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00:00So we sell Danya and Paul Acre with the Kletos.
00:06And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:24Well, it's very nice. I'm Jimmy.
00:26I'm the host of the show.
00:28Thank you for watching. Thank you for coming.
00:30And thank you for joining us on a very American holiday,
00:34the Monday after Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday,
00:37the one day a year we set aside time to shop online.
00:41And it's really... Did you buy a lot of crap today?
00:44You did.
00:46I like to walk around the office on Cyber Monday
00:48to watch people who work here
00:50shut their computers quicker than, like,
00:52than a teenager looking at porn.
00:54Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday,
00:57this is that wondrous time of the year
00:59when you learn that every company in America
01:01somehow has your e-mail address.
01:03Today is Cyber Monday.
01:05Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday.
01:07And this is a good day.
01:09And then Wednesday, I guess you're just supposed to be alone
01:13with your thoughts on Wednesday. I don't know.
01:15How was your Thanksgiving, Guillermo?
01:17It was great. Fantastic, Jimmy.
01:18It was good.
01:19Did your Thanksgiving chicken turn out okay?
01:21Good. Real good, yes.
01:23Who carved your Thanksgiving chicken?
01:25My wife did. Your wife did.
01:26Yeah, she's for everybody.
01:27Beautiful. And then did she bring it out
01:29to show everyone first?
01:30Yes, she put it in the table.
01:32Did you watch the Thanksgiving Day parade?
01:34No, I did not.
01:35You did not. Is that not a tradition in your house?
01:37No, I was at the gym. I went to the gym.
01:39Oh. Yeah.
01:40Yeah.
01:41On Thanksgiving?
01:42Yeah. In the morning, yeah.
01:44I went in the morning.
01:45Because I knew I was going to eat a lot, so.
01:47Uh-huh, uh-huh.
01:48So, yeah.
01:49What did you do at the gym?
01:50I run. I run two miles.
01:51You did?
01:52And I do exercise, yes.
01:53Why go to the gym to run when it's nice out?
01:55You could just run around the block, right?
01:57Yeah, but it's better at the gym.
01:59Okay.
02:00There's a lot of women at the gym.
02:01Oh, I see.
02:03Your wife is going to carve your ass up.
02:05Yeah, it's okay.
02:06This is from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
02:09Al Roker surprised the young girl for her birthday with tickets to see the Rockettes.
02:14This is Elliot.
02:15Hi, Elliot.
02:16So, how old are you?
02:17Today's your birthday?
02:18Yeah.
02:19Happy birthday.
02:20And how old?
02:21Seven.
02:22Seven.
02:23And are you excited to see the Rockettes?
02:24Yeah.
02:25Would you be?
02:26Well, guess what, Elliot?
02:27We've got a very special something for you.
02:29Look here.
02:30You've got a golden ticket!
02:32You get to see the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.
02:35Are you excited?
02:36I did that yesterday.
02:37You did it yesterday!
02:38Oh, my golly!
02:39Will you get to see him again?
02:40Yay!
02:41Yay!
02:42Yay, yay, yay.
02:43Should we fire the producer now or wait till we go to break?
02:49President Trump spent his holiday at Mar-a-Lago, where he issued a warm Thanksgiving message.
02:54He wrote,
02:55A very happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our great American citizens and patriots who've been so nice.
03:01All right.
03:02That's something, right?
03:03So nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at.
03:11Murdered, mugged, beaten, and laughed at.
03:14I hate to be the one to tell you our country isn't being laughed at. They're laughing at you.
03:19And then Trump lashed out at Tim Walls, of all people, calling him the seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walls.
03:33See, he can be presidential when he wants to be.
03:36I wonder why he didn't get that Nobel Peace Prize.
03:38It makes no sense.
03:39Trump posted that little blessing on Thanksgiving. It caused quite an uproar, even among a handful of Republicans.
03:46And I think he might have been feeling a little bad about it when asked to explain onboard Air Force One.
03:51In that same post, you mentioned Tim Walls, and you called him, what many Americans do find an offensive word, retarded.
03:58Do you stand by that claim of calling Tim Walls retarded?
04:01Yeah, I think there's something wrong with him. Absolutely.
04:04Do you have a problem with him? You know what? I think there's something wrong with him.
04:09Another bold statement from the president of the eighth grade.
04:13Governor Walls, in response to Trump, called on the president to release the results of that perfect MRI he got.
04:20You know, the one he still has no idea why he was given?
04:23Well, guess what? He still doesn't know why he got it or even where.
04:27What part of your body was the MRI looking at?
04:29I have no idea. It was just an MRI. What part of the body?
04:32It wasn't the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.
04:36I got a perfect part, which you would be incapable of doing.
04:39Goodbye, everybody. You too.
04:42Wow, that Melania is a lucky lady indeed. She really is.
04:46As far as his brain stuff, I don't know what people are worried about.
04:49I mean, this is from this weekend. He looks fine to me.
04:52That was the moment just after his teeth fell into his omelet.
04:57Poor guy. He hasn't been the same since Jeffrey Epstein died, you know? You lose a friend.
05:03Unfortunately, Trump's MRI results have somehow gotten mixed up with those tax returns he was supposed to release in 2016.
05:10But does this seem like the rambling of a man who aced a cognitive exam?
05:15There is a new word for a Trump Republican. It is T-publican or T-publican?
05:22Trumplicans. Trumplicans. I don't think Trumplicans is going to stick.
05:27What about Don-a-sores? Or maybe just DJ T-bags. I don't know.
05:33He's also claiming he has his highest poll numbers ever, which means it's not just books he can't read.
05:44Trump's approval rating, according to every major poll, is the lowest since we flushed him out of office the first time.
05:51His negative rating is now at 60%. There are gas station bathrooms on Yelp with higher approval ratings than Donald Trump right now.
06:00And we're not headed in an upward direction.
06:03Trump has pardoned yet another nefarious character, Juan Hernandez, the former president of Honduras,
06:08who was responsible for sending 500 tons of cocaine to the United States,
06:13and once bragged he would, quote,
06:15stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
06:20He served about a year and a half of that before Trump let him out.
06:23Now, some have pointed out this unbelievable hypocrisy of Trump blowing up boats,
06:28killing random Venezuelans because they believe there are low-level drug runners in the boats
06:34while simultaneously pardoning a man who sent a million pounds of cocaine to this country.
06:40But those people are just haters and losers, you know? I mean, lighten up.
06:43When he was running for president, Trump made it very clear his top priorities were,
06:47A, pardoning drug kingpins, and B, building a place to ballroom dance.
06:52Promises made, promises kept.
06:55And then we have the guy who has been giving the orders to actually shoot the boats, Pete Hegseth.
07:01Pete had a rough Thanksgiving. We learned this weekend that the first time our military shot the boats,
07:06there were two survivors after the initial strike holding onto wreckage, floating in the water.
07:11According to the Washington Post, Pistol Pete gave the specific order to kill everybody,
07:16and so they did. Although in his defense, you know, we've all done some crazy stuff when we're drunk.
07:21Usually, usually when Pete Hegseth orders enough bombs to kill everyone, they come with a shot of sake.
07:28But members of Congress from both sides believe Hegseth may have committed a war crime.
07:34Trump even distanced himself from it.
07:36So now they've changed the sign again to the Department of War Crimes.
07:40Here we go. Here's the thing. There's no way they know who was on these boats.
07:45They could just be fishermen. President El Porchapo said, blow him up anyway.
07:50He doesn't care. He doesn't even eat fish that don't start with filet-o.
07:55He's... We have killed more than 80 people in these little boats already.
08:00The White House is hoping to oust the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro,
08:04who the State Department designated as the leader of a terrorist drug cartel.
08:09Trump reportedly had a phone call with Maduro last week, but he's keeping that on the DL.
08:13The New York Times reported that you had a phone call with Maduro. Did you?
08:17I don't want to comment on it. The answer is yes.
08:20It's like each half of his brain is fighting with the other.
08:29Meanwhile, while her husband is playing Battleship, the First Lady unveiled the White House Christmas decorations.
08:35The theme this year, there's a theme every year. This year's theme is, home is where the heart is.
08:40Which I think is their way of saying, expect more flight delays at Christmas.
08:44And if one could sum up the Trump administration in one moving image, I think it would be this.
08:49A row of beautifully decorated Christmas trees lined up next to an Etsy painting of Trump getting shot in the ear.
08:57The red is blood and the green is money. You got that, kids?
09:00It really is a shame because, you know, Melania put so much work into the Christmas decorations.
09:06And she had them make a gingerbread model of the White House.
09:10It's very detailed. It's all in miniature on the inside and the outside.
09:13And then, you know, guess who comes in and smashes the whole thing down.
09:18I made space for the ballroom.
09:20And then he ate it. So, sorry, Melania.
09:24Speaking of holiday traditions, over the Thanksgiving break,
09:27uh, Kristi Noem's least favorite competition, the national dog show.
09:31This year, Soleil, a Belgian sheepdog, won best in show,
09:36beating out this fluffy fellow sheepdog of the English variety.
09:39Sheepdog. Monday good morning.
09:42As I have said before, if the judge picks through all of that hair
09:46and finds only one eye, he's got the wrong end of the dog.
09:50You said that more than once?
09:55I like the idea that that's a tradition, isn't it?
09:59Regular dog show viewers are like,
10:00Honey, he's doing the B-hole joke again. Get in here!
10:05Today, as you probably know, is December 1st.
10:08The dawn of a new month, the final month of the year has arrived.
10:13And once again, our nation's newscasters have been caught completely by surprise.
10:18December 1st. I can't believe it.
10:20I can't believe it. I can't believe it.
10:22I can't believe it.
10:23I can't believe it's the 1st of December already.
10:24December 1st, that's hard to believe.
10:26December 1st, that's hard to believe.
10:27December 1st, that's hard to believe.
10:28December 1st, hard to believe.
10:29December, hard to believe.
10:31December, hard to believe.
10:32December, hard to believe.
10:33December, it's hard to believe.
10:34December, hard to believe.
10:35It's hard to believe it.
10:36It is December.
10:37It's hard to believe, but it is December.
10:38It's hard to believe it's December already.
10:39I can't believe it's December already.
10:40I can't believe it's December already.
10:41I can't believe it's December already.
10:42I can't believe it's December.
10:43I can't believe it's December 1st.
10:44December 1st, can you believe it?
10:45December 1st, can you believe it?
10:46December 1st, can you believe it?
10:47December 1st, can you believe it?
10:48December 1st, can you believe it?
10:49December, can you believe?
10:50December, can you believe?
10:51December, can you believe it?
10:52Can you believe it's December?
10:54Can you believe it's December 1st?
10:55December 1st?
10:56Can you believe that it's Monday?
10:57No, none of that.
10:58Monday? I said Monday!
10:59The morning crew already made Kimmel.
11:01We're not going to do that.
11:02I said Monday.
11:04Well, I'm feeling generous, Justin.
11:06You made it anyway.
11:07Congratulations.
11:09And we expect to see you all again in January.
11:12Hey, we got a festive show for your night.
11:15A living legend, if ever there was one.
11:17Paul Anka is here with us tonight.
11:19And we'll be right back with Zoe Saldana, so stick around.
11:31Hiya, welcome back tonight.
11:33A bona fide music legend.
11:35He has a new album called Inspirations of Life and Love
11:38and a new documentary on HBO called Paul Anka His Way.
11:42Paul Anka is here with us tonight.
11:44This week, we've got new shows with, uh, let's see,
11:49John Cena, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Nealon,
11:52Cameron Crowe will be with us, Drewski,
11:54and Miley Cyrus will be here.
11:55We'll have music from Rufus Wainwright,
11:57Silvana Estrada, and Jack Johnson, too.
12:00Our first guest tonight is an Oscar-winning actor
12:03who is back on Pandora for the long-anticipated Avatar,
12:07Fire and Ash.
12:08It opens in theaters December 19th.
12:10Please welcome Zoe Saldana.
12:24How are you?
12:26I'm good.
12:28You look fantastic and very festive as well.
12:31Thank you so much, yes.
12:32Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
12:33We did, we did.
12:35Um, this year, Thanksgiving was also, um,
12:37paired with my sons, my older sons, their birthday.
12:40Oh.
12:41They turned 11, so.
12:42Oh, wow.
12:43All right, so we...
12:44So we had a Thanksgiving slash birthday.
12:45It was really nice.
12:46What do you mean?
12:47Did you put candles in the turkey and bring it out?
12:49I mean, we did not put candles in the turkey,
12:52and it was hard for us to find a cake that looked like a turkey.
12:55That's what they wanted.
12:56Yeah.
12:57They, and did they resent the idea that their birthday
12:59sometimes falls on Thanksgiving?
13:01No, they actually appreciate it,
13:02because we've always told them that they were,
13:04they were the biggest gift we've ever received,
13:06and we're always so thankful.
13:07I know.
13:08I know.
13:09Oh, that's...
13:10It is a blessing to have kids on Thanksgiving.
13:12And they buy into that, huh?
13:13They do.
13:14They still do.
13:15Okay.
13:16Growing up, was Thanksgiving a big deal in your house?
13:19Yes.
13:20I mean, for my sisters and I, it was,
13:21because we were first-generation Latinas.
13:23Mm-hmm.
13:24But for my parents, we always had to remind them.
13:26And I would go,
13:27Mommy, it's Thanksgiving.
13:28When?
13:29Mommy, this Thursday is Thanksgiving.
13:31Oh, okay.
13:32And she would make a...
13:33She would make cork and rice and potato salad
13:36instead of a turkey.
13:37And then one year, we told her,
13:39we just want a traditional turkey like everybody else.
13:42And she's like, okay.
13:44And she got the recipe, you know, from a magazine,
13:47and she overstuffed the turkey and undercooked it.
13:49It was like, oh, she's so delicious.
13:51What'd she put in there, you know?
13:53Like, a lot of apples.
13:54I'm like, how many apples did you put in it?
13:56She goes, I put, like, three apples.
13:57It was...
13:59In a way, your mother pardoned the turkey every year,
14:01you know?
14:02I know.
14:03And this is the irony.
14:04Now we're the ones that make the turkey,
14:05and every time we have Thanksgiving,
14:07we're craving the pork, so...
14:08You want the pork?
14:09Yeah.
14:10You can have both, you know?
14:11I think so.
14:12And Thanksgiving is always just about
14:14bringing families together.
14:15And I feel like today, in age,
14:18it's just whatever Thanksgiving means to you,
14:20as long as we're all coming together,
14:22and we're bonding and staying connected,
14:23which is...it's beautiful.
14:25Yeah, I mean, after what people went through
14:27in the airport this weekend,
14:29you know, there were, like,
14:30almost 2,000 flights got canceled yesterday.
14:32Oh, my God.
14:33That makes you...
14:34You must mean you really love your family, you know?
14:36Yeah.
14:37So it's probably the only time you get to see them,
14:39so you have to make it.
14:40Yeah.
14:41So how about, like, Christmas time?
14:44Was that kind of traditional,
14:46as far as American Christmas goes?
14:48No, it wasn't.
14:49When did the lights go up for you guys at Christmas time?
14:51We would put up lights sometimes right after Halloween.
14:54Oh, wow.
14:55So I would say, like, October 31st,
14:56like, we were trick-or-treating and putting up lights.
14:59Really?
15:00And sometimes I remember there was one year
15:02where we didn't put our tree down until it was March.
15:05You have birthdays on Thanksgiving,
15:07and you put up Christmas lights on Halloween.
15:09There's a lot of multitasking going on in your family.
15:11I know, but my mom...
15:12My mom is an Aquarius,
15:13so she, you know, she runs to the beat of her own drum.
15:15And for her, it was more about, like,
15:17well, do the lights make you happy?
15:19Does the tree make you happy?
15:20And we're like, it makes us happy.
15:22Let's leave the tree on.
15:23So why not leave them up all year then?
15:27But here's the thing.
15:28We could have put it down by the end of January,
15:30but I think that we just kept forgetting
15:32and kept blaming the other person.
15:34Like, it's your turn, it's your turn.
15:35So it stayed up until March.
15:36It stayed up until the neighbors had no problem with that?
15:39No, they did.
15:40No smart remarks?
15:41Your mother seems like a character.
15:43Yes, she is.
15:45And I feel like she's like a fine wine.
15:47The older she gets, the more...the better she is.
15:50The freer she is?
15:51No.
15:52That's...
15:53Thank God she's a little more conservative now.
15:55But back then, my mom was, you know,
15:58she would go to topless beaches.
15:59I mean, she would be topless in beaches
16:01where you weren't supposed to be topless.
16:03Really?
16:04And when you're growing up,
16:05to be, like, a teenager that's, like,
16:06you're embarrassed and you're feeling uncomfortable
16:09in your own body, and here's your mom, like,
16:12hi, hello, like...
16:14Super free.
16:16Where were these beaches that your mother was?
16:19In Dominican Republic.
16:20We're like, Asalia, this isn't Ibiza.
16:22This is Dominican Republic.
16:23They're all Catholic here.
16:24Let's not do this.
16:25But she was like, I don't care.
16:26Wow.
16:27Did that just make you want to bury yourself in the sand?
16:31I think I did bury myself in the sand a couple of times.
16:33Yeah.
16:34And it wasn't until I became older
16:36that I have a deep appreciation for the fact that my mom
16:39has always done things her way.
16:41Yeah.
16:42Right.
16:43Yeah, she sure did.
16:44And you know what?
16:45I bet all the young boys on the beach
16:47had an appreciation for that, too.
16:49Trust me.
16:50All my friends did.
16:51They always wanted to go to the beach with us.
16:53Guillermo, did your mother ever go topless on the beach?
16:55No, no, never.
16:56No?
16:57No.
16:58No.
16:59No.
17:00It's not too late, you know?
17:01No.
17:02She's 75.
17:03No, no.
17:04Oh, my God.
17:05She should have hung out with my mom.
17:07You guys met your family, met Pope Leo.
17:10We did.
17:11In September, right?
17:12Yes, this year.
17:13Oh, I have a photograph of that.
17:14Here you go.
17:15There's the proof.
17:16There's you meeting the Pope.
17:17And now, does the Pope, like, he know your work?
17:21Has he seen Guardians of the Galaxy or Avatar or anything
17:24like that?
17:25I mean, I hope so.
17:26But we were definitely, it was a very beautiful encounter.
17:30At first, you tell yourself, oh, it's just the Pope.
17:33Like, it's just a human being.
17:34And what are we doing?
17:35But as we were there and everybody was gathering
17:38and his sermon was so beautiful, I mean,
17:41you can see in the smiles of my sons, they were so, you
17:44know, they were so overwhelmed and so happy.
17:46Yeah, they do look happy.
17:47Yeah, they do look interesting.
17:48And we are proud.
17:49Like, he is American, guys.
17:50This is the first time we have an American Pope.
17:52Yeah, yeah.
17:53And that's kind of awesome.
17:54Did you, um...
17:56Did you by any chance tell the Pope that your mom
17:59would go topless on the beach?
18:00No.
18:01No, but if I ever meet him again, I will definitely
18:04tell him about Asadio.
18:06Did you have, like, a...
18:08It's weird to...
18:09So weird to have an American Pope, isn't it?
18:11It is.
18:12It is.
18:13The idea that, like, he watches baseball games
18:15and probably watches the Bears on...
18:17Well, probably not on Sunday.
18:18He's not watching the Bears.
18:19But when the Bears are on Monday night,
18:21he's probably watching those games.
18:23And he's from Chicago, right?
18:24Isn't he from Illinois?
18:25He's from Chicago, yeah.
18:26So he would have, like, a Chicago accent,
18:27which is kind of awesome.
18:28You didn't have...
18:29I would have been...
18:30If I was meeting the Pope and I was you,
18:31I'd be like, jeez, I wonder if he's seen
18:33any of my movies.
18:34And I'm...
18:35You know, I...
18:36Because, you know, he's meeting people all day long.
18:38And he's...
18:39You know, he wasn't always the Pope.
18:40He's now the Pope.
18:41But before, he was just, you know, he was a priest.
18:45And before that, just a guy.
18:46Yeah.
18:47Right?
18:48Exactly.
18:49He must have had those 3D goggles on at Avatar.
18:51I hope so.
18:52I really hope so.
18:53But next time I meet him, I am gonna ask him, like,
18:56have you seen Avatar?
18:57At least Avatar.
18:58Yeah.
18:59Because he can't lie and say, oh, yes.
19:02Well, can he?
19:03Like, can he do that?
19:04I hope.
19:05I hope he doesn't.
19:06Yeah.
19:07Well, if he had the Pope...
19:08I guess a white lie is even wider when it comes to the Pope.
19:09Where are you going with this?
19:11Probably to hell.
19:12It's where I'm going.
19:13Yeah.
19:14We're gonna take a break.
19:15When we come back, we're gonna see a clip
19:17from the new Avatar movie, Avatar Fire and Ash,
19:20Billy Salvani.
19:22So what am I supposed to do?
19:29I can't run.
19:31I can't fight.
19:33Well, that's right.
19:34Awa will provide.
19:36Yeah?
19:37So where was Awa?
19:38Where was Awa when our son...
19:40Jake!
19:41I'm in this place where I have nothing.
19:46Not my people.
19:48Not my forest.
19:50Even my father's bow is gone.
19:56All I have is my faith.
20:00That is Avatar Fire and Ash.
20:03It opens at theaters December 19th.
20:05This is Zoe Saldana, who, uh...
20:08You, um...
20:09So that was...
20:11The first one was like, what, like 16 years ago?
20:13Something like that?
20:14Yeah, it came out in 2009, but I was cast in 2006.
20:17The second one was...
20:202000...
20:21Came out in 2022?
20:232022.
20:24Mm-hmm.
20:25And now here we have number three.
20:26You shot number two and three at the same time.
20:27Yes, we did.
20:28Uh, what was different about, uh, the jump between those,
20:32number one, number two, and three?
20:34Was anything significantly different?
20:36I mean, we acquired more skills.
20:39In the beginning, um, I was able to...
20:42And for Avatar 1, I became an archer.
20:45I'm not professional, but I learned archery and to ride a horse without a saddle.
20:50And, like, really big Frisian, those big Scottish horses.
20:54Um, I also learned to...
20:57I learned to ride an ikran, but, you know, when we're shooting in performance capture,
21:02you're not really riding a big dinosaur-looking bird.
21:05You're just riding big men.
21:07And, um...
21:08Really?
21:09Yes.
21:10What do you mean by big...
21:11What do you mean by big men?
21:13Uh, just...
21:14Like how...
21:15Tall men?
21:16Big men?
21:17Really athletic, tall, um, you know, stunt men that are...
21:23And we would...
21:24We would put a saddle on...
21:25On them.
21:26And I would...
21:27I would ride them, yes.
21:30You didn't learn to ride them without a saddle, just the horses.
21:33Just...
21:34Just the horses, yes.
21:35So these guys would have saddles on, and, like, you'd be riding them for hours at a time?
21:39I mean, nobody would believe me.
21:40I was just, like, literally...
21:41I booked the biggest movie for the most amazing filmmaker,
21:45and I'm here riding big men.
21:47Like, I just couldn't...
21:48And so there were no more big men in this most recent one?
21:51No, no.
21:52Then for Avatar Way of Water, we all took up free diving lessons,
21:57and we learned to hold our breath for a long period of time under water.
22:01Mm-hmm.
22:02And in this one, some of the actors learned to play with fire,
22:05because now we're introducing a clan called the Mengguan clan,
22:08and they're called the Ash People, and it's because they grew up in areas
22:12that are closer to volcanoes, and fire is their element.
22:19I see.
22:20So they can do, like, tricks and stuff with fire?
22:22Yeah.
22:23Yeah.
22:24But you learned, well, archery.
22:25Yes, among other things, yes.
22:26And tonight, you're going to demonstrate, and maybe teach me to shoot an arrow.
22:32Okay.
22:33Yeah, would that be...is that something, Eric?
22:34I would love that, yes.
22:35Okay, because we have a lot of pain here.
22:37We're gonna do it now.
22:39Yeah.
22:40Would you like to?
22:41Is that okay?
22:42Yeah, let's do it.
22:43We have a...we've got a bow for you.
22:45Okay, this is mine.
22:46There's your bow.
22:47Because I'm a lefty.
22:48Hold on.
22:49Okay. Oh, you're a lefty?
22:50Okay.
22:51Yes.
22:52Oh, all right, all right.
22:53Well, did you know that all Navis are lefty?
22:54No, I didn't know that.
22:55Because Jim and I were our lefties, and when we were putting together
22:59the Navi culture back in 2006, he was like,
23:02well, if you're a lefty, I'm a lefty.
23:04Let's just make them all lefty.
23:05He was like, okay.
23:06All the right-handed people on set were like, oh.
23:10I did notice that you only have four fingers, so did that affect your...
23:14Three fingers.
23:15Three fingers.
23:16Oh, what, the thumb doesn't count?
23:17Three fingers and a thumb.
23:18Oh, and a thumb.
23:19Yeah, right.
23:20Yes.
23:21I count the thumb.
23:22Oh, wait.
23:23I'm gonna borrow some.
23:24Okay.
23:25Oh, you got the arrows already.
23:26Yes.
23:27Sorry, I'm having trouble putting on my equipment.
23:28Oh, you need help?
23:29No, I think I can do it.
23:30Okay, there we go.
23:31You're doing great.
23:32Okay, good.
23:33You need some arrows, too.
23:35So I'm gonna go first, right?
23:36All right.
23:37Yeah, they're very nervous about us doing this, by the way.
23:41Can I just tell you, I don't know which way is...
23:43But I heard the fire department gave us the green light, so we can do it, right?
23:46Is anybody back there?
23:47I think we're supposed to do it from over here.
23:49That's?
23:50Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:51Otherwise, we...
23:52From all the way over there.
23:53Yes, we may penetrate the hay.
23:54You wanna go first?
23:55You want me to go first?
23:56No, you go first, because I need to watch.
23:57Okay, so I don't know how to shoot it, like, regular.
23:59I do it the way the Na'vi do.
24:01Okay.
24:04Ooh.
24:05Ooh!
24:06Okay, okay, that's a good start.
24:07Good.
24:08That's a good start.
24:11Very Na'vi.
24:16Ooh!
24:21Very good.
24:22Very impressive.
24:23I'm good with that.
24:24I'm good with that.
24:25All right, let me give it a shot.
24:26Go for it.
24:27Go for it.
24:28Tell me what to do.
24:29I've only been given two arrows.
24:43I'm not sure why.
24:44Well, I used them all.
24:46All right.
24:47Okay, let's see.
24:48Now tell me what to do here.
24:49You're writing.
24:50Yeah.
24:51All right.
24:52Okay.
24:53All right.
24:54Let's see.
24:56I'm already screwed up.
24:57Okay.
24:58You gotta lift it.
24:59Lift your elbow.
25:00There you go.
25:01Lift my elbow.
25:02There you go.
25:03Yeah.
25:04You're doing great.
25:05Am I okay?
25:06Don't close your eyes.
25:07Keep them open.
25:08Do I have it?
25:09And then pull it all the way back a little more.
25:10And there you go.
25:11Just let it go.
25:12Oh!
25:13Oh, my God.
25:14Oh, my God.
25:15I'm so sorry.
25:16It's okay.
25:18Are you okay?
25:19I'm okay.
25:20This has happened before?
25:21No.
25:22This is the first time.
25:23Oh, well.
25:24Sorry, Guillermo.
25:25So sorry, Guillermo.
25:26Sorry.
25:27Zoe's the one who taught me how to do it.
25:29It's really her fault.
25:30No, it's her fault.
25:31Okay.
25:32All right.
25:33Well, you know what?
25:34This is why I'm not in the movie, I guess.
25:36Zoe Saldana, everybody.
25:37Thank you, Zoe.
25:39Avatar Fire and Ash opens December 19th.
25:43We'll be back with Paul Acre.
25:53This week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jillian Anderson, John Cena, and Miley Cyrus.
25:59Plus music from Jack Johnson featuring Hermanos Gutierrez, Silvana Estrada, and Rufus Wainwright.
26:08Hi, everyone.
26:09Welcome back.
26:10Our next guest is one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time.
26:15His remarkable life and career is the subject of a new documentary.
26:19Paul Anka, His Way is on HBO Max.
26:22And his new album, Inspirations of Life and Love, comes out February 13th.
26:27And his name is Plusiano and Lee Итак, the率ista athlete.
26:28Please welcome, Paul Anka.
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26:51.
26:55Mr. Anchor, it is an honor to have you here.
27:01Thank you for joining us.
27:02And I will say, if anyone deserves a documentary
27:06in the world of music, it is you.
27:08I mean, what a life you've done.
27:12You started, for those who don't know,
27:14your full story in music when you were just a kid.
27:17How old were you when you started?
27:1914.
27:1914 years old.
27:21You realized that this is what you wanted to do.
27:23This is what you wanted to pursue.
27:24How old were you the first time?
27:25I know you're from Ottawa, Canada.
27:27How old were you the first time?
27:30You know you guys aren't supposed to be here, right?
27:32Yeah, exactly.
27:35How'd you sneak in?
27:36There's going to be trouble back home.
27:38But how old were you the first time you came to Los Angeles?
27:42I was 15 years old, came to see an uncle.
27:45And I was in school studying to be a journalist.
27:48I was taking typing, shorthand.
27:51I was in a class with 40 girls typing away like a madman.
27:56And I started working at a local newspaper.
27:59And then I took up music.
28:01And I asked my parents if I could go to LA to visit my uncle.
28:04So I came out.
28:05And on the way out, I was reading a book called Prestor John by John Buchan,
28:10one of our governor generals.
28:11And I had to write a book report about it.
28:15But it took place in Africa, in a little city called Blah Wild to Beast Fontaine.
28:20Figure that out.
28:21So now I said, wow, what a great name.
28:23That'd be a great song.
28:25And I was taking music classes.
28:26And I said, Blah Wild to Beast Fontaine.
28:29Love is so splendor.
28:31And no...
28:32Anyway, long song.
28:33So now I get out here.
28:36And I went to Wallach's Music City, which was down here, a few blocks from here.
28:40And I was in one of those vocal booths.
28:42And I was listening to records.
28:44And the record that was number one at the time was called Stranded in the Jungle by the Cadets.
28:50Now, I loved the record.
28:52And I looked at the label.
28:53And it said, Modern Records, Culver City.
28:56I said, wow, I'm going to hitchhike out there and pitch my song.
28:59So I hitchhiked out to Culver City.
29:03And I walk in.
29:03There's two guys sitting at a desk in a garage with a studio in the back.
29:08And I walk in with my jeans and my torn T-shirt.
29:10And I got this song.
29:12And they said, are you delivering something?
29:13I said, no, I've got a song.
29:14And I want to sing it for you.
29:16I think it could be a hit.
29:17They says, really?
29:18So I started singing to this guy.
29:20Blah Wild to Beast Fontaine.
29:22He looked at me.
29:22He said, you know, maybe we'll do it.
29:25Two months later, I go back.
29:27I'm in the studio with the cadets with the number one record in the studio with me singing.
29:33Blah Wild to Beast Fontaine.
29:35So there I was, a failure at 15.
29:38I came out.
29:39Nobody bought it but my relatives.
29:41That was it.
29:42It wasn't until the following year that I got lucky with Diana.
29:46This is a great story.
29:47This is after you were on Ed Sullivan's show.
29:50Yes.
29:50This is in Puerto Rico, correct?
29:52Correct.
29:53Yeah.
29:53There you are.
29:54Why are you in this box?
29:56Good question.
29:57Anyway, those were the days, not unlike today, when if we did record hops or went to any kind
30:05of a facility where teenagers would show up, it would be crazy.
30:09They asked me to go to a Woolworths store in Puerto Rico to sign records.
30:13You'd see it.
30:13They'd do it today.
30:14But back then, it was the same thing.
30:15So I'm in this Woolworths and all of a sudden, 2,000 kids show up and they destroyed the store.
30:22And I'm at the back of the building where I couldn't get out.
30:25And they were worried about getting me out and cleaning the store up.
30:28And they said, we're going to put you in a box and sneak you out the back and take you
30:32to the roof and put you in a helicopter.
30:35And I said, anything to get.
30:37I'm a little guy.
30:38I can't fight off women.
30:39You know that.
30:40So they put me in.
30:42Although, later, when I started working Vegas, Jimmy, it was calm.
30:47You know, none of that was going on.
30:47You didn't have to be put in a box.
30:49Well, I didn't have to fight off any women.
30:50Although, I must tell you, when I went dancing with one of those tall, dancing girls.
30:57Showgirls?
30:58Well, stripper girls.
31:00Oh.
31:00I wouldn't trade places with anybody.
31:03Yeah.
31:04Well, no.
31:05I can't imagine you trading places with anyone in any scenario, really.
31:09At 25 years old, and this absolutely boggles my mind, you wrote my way.
31:16At 25 years old.
31:18Which, it's the lyrics of the song, if you know it, are that of an older man looking back
31:26on his life.
31:27Do you even have a way at 25 years old?
31:31You know, it's the one song where I would say, I started believing in the universe and
31:37what's going on and how we're all connected.
31:39It was a spiritual moment.
31:41And I was motivated by Frank Sinatra, who I started working with, with the Rat Pack,
31:47in Vegas.
31:48And he'd always tease me about writing a song.
31:52He said, I'm doing one more album and that's it.
31:55He never wrote me a song.
31:57I go back to New York, 12 midnight.
31:59I had this melody from France.
32:00And I started typing metaphorically, as if Sinatra were writing it.
32:05And now the end is near.
32:07And I called him five hours later at Caesars Palace.
32:11I said, sir, I've got something I think you'd like to hear.
32:13He said, bring it out.
32:14I flew out.
32:16Next night, I'm in his dressing room at Caesars.
32:18And I play it for him.
32:20And he says, kid, I'm going to do it.
32:22Two months.
32:24Go by.
32:24I got a phone call from Los Angeles.
32:26I'm in my apartment in New York.
32:29He says, kid, listen to this.
32:30He took a phone, put it next to the speaker.
32:33I heard my way for the first time.
32:35I started crying.
32:37It was such a hit for him, he stayed 10 more years.
32:44Thank God, right?
32:46Thank God.
32:47And also, if you think about it, those typing lessons really paid off.
32:51Oh, big time.
32:54In the documentary, you talk about having a couple of very, very, very famous people sleeping over your house.
33:01And I'm trying to imagine Andy Warhol and Michael Jackson coming and staying at one's home.
33:08Yes.
33:08Who was the better house guest, Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson?
33:13Well, two different people.
33:16Uh-huh.
33:16I had hired Andy to do the album cover for my album, The Painter.
33:21Mm-hmm.
33:22And Michael wanted to be on my album, Duets.
33:25So he spent two weeks with me, and Andy only stayed two days.
33:30I can't say one was better than the other.
33:34Mm-hmm.
33:34They were both very different.
33:36Mm-hmm.
33:36Uh, I loved Michael.
33:38I think he was a very talented person, setting aside everything else.
33:42And Andy, you know, I collect art from the mid-60s, and I was very fond of his work.
33:47He was a little easier.
33:49Michael didn't have a big diet.
33:50He loved eating nuts, a lot of peanuts.
33:53I've heard, so I've heard.
33:54Yeah.
33:54Yeah.
33:54So we, it sounds nuts, but he loved nuts.
33:58Mm-hmm.
33:58And we would sit and have our nuts, and we would talk, and he was a sponge.
34:03He was literally, it was the most amazing thing to sit with him.
34:07And even when we wrote songs.
34:08It's like having a squirrel in the house.
34:09It was, exactly.
34:11Exactly.
34:11Who never stopped eating nuts.
34:12Uh-huh.
34:13Sure.
34:13But we would sit and write together, and it was, you know, I've written with so many great
34:18people, but Michael didn't play a piano.
34:20But with Michael, it was all, like, sounds.
34:23You know, it was like,
34:23And I'm trying to be a gracious host.
34:30I'm going, well, we'll put the in the.
34:32Anyway, we finished, we finished the songs.
34:38Fade Out, Fade In.
34:39His album comes out.
34:40It's huge.
34:41And I wasn't allowed to release it.
34:43When he passed, they went to his drawer.
34:45They found these songs.
34:46They did not know I had collaborated.
34:48Mm-hmm.
34:48And they called me.
34:49I said, look.
34:50They found nut dust all over them.
34:52Nuts.
34:53I said, pay me off in nuts, not royalties.
34:55I want my nuts back.
34:58We've talked about your, oh, show that Andy Warhol picture.
35:02Because this album, or, I mean, did you get to keep these paintings?
35:07Yes.
35:07Yeah.
35:08I bought them all.
35:08Oh, wow.
35:09How about that?
35:10That's really, that is, good thinking is really what it is.
35:13Now, speaking of good thinking, you tell the story, you've told the story here about
35:16writing the theme for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
35:19Yeah.
35:19And how you made a deal with Johnny where you would split the royalties.
35:23And that's why Johnny said, yeah, let's do it, right?
35:26Skitch Henderson be damned.
35:28We're going to do this.
35:29And the sheet music.
35:30Now, Johnny played, he did not write the song, correct?
35:33No.
35:33No, no.
35:34And the song, as I recall, had no lyrics.
35:38And yet it says, if you open it, oh, if I were to open this up here, as I was instructed,
35:43it says, I noticed this in the documentary, it says, words and music by Paul Anka and Johnny
35:50Carson.
35:50Now, what are the words to Johnny's theme?
35:54It's really love, dear.
35:57I knew it from the start.
35:59You came along, dear.
36:01Swept away my heart.
36:04You got me crazy.
36:06I don't know what to do.
36:08I know.
36:10I know.
36:11I'm going to get paid for doing this on this show.
36:14You got to split it with Johnny, though.
36:19I'm going to split it with you.
36:22You know, you've got this new record, Paul Anka, Inspirations of Life and Love.
36:27It comes out right before Valentine's Day.
36:30Young people are singing Put Your Head on My Shoulder on TikTok.
36:34It's, you know the original title?
36:36Of Put Your Head on My Shoulder?
36:37You know, I must tell you, when we write songs, it's like McCartney when he wrote,
36:40Yesterday, it was called Scrambled Eggs.
36:42So, we have to find the right vowel to fit on the note in the process.
36:47So, my original, my original was, put your legs on my shoulders.
36:57And that wasn't, that didn't.
36:59They said, oh, we don't think it would get on the radio.
37:01Yeah, yeah.
37:03That would have been a very different song.
37:05Very different.
37:06It's a stretch.
37:07I can hear the sounds of your daughter backstage screaming in pain.
37:15Oh, my God.
37:15Yes.
37:15Five daughters, folks.
37:18I hear them, all five of them.
37:22There's a lot of PMS in my house.
37:26And that means Paul must suffer.
37:28Well, I hope that's one of the songs on the new record.
37:35No.
37:36Paul Anka, His Ways on HBO Max and Inspirations of Life and Love comes out February 13th.
37:42You can get tickets to see Paul Anka on tour at paulanka.com.
37:45When we come back, you are going to do that song you wrote at 25 years old for Mr. Frank Sinatra.
37:51Paul Anka, everybody.
37:53Thanks to Zoe Saldana.
38:00Apologies to Matt Damon.
38:01Nightline is next.
38:02But first, his documentary, Paul Anka and His Ways on HBO Max.
38:07Here with the all-time classic, My Way, Paul Anka.
38:11And now the end is near, so I face the final curtain.
38:35My friends, I'll say it clear.
38:41I'll state my case, of which I am certain.
38:50I lived a life that's full.
38:54Traveled each and every highway.
38:58And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
39:11Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew,
39:16When I bit off, more than I could chew.
39:23But through it all, when there was doubt,
39:29I ate it up and I spit it out.
39:35But I faced it all, and I stood tall,
39:40And did it my way.
39:57I loved, I laughed, I cried
40:02At my fill, my share of losing.
40:07And now, as all the tears subside,
40:14I find it all so amusing
40:20Just to think, I did all that
40:25And may I say, not in a shy way
40:31Oh no, oh no, oh no, not me
40:37I did it my, my, my way
40:43For what are we all?
40:46What have you really got?
40:50If not yourself,
40:52Then you have not
40:55To say the things
40:58You truly feel
41:00And not the words
41:03Of Sambon O'Neill
41:07The record shows
41:10I took the blows
41:13And I did it
41:16My, my way
41:20My, my way
41:27My way
41:29My, my way
41:29My, my way
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