we are back in our regular time slot with an abbreviated version of our show. we'll be on for half an hour, followed by "nightline" and this will be the plan until the shackles come off. i hope you had a happy easter. we had one of those family dinner video conference -- this is what our easter was like. "unmute yourself. grandma, you have to -- we can't hear -- hit unmute!" it was less like an easter dinner and more like i was hosting a non-celebrity reboot of "hollywood squares." but that's what you do. easter's a tough one during a pandemic. every two minutes we're telling our kids to wash their hands. then all of a sudden we're like yes, go ahead and eat those jellybeans you found under a bush. our 5-year-old, jane, told my wife for real, "i promise if i see the easter bunny i won't hug him." so some lifelong psychological traumas are definitely being formed here. i will say that as a parent easter makes you realize what a solid backstory santa claus has. santa lives at the north pole. he has elves who make toys. he flies around with reindeer. my kids asked where the easter

bunny lives. i was like, i don't know. the sewer? this is good. this is what the easter bunny was up to in new jersey yesterday. [ siren ] >> whoa! oh, no. code red! >> jimmy: sorry, kids. everything you believe is a lie. it looks like the president has another enemy inside his administration. and unfortunately, that enemy is dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci was on cnn with jake tapper yesterday. jake asked him if casualties could have been prevented had the social distancing and stay at home orders been put in place sooner. and the answer was not exactly what trump wants to hear his people saying. >> i mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could have saved lives. obviously, no one is going to deny that. >> jimmy: well, the president is. the president is definitely

going to deny that. trump was obviously not pleased. he retweeted a post that included the hashtag "time to fire fauci." every time someone tells the truth he gets mad. is that a good sign? this tweet was written by a woman who is the author of a dating guide called "making love great again," which sounds like a text trump would send his doctor after getting his cialis prescription refilled. "making love great again." a spokesperson for the white house said the media chatter is ridiculous and that trump is not firing dr. fauci. so he is definitely firing dr. fauci. if dr. fauci wants to keep his job, he'd better find a way to blame this virus on hunter biden and quick. maybe it wouldn't be so bad, though, if trump fired fauci. i for one might enjoy seeing daily updates from dr. joseph exotic. on march 24th, which was less than three weeks ago, the president said he expected the country to be back up and running by easter. but here's the thing.

he didn't say which easter. maybe he meant next year or the year after that. trump has no idea when the country will be open for business again, but that doesn't stop reporters from continually asking when the country will be open again. >> i want to get it open as soon as we can. we have to get our country open, jeff. >> can you say what metrics you will use to make that decision? >> the metrics right here. that's my metrics. >> jimmy: his tanning bronzer is his metrics? "if my face is orange, the country will stay closed. but if we see it shift to tangerine, game on." and while it would undoubtedly be dangerous to let people go back to work prematurely, the president seems convinced we're going to die either way. >> i just want to say that you know, you talked about couldn't it lead to death. meaning you open up could lead to death. you're right. but you know what? staying at home leads to death also. >> jimmy: maybe you've seen the movie "a nightmare on elm street"? freddie gets a hold of you, you're right in bed, you're done.

meanwhile, in the effort to end the era of trump, senator bernie sanders today officially endorsed joe biden in a joint livestream. and that's a very powerful message for the country. if two 80-year-old men can successfully log into a zoom meeting, anything is possible. sanders said while he and biden have real differences and they're not going to paper over them, they need that paper for the bathroom, he will do everything he can to help joe win the election. >> i'm asking every democrat, i'm asking every independent, i'm asking a lot of republicans, to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy. i endorse. >> all right, chuck, thank you very much. >> jimmy: chuck? oh, no. well, now all the democrats have to do between now and november is keep joe biden in a mylar bag like they do with vintage comic books. schools have been closed for a month now and a lot of students are finishing the year online, which means a lot of parents are suddenly in the 7th and 8th grade again. every parent i know is

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>> jimmy: welcome back to "jimmy kimmel live" from my house. tonight, we will salute our healthcare hero of the week. she is a nurse from new orleans who is on the frontline fighting covid-19. tomorrow night george stephanopoulos will join us from his covid quarantine. he announced today that he has the coronavirus. i think we might check in on my aunt chippy tomorrow. and later this week, we'll hook up with jason bateman and seth rogen too. so please join us for that. our guest tonight is a supremely talented actor and singer. he is on loan from the devil very own housef rock, please say hello to jack black. hi, jack. >> jimmy! >> jimmy: you look good. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. yeah. i got my best shirt on for you. i don't usually dress up. it doesn't feel right without a big "jimmy kimmel live" entrance. do you mind if i start over? do an entrance? >> jimmy: yeah, i'd be happy to

do that. you do have the best entrances maybe of any guest ever. so what do you want me to do? >> do you have the band? can the band play some music for me if i enter? >> jimmy: yes. well, we'll get some music going for you. sure. all right. okay. all right. i guess i should introduce him again. our guest tonight is a talented actor and singer who's down the hall at his house. joining us from castle black, please welcome jack black! ♪ >> yeah! ♪ ah! ♪

♪ yeah jimmy! >> jimmy: still the king. >> oh, sorry. >> jimmy: there's more? >> i got some wires crisscrossed. >> jimmy: i hope that was one of your sons. either that or there are random children wandering around your house. >> that was my boy tommy. getting in on the act. he was shooting off a nerf megablaster. >> jimmy: jack, when i was a kid growing up in brooklyn, there was a kid named tommy black who lived around the block and he used to beat me up every single time he saw me. that's true. >> no kidding. wow. you had a little flashback? >> jimmy: yeah. tommy black and eddie fahey. you don't have an eddie fahey living there, do you? >> no eddie fahey. but let me say eddie, tommy, the

ones who terrorized jimmy, turn over a new leaf. if you haven't already. i'm sure you have. >> jimmy: jack, i very much, as many people did, enjoyed the video you made for tik tok. that dance really i think set the planet on fire. in a good way. >> you know, honestly, i feel like that's the one thing i can do to contribute during this tough time. if i can -- i'm still out of breath from that sexy dance. but i feel like if i can bring some smiles during these tough times that is in its own little way a contribution. that's our job, jimmy! we've got to try to keep the giggles coming. >> jimmy: you know, you are this generation's sammy davis jr. in so many ways. you're a real showman. >> that's the highest compliment you can pay me. you didn't know this about me but i'm a huge sammy davis jr. fan. named my first boy sammy. >> jimmy: because of sammy davis

jr.? >> yeah. he is the ultimate triple threat showman of the century. sammy davis jr. thank you, man. >> jimmy: first concert i ever went to, sammy davis jr. >> no kidding! was it in vegas? >> jimmy: in las vegas. i was 14 years old. yeah. wow. we're really getting out a lot of old memories. ♪ make a groovy lemon pie hey, jack, are you helping your sons, sammy and tommy, with their homework? are they doing the home schooling? >> you know i am. and all you parents out there know what we're talking about. the home schooling. you want to keep them up on their reading, writing, arithmetic. and i was never very good with my studies in school. i got a lot of sleeping done when i was in class. but we're doing our best here.

i built my boy a computer desk so that he could do his online schooling. >> jimmy: really? >> and that was a challenge. yeah. usually -- i think a normal person would have been able to do that in about 25 minutes but it took me about three days. >> jimmy: did you build it or did you assemble it? >> well, i mean, it's like a lego set, you follow the directions. i assembled it. but i mean i used a screwdriver. there were nuts and bolts involved. >> jimmy: was there a saw involved? because that's a whole different category. >> there was no sawing. okay? >> jimmy: all right. >> how easy it should have been. but i got it done. that's all that matters. i got it done. >> jimmy: jack, i heard you have three tortoises living in the house. we're talking big tortoises or what? >> yeah. we've got three desert tortoises living in our house. this is our animal kingdom here.

tommy, are you here? can you bring leggy up? they were inherited from my wife's mom, ellen. she gave us these little tortoise eggs, and they hatched. and now we've got these creatures in our house. and we find out later they're going to live to be like 170 years old. they're going to way outlive us. which is weird. and they hibernate. you probably didn't know this, but tortoises hibernate like bears. so they went to sleep around december something and they've been asleep this whole time, and they just woke up from hibernation like a day ago. and now they're looking around like, what happened? we went to sleep, everything was normal, now there's like a pandemic. so the tortoises are freaking out a little. tommy, can you bring leggy? >> jimmy: what's the tortoise's name? >> his name is leggy. and we named him leggy because

when he was born he had a little trouble getting around on one foot. one of his feet was a little lame and we had to give him special nutrients and put -- hi, leggy. how are you doing? >> jimmy: oh. what's up, leggy? oh. >> leggy's got a very quiet voice there. >> hi. >> looking good. >> jimmy: jack, each night we've selected a charity each night, our guests do, and then i make a donation to that charity. you picked the united way, right? >> yeah. great organization. >> jimmy: great for sure. hey jack, when we come back we'll meet a nurse from new orleans who's on the front line. would you like to help me greet her? >> i would love to meet this hero. yes. >> jimmy: and she'll met leggy too. jack black is with us. we'll come back with our health care hero of the week. this is gonna be america's favorite breakfast. they just don't know it yet. (ding)

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back to "jimmy kimmel live" from my house. our healthcare hero of the week this week is a "med-surge" nurse at ochsner medical center in new orleans. say hello to jennell melansun. hello, jennell. >> hi, jimmy. oh, my gosh. >> jimmy: how are you? >> i'm so excited. >> jimmy: we're excited to have you on. tell us what you're doing every day and how you're going about doing it. >> well, i am a med-surge nurse at ochsner medical center in new orleans. and every day we take care of patients who've basically been

diagnosed with covid-19. we try to get them to be as healthy as possible and just get them back into the normal swing of life. >> jimmy: jennell, i want to introduce you to my friend jack black who's standing by from his house. >> hi, jack! >> jennell, hello! >> hi. >> thank you for your hard work in these tough times. >> thank you so much. >> you're taking care of the people from my favorite city, nawlins. >> oh, nawlins. thank you so much. it's my pleasure. take care of my city. >> jimmy: jennell, did the easter bunny make it to your house? >> they did. he did. i assume it's been more than one because they have candy everywhere, my kids. but unfortunately for my kids but fortunately for my patients, i had to work. so on friday, good friday, we did have an easter egg hunt at our house and they enjoyed it. so perfect. >> jimmy: that's nice. jennell, can i ask -- like with your patients, they're not allowed to have visitors, right? or family and friends are not allowed to come visit.

so do you get closer to them as a result of that? >> oh, absolutely. we don't value family until things like this happen. and for myself, being a bedside nurse, i've always enjoyed family to be there so we can introduce ourselves, get to know each other more. but by family not being able to visit it gives me the opportunity to become closer to my patients. i get to know what they did for a living or what they do for a living. things that they enjoy. we become closer. especially during this isolated time. >> jimmy: jennell, can we meet your family? i know you've got your kids there. who else is with you in the house? >> my mom, she's here. she's my biggest supporter. she helps me with my kids. i love her to death. she's like my best friend. but my kids, they're so excited to be on camera. so they may -- >> jimmy: put them on. and also, jennell, we have some things to thank you.

postmates is providing a $10,000 gift card for you and your family to use as you see fit. so you know, go ahead and order up a lot of muffalettas or whatever you want to get there. we're also doing something for the hospital. >> we're also going to give gift cards to everyone in the ochsner wing. >> they'll be so excited. thank you both. we really appreciate it. thank you so much. >> jimmy: thank you. there's no need to thank us. we wanted to thank you for what you're doing there. let's see the kids before we go. >> i'm going to grab them just for a second. >> jimmy: okay. >> say hello. >> hello. >> say hi. >> jimmy: here we go. hi. >> hello! >> can you say hello? >> hello. >> hello. >> jimmy: thank you all. jack may send you a tortoise also. because he's got a whole house full of them. >> leggy wants to say hi. that's leggy. he's a tortoise. >> jimmy: thank you, jennell. thank you, jack black. thank you, leggy. and thank you, kids. jennell, jack black, that's our health care hero of the week.

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