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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, Will Fortin, Bunny XO,
00:08plus music from Nora Jones and Joshua Homme
00:11with The Klee Tones.
00:14And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:33Hello, hello. I'm Jimmy. I am the host of the show.
00:38Thanks for joining us here at our office,
00:42our home here in Los Angeles in Hollywood
00:45where the Oscars are happening on Sunday.
00:47Did you see all the stuff right across the street?
00:49It's gonna be hot on Sunday.
00:50Guillermo, you will be on the red carpet on Sunday?
00:52I will be there, Jimmy, with water and a lot of tequila.
00:55Good, good. We need to protect you from the heat.
00:59They're saying it could get up to 200 degrees on Sunday.
01:03Did you know that?
01:03Wow, that's terrible.
01:04That's right.
01:04Remember that butler Diddy used to have?
01:06The guy who held the umbrella over his head?
01:09We need to get you one of those.
01:11Yeah.
01:12Well, you know, hey, you know,
01:14we have a big mystery to solve right now here in this city.
01:18$250,000 worth of male sex toys
01:21that were loaded onto a train headed from L.A. to Dallas
01:24have vanished. They are nowhere to be found.
01:26They loaded them on a freight train,
01:29and when the train got to Dallas, it was empty.
01:31The company says the thief made off with
01:34330 Handy Massage 2 pleasure devices
01:37and 289 Handy Massage Pro model pleasure devices.
01:42Police are on the suspect,
01:44are looking for a suspect with 619 penises for peace.
01:48That is a lot of sex toys.
01:50Can you imagine planning that heist?
01:51Guys, we're going to get the gang back together for one last job.
01:55And it's going to be hot. You'll see.
01:57I had not heard of the Handy Massage 2 Pro,
02:00so I Googled it,
02:01and it seems to be some kind of mini-robot Lauren Boebert.
02:05It's a, um, the Handy 2 is engineered with next-gen technology
02:10and built with our community feedback at its core,
02:12enabling new levels of interactive pleasure for penis owners,
02:17whether solo or with a partner.
02:19Penis owner? Penis owners?
02:21Do we even own our penises?
02:24I mean, I feel like my penis owns me in a lot of ways.
02:30Anyway, I hope they find the thieves,
02:34and I hope those, uh, items are returned
02:37to their rightful penis owners.
02:39You hate to see people have to go back to doing that by hand,
02:42you know?
02:43This is why we need to get the Homeland Security Department
02:46back to work.
02:47You know, the DHS has been partially shut down
02:49for almost a month now,
02:50and this has been a real problem at the airport.
02:53Roughly 50,000 TSA employees are currently working without pay.
02:57More than 300 TSA agents have quit since the shutdown started,
03:02and the number of agents calling out sick have skyrocketed,
03:05which, of course, has resulted in massive delays.
03:08It often takes hours to get through airport security now.
03:11The staff shortages have gotten so bad,
03:13I don't know if you guys flew,
03:14but officers at some airports are being instructed
03:17to only do searches on travelers they find attractive,
03:20which is weird.
03:22And now you can't even just drive.
03:24Gas prices have gone up every day
03:26for the past 11 days.
03:28But our president, ex-conmobile,
03:30says there is nothing to worry about.
03:32He wrote,
03:33The United States is the largest oil producer
03:35in the world by far,
03:36so when oil prices go up,
03:38we make a lot of money.
03:40But of far greater interest and importance to me
03:42as president is stoping an evil empire, Iran,
03:45from having nuclear weapons.
03:47That's right, he's stoping the evil empire.
03:49He really is the stupidest president of all time.
03:52And this idea...
04:01He says when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.
04:04Maybe you and your buddies do, but we don't make a lot of money.
04:07We just pay more for gas when oil prices go up.
04:09He must think we're as dumb as he is.
04:11The man who campaigned on the promise
04:14he would get gas prices under $2 a gallon
04:17is now trying to convince us that higher prices are better.
04:20You know, you hear the term gaslighting a lot,
04:22but rarely when it comes to actual gas.
04:25This is a gem.
04:26And it couldn't have come at a worse time.
04:28According to a new survey,
04:29a third of Americans say they are skipping meals
04:32or cutting back on utilities like heat
04:34to pay the rising cost of their healthcare premiums,
04:38which makes me wonder what happened
04:40to that healthcare plan Trump announced two months ago.
04:42Remember the great healthcare plan he announced?
04:44That disappeared right along with our invasion of Greenland.
04:48They just went away.
04:50And with all this going on,
04:52with all these problems, all this instability,
04:55war, inflation, Epstein, you name it,
04:58you can see that for Trump,
05:00worrying about this is starting to take a toll.
05:09Let's go.
05:12You know, I was wondering if they'd ever reboot Jake and the Fat Man,
05:15and they did.
05:21Yesterday, our current president and the next one
05:24right there in a room together.
05:26Our FIFA Peace Prize winning POTUS said yesterday
05:29that even though we are still bombing Iran,
05:32their soccer team is welcome to come to the United States
05:34for the World Cup this summer.
05:36And then when Iran's Minister of Sports suggested
05:39they might not be keen to do that,
05:41he tweaked the invitation.
05:43He wrote,
05:43The Iran national soccer team is welcome to the World Cup,
05:46but I really don't believe it is appropriate
05:48that they be there for their own life and safety.
05:51Thank you for your attention to this matter,
05:53President Donald J. Trump.
05:54He's like, well, I'm glad he's looking out for them.
05:56That's nice.
05:56You know, Trump said we could take out Iran in an hour if we,
06:01which he couldn't even take off all his makeup in an hour.
06:04I think he might be running out of people to fight,
06:06because he's even going after members of his own party.
06:09Now, Thomas Massey is a libertarian-leaning Republican from Kentucky,
06:13and Trump hates him because he's the co-sponsor of that bill
06:17that forced the release of the Trump-Epstein file.
06:21So yesterday, Trump flew to Kentucky for a rally
06:24and to pick up some of that delicious fried chicken they have,
06:27and then he did this big rally to support the guy
06:31running against Thomas Massey,
06:32a Trump sycophant named Ed Galrine,
06:35who jumped on stage to give the event just a little extra dose of crazy.
06:39Mr. President, I hope the fake news gets this.
06:44Tom Massey stands with the ladies of The View.
06:48Tom Massey stands with the ladies of The View.
06:52Mr. President, we stand with you.
06:55Fight, fight, fight!
06:58U-S-A! U-S-A!
07:02U-S-A!
07:04U-S-A!
07:10I'm telling you, that is the greatest candidate.
07:13Yeah, yeah, yeah. He seems pretty great.
07:17I don't think I've ever seen a man in his 60s
07:19go through puberty on stage before.
07:21It's like the world's most hyperactive funeral director.
07:24Trump put on quite a show in Kentucky,
07:26and for those who didn't have two hours to sit through that show,
07:29we boiled it down for an all-new edition
07:31of Real Moments in President Dementia.
07:38You know what an excursion is? We had to take a little trip.
07:42Kentucky.
07:42Kentucky.
07:43Kentucky.
07:44I love Kentucky.
07:45I love Kentucky.
07:47Paducah.
07:47Paducah.
07:48Give me somebody with a warm body.
07:50I got somebody with a warm body.
07:52You know it's a little rainy today.
07:54Round and round it goes.
07:55Kills a lot of birds.
07:56Wanna play a song?
07:58Ave Maria.
07:59Right now, Ave Maria.
08:01Ave Maria.
08:02Pavarotti.
08:02Dr. Oz!
08:03You're okay.
08:04Do you mind if I get off the teleprompter?
08:06No mail-in ballots?
08:07I don't do interviews.
08:09He should've done it.
08:10I wanna watch myself.
08:11I wanna watch myself.
08:12Attack.
08:13It's my favorite word.
08:14That's it.
08:15Absolutely.
08:16Holy matter.
08:17No.
08:18Wow.
08:19What?
08:19What the hell is happening?
08:23I don't know.
08:24I don't know.
08:26But whatever it is, it's not good.
08:29Trump hosted an event at the White House today to honor Women's History Month.
08:33And they dragged the First Lady out of her shoe closet or whatever to introduce him.
08:37And this is interesting.
08:38You know how some couples as they get older start to sound alike?
08:41They kind of morph into the same person.
08:43Well, Melania, while introducing her husband, had an awful lot of nice things to say about herself.
08:50As a visionary, I know success is not born overnight, but rather take shape after a long and sometimes challenging
09:00process.
09:02Often alone at the top, I follow my passion, listen to my instinct, and always maintain a laser focus.
09:11In solitude, my creative mind dances.
09:15The principle resonates across all my roles.
09:19As a mother, humanitarian, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
09:25In solitude, her creative mind dances.
09:28You don't...
09:29As a humanitarian and entrepreneur.
09:32They could probably put any words in front of her and she'd just keep reading them, right?
09:37Possible side effects include headache, muscle fatigue, and diarrhea.
09:45And by the way, look at him trying to keep it together while she talks.
09:48As well as with my new film, where I shaped its creative direction.
09:54That's right.
09:55All the...
09:55All the B-Best documentaries let the subject shape the creative direction.
10:00What creative direction?
10:01I watched that documentary.
10:03Nothing happens.
10:04Waze has more creative direction than the Melania documentary.
10:07And then...
10:10And then they really put a cherry on top of women's month.
10:15You're not going to believe this.
10:16An Olympic gold medalist showed up to present the president with yet another award he didn't win.
10:22Olympic medals are never achieved alone.
10:25So I am here today and I'm so honored to present this.
10:29My order of ECOS medal.
10:32To you, Donald Trump.
10:38Look at how happy he is.
10:40Whoa!
10:42You got a medal for me?
10:44I thought he was all about keeping men out of women's sports.
10:48Now he's taking the medal.
10:49Suddenly he's a ladies bobsledding champion.
10:54There is, um, no shame in this administration.
10:57There's vanity.
10:58There's plenty of vanity.
10:59But there's no shame.
11:00You know, our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, is doubling down on his crusade against the free press.
11:06The Pentagon has reportedly banned some photographers from press briefings about the war
11:12because they released photos that either Hegseth or his staff did not like.
11:16They released unflattering photos of him and so they're not allowed back.
11:20Who would have ever guessed the guy who spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on a makeup studio might be a
11:26little bit self-absorbed.
11:27Turns out our phony tough guy, our Secretary of War, is a sensitive little snowflake making a safe space for
11:34his beautiful face.
11:36I like that he thinks it's the photos that are making him look bad.
11:40Like, I mean, who could possibly take an unflattering photograph of this, you know?
11:45Give him two horns and a steering wheel, he's Bowser and Mario Kart.
11:50And the truth is, Pete Hegseth is actually a handsome guy.
11:53He's on the outside.
11:54On the inside, he looks like the old lady from Weapons.
11:57But on the outside, but enough about Pretty Pete.
12:01You know, all eyes this weekend are on the Oscars, which, as I mentioned, are taking place right across the
12:06street at the Dolby Theatre,
12:07which is located right next to the historic Dave & Buster's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
12:12Which was recently named by a travel website that I will not dignify with a mention as the world's worst
12:18tourist attraction.
12:19That's right. Our neighborhood was rated the worst tourist spot in the world.
12:24Coming in second was the Dead Sea. For real.
12:28And I take offense to that. I mean, our show is part of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
12:33And so, to rebut this vicious characterization, I sent our announcer Lou Wilson out to the boulevard
12:39to show you and everyone the real Hollywood, the Hollywood we love.
12:44I'm here at the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame.
12:47Now, people say this is the world's worst tourist attraction, but I'm gonna show you why they're wrong.
12:54You can't beat the action on Hollywood Boulevard.
12:57The glitz and the glam, the hustle and the bustle.
13:01Okay, be honest. Is this the best place you've ever been to?
13:05Hollywood Boulevard?
13:06Yes.
13:07No.
13:09For people who aren't here with us right now, can you describe the smell?
13:12It kind of smells like stale pee and cinnamon nuts.
13:18Look at that. And then look at this. I'm nestled between smoke shops right now.
13:25They sell luggage. As if anyone would ever want to leave this place.
13:30One of my favorite things about Hollywood Boulevard is all the mouth-watering cuisine.
13:34Sir, I know you're having an important phone call, but what do you guys sell?
13:38Oh, sorry.
13:40But for my money, there's no better meal than a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a stranger on the sidewalk.
13:46Mmm.
13:49They say the grill kills the bacteria.
13:55Is there any better place in the whole wide world?
14:00Does anyone remember the 2009 film Twilight?
14:04This souvenir store does, and it's only $35.99.
14:08You know, a lot of people call this the river of dreams.
14:12Ooh, it's warm.
14:17I don't know why it's warm, but goddamn, it's warm.
14:20The walk is teeming with talented newcomers.
14:23When I arrived in 1965, I was a homeless guy.
14:28Are you guys a group?
14:29Yes, Bull Brothers, called Ozzy Brosquad.
14:31Ozzy Brosquad, you guys do music?
14:33Lights on, heat moves, face hits, nice groove.
14:38One step left, two steps right.
14:42I brought the boogie back.
14:44Only in Hollywood.
14:46And the award for the world's greatest tourist attraction goes to Hollywood Boulevard.
14:53Screw you, Dead Sea.
14:55That's right. That's right.
14:59That's right. Sadly, Lou was never seen again, but may his memory be a blessing.
15:05Thank you. No, Lou's right there. Thank you, Lou.
15:07Lou Wilson, everybody.
15:10We have music from Nora Jones and Joshua Homme, and we'll be right back with Will Forte.
15:29Hello. Welcome back to the show tonight. She is the number one best-selling author of this book, Stripped Down,
15:36Unfiltered, and Unapologetic. Bunny XO is with us on the show tonight.
15:40And then later on, a dynamic duo, an unlikely duo of Grammy winners. One of them has a podcast called
15:48Nora Jones is playing along. Nora Jones with Joshua Homme tonight.
15:53Next week, well, we got a lot of shows next week, Guillermo.
15:57A lot of guests, including Zendaya, Lisa Kudrow, Chelsea Handler, Jeff Ross, Chris Robinson from the Black Crows will be
16:05here, Charlie Cox will be here, Sarah Shahi, and Robert Pattinson with music from Tedeschi Trucks Band.
16:10So please join us for all that. Our first guest tonight is one of the funniest guys of all the
16:15guys. You know him by many names, including Phil Miller and MacGruber.
16:20His new show with Darcy Cardin is called Sunny Nights. You can watch it on Hulu now. Please welcome Will
16:25Forte.
16:41How are you? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing well. You look good. You smell good. Everything's good.
16:47Yeah. And I see you're wearing the socks again, right?
16:49I got my, it's tradition. I got my daughters on my socks. This is Cecilia here. Very cute. And the
16:56other sock, this is Zoe.
16:58Zoe and Cecilia. These are two different pairs that usually a normal person would wear, you know, the green with
17:04the green and the purple with the purple. But I mix them up because out of, you know, a devoted
17:11love to my daughters.
17:12Devoted love. Yeah. Fairness. Yeah. And do you update the socks as they grow or are they the same socks
17:18you're going to wear for a while?
17:20I, I go, I let it kind of ride out. My toenails make that decision. Like I have some pretty
17:28ratty toenails. Do you?
17:30And my wife now buys two pairs of each sock because I'll, one is kind of to save in a
17:37closet and the other is to burn through with my toenails.
17:41But I have a plan to like, my ultimate plan is I save the ones that, that get holes in
17:46the toes and I'm going to make a blanket, like this gross blanket.
17:50That's a great idea. It's gross, but I am going to do it.
17:54That would be a beautiful item to pass down. Yes.
17:57Now you might want to make two of them. So each of your daughters, because you don't want to see
18:00them fight, you know, sometimes kids will, they might never speak to each other again.
18:04If you're going to have to pick as, you know, eventually we don't live forever.
18:07We're going to have to hand these items down. So just think about making two quilts.
18:11That's a very good idea. Thank you. I appreciate that.
18:14Also, maybe think about trimming your, your toenails a little bit.
18:17I'm telling you, I trim them. It's like eyebrows and toenails.
18:21They just, it's like wildfire. They just like, you can trim them and it's like the next day, they just
18:27like, it's, it's like Terminator 2, you know, they just kind of gel together and, and pierce through.
18:34Do you ever go get them professionally, um, pettied?
18:37I would never put a professional through dealing with my stuff.
18:41Wow. Wow. And do you ever use them as weapons? You know, like, just because you could slash somebody?
18:45I could, but I'm a peaceful person and I don't believe in war.
18:48That's good. All right. Good. All right. Beautiful.
18:51You were, now you took your kids to Mardi Gras, which seems like a weird thing for little girls to
18:57see.
18:57Okay. Yes. I was part of this, the crew of Orpheus is this wonderful parade, uh, Harry Connick Jr.
19:05I'm familiar with it. Yeah.
19:06And, and, and so I was one of the monarchs and, uh, in 2017, they had a monarch reunion this
19:12year and it was landed on my, my daughter Zoe, the, uh, five-year-old, uh, turned five on February
19:2015th.
19:20So we brought her and my sis, and, and her sister, Cecilia, out there while we were there.
19:26Um...
19:27For a parade?
19:28For a parade. Yeah. So, so, like, we wouldn't normally say, like, hey, come to Mardi Gras with us, girls.
19:33You know, that's not how we, uh, roll. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. So, everything was great and, and, uh, I'm
19:41on this, uh, float throwing out beads and they have different things you throw out.
19:45It's mainly beads, but then they have some hats that are, are kind of bigger ticket items. And the biggest
19:51ticket is a little tambourine.
19:53Oh. So, I was going along the parade route and I had, uh, was, we were going outside the hotel
20:00and our nanny had come out with both my daughters and my little three-year-old was on her shoulders
20:05and I saved a tambourine for them.
20:07And I was like, okay, I'm gonna make sure they get this tambourine. So we get up to them, I
20:11spot them, and they're like 30 yards away. And I wing this tambourine and the first, like,
20:20milliseconds of it is like, oh, this is an amazing throw. What an amazing thrower you are. This is heading
20:26right at them. And then it kind of dawned on me, oh, I never really taught Cecilia how to catch
20:31things.
20:33And sure enough, it kept going straight at her and nailed her right in the forehead.
20:39And the float doesn't know. They're just, like, a million things are going on. So the float just keeps going.
20:44I'm seeing the nanny, like, hurry my daughter away as she's
20:48crying, maybe concussed. Uh, it was awful. So my, yeah, my daughter just thinks that I threw a tambourine at
20:56her out of anger.
20:59It's a little while ago, and I've been wanting to ask you about this because what I heard from you
21:04was, I think, one of the best ideas I've ever heard.
21:07And this idea is something that came from your family. I heard you on Smart List talking about this on
21:13the podcast about your mom and her ideas.
21:16You know what I'm talking about? Yes. Okay. Now, please explain.
21:20My mother, while I was at SNL, she would call me, and she and her friend Carol would always have
21:26these ideas that they thought that I should try to turn into sketches.
21:30Great. And they were, to put it kindly, not really the kind of ideas that I would really do.
21:37Right. Um, and so I would always just say,
21:41Mom, maybe we save it for the Patty Forte sketch show. And then over the years, I was like,
21:47Oh, that's, I gotta do that show, the Patty Forte sketch show. So after...
21:52There were enough concepts from your mom to sustain a sketch show.
21:56Oh, yeah. I just... And Carol. How old is Carol? Just...
21:59They are both now 82. Okay. All right. Excellent.
22:02So this, uh, about five months ago, six months ago, we started making...
22:11It's called, Will Forte's Mom Has a Sketch Show. And it's my mom, Patty Forte, and...
22:17And her friend Carol trying to write sketches.
22:21And then the end of each show is performing the actual sketches that they've come up with.
22:28Love it. Love it. And it is insanely fun. It is...
22:33They're, they're both, they have no acting experience, no writing experience.
22:38They're just magical people.
22:41But, like, they kind of have no business being in this position.
22:46I'd say more than kind of, maybe, even. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
22:49Especially Carol. At least your mother's got a kid in the business, you know?
22:53No. No. Somehow it totally works. We're still...
22:56We're just starting to edit it all together, but it is so fun.
22:59Oh, I can't wait. Yeah.
23:01You brought a clip from... of something.
23:03I brought a clip. This is during, like, the, the, uh, documentary section.
23:07My friend Vanessa Baer from, uh, SNL... Right.
23:10...came in and we did, like, a character workshop. Great.
23:13And this is us trying to get them to act like robots.
23:16Oh, great. Yeah.
23:17I am robot Carol. I am robot...
23:25Howdy.
23:27I am robot Vanessa.
23:29And I complete the foursome, I am robot Will.
23:37And... scene.
23:42I, I love it already.
23:47I mean...
23:49It is, this show is gonna, like, the sketches at the end have all these incredible guest performers.
23:57Oh. All my buddies from SNL. I can't really say who it is.
24:00Oh, this is great.
24:01But, like, it is, ugh, I cannot wait to...
24:03And are they thrilled? Like, are they excited to be on set and doing this?
24:06Oh, yeah. I mean, when you tell somebody that idea, they, like, like, real comedy people are like,
24:13oh, this is, this is, I wanna be a part of this.
24:16Yeah.
24:16It's been so great. And everyone's been so nice to, to come be a part of it.
24:21And I can't wait for people to see it.
24:22I can't wait to see it either.
24:24Yeah. All right.
24:24But we're gonna talk about your, your show that people can see when we come up.
24:27The name of that show is Sunny Nights.
24:30Will Forte is here. We'll be right back.
24:39Hello?
24:41I have the money.
24:45Here at the, uh, motel?
24:47No, no, no, no, no. Uh, somewhere public.
24:49Yep. Afraid I have to insist on that.
24:54You're right. Yeah. No, you're, you're right. Here does work. Yeah, sure.
24:59One hour?
25:00Okay. Looking forward to it.
25:03Nervous?
25:03No, no, no, no, no. Not, not even in the, uh, the slightest. Are, are you?
25:10Oh, well, that may, oh, hang up.
25:13And it's Will Forte and Darcy Cardin in Sunny Nights,
25:16which you can see right now on Hulu.
25:18And, uh, which is very funny. You and Darcy play a brother and sister.
25:22Yes.
25:23You go to Australia. You've got this spray tanning business called, uh, or, yeah.
25:29Tansform.
25:29Tansform.
25:30Yes.
25:31And you actually shot the show in Australia.
25:34We shot it in Australia with this amazing, like, just these, a murderer's row of Australian talent.
25:41Uh, we, Darcy and I were the only Americans in the show. And it was the best experience of my
25:48life.
25:48You, did you know Darcy Cardin before this show?
25:51Somehow I didn't.
25:52You didn't? Oh.
25:52We have so many friends in common and, uh, had never met until, like, a couple weeks before the show.
25:59We played brother and sister in the show. And she is the best person on the earth.
26:04And she is very much like my sister now.
26:07Oh.
26:07I mean, she's so good in this show and just the coolest person to hang out with.
26:12If you get a chance to hang out with Darcy Cardin, you seize on it.
26:15Take that opportunity. She's the best.
26:17That's good to know. Yeah.
26:19Yeah.
26:19What, so you guys are now spending a lot of time together after this?
26:22Yeah. Yeah.
26:23Oh, interesting. What do you do with Darcy?
26:26Uh, we do a lot of stuff. You know, we go out to dinners mainly.
26:29We, uh, down there, we did a lot of singing together.
26:34Oh. Uh.
26:34What kind of singing?
26:35We would, well, it started, we would sing, uh, we would just pass the time by singing songs, existing songs,
26:43where we would take the names of the crew members and put them in songs.
26:47Like, we would sing, uh, Jasper Nacho.
26:53Which, Nacho is the name of one of the guys in the crew.
26:55Uh-huh.
26:56Um, but, but that wore thin pretty quickly with the crew.
27:01I think people started kind of getting a little annoyed with it.
27:04Right.
27:04So it got to a point where we did it enough with enough different songs that we were like, okay,
27:09we're at a fork in the road.
27:11We either have to stop singing songs completely, or we have to write an original song that is so undeniably
27:20good and powerful and glorious that it will, like, make them forgive us for all the other songs.
27:27Oh. And?
27:28We chose the latter.
27:29You, oh, you did?
27:30Yeah, so we took, like, a week to construct this just insanely good epic of a song.
27:38And, yeah, we did it.
27:39Wow.
27:39We did it.
27:40Wow the crew and win everyone over?
27:43Yeah.
27:44Yeah.
27:45Yeah.
27:45They loved it.
27:47And?
27:47It's a ballad?
27:48What kind of song is it?
27:49Well, I guess it's hard to describe.
27:52Uh-huh.
27:52Epic is the best way to put it.
27:54I want to, I want to sing it for you.
27:56Well, that would be great.
27:57But I, I appreciate that.
28:01I could not do it justice myself, so I have brought a special guest to do it with me.
28:06My co-star from Sunday Nights, ladies and gentlemen, Darcy Carter.
28:16What a treat this is.
28:22Should I introduce you guys?
28:24And, uh, is there a title to the song?
28:26Oh.
28:27No.
28:27I think it's Untitled.
28:29Okay.
28:30All right.
28:30Here now to perform their epic song, Untitled.
28:35Will Forte and Darcy Carden.
28:38Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
28:44Two, three, four.
28:46Joodle-roodle-boodle-boodle-boodle-goodle-ba-doo.
28:49Jeedle-reedle-beedle-veedle-geedle-ba-dee.
28:52Chester-gall-fest-a-lile-mess-a-katu.
28:55Jilly-tasin' Willie-mason-e-man-be-rooooo.
29:01Woo-woo-woo-woo.
29:04Now.
29:07Oh!
29:10I would never...
29:12I learned my lesson.
29:13And that's the entirety of the song?
29:17Absolutely.
29:17Darcy Carden and Will Forte, everybody!
29:20This show is called Sunny Lights.
29:22You can watch it on Hulu.
29:23We'll be back with Bunny XO.
29:31Next week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Robert Pattinson, Chelsea Handler, Lisa Kudrow, and Zendaya,
29:39plus music from Chris Robinson and Tedeschi Trucks Band.
29:51Hi, and welcome back.
29:52Even from Nora Joseph, Joshua Homme is coming up.
29:55Like me, our next guest was raised in Las Vegas,
29:58and that is where our similarities end.
30:01She tells her tumultuous and inspiring story
30:04in this New York Times number one bestseller, Strip Down.
30:07Please welcome Bunny XO.
30:24Bunny, congratulations.
30:25I mean, not only, first of all, having a number one bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list
30:30is a very big deal, and now they're going to make a movie out of your book.
30:34We just...
30:39We just found that out today.
30:41Like, literally five hours ago, I found out that it was...
30:43Well, I found out, but we just announced it five hours ago.
30:46When you were writing it, did you have that idea in mind that maybe it would become a film?
30:50I didn't write this book for money. I didn't write this book.
30:53I didn't even know that I could make it on the New York Times bestseller list when I wrote this
30:57book.
30:58I started writing it in 2019, and I just wanted to get my story out, and I just wanted to
31:03be...
31:03I wanted it to be a conduit to be able to connect with people and hopefully inspire somebody along the
31:08way,
31:09and it's just taken on a life on its own.
31:10And it certainly has done that.
31:12I mean, people really, they leaped at it when it came out.
31:15And you also...
31:16I mean, have you thought about who would like to play you in this film?
31:21Jack Black.
31:21Jack Black?
31:22Yeah.
31:23That's a great idea.
31:25Yeah.
31:25Now, he's going to have to say, Jack Black.
31:30I think if you pitched that to Jack, he might like it a lot.
31:33Listen, Jack Black is daddy, okay?
31:37We both grew up in Las Vegas.
31:39Yes.
31:40Which is a strange place to...
31:41You don't realize it's a strange place to grow up until you move and everybody goes,
31:44What? You grew up in Las Vegas?
31:47People are amused by that.
31:48Did you find it to be an unusual place?
31:51Oh, definitely.
31:52I mean, you...
31:53It took me moving to Nashville to look back and be like,
31:56Wow.
31:57I really...
31:58I made it out of there alive.
31:59Like, I couldn't believe it.
32:00It's different.
32:01You had a different experience than I did.
32:03I hope so.
32:04Yeah.
32:05I mean, you had a lot of really bad experiences.
32:07And I'm sorry you had all those bad experiences.
32:09But I think it's a great thing that you share those experiences.
32:12Because a lot of people go through these things.
32:14And it's not something you should be ashamed of.
32:16Because these are mostly a lot of people who should have been taking care of you,
32:19protecting you, doing the opposite of that.
32:22And you really, obviously, came through that in a very, I think, healthy way.
32:28And, of course, you've made a lot out of it.
32:31But you were a runaway, a shoplifter.
32:36You would steal clothing.
32:38You were a stripper.
32:39You were an addict.
32:41You were addicted to drugs.
32:43Do you feel like you would have been involved in those things if you'd grown up somewhere else?
32:49Like Ohio or something like that?
32:51I think trauma doesn't discriminate.
32:54And I think writing this book has showed me and taught me that there are so many of us
32:59that are literally generational curse breakers.
33:02And we have all been affected by trauma that we never even asked for.
33:06And writing this book was just such a cathartic journey for me.
33:10And just watching how it has resonated with so many people.
33:14I just feel like, you know, trauma and just everything that people go through,
33:20that mess becomes a message and the tests become a testimony.
33:23And that's what I use this book for.
33:25Have you made a triumphant return as a best-selling author and podcaster to Las Vegas?
33:32I did. I did.
33:33So I wanted to go back to the Wynn because that was the last place I had got arrested at.
33:38And I was, yeah, and I was 86 out of there.
33:41And they were like, absolutely not.
33:42They were not letting me go back there.
33:44But the Venetian welcomed me with open arms.
33:46And what was really great was I got to bring the police officer that arrested me, Leon,
33:52on stage with me.
33:53Wow.
33:54Yeah, on stage.
33:54You tracked Leon down?
33:56I did.
33:57What was that like?
33:58What did he arrest you for, Leon?
33:59For solicitation.
34:01For solicitation.
34:02Yeah.
34:03And he was undercover, I assume?
34:05He was.
34:05He was undercover.
34:06And so what had happened was, you know, in the book, I talk about we were like fishing.
34:12And we were in the Wynn.
34:14And I was very intoxicated, which is something I didn't do whenever I worked before.
34:18But...
34:19When you say fishing, you don't mean like this.
34:21No.
34:21You mean a different kind of fishing.
34:23Yeah.
34:23Yep.
34:23Definitely.
34:26And so I ended up getting arrested.
34:28But the crazy thing was I reached out to my lawyer and asked him to give me all of my
34:33mugshots
34:33because I have like a whole montage of mugshots that I posted.
34:37And when he did that, he gave me the last police report.
34:41And I saw Leon's name on there.
34:42And I was like, let me track him down.
34:44So I found him on social media.
34:45And he's like a financial podcaster now.
34:48Really?
34:48Yeah.
34:49He's like retired.
34:49And I was like, hey.
34:52And he was like, hey.
34:53And I'm like, I need to talk to you.
34:55So we had a conversation.
34:57And I was just like, you changed my life.
34:58And thank you for arresting me.
35:00Oh, you thanked him.
35:00Wow.
35:01I did.
35:01I did.
35:01And he was like, you know, this is great and all, but I don't remember you.
35:06He was like, I know it was a big event for you.
35:08But he's like, you know, for me, it was another Tuesday.
35:11But he ended up reading the report, came on my book tour show.
35:15And I got to hug him and just tell him thank you to his face.
35:17Wow.
35:17Wow.
35:18I'm sure that probably surprised him.
35:20Yeah.
35:20Yeah.
35:20I know he loved it.
35:22You also write about meeting your now husband, Jelly Roll, before he was the Jelly Roll that
35:28we all know.
35:29Yeah.
35:29And you met, did you meet him in a van or you visited his van shortly after meeting
35:35him?
35:36So I met him at a Moonshine Bandits concert.
35:38He was opening up for Moonshine Bandits at Las Vegas Country Saloon.
35:43And afterwards, we went outside to partake in a smoke sesh.
35:48I see.
35:49Uh-huh.
35:49And he brought me out to Big Bertha.
35:50And it was this big brown van that was so disgusting.
35:55It had a mattress on the, and a crumbs.
35:58And just, it was, it was gross.
36:01And I fell in love.
36:03Yeah.
36:03Well, sure.
36:04Yep.
36:05You also write about like an early date you have where Jelly comes, he visits your place,
36:11and then just walks in, just drops his pants on the ground.
36:14He still does.
36:15He still does.
36:15A decade later, and I'm still cleaning up pants off the ground.
36:19I'm like, it doesn't stop.
36:20Well, now he's lost a lot of weight.
36:21I bet his pants just come off on their own, probably.
36:24Yeah.
36:24He's so skinny now, and I'm so proud of him.
36:26He looks so good.
36:27So handsome.
36:28Has he, was he, like, surprised by anything, or did he know all the stories in the book?
36:33I don't think my husband's read the book.
36:36What?
36:36Really?
36:36He had to live it with me.
36:38And also, what man wants to hear about, you know, his wife before?
36:42Yeah.
36:42So I think he kind of fibs a little bit, and he's like, oh, yeah, I read the book.
36:45But I'm like, he didn't read the book.
36:47Maybe somebody could do an edited version of the book for him that he can read.
36:52Yeah.
36:52I think it's taken, like, cliff notes from people.
36:54I see.
36:55Do you listen to all his music?
36:57Do you consume everything he does?
36:58No.
36:59Okay.
37:00We have an ongoing joke in our house that any time his song comes on a Pandora, I skip
37:04it.
37:05And he's like, that's messing up my algorithm.
37:09And I'm like, I don't care.
37:11But I bust his balls all the time.
37:13Now that you have this big success with this book, have you thought about a second book,
37:17doing another one?
37:18Definitely.
37:18I definitely want to do one.
37:19But I want to let this one kind of resonate and keep growing and take on a life of its
37:23own.
37:24And probably in about, like, two years, I'll do another book.
37:26You will do another one.
37:27And will it be about your life?
37:29I was thinking about doing one called The Little Black Book, because everybody is so
37:33interested in my past profession.
37:37But I was thinking about doing, like, a bunch of short stories of situations that...
37:41I see.
37:41I see.
37:42All right.
37:42Well, hey, congratulations.
37:44I'm glad you took so many negative things and made such a positive thing out of it,
37:49right?
37:50I mean, that's pretty magical.
37:52I appreciate it.
37:52I mean, I feel like, you know, trauma, we don't ask for the trauma.
37:56But what we do with that trauma and how we move forward is our job.
37:59And that's what I've tried to do with my life, is just be a testament that you can survive.
38:03And you will be a comeback kid, baby.
38:05There you go.
38:06Bunny XO.
38:07We're well checked out on filtered and unapologetic.
38:10It's out now.
38:11Bunny XO, everybody.
38:12Thank you, Bunny.
38:13We'll be back with Laura Dills and Joshua Ammi.
38:21Thanks to Will Forte, Darcy Carter, and Bunny XO.
38:25Apologies to Matt Damon.
38:26We ran out of time for him.
38:28Nightline is next.
38:29But first, her podcast is called Nora Jones is Playing Along.
38:33Here with her classic something stupid, Nora Jones with Josh Ammi.
38:53I know I stand in line until you think you have the time to spend an evening with me.
39:03And if we go someplace to dance, I know that there's a chance you won't be leaving with me.
39:12And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place and have a drink or two.
39:22And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you.
39:32I can see you.
39:34I can see it in your eyes that you despise the same old lies you heard the night before.
39:43And though it's just a line to you, for me it's true and never seems so right before.
39:52I practice every day to find some clever lines to say to make the meaning come true.
40:02And then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late and I'm alone with you.
40:12The time is right, your perfume fills my head, the stars get red and all the nights so blue.
40:23And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you.
40:53The time is right, your perfume fills my head, the stars get red and all the nights so blue.
41:03And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you.
41:13I love you.
41:18I love you.
41:24I love you.
41:25I love you.
41:40I love you.
41:58You
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