Attention, it has been a thrilling 24 hours of television. We had an unbelievable rose bowl game last night. Did you see the trojans won that game . We had a lot of trojan fans i see here in the audience. [ cheers and applause ] i dont care, i mean whatever, you know . We had an episode of the bachelor the likes of which have not been seen since shark week. [ cheers and applause ] because of those two shows you probably missed the premiere of the new Celebrity Apprentice which is hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger who in case you dont know is the guy who used to be the most preposterous celebrity we ever elected to office. Now he is on television on reality television, taking over for donald trump. And it did not go well. Theyre all tying the lowest ratings number last night on the premiere, not many people watched. Allow me to catch you up. They give these celebrities an assignment. For their first assignment arnold challenged the mens team and the womens team to go back in time agreed to take this job. [ laughter ] unfortunately for him they failed. I have the i have to be honest, i have no idea who half the celebrities on the show are. Even when i googled some of them the google was like, who . Theres a lot of the speculation as to what arnolds catch phrase would be. Trump always said youre fired. He had to come up with one too. They thought about it for months. Team arnold and the shows producers, they got together, kicked a lot of ideas around. Ultimately they came up with this. Who is taking the most risks is really what it comes down to, so therefore, carrie, youre terminated. Now get to the chopper. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy of course its youre terminated. Get to the chopper. Those are two of the only sentences in english he knows. [ laughter ] and when arnold says get to the chopper, you better means it. The worst thing about this experience is not earning a penny for my charity. The Humane Society of the united states. Jimmy hold on, we need to look at that again, theres no way she is in that helicopter. They made it look like here we go. There she gets in the helicopter. Okay . And now theres the pilot. Theres not a person in the back. Empty helicopter. [ cheers and applause ] maybe she fell out . Has anyone seen Carrie Keegan . The other elimination was carney wilson, i feel shes been on every reality competition show like four different times. This time arnold mixed things up a bit. It was a very risky thing to, do clearly. Therefore, carney, youre terminated. Hasta la vista, baby. Jimmy oh, got that in. Hes like a talking doll with a pull string in the back. Hasta la vista, baby, is what he said to the maid when she told him she was pregnant with his child, did you know that . [ audience moaning ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thanks. You know what . They got to put the maid on that show. [ laughter ] you know, Charles Manson got out of prison today. They took him to the hospital. He would be great on the new Celebrity Apprentice too. You wouldnt have to google him. [ laughter ] donald trump is still executive producer of the Celebrity Apprentice. It didnt hit me until last night that this show had to get a new host because their old one was elected president. [ laughter ] i mean, i feel like dancing with the stars had to find a new judge because bruno was chosen to lead a mission to mars or something. I wonder if donald trump is happy that the apprentice bombed without him, or was he rooting for it . Because hes the executive producer. I bet he was happy. But maybe he has more important things to worry about now. Like this. This is the cover of a book cnn is publishing about him. He doesnt like the photo. In fact, he tweeted, unprecedented explores the 2016 race and victory, hope it does well, but used worst cover photo of me. They made his face burnt sienna, he prefers sunset nacho. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] its not a great photo. But its not the worst photo. This would be the worst photo to put on the cover. [ laughter ] if all goes well that image will be engraved on a coin one day. In our nations capital, our new congress is back to work. And it is a mess already. House republicans, last night the first thing they did when they came to work was disband something called the office of congressional ethics, the group that investigates any congressional wrongdoing. That was the first thing they did. Its the political equivalent of shooting out the surveillance cameras before you rob the bank. [ laughter ] then they got a lot of criticism from their constituents, from democrats, from speaker paul ryan, and from donald trump, who tweeted, with all that congress has to come on do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it may be their number one act and priority . Focus on blah, blah, blah draintheswamp. The republicans got together, oh crap, now everyones against us. They had an emergency meeting and they reversed. The first thing they actually did, they immediately undid. Which is absolutely perfect. Meanwhile, guess whos coming to the inauguration now . It was announced today that bill and Hillary Clinton will be at the this might be the first inauguration where the former president and first lady are patted down for weapons as enter. [ laughter ] but they say hillary has been debating for weeks whether to go, and ultimately decided she would attend in order to pay respect to the democratic process. Or maybe to pay her last respects to the democratic process, im not sure. Bills just going for melania. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] he likes to look at her. Wouldnt that be the greatest . Wouldnt that be the single greatest hookup of alltime . 50 50 hillary pulls a red wedding at that inauguration. Or at least a kanye. Yann . Anyone get a hatchivemal for christmas . The hard to get toy this holiday season. Its a plastic egg that hatches and an adorable furry creature, a robot comes out and makes noise. But theres some controversy now about the noises these hatchimals are making. I guess theyre supposed to say, hug me. Saying something else. Oh, oh jimmy i dont know, maybe the hatchimal is looking to make other hatchimals . Guillermo what did that sound like to you . Guillermo [ bleep ] me. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy it sounded like that . It did . Guillermo yeah. Thats what i hear. Jimmy thats a first for us. Speaking of hatchimals, verne troyer who is better known as mini me did a nice thing. He visited a Wolf Sanctuary in california to raise awareness for wolves. And these wolves, you think wolves are scary, but theyre really beautiful. Even sometimes affectionate animals. Were project. We are a nonprofit wolf dog rescue, advocacy, and education organization. Raising puppies we had to find special wolf formula to feed them, up around the clock, our volunteer team was here to help us raise them. Jimmy oh my goodness. [ laughter ] [ applause ] we have to take a break. When we come back from the break i have some important holiday gift etiquette to discuss. The vatican just got a mcdonalds. And we will go out on hollywood boulevard for a fun and foolish game so stick around, well be right back. vo its that time of year again. When you realize you still didnt get quite what you wanted. Thats why verizon has the best deals of the year on the best network. 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Taraji p. Henson and music from mike posner coming. Today was the first day back to work after the new years break. You ask your coworkers how their vacation was and immediately tune out after they start answering. Also today is a day you thank people for gifts. I give a lot of gifts out for christmas and i get a lot of gifts probably in return. I think half the gifts i get are, crap, jimmy and molly sent us a gift, we better get some. Then we get scones four days after christmas. Heres a problem i had this year over and over again. About 5 of the gifts i get come with no tag. Theres no note. The card falls off. Then i have to figure out where theyre from. Which is almost impossible to do. And thats annoying. But this year i had a new problem. This wasnt an accident. This ye got, the giver of the gift only wrote his first name on it. So i got four gifts in four different boxes from will. From will. I know five wills. And that doesnt count bills or billys or williams. I know five guys who go by just will. I hope that i will find the will who send me a jar of granola, but i still have not. I got a food basket from tony. I am italian, okay . [ laughter ] i have an uncle tony, a neighbor tony, there are between three and five tonys work here, i know tony romo, my accountants name is tony. I know two women named toni. I have more tonys than linmanuel miranda. I have no idea who sent this food basket to me. Now i have to send asking various tonys in my life, did you get me this food basket . If they didnt get me something, they feel bad. No, i did get you something but it might not get there till after christmas. Anyway. Tony, whichever tony you are, thank you for the food basket. I ate it. [ laughter ] you will not get a thank you note from me because i ate that too. [ laughter ] next year, maybe a last name would be really great for me. For anyone else suffering from this terrible problem. Meanwhile, this is interesting. Theres a mcdonalds now at the vatic vatican. Vatican city. Golden arches right there, right in front of st. Peters basilica. Now you can get fat again at the vatican. [ laughter ] plautds applause [ applause ] some people in italy and cardinals are upset. Not only is there a mcdonalds right next to the vatican, it opens the door for other fast food chains to move in, and they are chipopele. Papa john the baptist. Churchs chicken. Little diocaesars. Ash wendys. North starbucks. In and out, but only if youre married. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. This is good from or nbc affiliate in l. A. Which gets tonights award for most creative way to protect the anonymity of a source. The owner of h. I. D. Evolution asked us to conceal his identity since the crooks have not been arrested. I just felt completely shocked and vulnerable. Jimmy i dont know about you, i love when it young people can combine their love of disguise with a passion for floral arranging. All right, its time for a game. This has got to be the easiest game ever invented called dont talk into the mike and win 10. Selfexplanatory, dont talk in the mike, then we give you 10. Lets play the game. Dont talk into this microphone and win 10, knock. Okay. You lost. Dont talk into this mike and win 10. You ready . She talk . Oh, im so sorry. Want to play dont talk into the mike and win 10 . Dont talk in the mike what does that mean . That means you just lost. Dont talk into the mike and win 10. Okay . Okay. Oh, too bad. You want to try again . All right, yeah. Do you want to try again . What . See ya. Dont talk into this mike and win 10. All right. No, you lost already. Gimme the microphone dont talk into this microphone and win 10, okay . You ready . I couldnt hear you. Whats your name . Tyler. Game over. Into this mike and win 10 . Does that mean yes or no . Would you like to play dont talk into this mike and win 10 . Yeah. Oh. Hi, dont talk into this microphone and win 10. What . You just lost it. Oh. So youre not supposed to talk. The name of the game is dont talk into this microphone and win 10, okay . Okay. You lost again. That sucks. Dont talk into this mike and win 10. Are you ready . You want to play . Do you want to win . Dont talk into the mike and you win 10. Dont talk and you win. Dont talk and you win. Do you want to play . Do you want to play . Do you want to win . Here you go. You did it [ bleep ]. Youve got to give him the 10. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. No 10 for you. [ bleep ], [ bleep ] out of here, dont do that. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy today on our show we have music from mike posner, from fences jovan adepo, and taraji p. Henson every l certified preowned lexus comes with an unlimited mileage l certified warranty. Get 0. 9 apr financing on is and gs l certified models. Exclusively at your lexus dealer. Oh, its actually. Sfx short balloon squeal its ver. Sfx balloon squeals ok can we. Sfx balloon squeals goodbye oof, that milk in your coffee was messing with you, wasnt it . Try lactaid, its real milk, without that annoying lactose. Good right . Yeah. Lactaid. The milk that doesnt mess with you. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Jimmy welcome back to the show. Tonight from the Denzel Washington movie fences, jovan adepo is here. He is also on the show the leftovers. Then later, hes a grammy nominee. His latest album is called at night, alone. Music from mike posner. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night on the show, we have another good one. Tomorrow night, Kevin Costner will be here, andy richter will join us, as will the very funny k. Trevor wilson. And thursday, mel gibson and music from fantastic negrito. [ cheers and applause ] which is quite a lungful. Im going to try to get them together. I think that would be great. Our first guest tonight is a golden globewinning actress, a bestselling author and the tarajiest guest weve ever had. Math genius to her resume in the criticallyacclaimed new movie Hidden Figures. Please welcome taraji p. Henson. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy how are you . Im good. Jimmy enjoying the new year so far . I am. Were in day what . Jimmy were in day four. Whos counting . Its a new year. Jimmy somebodys counting, yeah. Yeah. Jimmy whatd you do over the break . Go out of town . I did. I got a little r r on a private island. Jimmy on a okay. I wanted to ask you about a tweet that you sent out. You said, i will, capital letters, own my very own private jet to take me to my very own private island, godis. What prompted this . Did you have a terrible experience on a plane of some kind . Who likes tsa . [ laughter ] i mean, if im going to dream big, go for it. If i want to own my private island, who flies commercial to their own private island . Jimmy youre right. The jet cant even land on the private island. Youre going to have to leap out of the plane. Exactly. Jimmy then swim to the island. Yeah. Jimmy i dont think ive ever been on a private island. Is it good, right . Its amazing. I mean, you know. Jimmy they have wifi on the island . Uh jimmy forget it then. You can stay on airplane mode. Jimmy id rather be on Rikers Island with wifi. Your producer said that. Jimmy i would rather be in alcatraz. No, thats terrible. Jimmy its true. It may be terrible. The things social media is doing to us . This is terrible. Jimmy yeah, yes. So what did you do . How many people were there . Maybe ten of us. Jimmy ten people. Yeah, and i didnt have to worry about being caught on the beach in a position. Jimmy oh like not sucking in. The rumor is now im pregnant. Jimmy is there a rumor youre pregnant . You know, people say things. The bloggers pick it up. Now people believe it and i have to answer it when i come on a show like this. Jimmy yeah, i wasnt even going to ask. I didnt think you were pregnant. Thank you. Because there were no pictures taken. Jimmy congratulations. Youre having a baby . [ laughter ] [ applause ] im confused, im sorry. See why we need wifi . So we can verify this kind of stuff. Exactly. I can shut down the rumors. Jimmy my wife is pregnant and she went across the street to cvs today. And a guy im going to try to she texted this to me. A guy looked at her in the face and said, hey then looked at her stomach and went, whoa wait, was that his clue not to hit on her . Jimmy its a pretty good clue as far as they go, yeah. I think so. Jimmy when youre on an small group, you obviously have to get along with the people. Do you at any point during the trip decide like, okay, say we all get stranded here, who are we going to eat first . [ laughter ] i never think like that. Jimmy you dont think like that . I try not to. Then i wouldnt enjoy the vacation. Jimmy what if there were somebody really delicious on the island . [ laughter ] i barely eat animal flesh. Jimmy oh, yeah, youd be in a lot of trouble, id be in the coconut trees. Trying to catch a fish or Something Like that. Jimmy this story, this movie that youre in, is a great such a great story. And i always wonder, how the hell did i never hear this story before . Have you heard this story before . Never. Jimmy tell us a little about the story itself. Well, this story is about women who had a lot to do with the nasa program in the 60s. During the great space race. And this one woman in particular, which i portray her, katherine johnson, very much alive, shes 98 years old. Jimmy wow, 98. Yes, 98. And she was the brilliant mind jimmy shed be the one you eat, right . At 98. [ laughter ] i mean, no offense. Listen, youve got to eat somebody what happened here . Now im eating my hero, what is happening . Jimmy a heros delicious with all the stuff on it. Might as well give me my wings. Jimmy im sorry. I know ive ruined your story. You did. How do i get back . Jimmy i dont know, theres really no way back in. Maybe we should take a break. Okay. Jimmy in fact, in the audience, look around, think about who you might want to eat, well come back. Taraji p. Henson is with us. The movie is Hidden Figures. Well be right back [ cheers and applause ] i think we can finally get a bigger place. Bigger place . Yeah, let me check my score too. Try credit karma. Its free. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Choose. Choose. Choose. But at bedtime. Why settle for this . Enter sleep number and the