did in the studio for seven months. It was the last when covid hit, Pete Buttigieg was hosting the show and he was yes, the host, and i think you guys became friends after that. We have, yeah. We see as much of each other as we can. He is a remarkable man. Jimmy he did one show and you become his friend. Ive done thousands of shows, i have had no contact with you whatsoever. Its interesting. [laughs] it will be like a cameo type thing where you would show up for dinner if i pay . Exactly. Jimmy we have more in common i feel like then you have with Pete Buttigieg. What do you talk about . Transportation . I mean, come on you know, i dont think weve ever talked about that. One of the things he wants to talk about is star trek. Jimmy star trek. So its like an autograph show youve got to go sit there and be questioned about star trek. No, its you know, these surprises continue to happen when you meet someone and as you talk to them there is Something Weird about the conversation and then you realize its a fan. And hes a famous guy, he might be a scientist or a writer, or another actor, but hes a fan. I mean, when i learned several years ago that one of our biggest fans who never missed a show was frank sinatra. Jimmy wow are you kidding me no i wouldnt do that to you [laughter] jimmy how did you learn that . Because my hairdresser not a word. [laughter and applause] jimmy thats a good gig. [laughs] theres a lot of pressure on jimmy. He has to respond to what im saying. Thank you. My hairdresser was also franks wifes hairdresser and he would she would, sorry, she would go out to, you know jimmy palm springs. Yes. Jimmy okay. I know a lot about sinatra. Barbara was his wife, he had a place i grew up in las vegas so i know this stuff. Did you know frank . Jimmy no, i didnt know frank, unfortunately i never got to know frank with the idea that i wonder if he sang fly me to the moon because of you. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. [laughter and applause] all right. All right. He did. Okay, thats the deal. [applause] jimmy did you see him . One day i said i was about to go down to see my client and i said told us what was and she said, and you know what, he watches every single show that we make and loves every moment of it. Jimmy did you ever get to meet him or go see him perform or any of those things . No. But when i grew up in the 40s, 50s, it was a perfect time for hearing that kind of music, that kind of singing that kind of talent. I mean, ive heard some odd things about mr. Sinatra from time to time, but as a you know, ive always thought because ive worked for some nasty people over the years. Jimmy like who for instance . [laughter] who is that youre having on tomorrow night . Jimmy Jake Gyllenhaal. Oh my god jimmy you have an experience with jake . Well, where should i start . Jimmy [laughs] hes a lovely guy. Jimmy yes. You have had bad experiences with some of these people. I have. Jimmy you said it, im just recapping. That was me, wasnt it . Jimmy yeah, that was you. [laughter] and yet the work they do is so fine, so sensational that you forgive it again and again and again, maybe they need to be unpleasant, unattractive unappealing, insulting in order to get the work out because they are all different. Jimmy do you have your own rat pack, a gang of famous people that you hang around with and rub elbows with and get hammered sure. Do you want to know a few names . Jimmy yeah, who are a few . Rex weinhard. Jimmy the starship gang. You recognized. Jimmy i recognize their names. In fact, just for a serious moment, if we can manage it. Jimmy well, we will try. Im still thinking about your hairstylist, but go ahead. [laughter] i mean, really, thats got to how much do you pay you pay this person . I was wearing a toupee, a hairpiece. Jimmy okay. I mean, i am a hairdressers dream come true. If it comes to wearing a wig. Ive worn dozens. This is not a wig. This is flesh. Jimmy thats you, thats you. And a little bit of bone in there. Jimmy we will feel it during the commercial break. You mentioned you are friends and i do want to have i dont want to rush by the serious thing he wanted to say but would like to do if you dont mind is take a break, we will see a clip from the show, the big finale, and then well talk about welcome move talk about the whole gang on enterprise. Star trek picard, the finale is coming up tomorrow on cbs all access. Patrick stewart is with us, we will be right back. [cheers and applause] as someone living with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. 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Come give you little background to this . Jimmy please do. Within weeks of our being together in april, may, 1987. Jimmy thats when it started, 87. Yeah. We became a family. It was very important to me i had never done a job like that before. I had never worked in hollywood before, but the one thing i knew was okay, i was the captain i was flying the ship. But i didnt want to be in some senses i know i was the leader of the company, but i continually insisted we are an ensemble. We are not with different degrees of importance. All of that. And that lasted one of the outcomes of that was that we became such close friends, every single one of us. No exception. Which is a little rare. Jimmy very rare, i would think so. Thats not how it happened with the original star trek cast at all. Really . Jimmy quite famously William Shatner and george tekei are not friendly. They dont like each other. You know this, dont play dumb with me. [laughter] [laughs] jimmy but to have all those people and to have such a did you ever imagine you would still be playing him what is, 40 years . I think its 38 years. Jimmy yeah. No no [applause] jimmy 87, 33 years. 36 years. If i told you this before then just stop me. But when i heard that i had to sign a sixyear contract, i said i cant do that, theres a play im going to do and ive got Something Else lined up and i was a big squash player in those days. I had a competition. And they said look, dont worry about that, youre not going to make it even through the first season. You cannot revive an iconic show like star trek was. Jimmy so they convinced you to stay on by telling you the show wasnt going to work . Yeah. Exactly. This is how smart the people in hollywood really are. Jimmy thats pretty smart. So they said you know, come to hollywood, we will fly you first class, get a nice place to live in, maybe meet some girls. Make some money for the first time in your life, which was true. And then go home. Jimmy and thats not how it worked out at all really. I mean, part of it worked out that way. Its believe me, it is the most important thing that ever happened in my life and my career. Jimmy wow. Oh, yeah. [applause] more important than the xmen . Yes because in a sense i mean, if i had not done star trek, would bryan singer have heard of me and what i have been cast in xmen . I dont know. Jimmy the whole things weird but its fun and people love it and its a huge part of every star trek fans life. The big finale, is it emotional the finale . I assume it was emotional off camera, is it emotional on camera . Actually, it wasnt emotional in that sense. Because we were all new characters. Yes, we had the same names but and this was a conversation i had had before i committed to doing the series we had had these people these people had lived for 25 years between the end of next generation the start of the show. And we changed in 25 years. And what became clear to jeanluc, who was a little bit sad, a little bit lonely, a little bit disappointed in how things turned out, is that he needed some reliable, trustworthy brave colleagues and he called on them one by one and they came, they showed up. He went to help out the doctor because he was in a real fix. And so we werent the same people. Im not the same man i was 27 years ago. Jimmy you are still bald. I am still [laughter] jimmy which is smart, by the way. Go bald early and then you never look old. You think so . You are so smart. Jimmy i appreciate that, i wish you would have me over for dinner like Pete Buttigieg. Im envious and listen, im not the secretary of transportation but i have a lot of good qualities, all right . Think about it, okay . I will think about it and ask my wife. Jimmy talked to levar burton too. Okay, yeah. Jimmy thank you. Done deal. You have evidence, witnesses. Jimmy it is so great to have you here. The star trek picard finale tomorrow on paramount . And with cbs all access is that wrong . What that i get wrong . Its cbs all access. Jimmy while we were talking . All right, watch paramount . Patrick stewart, we will be back with Bridget Everett. [cheers and applause] the galaxy is full of wonders. Strap in baby. Everybody limbo. Follow the light. Exactly. Hang on. May the force be with you. Aint nothin gonna break my stride. Nobodys gonna slow me down. Oh no, i got to keep on moving. Aint nothin gonna break my stride. Wherever you are. Be there with starbucks ready to drink coffee. water splashing hey, dad. Hum. Whats the ocean like . Uh. 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I guess its a talent. [laughter] jimmy it probably is. Great to see you. You are, for those that dont know, i mentioned you are from kansas, youre from manhattan kansas, the show is set in manhattan, kansas, you live in manhattan, new york. When did you move from kansas to new york and what was the plan when you did . I went to Arizona State and studied opera, thank you so much. Jimmy i went to Arizona State as well, i did not study opera however. I did go to Arizona State. Look at us now. All those cake parties and stuff. But i ended up in new york city the big apple, waiting tables and doing a lot of very drunk karaoke. Jimmy drunk karaoke as a hobby, professionally . What was going on . Every sunday night we went to this place called the parlor on the Upper West Side and get myself a little pintsize vodka soda and my bartender friend would give me one straw and once i got to three straws i knew it was time to go home. Jimmy you really did go to Arizona State. Crawling across the bar ripping the shirt open, just kind of trying to live life. Jimmy and do you think thats what gave you the courage to start doing these cabaret shows . That experience . Yeah. I mean, if you stand on enough bars doing karaoke enough times youve got to find another way to channel that because you cant make a living doing that and you can barely make a living doing cabaret but i did. The great art, and like singing storytelling and sometimes if you are me, you were a plunging neckline and sort of let things go where they go and sort of hope for the best. [laughter] jimmy and it became i know you are not going to boast about this but it became like your cabaret performances have become like this super popular thing that people famous people come to see, tons of people. Its like the place to be. Who has been to your show to see your show . We had a couple of boldface names, Gloria Steinem and whatnot, but my friend adam from the beastie boys. Jimmy hes in europe banned . Hes a founding member. He is currently on sabbatical. There is rock roll hall of fame in the Bridget Everett. He would invite a lot of his friends to sort of help me i dont know, help me. Jimmy yeah. Anyway, he invited a lot of people and he would just be like just stay away from my friends because its very interactive and one night he invited ben stiller and the trouble is the vips kind of sit in this area that is like on the road to oz. I like to go out in the audience and talk to people. Im like im not going to talk to him so im just going along and im singing my song and im like coming like a cheetah when she sees her prey because its hunting season every single day and all of a sudden i see ben stiller sitting just right you are and hes looking down at the ground, but his phone is coming up like this. [laughter] and to me, thats an invitation to make a memory. Jimmy sure [laughs] so you know, i think i sat on his lap or whatnot and if youve met ben stiller, which im sure you have, hes the sweetest person, also a little reserved and i think he was sort of full of shock and awe. But he ended up producing my first comedy special. It was worth it. It was worth it. [applause] jimmy whose lap celebritywise would you be most excited to sit in . Its going to be Barry Manilow. [laughs] weve got some fans in the house tonight jimmy does he know this . Is he aware of what a big fan you are . He does now, where can i look . Jimmy hes actually seated in the back. My god us is mike, sorry. Feeling i only wish have you had an opportunity to express her admiration for him . I did go to see Barry Manilow at radio city music hall. My friend brought me and my sister and we took a picture which is supersweet. There he is and then my sister and then me and we took the picture and she posted on facebook the next day and cut me out. Jimmy did she really . She cut you out . Shes a bigger fan than i am so i cant blame her but it hurt. [laughs] jimmy yeah, thats pretty crazy. And what you want to work with what is or who doesnt want to work with Barry Manilow . Jimmy have you put any of his songs in your cabaret or karaoke . Im not going to do that, im not to touch barry. I did do a tribute show that was just like a little moment in time, its a time capsule, we just have to let it live there. What im hoping is one day im on his one more time, one last time tour, always like that he always does the its my last time and i go every time, get the glow sticks, im there. But maybe one day, you know, he will pick me up out of the audience, he will call me up and maybe we will sing like mandy together. I dont know. Jimmy that would be great. [applause] i tell you something, when i was a kid, i loved mandy but when i was a kid i thought it was old man, i thought he was saying old man this old man. I like that too jimmy the last time i saw you we were talking about your mother who had made a video talking about your fathers penis, your late father. How is your mother doing . Shes all right. I mean, i guess shes kind of on the back nine, is that the best way to say it . Sort of. Shes look, shes got a great sense of humor. And i wanted to make a character on our show that was like my mom, but you wouldnt believe that shes real. You know . Obviously shes i just saw her last week and trying to get in all the quality time again and i love her so much and shes you will sort of just be like dead asleep and then you know, she will just be like mom, do you want to sing a song and shes like no. Mom, what about hello dolly . Hello dolly my favorite thing about my mother is the life lessons that she taught me. Jimmy what did she teach you . If theres anybody that has a family of here, you can take this to your own children. She said number one, when you go to mcdonalds and you order a mochaccino, you tell them to make it like they make it for themselves. And thats a good one. [laughter] this is very useful. Before you go out to dinner make sure you eat a Little Something so you dont embarrass yourself. [laughter] jimmy eat dinner before dinner, okay. Yeah and then, you know, get into that elastic band life. [laughter] and then theres more my you know, your dad you cant trust anybody but yourself. Jimmy [laughs] its great to have you here. Your show is great. Season two somebody somewhere, its on hbo and hbo max. Bridget everett, everybody thank you we will be back with gorillaz [cheers and applause] jimmy thanks to Patrick Stewart and Bridget Everett apologies to matt damon. Nightline is next. Their album is called cracker island, here with the song Possession Island with help from beck, gorillaz [cheers and applause] stand and look out on the dark planes where the moon is rising and the hydrofoils are coming back in from the past in silence where things they dont exist and we are all in this together until the end where the pearly gates remain open and welcome me home because the time i came to california i died at the hands of the ghostly queen where things they dont exist and we are all in this together till the end till the end till the end should i ask you ask you for forgiveness forgiveness and open my heart if i say these words will you listen or leave me here in the dark where things they dont exist and we are all in this together till the end till the end where things, they dont exist and were all in this together till the end till the end [cheers and applause] announcer this is nightline. Tonight, rogers strike, from l. A. To new york. 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