that is our report. we appreciate your time. i'm >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- nathan fillion, food journalist mark bittman, and music from 6lack. and now, for the most part, jimmy kimmel! ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: thank you very much. i'm the host of the show. thank you for coming. thank you for watching at home. thank you for joining us. on what is really a, today is, if you're ever going to be in hollywood, today was a very big

day here in hollywood. it was oscar nomination day. if you got a screaming call from your publicist before 6:00 a.m. this morning you're either nominated for an oscar or you're kevin spacey, i don't know which. the nominees were revealed very early this morning. the most-nominated films were roma and the favorite, how many of you saw "roma" and "the favorite"? [ applause ] at least half of you are lying, i know that. someone did. they got ten nominations apiece. history was made this morning, first time ever an american avenger film was nominated. "black panther" became the first super hero film to be nominated for an oscar, which is especially impressive, considering the fact that it came out like five years ago. for the third year in a row, matt daymmon was not nominated r

best actor. according to "variety", they said there will be no oscar those year. they've decided to go hostless. i guess whoever it was who hosted last year did such a great job, they're like, well, we're not even going to bother. [ applause ] the only thing worse than being replaced by a robot is being replaced by nothing. this is who in my opinion they should get to host the oscar. this is someone who's not your typical member of the hollywood elite, someone who appeals to conservatives and knows how to deliver a punch line. i think they should give it to an up and coming talk show host named mike huckabee. >> they didn't have the proper permits to travel with a protected species, so he took a small bag and put the snake in his pants. on the plus side, tazmanian

deafs a devils are also on the protected species list. at least he didn't try to hide one of those in his pants. >> jimmy: mike huckabee is to comedy what his daughter sarah is to transparency. what a talented family. and this isn't just some show, it's called "huckabee", this show. they have a monologue, a band, an announcer and weird guests. >> coming up, author of "the sexual state", and congressman mark breed,a and later, pro life's sean carney. >> that is a variety show. [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's first time i ever heard a band play a song under the word "abortion". we will be keeping an eye on that program. last night at the two-year mark

of the trump presidency, we put on a half-time show. the failing "new york times" put us in their best of late night column. jimmy kimmel celebrating the midway point. and "deadline hollywood". we even got a shout out from fox news. jimmy kimmel depicts trump's father in hell, mocks kellyanne conway's sex life. it's another bigly day for donald. it is the 14th wedding anniversary. melania spent the day binge watching "escape from annamora". and a maris poll showing his approval rate being among latinos going up.

melania did tweet about him. you'll see the trumps have apparently been shrinking since he took office, and they can now both fit comfortably on a presidenti presidential coaster, the traditional gift for a 14th anniversary, you know what it is? it's ivory. so trump sent his dumb sons to kill an elephant for ladies and gentlemen. if melania can take 14 years of him, we can stick it out for another two, right? today was the 32nd day of this government shutdown. almost 800,000 federal workers haven't been paid for a month of work. so we've been giving jobs to some of those unpaid federal employees. so far we've hired ten of them to work at the show. we're almost out of jobs, tonight we're joined by number 11, jamieody.

hi, jamie. [ applause ] >> i'm so excited to meet you. >> jimmy: what is your job? tell us what your job title is. >> i'm a federal investigator with the united states department of housing and urban development. >> jimmy: does that mean you arrest people? >> no. >> jimmy: what do you do specifically? >> i investigate complaints of discrimination on the base of race, national origin, color, sex and disability. >> jimmy: that's great. so that's a good thing that you do. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: who is doing that while the government is shut down? >> nobody. >> jimmy: so people are free to discriminate as they please. >> they shouldn't, because we can go after them afterward. >> jimmy: you can go after them. >> yeah.>> j t anti,he areeoeooki fright. we combat basis in segregation

and homelessness. >> jimmy: which is a big problem here in los angeles. and what about this personally has affected you and your family? >> my family and i spent every penny we had in savings to purchase our first home. so now we don't have enough to pay our mortgage or to pay for our son's preschool or our groceries or electricity or phone bills or car bills or all of our bills. so. >> jimmy: that's awful. >> it's awful. >> jimmy: you have nice hair, so here's what we were thinking. can i have the hairbrush? nathan fillion is our guest tonight. nathan fillion has a beautiful head of hair. if you could be so kind to do his hair tonight. >> that would be so exciting. >> jimmy: thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> jimmy: he's like a canadian national treasure. >> i agree. >> jimmy: our federal worker of

the night. [ applause ] guillermo, take it easy over there, will you? meanwhile, speaking of hair, remember bernie sanders? i have a feeling we're going to start seeing a lot of birernie again. he spoke at a mlk event and had pointed words for the president. >> today we talk about justice, and today we talk about racism. and i must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the united states who is a racist. [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's the almost def comedy jam he performs at. rudy giuliani has been busy. he's been walking his comments about the russia investigation back and forth. he gave a doozy of an interview to "the new yorker." he weighed in on the report from

buzz feed saying that trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress. giuliani says i can tell from the moment i read the story it was false. the new yorker says because? becausivy been through a because i've been through the tapes, the e-mails. and they probably went their others and found the same thing. and they said wait, what tapes have you been through? and rudy said, i shouldn't have said tapes. are we sure rudy is really a lawyer? i want to see that diploma. the interview was done as rudy was about to jump in the shower. as nutty as that sounds, imagine him saying those things nude. are you doing it? meanwhile, there's another trump tell-all book on the way that has some fun stuff about his former chief of staff john

kelly. turns out, john kelly may have been more miserable than we thought he was. it is called "team of vipers ", it is written by a guy who used to work in the communications office. he said working for trump was the worst job he's ever had. if he got fired it would be the best day he ever had in this place. and for a guy who spent ten christmases in baghdad, that's saying something. i find it hard to believe kelly didn't enjoy his time, because he looked so happy to be there. we looked this up today. there are photos of john kelly, we had them. we put them side by side with what you get if you do a search for stock photos using the keyword "impotence". there's photo. john kelly, impotence. john kelly, impotence. john kelly, impotence. and john kelly and impotence. one more, john kelly and, john kelly had no idea this whole thing was nothing more than an audition for a cialis

commercial. you know who else has a memoir coming out? chris christie, the former governor of new jersey has a memoir out due a week from today. it's called what's the book going to be called while he's eating a sandwich, and the raes rest is history. hey, nathan, how's jamie doing? >> so far so good. the brush smells like floor. >> jimmy: jamie, keep going. it looks probably perfect just like that. >> it's really on fleet. i think she missed her calling. >> jimmy: maybe we will see you and your beautiful hair really soon. remember last year when that laurel versus yanny thing? there's a kiddie version going viral right now, they heard

grover say something questionable. tell me if you fathhear grover one of two things, >> i moooved it to follow you. >> move the camera, that sounds like an excellent idea. >> jimmy: what did you hear? >> it's a [ bleep ] idea. >> jimmy: that's the first time i heard it. i didn't hear a curse word at all. the next 12 times i heard it, the f word was all i heard. maybe that's from an adult perspective. we want to find out if children heard anything out. so we took a camera to farmer's market, showed it to kids and asked them to tell us what they heard grover say. >> he thinks that it's an excellent idea. >> do you hear a bad word in it? >> no. >> yes, yes, that sounds like an excellent idea.

it's on tape. >> it's saying like a lot, like salad or something. >> salad? why are you making that face? >> because my parents are faking me out. >> it sounds like an excellent idea. >> yes, that sounds like an excellent idea. >> what does he say? >> f word. >> don't worry, i hear it at home. >> yeah. he said the f word. >> yes, that sounds like an excellent idea. >> what does he say? >> yes, yes, that is a [ bleep ] idea. >> is that good or bad? >> bad. >> brought to you by letter f.

>> jimmy: all right, well there you go. [ applause ] >> jimmy: tonight on the show -- music from 6lack. mark bittman is here. and we'll be right back with nathan fillion. [cheers and applause] ♪

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[cheers and applause] what is going ong wi with this m cover? what should we put on the album cover? just put me and the baby with the lucky charms. tomorrow, dr. phil will be here. oscar nominee sam elliott will join us and we'll have music from flipp dinero. and on thursday, chris pine, lena headey and kellen erskine. so please join us for all of that. >> jimmy: after eight years in a "castle," our first guest tonight joins ponch and starsky as members of l.a. law enforcement. "the rookie" airs tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. here on abc. please say hello to nathan fillion. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jimmy: how you doin'?

>> i am so happy to be back. thank you for having me, it's been a while. >> jimmy: it's been an a little while, yes. >> first of all, everybody here, really sweet and kind. >> jimmy: that's nice of you to say. >> secondly, you give these gift bags with hoodies. i can't keep them in the house, people steal them from the house. >> jimmy: are people breaking in the house? >> no, these are friends. >> jimmy: oh, gal pals come into the house and have nothing to wear into the kitchen? >> i would love to say that's what's happening. but they know no jgender. >> jimmy: i'm glad they liked them. >> if we're both here, we're doing something right. >> jimmy: when they canceled "castle", i was like, what are you people doing? why did you cancel the show? and little did i know up their sleeve three hey had you set upo

another show. did you play cops and robbers today? >> yes, i did some calls on the walkie-talkie. >> jimmy: is it fun wearing the uniform? >> it's actually not. >> jimmy: why not? >> because the uniform is wool. >> jimmy: why do this to the police? >> it's mean and impractical. it's not like it's bulletproof. >> jimmy: no. >> and it's 113 degrees in the shade, and we're out there in wool. i used to have a bruce here on my hip because of the gun, now it's a callous. if you don't shift them down, you think oh, my gosh, there's something wrong. >> sometimes you have to lean down. it will pinch a nerve and your leg goes dead. >> jimmy: you're enduring a lot

of hardship. do you have real police officers around you while you're pretending to be a police officer? >> we shut down your street. >> jimmy: for the first episode, right? >> for the pilot episode. you're only allowed to shut down hollywood boulevard once a year. we won the lottery and got to do it. you're standing, waiting for your time to go do it, it's still open to the public. >> jimmy: right. >> and someone will walk up to he and say hey, my neighbor wants to cut down my trees. is that? can i -- why are you asking me? >> jimmy: did you advise them on that? >> i'm wearing a cop outfit. >> jimmy: i see. would you call yourself a thrill seeker? >> i don't, no, i don't. >> jimmy: because i saw some video you posted to instagram that concerns me. let's run at that video. >> oh. >> jimmy: you're under water.

you're wearing a helmet cam or something like that? >> this is one of those gopros. that guy's not going to hurt you. he's pretty big. >> jimmy: that is a shark. what kind is that? >> a caribbean reef shark. >> jimmy: is it as close as it looks like it is? >> that and closer. >> jimmy: is that the kill you kind of sharks? >> i assume everything wants to eat me because i'm delicious. >> jimmy: so i've heard. >> they're not going to hurt you, but when they come straight at you. >> jimmy: yeah. >> you have no, hey, wait a second, there's nothing you can say to put a stop to that. just all you do is like why did i come down here? >> jimmy: yeah, i'm with these things that i've been taught not to go near for so many years. >> my brother and i love to scuba dive together. we do that all the time. that is by far the coolest thing i do. >> jimmy: scuba diving?

>> it's equipment, life and death, the stakes are high, you're you're under water. if something goes wrong, it goes terribly, terribly wrong. you have to have it all together. james bond stuff. >> jimmy: what does your mother think about you and your brother going scuba diving? >> it's not that she's opposed, jimmy. my mom, god rest her soul, not dead. >> jimmy: her soul just needs to relax. >> she has that ability that all moms have of sucking the cool out of the stuff you do? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> like mom, don't do facebook. i come back from that dive with the sharks and the eagle ray, and i'm feeling pretty cool. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> she says oh, hey, how was your dive? did you wear your little outfit? my what? your little outfit that keeps you warm. mom, it's a wet suit, the closest thing i own that looks

like a super hero suit that i have to wear. it's a wet suit. cute outfit. >> jimmy: she's trying to shame you out of doing it, because she's probably terrified every time you go down there. >> she has no, there's no mean bone in her body, but i remember i was in 12th grade, hanging out with some friends, and i said hey, let's go out for drinks, i got to go home, i got to change that outfit. my friends don't like that, you don't say outfit. >> jimmy: you don't say outfit. >> not in front of grade school kids. >> jimmy: i'm surprised being a canadian you didn't say grade 12. i think you are popular with moms, do you that i's true? . >> i think that's true. >> jimmy: do we have somebody whose mom is a really big fan? come up here for a second.

yes, yes, you. come up here for a second, and, yeah. and this is naitthan fillion. come sit up here. [ applause ] >> alison. >> jimmy: you're one of the tiniest people i've ever met. >> i get that a lot. >> jimmy: let me help you up on the chair. alison, tell us about your mother and tell nathan about your mother. >> um, she is, i mean, the best person i know. >> jimmy: oh, that's nice. >> she works super hard. >> jimmy: what does she think about nathan? >> does she know who i am? >> yes, i think i became a fan because of her. >> jimmy: do you think would be proper to say she has the hots for nathan? >> probably. you're on her list. >> jimmy: so alison, i'm going to ask you to write your mom's phone number down. i hope you can remember it. and then we come back from break

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>> jimmy: what sort of job do you want to get in film? >> like production assistant. >> jimmy: was your mom specifically nervous about you moving out to l.a.? >> she was supportive. >> jimmy: she was. >> i thought she would be upset, but she was supportive. >> jimmy: we've established she is a big fan of nathan's. >> she has, length taste. >> jimmy: okay, all right, nathan, there you go. >> here we go. >> jimmy: can we hear her? >> we're being connected to voice mail. >> jimmy: oh, we are? >> she's unable to take my call right now. >> jimmy: say something dirty to her. long message she has, huh? >> hi there, sherry. who is this?

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his 30th is called "dinner for everyone," it comes out february 12th. please say hello to mark bittman. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jimmy: i'm excited to have you here. when i'm cooking things, i almost always consult you and your book. was "how to cook everything" your first book? >> no, but it was my first big book. >> jimmy: it is a big book. and it's a great book because you literally -- i test myself sometimes saying i wonder if this is in there, and it will be in there. >> the way to cook is to go by what is good. >> jimmy: and after you write a book called "how to cook everything ", how do you then

write another book? because it seems like everything covers it all. >> you would think so. but titles tend to be hyperbolic. >> jimmy: mm-hm. >> so as this one is called for everyone, there might be some people it doesn't include. >> jimmy: i got you. who taught you how to cook? >> i was really zeself-taught. i grew up in new york and there was a lot of food around. and i went to college in massachusetts and suddenly, it was a food desert in the worse possible sense. >> jimmy: was it really? >> it was in the '60s, so i left the dining halls, and i decided i was going to learn to cook and i did. i taught myself from books. one thing led to another. >> jimmy: in college, would you cook for your friends or classmates? >> in college i really didn't have any friends, so there was that. after college i lived with a

bunch of different people and i cooked for other people. and then it became, in the '70s, it was really a thing to cook all week and invite your friends over and say i just did this amazing meal that took me it's hours. >> jimmy: you don't think it's that way anymore, huh? >> i think some people would do that, and third of "dinner for everyone" is like a project cooking. i want to do something that's going to blow my guests' minds. i'm hoping some people do that as a hobby, but most people at this point are like, i've got to get dinner on the table. >> jimmy: you at one point were a food critic. went to restaurants under cover i assume? >> i started as a restaurant revi reviewer in new haven, connecticut. there were so few good restaurants that after six or it's, eight, i was like i could make

so much better, so i converted it without anybody's permission. >> jimmy: so you took their recipes. >> i went to this place and had pasta with pesto, and it was terrible. and i wrote that, and i said here's how you make pasta with pesto. then i started writing. >> jimmy: so it was a constructive criticism in a way. >> the nicest spin you could possibly put on it. >> jimmy: how long did you do that? did you run out of restaurants in new haven? >> i did. then i reviewed restaurants on and off until about ten years. it's not, it's not a fun, for me it wasn't really a fun thing. the idea of like helping people to learn how to cook was cooking and relating well to food is so important. that's, it's much more valuable. >> jimmy: there's nothing more important, as far as i'm concerned. i know some people really don't care about food and they don't take an interest in it, but we do it at least three times a

day, and it's something that if you're going to do it anyway, you might as well enjoy it. >> well, so in a way, this tracks my career. because i did the recipe thing, and obviously, i still do it for many years, and then i thought, there's so much more to talk about, about food. it touches on every important issue of our time, and touches on it in ways that encourage us to do things better. and i think it is important to talk about that stuff and to think about stuff. food, food's important when you're talking about climate change, it's important when you're talking about equality, racism, labor, immigration, all of the issues. >> jimmy: chicken? >> chicken. right. >> jimmy: all of those things are important. and that is something you next on. you wrote your column for the "new york times," and then you started writing opinions about food and kind of big thoughts about food, what can we do, would the smartest thing for us to do as a society would be to stop eating all together?

just to not eat anymore? >> honestly, the smartest thing for us to do as a society would be to make it so that we're encouraging our children to eat well. that would be the start of things that would affect, because you can't produce good food without treating workers right, without treating the land right, without treating laborers right, sorry, animals right, workers, land, animals. and if you want to feed children well, all of those things have to flow. you can't be producing junk food, encouraging kids to drink soda and have a good food system. >> jimmy: kids should not drink soda. >> you thought it was like a really good thing. >> jimmy: i thought soda was good for you. >> it's a good food, right? >> jimmy: it's from the earth. getting kids to eat in a healthy way is very difficult for a lot of parents. my daughter who's 4 years old

will not eat anything. i try to, sometimes i'll sneak healthy things into her pasta or whatever, but she just wants the most basic food item. she just wants like macaroni with butter on it, and, you know, that kind of thing. >> which is fine. i mean, that is food after all. i assume you're not force-feeding her. >> jimmy: yes, i am. >> soda. but here's the thing, with all due respect. your kid's going to grow up fine. >> jimmy: oh. oh, good. >> you have a modest amount of privilege, and your kid will be grown-up, encouraged to eat well, nurtured by her parents, taught well in good schools, et cetera, et cetera. not everybody has those advantages, and a lot of people, a lot of children learn how to eat based on what they're told on television and online, and that is almost completely unregul unregulated. so generation after generation, we all know how difficult it is to change our diets. we know we should eat better than we do eat for the most

part. but as kids, we're encouraged to eat badly. and parents can only have so much control in a world where most of our information does not come from our parents. >> jimmy: right. >> it comes from random people who are trying to get us to buy stuff, right? >> jimmy: yeah. >> not necessarily stuff that's good for us. >> jimmy: and they know what triggers us. and they know if they give you a toy with the food you'll be more excited about eating the food. i know i get excited with a toy in my food. this is called "dinner for everyone", easy, vegan or mer for company. it could be perfect for company whether it's vegan or just alone. thank you. i follow you on twitter and all that stuff. mark bittman, everybody! and we'll return with music from 6lac [ applause ] >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is

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>> jimmy: i want to thank nathan fillion and mark bittman, apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next, but first, this is his album "east atlanta love letter." here with the song "pretty little fears," 6lack! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ do better who better you better been around like hella propellers ♪ ♪ wanna know who you with don't tell them come on fellas that ain't none of your biz ♪ ♪ got on your body suit you know i'm on your ass today would you let me hit it thrice if i asked today ♪ ♪ she know my stick nothing but magic babe i be swinging it back and forth til you in your casket bae ♪ ♪ mmm girl you want my best side mmm bet she from the westside mmm ♪ ♪ now i just wanna know don't you sugarcoat i'll say it all if you won't ♪

♪ now could you tell me like it is pretty little fears music to my ears ♪ ♪ okay say it loud say it proud you want it more we open door ♪ ♪ hit the couch then the floor i cut it up like a scissor love galore ♪ ♪ she never bored there's so much we can do you free to say whatever baby if you asking me ♪ ♪ no limit when i'm in it got a master p i'm hoping i don't have a fast release ♪ ♪ got me focused like i'm out here tryna get my masters see mm throwing up the peace sign ♪ ♪ mm girl i'm from the eastside mmm ♪ ♪ girl you on my best side mm say she from the west side mm ♪ ♪ now i just wanna know don't you sugarcoat i'll say it all if you won't ♪

♪ now could you tell me like it is pretty little fears music to my ears ♪ ♪ now i just wanna know don't you sugarcoat i'll say it all if you won't ♪ ♪ now could you tell me like it is pretty little fears music to my ears ♪ ♪ summer came and left but love stayed and it stuck and now i carry my weight like a truck ♪ ♪ i don't make music but to teach but because the people need ♪ ♪ they want me to lead the way so i speak it's black pronounced blacker than my skin ♪ ♪ ever since i was a boy the world told me i should never ever cry ♪ ♪ and if i ever shed a tear or show emotion i could kiss my credibility goodbye ♪ ♪ we were told to be strong without told how to be that but to feel like it's safe to open up ♪ ♪ and now we suffer from this gap that we

created every day we learn enough to save ourselves ♪ ♪ here is a psa to every young black man watching ♪ ♪ i am not here to talk about my album dropping conditioning and influence exist for a reason ♪ ♪ it's all about change like season cease it ♪ ♪ got pretty little fears i got pretty little fears too ♪ ♪ i'm just hoping i can share them with you yeah ♪ ♪ you got pretty little fears i got pretty little fears too ♪ ♪ i'm just hopin' i can share with you. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause]

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