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Jimmy Kimmel Live - Season 24 - Episode 87: Will Forte, Bunnie XO, Norah Jones, Joshua Homme
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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, Will Fortin, Bunny XO,
00:08plus music from Norah Jones and Joshua Homme
00:11with the Kletos!
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 going to 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, yes.
00:57We need to protect you from the heat.
00:59You know, they're saying it could get up to 200 degrees
01:02on Sunday, do 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, we have a big mystery
01:14to 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.
01:25They are nowhere to be found.
01:26They loaded them on a freight train,
01:29and when the train got to Dallas, it was empty.
01:32The company says the thief made off
01:34with 330 Handy Massage II 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.
01:56You'll see.
01:57I had not heard of the Handy Massage II Pro, so I Googled it,
02:01and it seems to be some kind of mini robot Lauren Boebert.
02:06It's a, um...
02:07The Handy II 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.
02:16Whether it's solo with a partner.
02:19Penis owners.
02:21Do we even own our penises?
02:24I mean...
02:25I feel like my penis owns me in a lot of ways.
02:28Anyway, I...
02:30I 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, you know?
02:43This is why we need to get the Homeland Security Department back to work.
02:47You know, the DHS has been partially shut down for 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,
03:01and 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.
03:11Now, the 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 all...
03:22Now you can't even just drive.
03:24Gas prices have gone up every day for the past 11 days.
03:28But our president, ExconMobil, says there is nothing to worry about.
03:32He wrote,
03:33The United States is the largest oil producer in the world by far,
03:36so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.
03:40But of far greater interest and importance to me as president
03:42is stoping an evil empire, Iran, from 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...
03:59That...
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 he 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,
04:23but 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, a third of Americans say they are skipping meals
04:32or cutting back on utilities like heat to pay the rising cost of their healthcare premiums,
04:38which makes me wonder what happened to 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, with all these problems,
04:54all this instability, war, inflation, Epstein, you name it,
04:58you can see that for Trump.
05:00Worrying about this is starting to take a toll.
05:12You know, I was wondering if they'd ever reboot Jake and the Fat Man, and they did.
05:21Yesterday, our current president and the next one right there in a room together.
05:26Our FIFA Peace Prize winning POTUS said yesterday that even though we are still bombing Iran,
05:32their soccer team is welcome to come to the United States for the World Cup this summer.
05:36And then, when Iran's Minister of Sports suggested they might not be keen to do that,
05:41he tweaked the invitation.
05:43He wrote, the Iran national soccer team is welcome to the World Cup,
05:46but I really don't believe it is appropriate that they be there for their own life and safety.
05:51Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
05:54Well, 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 files.
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 running 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.
07:00U.S.A.
07:01U.S.A.
07:02U.S.A.
07:04U.S.A.
07:04U.S.A.
07:06U.S.A.
07:10I'm telling you, that is the greatest candidate.
07:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:14He seems pretty great.
07:17I don't think I've ever seen a man in his 60s go through puberty on stage before.
07:21He'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 of Real Moments in Prezidementia.
07:33of dementia.
08:03Do you mind if I get off the teleprompter?
08:06No mail-in ballots?
08:07I don't do interviews.
08:09He should have done it.
08:10I want to watch myself.
08:11I want to watch myself.
08:12Attack.
08:13It's my favorite word.
08:14That's it.
08:15Absolutely.
08:16Holy.
08:16I don't know.
08:17Y-y-y-y.
08:18Wow.
08:19What?
08:19Hey.
08:20What the hell is happening?
08:23I don't know.
08:24I don't know.
08:26But whatever it is, it is not good.
08:29Trump hosted an event at the White House today
08:32to honor Women's History Month.
08:33And they dragged the first lady out of her shoe closet
08:36or whatever to introduce him.
08:37And this is interesting.
08:39You know how some couples, as they get older,
08:40start to sound alike.
08:41They kind of morph into the same person.
08:43Well, Melania, while introducing her husband,
08:46had an awful lot of nice things to say about herself.
08:50As a visionary, I know success is not born overnight,
08:55but rather take shape after a long
08:58and sometimes challenging process.
09:02Often alone at the top, I follow my passion,
09:06listen to my instinct, and always maintain a laser focus.
09:12In solitude, my creative mind dances.
09:15The principle resonates across all my roles as a mother,
09:20humanitarian, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
09:26In solitude, her creative mind dances, you know?
09:29As a humanitarian and intrapreneur.
09:32They could probably put any words in front of her
09:34and she'd just keep reading them, right?
09:37Possible side effects includes headache,
09:41muscle fatigue, and diarrhea.
09:45And by the way, look at him trying to keep it together
09:47while she talks.
09:48As well as with my new film,
09:51where I shaped its creative direction.
09:54That's right.
09:55All the B-Best documentaries let the subject
09:58shape the creative direction.
10:00What creative direction?
10:01I watched that documentary.
10:03Nothing happens.
10:04Waze has more creative direction
10:06than the Melania documentary.
10:08And 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
10:19with 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, to you, Donald Trump.
10:38Look at how happy he is.
10:42You got a medal for me?
10:45I 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 no shame in this administration.
10:57There's vanity.
10:58There's plenty of vanity, but 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
11:25might be a little 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?
11:45It's give 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, you know, all eyes this weekend are on the Oscars,
12:03which, as I mentioned, are taking place right across the street at the Dolby Theater,
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.
12:20Our neighborhood was rated the worst tourist spot in the world.
12:24Coming in second was the Dead Sea.
12:27For real.
12:28And I take offense to that.
12:30I 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 going to 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.
13:02Is 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?
13:13It kind of smells like stale pee and cinnamon nuts.
13:18Look at that.
13:20And then look at this.
13:22I'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?
13:38I'm being ready.
13:39Oh, sorry.
13:40But for my money, there's no better meal than a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a stranger on the sidewalk.
13:48They 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?
14:03This souvenir store does, and it's only $35.99.
14:08You know, a lot of people call this the River of Dreams.
14:12Oh, 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.
14:27Are you guys a group?
14:29Yes, four brothers called Aussie Bro Squad.
14:31Aussie Bro Squad.
14:32Do you guys do music?
14:33Lights on, peace moves.
14:36Face hits, night's groove.
14:38One step left, two steps right.
14:42I brought the boogie back.
14:44Only in Hollywood.
14:47And the award for the world's greatest tourist attraction goes to Hollywood Boulevard.
14:53Screw you, Dead Sea.
14:55That's right.
14:57That's right.
14:59That's right.
15:00Sadly, Lou was never seen again, but may his memory be a blessing.
15:06No, Lou's right there.
15:06Thank you, Lou.
15:07Lou Wilson, everybody.
15:08We are in the chamber tonight.
15:10Bonnie XO is here.
15:13We have music from Nora Jones and Joshua Hommie, and we'll be right back with Will Forte.
15:29Hello, welcome back to the show tonight.
15:31She is the number one best-selling author of this book, Stripped Down, Unfiltered, and Unapologetic.
15:38Bonnie XO is with us on the show tonight.
15:40And then later on, a dynamic duo, an unlikely duo of Grammy winners.
15:46One of them has a podcast called Nora Jones is playing along.
15:50Nora Jones with Joshua Hommie tonight.
15:53Next week.
15:55Well, we got a lot of shows next week here.
15:57We have a lot of guests, including Zendaya, Lisa Kudrow, Chelsea Handler, Jeff Ross,
16:02Chris Robinson from the Black Crows will be here.
16:05Charlie Cox will be here.
16:06Sarah Shahi and Robert Pattinson with music from Tedeschi Trucks Band.
16:11So, please join us for all that.
16:12Our first guest tonight is one of the funniest guys of all the guys.
16:16You know him by many names, including Phil Miller and MacGruber.
16:20His new show with Darcy Cardin is called Sunny Nights.
16:23You can watch it on Hulu now.
16:24Please welcome Will Forte.
16:41How are you?
16:42I'm doing great.
16:43How are you?
16:43I'm doing well.
16:45You look good.
16:45You smell good.
16:46Everything's good.
16:47Yeah.
16:47And I see you're wearing the socks again, right?
16:49I got my, it's tradition, I got my daughters on my socks.
16:53This is Cecilia here.
16:55Very cute.
16:55And the other sock, this is Zoe.
16:58Zoe and Cecilia.
16:59These are two different pairs that usually a normal person would wear, you know, the green
17:04with the green and the purple with the purple.
17:06But I mix them up because out of, you know, a devoted love to my daughters.
17:12Devoted love.
17:13Yeah.
17:13Fairness.
17:13Yeah.
17:14And do you update the socks as they grow or are they the same socks you're going to
17:18wear for a while?
17:20I, I go, I let it kind of ride out.
17:25My toenails make that decision.
17:27Like I have some pretty ratty toenails.
17:30Do 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
17:37and 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.
17:51It's gross, but I, I am going to do it.
17:54That would be a beautiful item to pass down.
17:57Yes.
17:57Now you might want to make two of them.
17:59So each of your daughters, because you don't want to see them fight.
18:01You 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.
18:08So just think about making two quilts.
18:11That's a very good idea.
18:13I appreciate that.
18:14Also, maybe think about trimming your, your toenails a little bit.
18:17I'm telling you, I trim them.
18:19It's like eyebrows and toenails.
18:21They just, it's like wildfire.
18:24They just like, you can trim them and it's like the next day they just like, it's, it's
18:28like Terminator 2, you know, they just kind of gel together and, and pierce through.
18:33Do you ever go get them professionally, um, pettied?
18:37I would never put a professional through dealing with my stuff.
18:41Wow.
18:42Wow.
18:42And do you ever use them as weapons?
18:43You know, like just, cause you could slash somebody?
18:45I could, but I'm a peaceful person and I don't believe in more.
18:48That's good.
18:49All right.
18:49Good.
18:49All right.
18:50Beautiful.
18:51You were, now you took your kids to Mardi Gras, which seems like a weird thing for little
18:56girls to see.
18:58Okay.
18:58Yes.
18:58I was part of this, the crew of Orpheus is this wonderful parade, uh, Harry Connick Jr.
19:05I'm familiar with it.
19:06Yeah.
19:06And, 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
19:19on February 15th.
19:20So we brought her and my sister and her sister, Cecilia, out there while we were there.
19:26Um.
19:26For a parade.
19:28For a parade.
19:29Yeah.
19:29So, so like, we wouldn't normally say like, hey, come to Mardi Gras with us girls.
19:34You know, that's not how we.
19:35But you didn't want to miss her birthday.
19:37Right.
19:37Right.
19:37Exactly.
19:38So everything was great.
19:39And, and, uh, I'm on this, uh, float throwing out beads and they have different things
19:44you throw out.
19:45It's mainly beads, but then they have some hats that are, are kind of bigger ticket items.
19:50And the biggest ticket is a little tambourine.
19:53Oh.
19:53So 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 going to make sure they get this tambourine.
20:10So we get up to them, I spot them and they're like 30 yards away.
20:15And I wing this tambourine.
20:17And the first, like, milliseconds of it is like, oh, this is an amazing throw.
20:23What an amazing thrower you are.
20:25This is heading right at them.
20:27And then it kind of dawned on me, oh, I never really taught Cecilia how to catch things.
20:33And sure enough, it kept going straight at her and nailed her right in the forehead.
20:39And the float doesn't know.
20:41They're just like, a million things are going on.
20:43So the float just keeps going.
20:44I'm seeing the nanny, like, hurry my daughter away as she's crying, maybe concussed.
20:51Uh, it was awful.
20:53So my, yeah, my daughter just thinks that I threw a tambourine at her out of anger.
20:59It's a little while ago.
21:00And I've been wanting to ask you about this because what I heard from you was, I think,
21:05one of the best ideas I've ever heard.
21:07And this idea is something that came from your family.
21:11I heard you on SmartList talking about this on the podcast about your mom and her ideas.
21:17Would you, you know what I'm talking about?
21:18Yes.
21:18Okay.
21:19Now, please explain.
21:20My mother, while I was at SNL, she would call me and she and her friend Carol would always
21:26have these ideas, uh, that they thought that I should try to turn into sketches.
21:31Great.
21:31And they were, to put it kindly, not really the kind of ideas that I would really do.
21:37Right.
21:38Um, and so I would always just say, mom, maybe we save it for the Patty Forte sketch show.
21:45And then over the years, I was like, oh, that's, I gotta do that show.
21:49The Patty Forte sketch show.
21:51So after...
21:52There were enough concepts from your mom to sustain a sketch show.
21:56Oh, yeah.
21:57I just...
21:57And Carol.
21:58How old is Carol?
21:59Just...
21:59They are both now 82.
22:01Okay.
22:01All right.
22:02Excellent.
22:03So this, uh, about five months ago, six months ago, we started making...
22:10It's called, Will Forte's Mom Has a Sketch Show.
22:13And it's my mom, Patty Forte, and, and 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.
22:28And...
22:29Love it.
22:29Love it.
22:30It is insanely fun.
22:32It is...
22:33They're, they're both...
22:34They have no acting experience, no writing experience.
22:39They'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.
22:48Yeah.
22:49Yeah.
22:49But...
22:49Especially Carol.
22:50At least your mother's got a kid in the business, you know?
22:53No.
22:54Somehow it totally works.
22:56We're still...
22:56We're just starting to edit it all together.
22:58But it is so fun.
22:59Oh, I can't wait.
23:00Yeah.
23:01You brought a clip from, of something.
23:03I brought a clip.
23:04This is during, like, the, the, uh, documentary section.
23:07My friend Vanessa Bear from, uh, SNL...
23:10Right.
23:10...came in and we did, like, a character workshop.
23:13Great.
23:13And this is us trying to get them to act like robots.
23:16Oh, great.
23:19I am robot Carol.
23:23I am robot Patty.
23:27I am robot Vanessa.
23:30And I complete the foursome.
23:32I am robot Will.
23:37And scene.
23:42I love it already.
23:46I mean...
23:49It is...
23:50This show is good.
23:52Like, the sketches at the end have all these incredible guest performers.
23:57Oh.
23:57All my buddies from SNL.
23:58I can't really say who it is.
24:00Oh, this is great.
24:01But, like, it is...
24:02Oh, I cannot wait to...
24:03And are they thrilled?
24:04Like, are they excited to be on set and doing this?
24:06Oh, yeah.
24:07I mean, when you tell somebody that idea, they...
24:09Like, like, real comedy people are like, oh, this is...
24:14This is...
24:15I want to be a part of this.
24:16Yeah.
24:16It's been so great.
24:17And everyone's been so nice 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.
24:24All right.
24:24But we're going to talk about your show that people can see when we come up.
24:27The name of that show is Sunny Nights.
24:30Will Forte is here.
24:38Hello?
24:41I have the money.
24:45Here at the motel?
24:47No, no, no, no.
24:48Somewhere public.
24:49Yep.
24:50Afraid I have to insist on that.
24:54You're right.
24:54Yeah.
24:55No, you're right.
24:56Here does work.
24:57Yeah, sure.
24:59One hour?
25:00Okay.
25:00Looking forward to it.
25:03Nervous?
25:03No, no, no, no.
25:04Not even in the slightest.
25:07Are you?
25:10Well, that may...
25:11Oh, I know.
25:13It's Will Forte and Darcy Cardin in Sunny Nights, which you can see right now on Hulu.
25:18And which is very funny.
25:20You and Darcy play a brother and sister.
25:22Yes.
25:23You go to Australia.
25:24You've got this spray tanning business called...
25:28Yes.
25:28A tans form.
25:29A tans form.
25:30Yes.
25:30And 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
25:40talent.
25:42Darcy and I were the only Americans in the show.
25:45And it was the best experience of my life.
25:48Did you know Darcy Cardin before this show?
25:51Somehow I didn't.
25:52You didn't?
25:52We have so many friends in common and had never met until, like, a couple weeks before
25:59the show.
25:59We played brother and sister in the show.
26:01And 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 on the 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.
26:16She's the best.
26:17That's good to know.
26:18Yeah.
26:19So you guys are now spending a lot of time together after this?
26:22Yeah.
26:22Yeah.
26:23Oh, interesting.
26:24What do you do with Darcy?
26:26We do a lot of stuff.
26:28You know, we go out to dinners mainly.
26:30Down there, we did a lot of singing together.
26:33Oh.
26:34What kind of singing?
26:35We would, well, it started, we would sing, we would just pass the time by singing songs,
26:42existing songs, where we would take the names of the crew members and put them in songs.
26:47Like, we would sing, Jasper Nacho.
26:53Which, Nacho is the name of one of the guys in the crew.
26:57But that wore thin pretty quickly with the crew.
27:01Did it?
27:01People 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,
27:09okay, we'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
27:19so undeniably good and powerful and glorious that it will, like, make them forgive us for
27:26all the other songs.
27:27Oh.
27:27And?
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.
27:40And wow 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 sing it for you.
27:56That would be great.
27:59I 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.
28:11Oh!
28:20What 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.
28:29All right.
28:30Um, here now to perform their epic song, Untitled, Will Forte and Darcy Carden.
28:44Two, three, four.
28:46Joodle, riddle, boodle, voodle, goodle, ba-doo.
28:49Jee-do-reedle, beadle, veedle, gee-do-ba-dee.
28:52Just a gal, fest-a-lal, mess-a-cat-oo.
28:55Jilly-tasin', Willie-mason, E-man-be-roo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
29:00-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
29:00-oo-oo-oo-oo.
29:00Ooh-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
29:04-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.
29:05Oh.
29:10I learned my lesson.
29:13And that's the entirety of the song?
29:17Absolutely.
29:17So Darcy Carden and Will Forte, everybody, the show is called Sunny Lights of the Bretton 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, plus music from Chris Robinson and
29:42Tedeschi Trucks Band.
29:51Hi, and welcome back.
29:52Even from Nora Jones with Joshua Hommies coming up.
29:55Like me, our next guest was raised in Las Vegas, and that is where our similarities end.
30:01She tells her tumultuous and inspiring story in 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, to have a number one bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list
30:30is a very big deal.
30:31And now they're going to make a movie out of your book.
30:34We just, thank you.
30:39We just found that out today.
30:41Like, literally five hours ago, I found out that it was, well, I found out, but we just announced it
30:45five hours ago.
30:46When you were writing it, did you have that idea in mind that maybe it would become a film?
30:51I didn't write this book for money.
30:52I 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 a, I wanted it to be a conduit to be able to connect with people and hopefully inspire somebody
31:08along the way, and it's just taken on a life.
31:10And it certainly has done that.
31:12I mean, people really, they leaped at it when it came out.
31:15And you also, I mean, have you thought about who we'd like to play you in this film?
31:20Jack Black.
31:21Jack Black?
31:22Yeah.
31:23That's a great idea.
31:25Yeah.
31:25Now, he's going to have to shave 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.
31:39Which is a strange place to, you don't realize it's a strange place to grow up until you move, and
31:44everybody goes, what?
31:45You 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, it took me moving to Nashville to look back and be like, wow, I really, I made
31:58it 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, you had a, I mean, you had a lot of really bad experiences, and I'm sorry you had all
32:08those bad experiences,
32:09but I think it's a great thing that you share those experiences because a lot of people go through these
32:13things,
32:14and it's not something you should be ashamed of because these are mostly a lot of people who should be,
32:18have been taking care of you, protecting 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,
32:30but you were a runaway, a shoplifter, you would steal clothing, you would, you were a stripper, you were an
32:40addict,
32:41you were addicted to drugs.
32:43It was, do you feel like you would, those, those, you would have been involved in those things if you'd
32:48grown up somewhere else,
32:49like Ohio or something like that?
32:51I think trauma doesn't discriminate, and I think writing this book has showed me and taught me that there are
32:57so many of us
32:59that are literally generational curse breakers, and 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,
33:35because 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,
33:51on stage with me.
33:53Yeah, on stage.
33:54You tracked Leon down?
33:56I did.
33:57What was that like?
33:58What did he arrest you for, Leon?
34:00For 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,
34:09in the book I talk about we were, like, fishing,
34:13and we were in the Wynn,
34:14and I was very intoxicated,
34:16which is something I didn't do whenever I worked before, but...
34:19When you say fishing, you don't mean like this.
34:21No.
34:21You mean, yeah, a different kind of fishing.
34:23Yeah, yep, definitely.
34:26And so I ended up getting arrested,
34:28but the crazy thing was is I reached out to my lawyer
34:31and asked him to give me all of my mug shots,
34:33because I have, like, a whole montage of mug shots 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,
34:48and he's, like...
34:48Really?
34:48Yeah, he'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, I did, and he was like,
35:02you know, this is great and all,
35:03but 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,
35:09it was another Tuesday,
35:11but he ended up reading the report,
35:13came on my book tour show,
35:15and I got to hug him
35:16and just tell him thank you to his face.
35:17Wow, wow.
35:18I'm sure that probably surprised him.
35:20Yeah.
35:20No, he loved it.
35:22You also write about meeting
35:24your now husband, Jelly Roll,
35:26before he was the Jelly Roll
35:28that we all know.
35:29Yeah.
35:30And you met,
35:31did you meet him in a van,
35:32or you visited his van
35:34shortly after meeting him?
35:36So I met him
35:37at a Moonshine Bandits concert.
35:38He was opening up
35:39for Moonshine Bandits
35:40at LVA's,
35:41or Las Vegas Country Saloon,
35:43and afterwards,
35:44we went outside
35:45to partake in a smoke sesh.
35:48I see.
35:49And he brought me out
35:50to Big Bertha,
35:50and it was this big brown van
35:52that was so disgusting.
35:55It had a mattress
35:57and crumbs,
35:58and just,
35:59it was,
36:00it was gross.
36:01And I fell in love.
36:03No, well, sure.
36:04Yep.
36:05You also write about,
36:06like, an early date you have
36:07where Jelly comes in,
36:09he visits your place,
36:11and then just walks in,
36:12just drops his pants
36:13on the ground.
36:14He still does.
36:15A decade later,
36:16and I'm still cleaning up
36:17pants off the ground.
36:19I'm like,
36:19it doesn't stop.
36:20Well, now he's lost
36:21a lot of weight.
36:21I bet his pants
36:22just come off
36:23on their own, probably.
36:24Yeah, he's so skinny now,
36:25and I'm so proud of him.
36:26He looks so good,
36:27so handsome.
36:28Has he,
36:28was he, like,
36:30surprised by anything,
36:31or did he know
36:31all the stories in the book?
36:33I don't think
36:33my husband's read the book.
36:36What?
36:36Really?
36:36He had to live it with me,
36:38and also,
36:39what man wants to hear
36:39about, you know,
36:40his wife before?
36:42Yeah.
36:42So I think he kind of
36:43fibs a little bit,
36:43and he's like,
36:44oh, yeah, I read the book,
36:45but I'm like,
36:46he didn't read the book.
36:47Maybe somebody could do
36:49an edited version
36:50of the book for him
36:51that he can read, yeah.
36:52I think he's taken,
36:53like, cliff notes
36:53from people.
36:54I see.
36:55Do you listen
36:56to all his music?
36:57Do you consume
36:57everything he does?
36:58No.
36:59Okay.
37:00We have an ongoing joke
37:01in our house
37:02that any time his song
37:03comes on a Pandora,
37:04I skip it,
37:05and he's like,
37:06that's messing up
37:07my algorithm.
37:09And I'm like,
37:10I don't care,
37:11but I bust his balls
37:12all the time.
37:13Now that you have
37:14this big success
37:15with this book,
37:15have you thought about
37:16a second book,
37:17doing another one?
37:18Definitely.
37:18I definitely want to do one,
37:19but I want to let this one
37:20kind of resonate
37:21and keep growing
37:22and take on a life
37:23of its own,
37:24and probably in about
37:24like two years
37:25I'll do another book.
37:26You will do another one.
37:27And will it be
37:27about your life?
37:29I was thinking
37:30about doing one
37:30called The Little Black Book
37:31because everybody
37:33is so interested
37:34in my past profession,
37:37but I was thinking
37:38about doing like
37:38a bunch of short stories
37:39of situations that...
37:41I see.
37:41I see.
37:42All right.
37:42Well, hey, congratulations.
37:44I'm glad you took
37:45so many negative things
37:47and made such a positive
37:48thing about it,
37:49out of it, right?
37:50I mean, that's pretty magical.
37:52I appreciate it.
37:52I mean, I feel like,
37:53you know, trauma,
37:55we don't ask for the trauma,
37:56but what we do
37:57with that trauma
37:57and how we move forward
37:58is our job,
37:59and that's what I've tried
38:00to do with my life
38:01is just be a testament
38:02that you can survive
38:03and you will be
38:04a comeback kid, baby.
38:05There you go.
38:06Bunny XO.
38:07We're both checked out
38:08on Fulford and Unapologetic.
38:10It's out now.
38:11Bunny XO, everybody.
38:12Thank you, Bunny.
38:13We'll be back
38:13with Laura Dills
38:14and Josh Rahami.
38:21Thanks to Will Forte,
38:23Darcy Carden,
38:24and Bunny XO.
38:25Apologies to Matt Damon.
38:26We ran out of time for him.
38:28Nightline is dead,
38:29but first,
38:29her podcast is called
38:31Nora Jones is playing along
38:32here with her classic
38:34Something Stupid,
38:35Nora Jones with Josh Rahami.
38:53I know I stand in line
38:55until you think you have the time
38:58to spend an evening with me.
39:03And if we go someplace to dance,
39:06I know that there's a chance
39:08you won't be leaving with me.
39:13And afterwards,
39:14we drop into a quiet little place
39:17and have a drink or two.
39:22And then I go and spoil it all
39:25by saying something stupid
39:27like I love you.
39:32I can see it in your eyes
39:35that you despise the same old lies
39:37you heard the night before.
39:43And though it's just a line to you
39:45And though it's just a line to you
39:46For me it's true
39:47And never seems so right before
39:52I practice every day
39:55To find some clever lines
39:57To say to make the meaning come true
40:02And then I think I'll wait
40:05Until the evening gets late
40:07And I'm alone with you
40:12The time is right
40:14Your perfume fills my head
40:16The stars get rid
40:18And all the nights are blue
40:23And then I go and spoil it all
40:26By saying something stupid
40:28Like I love you
40:53The time is right
40:55Your perfume fills my head
40:56The stars get rid
40:58And all the nights are blue
41:03And then I go and spoil it all
41:06By saying something stupid
41:08Like I love you
41:13I love you
41:19I love you
41:24I love you
41:40I love you
41:54I love you
41:54I love you
41:59I love you
41:59I love you
42:01I love you
42:01I love you
42:01I love you
42:01I love you
42:01I love you
42:01You
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