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Jimmy Kimmel Live - Season 24 - Episode 11: Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, Carrie Underwood, Mike Epps, Men at Work
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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, from American Idol, Luke Bryant, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood.
00:10My guests, plus music from Men at Work, with the Glee Tones.
00:16And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:32I appreciate that. I feel like, of course, for the show, thank you, as you're watching, as you've been showing
00:38up.
00:38We're glad you're here. We are beating to you, literally beating, from our headquarters and relaxing, the entertainment capital of
00:49the world.
00:49Ready for president!
00:55Let's pray we can do better than that.
00:58You know, today is a day of great importance here in Hollywood.
01:01Today is Oscar nomination day, which, what Good Friday is to Vatican City, Oscar Thursday is to us today.
01:07A very solemn day, a very holy day.
01:10And the nominees for the 98th Annual Academy Awards were unrolled bright and early this morning.
01:15Very early. I was up at 5.30 just to make sure Matt Damon wasn't nominated.
01:19And he was not, and I want to thank the Academy for that.
01:24The movie Sinners had the most nominations of, not just of the year, of any movie ever.
01:3216 nominations for Sinners. That beats the previous record of 14, which was a tie between Titanic, All About Eve,
01:40and La La Land.
01:41All three of which went on to win Best Picture, although in the case of La La Land, only for
01:46about four minutes before they gave it to Moonlight.
01:49Ten movies are up for the top prize, including One Battle After Another, Marty Supreme, and, you know, with Sinners
01:55in the mix, we've got vampires going up against Frankenstein, which is fun, especially if you're eight.
02:02But the witches didn't make it.
02:04Wicked for Good got shut out.
02:06It got no nominations, which was a real witch slap to them.
02:10Um, the auto, this was the surprise, the auto racing movie F1 got a nomination for Best Picture, proving that
02:18Academy voters are still very horny for Brad Pitt.
02:24Now, this is my nominee for Best Picture.
02:26I got a text from Cleto Sr. this morning.
02:29He sent me a text, and you were eating a tortilla for breakfast?
02:32Yeah, made me a couple of scrambled eggs, and I said, well, I'm going to get a tortilla going, so
02:37I had, you know.
02:38He sent this picture after taking a few bites of the tortilla and noticed that it resembled someone.
02:51Who does that look like to you?
02:55That's right.
02:56It's our Gordita Supreme Leader, Donald Trump.
02:59You know, some people find Jesus on a tortilla, you found the Antichrist.
03:11Once you had it, what did you do?
03:13Did you finish it?
03:14Did you eat them?
03:15You know, I started chomping on it, and then I put it on the plate, and I'm going like, I
03:21called my wife, Sylvia, who does this look like?
03:24He goes, Trump!
03:25So I threw it away.
03:32Today, by the way, is a big day for the Trump family.
03:35It's Donald and Melania's 21st anniversary.
03:3821 years ago today, Melania said, I do, and a beautiful prenuptial agreement was born.
03:46Trump was busy.
03:47He was traveling back from Europe today, but he did take time to post something sweet.
03:50He posted some random guy calling him greatest president in the world, period, three exclamation points.
03:58And that was it.
03:59Sorry, Melania.
04:01Let me just say this.
04:02Donald Trump's going to have to be very careful during court-ordered lovemaking tonight because
04:08Teddy Roosevelt, I don't know, he may let this makeup kid at home because, first of all, he's two totally
04:14different colors.
04:15His hand's like a marshmallow's face is a Costco rotisserie chicken or something.
04:20He's got a nasty bruise on his left hand, which doesn't exactly square up with the he shakes a lot
04:26of hands explanation for the bruises.
04:28And he didn't even try to spackle over it this time.
04:31His press secretary, Caroline Levitt, put out a statement saying he banged his hand on the corner of a table
04:36during a signing ceremony and then again spanking himself with that Nobel Peace Prize.
04:42You know, I mentioned last night, after all his bombastic and orally flatulent threats about how important economic and military
04:52conquest of Greenland is, after all that huffing and puffing, with no warning whatsoever, he just gave up.
04:59You have talked about this framework, the beginning of a framework that you've spoken with the NATO secretary about.
05:05Can you tell us anything about that?
05:06Does this ultimately mean that the U.S. will ultimately acquire Greenland?
05:10Well, I don't know if I can say that, but it could be.
05:13I mean, it's possible.
05:14Anything's possible.
05:15But in the meantime, we're getting everything we wanted.
05:17Total security, total access to everything.
05:20Total access to all the things we already had total access to.
05:26And let me tell you something, just like that wall Mexico was going to pay for and the caravans that
05:31were coming and they're eating the dogs and cats.
05:34I'm telling you, after next week, we will never hear about Greenland again.
05:39What a bluff for you.
05:40You know, Trump's new thing is he's come up with an organization called the Board of Peace, which many normal
05:49countries fear he's forming to replace the United Nations.
05:52Of course, membership isn't free to the BOP.
05:56He's charging other world leaders a billion dollars apiece to join it.
06:00He had a signing ceremony today.
06:01Look how happy he is.
06:03He's like, I'll take cash, check, Venmo, crypto, whatever you got, I will take it.
06:08And guess who he put in charge of the board?
06:11This board has the chance to be one of the most consequential bodies ever created.
06:16And it's my enormous honor to serve as its chairman.
06:19I was very honored when they asked me to do it.
06:22He had an idea to do it.
06:23And then they came.
06:24They said, you be the chairman.
06:26And what did you say?
06:27You said yes, right?
06:28I mean, they said this.
06:30What an honor to be named chairman of your own board.
06:34Almost no Western democracies signed up to be part of this.
06:37But the very sketchy leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Hungary did immediately.
06:41And he invited Putin to be on the board of peace in his downtime when he isn't bombing Ukraine.
06:46What a group this is.
06:48They might as well call it the Legion of Doom.
06:51A great group of people.
06:52They're friends of mine.
06:53I think, let me see.
06:56Yeah, every one of them is a friend of mine.
06:59Usually I have two or three that I don't like.
07:01I don't find them up here.
07:03I like every one of these vehicles.
07:05No, they're great people.
07:05They're great leaders.
07:07Was that the devil I saw?
07:10Did you see the devil in there?
07:11Yeah, he was the devil.
07:12Okay, not just me.
07:13All right, good.
07:14Supposedly, these people will be working together to rebuild Gaza, which is a project now being spearheaded by a very
07:20familiar mannequin face.
07:22Rothel will start with.
07:23This will show a lot of workforce housing.
07:25We think this could be done in two, three years.
07:26We've already started removing the rubble and doing some of the demolition.
07:30And then new Gaza.
07:31It could be a hope.
07:32It could be a destination.
07:33Have a lot of industry.
07:34We're basically studying the best practices from all over the world.
07:36And we're watching who does education the best, who does health care delivery the best.
07:40And we want to encourage all the countries to be able to follow these best practices.
07:43A lot of the things that President Trump is doing in America, if they're working, we should all be copying
07:48them.
07:49Hold on a second.
07:49Can I tell you something?
07:50I think that's the first time I've ever heard Jared speak.
07:54I didn't know he had a voice.
07:56They must have, like, Teddy Ruxpin'd that into him or something.
08:00All this time, he's been like the dog in Wallace and Gromit, quiet.
08:04And then all of a sudden, he's Joe Pesci.
08:07He's got a New York accent.
08:08He's like, New Gaza, buy my timeshares, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
08:14Trump also invited the Pope to join the Board of Peace.
08:16That's right.
08:17The Vatican said the Pope received the offer, but it is something that requires a bit of time for consideration
08:23before giving a response.
08:25Which is a polite way of saying they're waiting for the Pope to stop laughing.
08:28I mean, the white smoke coming out of the Vatican was the Pope ripping a bong hit after getting this
08:34letter from Trump.
08:35I mean, seriously.
08:39There's a better chance the Pope joins Tinder this year than the Board of Peace.
08:44In Washington today, former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
08:51And once again, he reminded us how crazy it is that Trump is in the White House and not jail.
08:56Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results
09:03and prevent the lawful transfer of power.
09:06After leaving office in January of 21, President Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Social Club
09:15and repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.
09:22Highly sensitive national security information was held in a ballroom and a bathroom.
09:30Well, not just any bathroom, a golden bathroom.
09:34Last place anybody would look, the place a genius would hide.
09:38I mean, is that a crime?
09:41Or is it five-dimensional chess?
09:46Thank you, everybody.
09:49Many of the Republicans on the committee used their time to try to discredit Jack Smith on behalf of their
09:55overlord to the point where Congressman Eric Swalwell just had enough.
09:59These guys are so lucky they're not under oath because they would have to tell you what they really think
10:04of Trump.
10:05They call him crooked.
10:07They call him cruel.
10:09They call him a scumbag.
10:11I've heard you all say it.
10:13You're lucky you're not under Trump.
10:14But when the lights go on and the cameras are on, you're tiny.
10:17You're small.
10:18You shrink.
10:20These guys, our Republican colleagues, are a joke.
10:24You know what?
10:25They are cute when they're little.
10:27The Supreme Court is expected to rule very soon on whether or not to put the kibosh on Trump's big,
10:33beautiful tariffs, which, in case you're wondering how that's going, pretty much exactly how they said it would go.
10:38According to a new study, the American public, we paid 96% of the costs of the tariffs.
10:43But the good news is Trump made $1.4 billion last year.
10:48It's called a reverse Robin Hood.
10:49You take from the poor, you give to the rich, and all thanks to the tariff of Nottingham and cheese.
10:56And we paid $200 billion in tariffs, which is hard to wrap your head around.
11:02What it means in practical terms is most Americans will never be able to afford a new couch.
11:07You know that couch you're sitting on right now?
11:09Enjoy it.
11:10That's your death couch.
11:13Poor J.D. Vance.
11:14It's going to be dry humping the same sectional until the end of time.
11:19Vice President was in Minneapolis today for a roundtable with local leaders.
11:24He said one of his goals was to talk to people there to try and see what we can do
11:30better.
11:30Here's one.
11:31Go home.
11:32Send everyone wearing a mask home.
11:33That would be a lot better.
11:35And don't go in the mail.
11:37You don't need to be in the mail.
11:39Let's start with those and go from there.
11:42This is going.
11:42Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday of this week was spotted on a flight here to California just
11:49as his home state, Texas, is about to be hit with terrible weather.
11:53You remember he famously fled to Cancun in 2021 to get away from a storm.
11:58He left his dog behind at the house.
12:00So when reporters reached out to his people, they declined to give details about where
12:05he was going and why, but they did promise he will be back.
12:09This trip is pre-planned work travel that was scheduled weeks in advance and that he will
12:15be back in Texas before this winter weather is set to move in.
12:18Okay, good.
12:19Good.
12:19Don't his constituents know that if they need him, they can just say Beetlejuice three
12:22times and he will appear on.
12:24I actually know where Ted Cruz is and I'm going to tell you where he is.
12:28Right now, Ted Cruz is, um, he's at my house.
12:32He's in my guest room under a heat lamp shedding his skin.
12:35And as soon as, as soon as he lays eggs, we're going to send him back home.
12:39Don't worry.
12:40No, I might, I might have to go easy on Sweaty Teddy because he seems to be the only Republican
12:45who's kind of even on my side when it comes to the FCC.
12:49Trump and his, uh, Brendan Cartel is coming for us again.
12:53Last night, the president reposted this article that says the FCC is now trying to use equal
12:58time rules to prevent shows like ours and The View from conducting interviews with candidates.
13:03They're reinterpreting long agreed upon rules to stifle us.
13:08And this one's a little bit complicated.
13:10It's not as easy as what happened the last time.
13:12So I want to break it down.
13:12There was a time in this country before television, radio was the dominant broadcast medium.
13:18There were huge radio networks.
13:19And if a candidate running for office made an appearance on one of those networks, it
13:24was a big deal.
13:25Excuse me.
13:25It could give the candidate a major advantage over his opponents, which gave the broadcasters
13:30a lot of power.
13:31So in 1927, our government passed the Radio Act, which later applied to television, that
13:37required over-the-air broadcasters to give equal time for legally qualified candidates, meaning
13:43if you put one candidate on the air, you had to offer the same amount of airtime to all
13:48the other candidates.
13:49You know, it's not just Republican and Democrat.
13:51Sometimes there are 20 people from 20 different parties running for the same spot.
13:55And if you couldn't, you can't interview all of them, then you can't interview any of
13:59them.
14:00You following this, Guillermo?
14:01Yeah.
14:02Yeah.
14:02Yes.
14:05So in 1959, they came up with an amendment to exempt what they call bona fide newscasts
14:11and bona fide news interviews from the rules governing equal time.
14:14And that allowed ABC, CBS, NBC, et cetera, to interview one candidate without having to interview
14:20all of them.
14:20Which mostly applied to news programs until years later when talk shows started having
14:26candidates on.
14:27In 1960, John F. Kennedy went on The Tonight Show.
14:30Bill Clinton, of course, went on Arsenio.
14:32And in 2006, Jay Leno interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger when Schwarzenegger was running for governor.
14:37And the Democrat who was running against him demanded equal time.
14:40He said, I want to be on, too, when he filed a complaint with the FCC.
14:43The FCC denied his request.
14:45They ruled that Arnold appearing on Leno.
14:47This was a bona fide news interview, even though it was a talk show.
14:50And therefore, not subject to those equal time rules.
14:54And that's how every talk show has operated since then.
14:56Until this week, when Trump's little ferret in the FCC, Brendan Carr, who, as you know,
15:03is doing everything he can to shut us up, the easy way or the hard way, is trying to say
15:08we no longer qualify for the bona fide news exemption when it comes to interviewing candidates,
15:13which is a sneaky little way of keeping viewpoints that aren't his off the air.
15:18It's his latest attack on free speech.
15:20And it's a joke, because this isn't the 50s anymore.
15:23Back then, there were only three major networks.
15:24Now we've got cable.
15:26We've got streaming.
15:27We have satellite, podcasts, social media.
15:29There are thousands of outlets now.
15:31Broadcast TV used to account for 100% of viewing.
15:35Now it's like 20%.
15:36There were so many channels doing, and some of them doing 24-7 Trump programming.
15:41Fox News, Newsmax, One America News, Real America's Voice.
15:45None of them are required to give equal time, but we are, because we use the public airways.
15:50Equal time was designed to limit how much influence broadcasters have over a public opinion.
15:56But we're not the only thing on television anymore.
15:59We're a small fish now.
16:00We used to be the whole pond.
16:02Now we're a part of, like, this enormous Las Vegas buffet of, like, we're the mashed potatoes
16:08on the buffet, and the FCC now wants to mash us even more.
16:13They're matching our potatoes.
16:14And I have no idea what the outcome of this is going to be.
16:18We'll find out.
16:19I guess whatever happens, I want to just point it out, because it is another example of this
16:23administration trying to squash anyone who doesn't support them by following the rules.
16:29And we know how much respect these people have for the rules.
16:33I mean, just this afternoon, Trump posted this on his exclusive partisan social media platform,
16:39Truth Social.
16:40He wrote record numbers all over the place.
16:43Should I try for a fourth term?
16:45A fourth term.
16:50Never mind a third term.
16:51He's on to a fourth term.
16:53He's even losing the ability to count.
16:56And it's especially upsetting, because we've been working so hard hand-in-hand with the
17:00FCC for so many years, bleeping and blurring the big TV moments of the week, whether they
17:05need it or not.
17:06And with that said, once again, it is time for this week in Unnecessary Censorship.
17:14President Trump amplifying his demand for Greenland on the world stage and f***ing the leaders
17:20that he's been pressuring to let him have it.
17:22Among the leaders who tried persuading Trump to f*** off was the prime minister of Norway.
17:26I would argue this president has probably f***ed more f*** around the world than anyone
17:30else single-handedly.
17:31Our country is being f***ed like you f*** a chicken.
17:35Whatever they need me to do, they need me to take, you know, f*** in the front, in the
17:39back, whatever it is, I'm going to die for my team out there.
17:41They just debuted an autistic Barbie.
17:44She wears noise-canceling headphones, carries a fidget spinner, and has flappy f***s.
17:50Well, Fox News and I common sense department is a big fan of the old saying, f*** me once
17:55s*** on you, f*** me twice, s*** on me.
17:58The d*** was just something I couldn't f*** on my own.
18:03National d*** relief can help you to become s*** free.
18:10Ray, f***ing all day long.
18:12A thousand dollars for you, Ray Wilson.
18:17We've got a fun show tonight.
18:18Mike Epps is here.
18:19We have music from Men at Work.
18:20And we'll be back with Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood.
18:31Hi there.
18:32Tonight, a very funny man with a very funny new stand-up comedy special called Delusional.
18:38Mike Epps is with us.
18:39And then later, from Orlando, you can see them live on tour beginning July 16th in Pompano
18:46Beach.
18:46Music from Men at Work.
18:47Next week, we've got new shows with first-class guests, including Margot Robbie, Jacob Belordi,
18:55Nate Bargetzi, Kaylee Cuoco, Nisi Nash-Betz, Joe Scarborough, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Kermit
19:02the Frog will be with us with the music from the format, and Jason Isbell and the 400 units.
19:07So please join us for that.
19:08Our first guests tonight are a talented trio made up of two country music superstars and
19:14one living legend.
19:15They team up for the season premiere of American Idol Monday nights here on ABC and the day
19:19after on Hulu.
19:20Please welcome Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood.
19:52Thank you for coming.
19:54Listen, I haven't seen the show.
19:55Which one of you is Carrie Underwood?
19:59Carrie, are you sick of these guys yet?
20:01It's your second season with them.
20:02No.
20:02I mean, they didn't scare me off, so we're back at it.
20:06Are you guys sick of each other?
20:08This is your ninth season together.
20:09We are not.
20:11We actually hang away from the show.
20:14We hang out.
20:16He's been trying to get me to go hunting and fishing since the show started.
20:21No.
20:21And I told him, does a guy in a white tennis hat look appropriate in the woods?
20:26And he said, no, it doesn't work.
20:28No, you're going to have to dress differently in the woods.
20:30Yes.
20:30You could wear this.
20:31This would be a good, right?
20:32That way the animals know what's going to happen.
20:34No, no.
20:35Those aren't hunting shoes.
20:36I've always said that Valentino on a hunting trip does not work.
20:40No Valentino?
20:41No, no, hell no.
20:42Safest animals in the world with Lionel.
20:45Now, Carrie, these guys have been doing this longer, but you are an actual American Idol.
20:50You won in season four, right?
20:54You experienced the whole journey and all that stuff, the ups and downs, all of that.
20:59Does it feel like in any way like, I mean, I don't know, maybe you haven't done this,
21:04so maybe it's a bad question, but like when you go to high school and then you come back
21:08and you're a teacher?
21:09I mean, in some ways for sure, and hopefully I have some wisdom having been in their shoes
21:15that I can impart, you know, on them and help them along in that way.
21:20But it is the Idol University this year.
21:23That's kind of our theme.
21:25Is that the theme?
21:25Well, you guys are, are you guys, did you go to college, Carrie?
21:29I did, yeah.
21:30I dropped my last semester in order to do American Idol stuff, but I got to, I got to
21:37finish.
21:38I didn't lack any like core stuff.
21:40It was just hours and it was like nine hours.
21:43What was your major?
21:44Mass Comm.
21:45I was, I was going to be a journalist.
21:47Wow.
21:48And you, I know everything about you.
21:50You know that.
21:50You know everything about me.
21:54And what was your, like economics, right?
21:56Economics, economics.
21:57Yeah, okay.
21:58And you, so you would have been like Lionel Richie, CPA, had this.
22:01Yeah, exactly.
22:01Okay.
22:03And Luke, you went to Georgia Southern, right?
22:06I think so.
22:07Yeah.
22:10From what I remember.
22:12You were in a fraternity?
22:13It was blurry.
22:14What was, what was your major there?
22:17Um, business.
22:20Business.
22:21Business.
22:22Taking, taking care of business.
22:24Taking care of business.
22:25Did you, do you feel like you learned anything?
22:28Like, is your business person, do you think, in college that you have now applied to your
22:32career?
22:33Uh, hangover cures.
22:34That's it.
22:36I learned, uh, I learned how to go and get the answers to the, to the test out of the
22:45filing
22:46cabinets and all the head of the departments.
22:49They offered him up.
22:52That's how we do it down there at Georgia Southern.
22:54Wow.
22:55You, um, you guys, now, Hollywood Week, and this is confusing to me, this time around,
23:00Hollywood Week is in Nashville.
23:02Oh, yeah.
23:02Which, to me, makes it not Hollywood Week.
23:04Right.
23:05Because normally you're in Hollywood.
23:07Yeah.
23:07Which is why they named the week after it.
23:09But now you're in Nashville, and you guys both live in Nashville.
23:12Lionel, you do not live in Nashville.
23:13I do not live there.
23:15Does Lionel stay with Eve when you're, like, doing the show from there?
23:18Is there an invitation for him to stay in your home?
23:21So we just got a Four Seasons in Nashville.
23:24Otherwise, Lionel would have commuted from the closest Four Seasons to Nashville.
23:30Oh, really?
23:31Right.
23:32Secondly, secondly, they get up too early.
23:35Oh.
23:35Yeah, they get up at, like, at five and four in the morning.
23:38Do you guys really get up that early?
23:40I get up at five, yeah.
23:42I go to bed at five.
23:43I got lunches to make and breakfast to make, and I got to get up before my kids do, or
23:49it's
23:49going to be bad.
23:50That's ridiculous.
23:51But, Jimmy, for nine years, or eight years, I didn't have enough weight to get the show
23:58moved to Nashville for Hollywood.
24:01So Carrie came in.
24:03Now there's an imbalance.
24:04Ah.
24:05Yeah.
24:05Well, see, now it's Hollywood Week in Nashville.
24:08That's what we have to say.
24:09You're going to Hollywood Week in Nashville.
24:11That's like Dick Clark's Rock at New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
24:14It makes no sense.
24:16Time to just make Ryan the headliner on that.
24:20There you go.
24:21OK, so nobody invited Lionel to stay with him.
24:23It's interesting, because I tell you something, Lionel.
24:24He's been to Luke's place before.
24:26He came down and judged all of my trees and my hedges.
24:31Really?
24:32Are you a gardener?
24:33Am I a gardener?
24:34Like a serious gardener?
24:36Well, getting me with the gun and the bow and arrow in the woods, that's, but the trees.
24:41He's got some maple trees that are so fabulous.
24:44So there, I jump out of the buggy, and he says, where are you going, Lionel?
24:47I said, that's a maple, fabulous maple tree.
24:51And he says, Lionel, what the hell's wrong with you?
24:53And I said, no, it's the maple tree.
24:55And then from there.
24:57I was like, that's a place to put a deer stand.
25:00And Lionel's like, that's a beautiful maple.
25:03But, but, let me, let me clear this up.
25:05So staying with Luke, he said one thing that got me kind of really nervous.
25:11He said, yeah, from time to time, I have a gator that comes in the backyard from the,
25:16from the river, the creek back there.
25:18That's it.
25:19You never have to worry about, are you kidding me?
25:22Yeah, no.
25:23A visiting gator.
25:24Yeah, no, no, yeah, that's, do you really have a gator, or are you just trying to get Lionel
25:27to go back to the home?
25:28Uh, well, it's, when you, when you've overstayed, you're welcome.
25:33When you've overstayed, you're welcome.
25:34I start creating, yeah, fictitious animals.
25:38But, uh.
25:38At least the gator.
25:40Carrie's the homemaker, though, that does, like, the real, the real botany.
25:45Is that right?
25:46What?
25:47Botany?
25:48Nah.
25:48What does that mean?
25:48You're growing weed?
25:50No.
25:51No, no.
25:52I knew you were growing weed.
25:54Well, botany's a weird word to use, right?
25:56It's strange.
25:56I'm just a gardener.
25:57You're just a gardener, okay.
25:58I'm not a really good gardener.
25:59I'll wait for it.
26:00Lionel, when you're out there in the, in the, whatever, the woods, does anyone ever come
26:04up to you?
26:05Luke, you might want to do this.
26:06I should probably just tell you this on the side, but just walk up behind Lionel and
26:09say, is it a tree you're looking for?
26:16And with that, we'll take a break.
26:18Luke, Lionel, and Carrier here.
26:30We're back with the judges from American Idol, Luke, Lionel, and Carrier.
26:34Carrier, you're not, I mean, this is, you grew this yourself?
26:38I did.
26:38What is this?
26:39Those are tromboncino squash.
26:42Trombo what?
26:43Tromboncino.
26:44No, I tried them this past season for the first time, because I usually do like zucchinis
26:49and yellow squash and stuff like that, but they get pests on them, and those are like
26:53disease resistant, and they grow huge.
26:55Botany.
26:56Botany.
26:57Botany.
26:58You're right.
26:58Yeah, but you, but you, you can get arrested in Beverly Hills.
27:01Yeah.
27:02Yeah.
27:04These look like they would feed about 75 people.
27:07Yeah, I mean, we, we would eat kind of the top part, and then I like to can, so I
27:13would,
27:13I can the bottom parts, whenever we're going to.
27:15You're canning tromboncinos.
27:16I, I do, as one does.
27:18That's the secret.
27:19Um, so Brad Paisley is in the first episode of this, uh, season.
27:24Yeah.
27:24Who is, uh, Brad comes here a lot, and we're all very, very fond of Brad, and Brad is a
27:29very funny guy.
27:30Um, now this is something that, Luke, would you like to explain what's happening here?
27:33Well, so, um, we kind of conspired a little bit, and, uh, I put an earpiece in.
27:41They thought I was in the bathroom for an incredibly long amount of time while I was,
27:47uh, putting the earpiece in, and then Brad is feeding me lines in my ear, and...
27:53You've agreed to say whatever Brad tells you to say.
27:57Yeah, and at one point, um, at one point Brad had told me to say that I didn't like
28:03the state of Michigan.
28:05Yeah, well, that's in the clip, so don't...
28:07And then I realized that I do a lot of good business in Michigan.
28:10Oh, yeah, yeah, well...
28:11So I love you, Michigan, but, uh...
28:13Well, that's because you went through the filing cabinets instead of studying in college.
28:18Who are you?
28:19My name is Dylan Holmes.
28:20I am, uh, from Spring Lake, Michigan.
28:23I can't stand Michigan.
28:24I can't stand Michigan.
28:26Oh, that's it.
28:27You go take shots.
28:29You're in your bathroom break.
28:30Let's see what you got.
28:31Let's see what you got.
28:35Pass.
28:36Pass.
28:39Can you just let the poor boy sing?
28:41Why don't you sing a Lionel Richie song?
28:43Come on.
28:44Sing a Lionel Richie song.
28:45No, no, no.
28:46Don't sing a Lionel Richie song.
28:46I'll do it.
28:47We are the world right now.
28:49Have they learned to stop singing your songs?
28:51Oh, my God.
28:53The worst part about that, though, he was acting really weird, but I really didn't think
28:58that much of it.
28:59You know what I mean?
29:00Yeah.
29:00Like, I was like, are you, like, what, what are you doing?
29:03But it wasn't that awesome.
29:04So if I'm stroking out on Idol, they're, they're, they're doing it.
29:08Yeah.
29:09They're just going to let it happen.
29:10Oblivious.
29:11They are, they're from Nashville.
29:13Yeah, right.
29:13Exactly.
29:14That just says it all.
29:15You, have you guys been to each other's concerts, all three of you?
29:20Uh, I joined you on stage once.
29:22She, we performed together.
29:24Uh-huh.
29:24Uh, I, you did, you came on the, the show that I did, the private show.
29:29Yes.
29:29You were there.
29:31Oh, excuse me, we did a show together.
29:32What are we talking about?
29:33Well, Lionel and I have forgotten the shows.
29:36Exactly right.
29:37I hadn't seen, I, I've seen like a CMA Fest show of hers, but not like the full, the full
29:44thing.
29:45You're going on tour.
29:46You're announcing your tour.
29:47Yeah, I'm going on, just announcing the Word on the Street tour this year coming up.
29:51So that would be a good opportunity, but you're also going on tour.
29:56Yeah, I, I'm announcing next week, uh, that I'm, uh, about to tour, that tour dates
30:00are coming up.
30:00So, good night.
30:04No tour?
30:05No.
30:05No, no tour for Carrie?
30:06She, she.
30:07I'll go, I'll go see them.
30:09Well, it's great to see you guys.
30:11Uh, American Idol, it's one night a week now, Monday night, 8 o'clock, right here at ABC.
30:16You're going to watch it the next day on Hulu.
30:17New Carolina and Carrie will be back with Night Out.
30:26Next week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kaley Cuoco, Jacob Elordi, Nate Bargetze, and Marco Robbi,
30:34plus music from The Format, and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.
30:45All right, and welcome back.
30:47From Men and Workers on the way, our next guest is from Indiana.
30:50Just like Mike Pence, he has a new stand-up comedy special.
30:54It is his seventh.
30:55It's called Delusional.
30:56It premieres Tuesday on Netflix.
30:57Please say hello to Mike Epps.
31:14Mike, you seem to me like to be a man who might enjoy Lionel Richie, yes?
31:19I love Lionel Richie.
31:20I just seen him in the back and told him to ask me to find a way.
31:25I love Lionel Richie, man.
31:26How you doing?
31:27I'm doing good, man.
31:28You record songs yourself, right?
31:30Yeah.
31:30Oh, you have your song in the beginning of the comedy special.
31:33Beginning of the comedy special.
31:35A lot of people don't know I've been doing music for a long time, but I never wanted to
31:39present myself as a musician, because sometimes, you know, when you see people who you know
31:44them for doing something, when you see them do something else, you're like, oh, no, I'm
31:48never going to watch another one of those comedy shows.
31:50It's true, yeah.
31:52It happens, especially comedians.
31:53So I'm just easing it on people.
31:53Because every comedian really wants to sing.
31:55They do.
31:56And not in a joking way.
31:58I've been wanting to be Lionel Richie my whole life, man.
32:01Don't I look like him?
32:05And conversely, I think a lot of comedians want, I mean, singers want to be comedians
32:11also.
32:11It's weird.
32:11They do.
32:12If only we could just swap every other day in some way.
32:14Every now I'm here, right?
32:16It'd be fun.
32:16Do you hang out with, like, famous musicians or anything like that?
32:21Are you the part of the...
32:21Well, you know, man, I know all the rappers.
32:25You know, they like...
32:26It's like we go to high school together, so I know...
32:28Who do you know?
32:29Who's, like, who's number one?
32:30Snoop Dogg is one of my guys.
32:32Of course, Ice Cube is one of my guys.
32:37But I done met some legendary rappers, you know, like DMX, Rest In Peace.
32:42Oh, you went to DMX.
32:45DMX, one day I had a 64 Riviera, and I was driving through Beverly Hills, and my friend
32:50said, man, it's a truck following us that keep chasing us.
32:53And I said, man, we got to pull over.
32:55So we made sure we pulled over in front of the police department on Burton Way.
33:00Okay.
33:01The Beverly Hills, guess who jumped out the car, DMX.
33:05I want the car right now.
33:06Come on.
33:07I want to buy it right now.
33:08How much you want for it?
33:09Come on, bro.
33:10Let me buy the car.
33:10But he kept looking up at the police thing.
33:12He kept looking up there.
33:14So he wanted to purchase your car from you.
33:16He wanted to buy that car, man.
33:18Did you sell him the car?
33:19No, I didn't sell him the car.
33:21Sell him the car.
33:22But later on, about six months from now, I needed the money.
33:26I started looking for him.
33:27Did you?
33:28I said, where's DMX right now?
33:30I need him right now.
33:31I got the car ready.
33:34You call this new special Delusional.
33:37Why is it called Delusional?
33:38I called this new special.
33:40This is my fifth one, too, Jimmy.
33:42Oh, fifth.
33:42Yeah.
33:42This is my fifth one.
33:46I call this special Delusional because, you know, I always tell, and I tell my kids,
33:53sometimes you got to be delusional to become successful.
33:56You know, sometimes you can't live in the present.
33:59You have to become a character.
34:01You got to be blissful to become successful.
34:05And that's what I did.
34:06You know, I credit my whole journey to being delusional.
34:11I really, really believed something that looked impossible to somebody else.
34:15It was possible to me.
34:17And it came true.
34:18Because you had a rough upbringing.
34:20Yeah.
34:20Yeah.
34:21So it's okay to be.
34:22Where you are, yeah, you must feel like something magical happened to you.
34:25Yeah, man.
34:26You got to believe, you know, you're a superhero.
34:28In the special, a lady yells out in the middle of the thing that she's going to have your baby.
34:33Yeah.
34:34Yeah.
34:35And do you get that kind of thing, a lot of people shouting things at you?
34:39Not that one all the time.
34:40Uh-huh.
34:41Because I already got enough kids, but I don't know where that came from.
34:45But, yeah, you know, and it's natural.
34:48You know, you got it, too, Jimmy.
34:50You know, as soon as somebody says something, we know how to come right off the cuff, you know?
34:53Well, yeah, you get used to it.
34:55Yeah.
34:55Yeah.
34:56Yeah.
34:56Maybe you're born with it.
34:58I don't know what it is exactly.
34:59Yeah, you're born with it, yeah.
34:59But you like it.
35:00Now, do you never get bothered by it or anything like that?
35:03Yeah, sometimes, you know, when people start heckling and yelling out, one of my favorite
35:08things to do is I tell everybody to stop, and I tell them, look where the light is pointing
35:13at, and the light is on me, and the crowd just go crazy.
35:17It's usually people that yell out and heckle are usually in the cheap seats.
35:21You can't even see them.
35:24They're almost sitting in the lobby yelling at you.
35:27What about online?
35:28Do you get, do you look at any of that stuff and people write things and, uh...
35:32Oh, yeah, man.
35:33Well, I don't do it now, but when I first got on social media, I used to always read
35:37some of the comments, and I've had some of the craziest comments.
35:40One time, this guy just kept on trolling me, and he was DMing me, and he had real information
35:48about me.
35:48My mother was telling me about my address.
35:50I said, oh, this is real.
35:51So I hired a private investigator.
35:54Oh, wow.
35:54Yeah, found out it was a 12-year-old little boy in Erie, Pennsylvania.
35:58Wow.
36:00And his mother said, oh, he's just having a good time.
36:05I said, could you go in there and whoop his ass on me right now and put it on camera
36:10right
36:10now?
36:11I want to see this.
36:14You also mentioned this special.
36:15You took a trip to Africa that changed your life.
36:19It did.
36:20In a real way.
36:20Yes.
36:21Yeah.
36:22Because I thought I was, you know, when you're African-American, when you're black and live
36:26in America, you know, we really lean on, we're African, you know?
36:30Uh-huh.
36:30I'm a black man.
36:32I went over to Africa and found out I wasn't as black as I thought.
36:38And, um...
36:39By comparison?
36:40By comparison.
36:41Well, you know, I was getting my...
36:43Because I didn't know I was offending them, because I was in the lobby, and I was saying,
36:50and the Africans wasn't, they didn't like that.
36:52They probably just thought you were crazy, yeah.
36:54Yeah, they looking like, what is this?
36:57And I heard one of them, they said, they not like us.
37:00I said, who are you talking to?
37:03But he was talking to me.
37:05And he said, you need to go do your Ancestry.com.
37:07So I went and did it.
37:09And, um, I did my Ancestry.com, and you know how they have the boxes, and they come in the...
37:15In the pie chart.
37:16Yeah, to show you the ethnicity.
37:17I found out I'm white, Jimmy.
37:20You're white.
37:21Yep.
37:22Well, you know...
37:22Look at my nose from the side.
37:26Well, I just, I should say, on behalf, on behalf, welcome.
37:32No, don't...
37:33No, we have to do a regular handshake.
37:35Oh, we got to do a regular handshake?
37:38Thank you, everybody.
37:39Good evening, everyone.
37:41Good evening, everyone.
37:42Good evening, everybody.
37:43On Netflix.
37:44And the final season of The Upjaws is on Netflix now.
37:47We'll be back with Men at Work.
37:54Thanks to Luke, Lionel, Carrie, and Mike Epps.
37:57Apologies to Matt Damon.
37:58We ran out of time for him.
37:59Nightline is next.
38:00But first, their summer tour starts July 16th in Pompano Beach.
38:04Here with the classic, who can it be now?
38:06Men at Work.
38:37I'm pretty tired, I'm not feeling right, all I wish is to be alone, stay away, don't you wait, leave
38:48my home, best out if you hang outside, don't come in, I'll only run at night.
38:56It can be now, it can be now, it can be now, it can be now.
39:11Can it be knocking at my door, make no sound, tip toe across the floor, in three years he'll knock
39:21all day.
39:21I'll be trapped, and here I'll have to stay, I don't know how I might do to myself, there's nothing
39:30wrong with a state of mental health.
39:33I'd like you here with my childhood friend, here they go.
39:39Still in a second.
39:41Who can it be now?
39:44Who can it be now?
39:48Who can it be now?
39:52Who can it be now?
39:55Is it the man come to take me away?
39:59Why do they follow me?
40:03It's not the future that I can see.
40:06It's just my fantasy.
40:08Who can it be now?
40:40Oh, who can't be now?
40:45Who can't be now?
40:49Who can't be now?
40:52Who can't be now?
40:55Come on, baby, help me now.
40:58Oh, who can't be now?
41:05Oh, who can't be now?
41:09Who can't be now?
41:12Oh, who can't be now?
41:39Who can't be now?
41:42Oh, what can't be now?
41:42Oh, whoa, whoa.
41:50Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
41:52You
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