he goes okay, got, it got it, got it. and we go action, and i swear to got he goes, "eh, yo, what's going on over here?" >> jimmy: it's like he's in the witness protection program or something. [ laughter ] >> and then maya. maya rudolph was in the film, one of our friends and a tremendously funny woman. she goes, "you shut up, vince." so he got what he wanted. he got a name and his backstory worked. >> jimmy: yeah. right. your dad, is it true your dad would go to college with you? which is really like the plot of this movie. >> yeah. our movie is really just a sweet look at college with melissa playing a mom and you know, it's really this sweet female-centered movie. in my case -- girl. in my case it was sweet and fun and we all loved my dad, but he would come and literally party with me. hard. >> jimmy: when you say he'd come and party with you, when would he show up? just the weekends? >> yeah, on the weekends.

he was in southern illinois. it was like a three-hour drive. he'd come up for the weekend. and he would stay out with us dancing around, doing his thing until 2:00 in the morning. >> jimmy: was he welcome there? >> yeah. people loved him because he was buying the beer. >> jimmy: i'm sure. okay. yeah. i'm sure your friends got a kick out of that. >> they did. >> jimmy: did you like having him with you? >> i did. it was really fun. because he's a great guy. there were a few times -- there was one time there was a giant apartment party. there was a courtyard and there's a party here, a party there. and he managed to fall asleep in a bathroom of someone who we were not at that party. so i had to go look for him because he was -- you know, he was a little bit older. he'd had a couple drinks, and he fell asleep literally in someone's bathroom. and i was like knocking on doors, have you seen a man about this tall, steve falcone? yeah, he's in there. >> jimmy: was your mom okay with this? >> no. [ laughter ] no. and she was like you guys do what you need to do, i'll be

staying here, have fun. >> jimmy: that is really super crazy. you also directed a love scene that features your wife and a college student. >> that's true. >> jimmy: and i'm sure that was -- i do want to ask you about directing that particular scene. but i also want to ask you about writing that scene because you guys, you and melissa wrote this movie together. whose idea was it to -- whose idea was that? >> i think it might have been her idea. and i'm so dumb that it was only you asking me and i'm like oh, my god, wait a minute, i should make out with this great-looking young guy. yeah, i guess you should, that will be funny. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: the way to do it is -- you know she should do it -- wait a minute, she's you. and then when that's happening does it bother you? is it uncomfortable at all? >> it was weird because it was -- we shot that scene where she's making out with this

really good actor named luke benward, who's a really sweet kid, too. and it was our anniversary. it was our tenth anniversary. what i noticed -- >> jimmy: tenth. oh, boy. >> so it was sort of a special day. >> jimmy: yeah, sure was. >> i'll always remember it. [ applause ] >> jimmy: do you as director choose the actor? >> yes. i'm really starting to figure out how dumb i am right now. >> jimmy: yeah. >> he's a great, great-looking guy. he's like a really nice guy. what i noticed when we were shooting the scene was that it was really working well. and the more that she was hands on the funnier it sort of was and the more it worked for the movie. now i have to say hey, mooch, maybe just grab his butt. and then they do and it would work. he's like i'm so sorry, you're saying do it, right?

>> jimmy: did you also have to get her an anniversary gift, or was that enough? [ applause ] well, it's very good to see you. the movie is called "life of the party." melissa mccarthy, ben falcone. it opens in theaters friday. it's going to be bigger than "star wars." we'll be right back with 2 chainz and yg. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. because antonio villaraigosa got it done. he defended women's healthcare, banned military-style assault weapons,

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♪ happy mother's day to all the mothers out there yeah ♪ >> including my beautiful mother right here. i love you, mama. thank you for the support. thank you for just being there every time i need you. trying to make my mama proud. i ain't trying to let my mama down. i'm just trying to make my mama proud. let's do it. ♪ t.r.u. university i pull it up and murk a beat ♪ ♪ momma house was filled up with bags of hercules strong ♪ ♪ soon as i finished i put the seat down or my momma'd be cussin me out ♪ ♪ only child no siblings no besties ♪ ♪ i couldn't do nothin right like a lefty woo ♪ ♪ bought my momma's first house with the juug money alright ♪ ♪ bought my momma's second house with the club money show ♪ ♪ me and momma used to trap out the same house same house ♪ ♪ used to eat and go to sleep on the same couch same couch ♪ ♪ me and momma got busted at the same time same time ♪ ♪ went to court and told judge the damn same lies same lies ♪ ♪ i can tell momma proud of her only son 2 chainz i have always worn

more than one ♪ ♪ yeah i'm real i'm ill you know you gotta feel ♪ ♪ you poppin' pills i'm rarer than two dollar bills ♪ ♪ yeah i'm just tryna make my momma proud make my momma proud yeah ♪ ♪ i ain't tryna let my momma down down down down ♪ ♪ yeah i'm just tryna make my momma proud yeah proud yeah ♪ ♪ i ain't tryna let my momma down down down down ♪ ♪ yeah momma ain't raise no ♪ ♪ yeah my momma ain't raise no ♪ yeah yeah yeah momma ain't raise no yeah yeah momma ain't raise no ♪ ♪ 4hunnid my momma ain't raise no ♪ ♪ cause my momma ain't no ♪ ♪ my momma ain't raise no ♪ ♪ they cold hearted so you gotta do em cold ♪ ♪ my momma can't get along why ♪ cause my momma ain't no ♪ ♪ i was runnin up a check with the homies on the disk i ain't ever do the feds ♪

♪ got some ygs from the gang they'll do you for a check ♪ ♪ and you know i'm gang gang cause that's the only thing i rep ♪ ♪ ayy momma when i leave the house it's for them dollars ♪ ♪ you are the reason i bought that choppa ♪ ♪ cause i know you wanna see me come home proper ♪ ♪ soon as i get right i said i gotcha then i gotcha ♪ ♪ yeah i'm just tryna make my momma proud make my momma proud yeah ♪ ♪ i ain't tryna let my momma down down down down ♪ ♪ yeah i'm just tryna make my momma proud yeah proud yeah ♪ ♪ i ain't tryna let my momma down down down down ♪ ♪ yeah momma ain't raise no ho one more time ♪ ♪ yeah my momma ain't raise no ho ♪ ♪ yeah i'm just tryna make my momma proud make my momma proud yeah ♪ ♪ i ain't tryna let my momma down down down down ♪ ♪ yeah i'm just tryna make my momma proud yeah proud yeah ♪ ♪ i ain't tryna let my momma down down down down ♪ ♪ yeah momma ain't raise no one more time ♪ ♪ yeah my momma ain't raise no ♪ yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah momma ain't raise no ♪

♪ you know i think the sun rises and shines on you ♪ ♪ you know there's nothing nothing nothing ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

[ cheers and applause ] this is "nightline." tonight, breaking news. three americans held prisoner in north korea, now free. greeted on american soil by president trump. what led to their release? plus, volcanic fallout. >> that is just remarkable. oh, my goodness. >> our journey into the hawaiian disaster zone with families whose homes have been obliterated. >> i saw three houses burn yesterday with my own eyes. right down to the ground. >> lava and ash spewing into the air. residents choking on toxic gas.

>> your lungs literally ache, so you've got to just run. >> what officials say could be next. and inside giphy. meet the $600 million team putting out nearly every gif on the internet. the critics pointing to how some people are using popular gifs of oprah it cultural appropriation. >> when you start to represent people in these cookie cutter ways that looks like racism. >> but first the "nightline" 5. number 1 in just 60 seconds. our 3 contestants are all at the big ikea table.

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good evening. thank you for joining us. we begin with breaking news. they're the symbols of a thawing relationship. three american prisoners held in north korea are now free and back on u.s. soil. and tonight they received a warm welcome home. an historic moment. three americans formerly held as prisoners in north korea now free. the president and first lady greeting them inside the plane before stepping outside for the world to see. a celebratory moment for the united states. >> they are really three incredible people. and the fact that we were able to get them out so soon was really a tribute to a lot of things, including a certain process that's taking place right now. and that process is very

important. so we will see what happens. we have a meeting scheduled in a very short period of time. you'll be hearing about it soon. we have the location set. and we will see if we can do something that people did not think was going to happen for many, many years. and a lot of bad things could have happened in between. so i just want to say this is a special night. >> reporter: the former prisoners of north korea releasing their first statement, saying, "we would like to express our deep appreciation to the united states government, president trump, secretary pompeo, and the people of the united states for bringing us home." the three former prisoners are korean-american. two of them detained last year. the third in prison since 2015. the americans were released after secretary of state mike pompeo met with kim jong un for 90 minutes in north korea to discuss plans for his upcoming summit with president trump. shortly after a north korean official came to pompeo's hotel to inform him the three have been granted amnesty but saying

it was a hard decision. the men boarded pompeo's plane, taking off at 8:42 p.m. local time. less than an hour after being released from custody. after a stop in japan then they headed to the u.s. the son of one of the detainees, tony kim, anticipating this moment, speaking with abc news in april. >> i think our family tries to take it day by day, try to stay positive. you know, we try to focus on maybe today he's going to be released. >> reporter: the detainees' release comes on the heels of the historic april meeting with the leaders of north and south korea, when they agreed to formally end the korean war and denuclearize the peninsula. denuclearization an issue on the table for president trump's upcoming summit with kim jong un. the location of that meeting still unknown. >> we'll have much more on the north korea situation on "gma" in the morning. but we turn now to the volcanic eruption in hawaii. we take you into the danger zone, where mass evacuations are still under way and homes being

melted by waves of lava. abc's marci gonzalez is on the ground with families whose nightmare has come true. >> reporter: it is a torrent of molten rock devouring everything in its path. part of the tropical paradise of hawaii's big island torn open. geysers of lava and ash spewing into the air. all from kilauea, one of six active volcanoes in hawaii. in some places lava reaching as high as 330 feet, higher than the statue of liberty's torch. people saying the sound was akin to a jet engine's roar. >> it was thunderous. it was just like whoo. >> the level of lava coming out of that fissure is bad. the volume of lava is bad. this whole thing is a bad situation. >> reporter: the lava reaching temperatures of nearly 2,000 degrees fahrenheit. so hot it can melt gold.

take a look at this time lapse video of a mustang bursting into flames as it's consumed. >> it's the lava from here going underground through here to the neighborhoods. >> that's right. >> reporter: that molten rock traveling underground and erupting through the earth. spewing out 20 mild away on the neighborhood of leilani estates. nearly 2,000 residents of this and one other community evacuated. >> i started to panic and just grabbing pictures. my mom's wedding gown. just baby photos. important things. >> reporter: we met woody keahai nelson at this roadblock hoping to go back in to pick up what he left when a friend showed him this video. >> memories of being in my back yard. it's hard. >> reporter: that giant wall of lava creeping through that yard closing in on his childhood

home. >> shock and the memories kind of hit me hard seeing photos of me and my brother in my back yard. now it's covered in ten feet of lava. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: this nightmare for this island began last week. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: earthquakes rattling the big island. and as the first cracks in the earth opened plumes of ash and smoke rose into the air. >> it was roaring sky high. it was incredible. it was fuming. it was roaring. it was thundering. rocks were flying out of the ground. >> reporter: those 15 open fissures exposing fiery magma overtaking neighborhood streets causing a week of mayhem. over the weekend people like chris klepps waited for hours in their vehicles. >> you've been out here all night long? >> i got out here about 3:00. and just sat and waited. >> what are you waiting for?

>> to see if i can get in. >> reporter: only to learn he isn't allowed back in. >> where the new fissures opened up it's right on the corner. i think it's heading toward us. we kind of gave up hope. >> reporter: today the situation on the ground in leilani estates is still volatile. authorities allowing some evacuees back in for a few hours at a time to gather their belongings. >> it doesn't seem real. >> reporter: raylene lairham and her son evacuated last week. >> it's almost like you can feel the lava flowing under you. >> reporter: one of authorities' concerns, the dangerously high levels of sulfur dioxide fumes in the community. the national guard is monitoring the toxic fumes. >> we're already well over what could be considered safe. >> reporter: pleading with residents to stay away. >> like choking on rotten eggs. it's really thick. it makes your eyes water, your throat hurts, everything hurts. your lungs literally ache. so you've got to just run. >> reporter: in all 36 structures, most of them homes, have been destroyed. more than 100 acres consumed by

the lava, and no one knows when it's going to end. >> could continue to flow for several weeks, several months, several days. several years. we don't know. the worry level is high right now. >> reporter: worry but a level of acceptance. locals saying this land belongs to the goddess of fire and volcanoes, pele. >> reporter: kilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes, spewing lava since 1983. it's part of what drew 2 million tourists last year to hawaii volcanoes national park. >> wow. so yeah, just for some perspective, we are here on the edge of kilauea volcano. >> reporter: and that volcanic activity erupting outside of the park has been historically devastating. in 1990 the town of kalapana left buried under 50 feet of lava. in 1960 nearly the same in the town of kapoho. and today an explosion as rocks in the volcano's other crater crashed into the lava lake

below. we watched as it created the largest ash plume at kilauea since 1924. >> oh, my goodness. that is just remarkable. >> reporter: sending geologists scrambling. >> yeah, this is a big deal. >> reporter: they say it is all connected to the ongoing volcanic eruptions that are holding this small corner of the island hostage by waves of lava. permanent changes to the landscape and lives here as nelson and his neighbors focus on their faith as they look forward. >> you try, but it's what it is. pele, goddess of pele, she owns all this land, which is all her home. so she's taking back what rightfully is hers. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm marci gonzalez in hawaii. next, cultural appropriation in three seconds or less? why some critics say gifs are encouraging young people to stereotype.

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perfect! make room for the judge! what's your dream? at ikea, we help you live it. make the dream yours. gifs are rapidly changing the way young people communicate. these are short video clips that are used online in place of complex thoughts or emotions. they're inherently one note, and now some experts worry they could be painting african-americans as caricatures instead of people. here's my "nightline" co-anchor dan harris. >> reporter: they're used in almost everything we do. gifs are a cultural obsession. >> there are thousands of ways to express yourself in three frames or less. most of us have seen the more famous gifs like this one, sometimes called white guy blinking.

or this one, called crying michael jordan. but some critics are concerned that communicating in short form leads us to stereotype and generalize entire swaths of the population. it's seen by some people as a form of cultural appropriation. this "new york times" video examined how gifs and memes can become a sort of digital blackface. >> women of color in particular are called on really frequently to express emotions for us. >> reporter: writer laura michele jackson says people outsource their emotions to gifs, in particular gifs of women of color such as oprah or the "real housewives of atlanta." >> your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight. the internet likes things that are exaggerated. so when you already have a group of people that are stereotyped for being over the top, you know, you mate that with the internet and it just -- it goes viral all the time. >> reporter: she wrote about this in an article for "teen vogue," urging users to be cognizant of what we share and how we share.

>> when you start to represent people in these cookie cutter ways and they're not, you know, afforded, you know, the full range of humanity, i mean, that is racism. that looks like racism. >> reporter: the largest purveyor of gifs worldwide is a company called giphy. more than 300 million people use its platforms every day to send and share gifs and memes. they say they too have had to confront this idea of digital blackface. you even think it's a trend. >> anytime there's culture put out, other cultures will appropriate the culture and at some point it becomes part of mass culture, right? there is a responsibility for media companies to look at what they're doing and how they are citizen in this kind of community. >> reporter: these guys, who may look better suited to making artisanal chocolate or home-browed kombucha, are the co-founders of a burgeoning tech giant, worth an estimated $600 million. >> you can't tell people what gifs they can use. >> no, but we can make sure we

have the best types and most representative gifs across all types of interests. >> after this racist meme found its way onto the platform the company had to make changes. >> how did that happen? >> that was a bug in our moderation filters. when we were alerted to that piece of content we took it down immediately, within minutes. and then we did an entire review of our entire moderation system. >> people can't get into your system if they're putting out racially charged -- >> no. >> the first gif was created 30 years ago and the first gif to go viral was the dancing baby. now there are millions of them. part of the reason, experts say, for the explosion in popularity in gifs is human impatient. scientists say the average human attention span for any one thing is 12 seconds. i mean, i never use them. does that mean i'm helplessly culturally illiterate? >> 55-year-old moms. it's pretty much universal now. i think being 46 isn't an excuse. >> what's the role?