tyler james williams. and music from the beaches. with cleto and the cletones. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. hi, everybody. welcome. hi, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for joining us here in -- oh please, relax. traffic has come to a complete stop thanks to the president of the united states, who is here to raise money. i feel like if we got organized we could pay him more to not come. [ laughter ] took my wife an hour and a half to go six miles last night. they shut down everything. they closed all the roads from disneyland to magic mountain, all roads are closed. the traffic is slower than, well, this. [ laughter ] easy, easy, just be real careful, no need to rush, steady as we go. steady. just -- it's just a few more steps till we get -- we'll get you in that car. and there will be -- okay, all right, great. he made it. i mean, is there anything more heart-stopping than watching him walk down stairs? [ laughter ] it makes me feel like i'm in the movie "a quiet place." there's that

. >> reporter: tyler james williams stars opposite of brunson.young chris rock on the hit show "everybody hates chris" and roles on "the walking dead" and "criminal minds." on abbott, he plays janine's close friends with dreams of becoming a school principal. >> you look like you're trying to mute a smile. >> i am. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: a role he won a golden globe for in 2023. >> to quinta yeah. >> what drew me to gregory, it was built so specifically to me, and that speaks to quinta as a writer. she was like the person that i had in mind from gregory from the jump. so when i read it, it was as if the words were falling out of my mouth. >> reporter: the sitcom pauls in a huge audience and major guest stars. bradley cooper made an appearance in last night's episode, airing rite after the academy awards. >> oh, you work at the school district? >> yeah. >> you know these schools are criminally underfunded. >> yeah, yeah, i'm working on it. let's just take the picture. >> creator, writer, producer, actress, do you have a favorite hat? >> writer. i

tyler james williams. and music from the beaches. with cleto and the cletones. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you.

next week -- selena gomez, paul giamatti, jeff goldblum, colman domingo, jenny slate, tyler james williamsillian murphy, emily blunt, and robert downey jr. will be here. we'll have music from lukas nelson and the promise of the real, chromeo and the beaches. please join us for all of that. last night, all over the planet, millions, if not billions, of humans made vigorous love to the sounds of our first guest's music. he returns to "american idol" sunday night here on abc and his incredible documentary about "we are the world" called "the greatest night in pop" is on netflix now. please welcome, my endless love, lionel richie. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, you tricked me. lionel, what did a man whose name is synonymous with romance, the man who wrote the words "first love," "you're every breath that i take, every step i make" -- which is wrong, you don't make steps, you take steps. >> no, you don't make steps. >> jimmy: you never make steps. >> yes, yes, yes. >> jimmy: what did you do last night for valentine's day? >> i had a very sexy dinner. >> jimmy: o