>> thank you for joining us. jack black on jimmy kimmel live. ♪ bra, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, da ♪ ♪ jimmy kimmel live this is ridiculous. >> from his house. >> jimmy: greetings, it is i, the lone ranger. we are back in our time slot with abbreviated show. i hope you had a happy easter. we had one of those family dinner video, 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.

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 go being, yes, go ahead and eat those jellybeans you found under a bush. our 5-year-old, jane told my wife, i promise, if i see the easter bunny, i won't hug him. i won't say as a parent, easter makes you realize what a solid back story santa claus has. he lives at the north pole. makes toys. my kids asked where does the easter bunny live? i don't know, the sewer. this is what the easter bunny was up to in new jersey yesterday. >> 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. fauci was on cnn with jake tapper yesterday. he asked if casualties could have been prevented had the put in place orders been put in place sooner, and the answer was not exactly what trump wants his people saying. >> honestly, you could logically say if hundryou had a process og and started mitigation earlier you could have saved lies. nobody is going to deny that. >> jimmy: the president s he is. he retweeted a hash tagt "time to fire fauci." this tweet was written by a woman who is the ah thundershowthor of a dating guide. "making love great again." a spokesperson said the media

chatter is ridiculous and trump is not firing dr. fauci, so he is definitely firing dr. fauci. if fauci wants to keep his job, he better find a way to blame this virus on hunter biden and do it quick. i, for one, might enjoy seeing updates from dr. joseph exotic. on march 24, less than three weeks a 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. >> will you say what metricsly use? >> the metrics right here. >> jimmy: his tanning bronzer is

his metrics? 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 you talked about, couldn't it lead to death, meaning you open up, it could lead to death. and you're right. but you know what? staying at home leads to death also. >> maybe you've seen seen on elm street." freddie gets ahold of you, you're done. bernie sanders officially endorsed joe biden in a joint live stream, 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 that while he and biden have real differences, and they're not going to paper over therges th them, they need that paper for the bathroom, he will do

everything he can to help joe win the election. >> i'm asking everyone to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy. i endorse. >> all right, chuck, thank you very much. >> jimmy: chalk? oh, no. oh, no. now all the democrats have to do between now and november is keep joe biden in a mylar bag with minted comic books. schools have been closed for about a month now, and a lot of students are finish being the year online. every parent i know is complaining about geometry, social studies, all those things we bs-ed the first time around. guillermo is very good at this thing. he scored a perfect 1600 on his s.a.t. grab your children. it's time for homework corner.

>> guillermo: hello, and welcome to homework corner with guillermo. today's problem is, a car travels at 65 miles per hour. how far it will travel in 90 minutes. okay, so a car travel at 60 miles and that, okay, you get 65 miles, in 90 minutes. okay. well, i think you should not be driving right now. because of the coronavirus. so stay at >> jimmy: that's right, who can argue with that. we're going to meet a health care hero from new orleans tonight, and we'll be right back with this gentleman.

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just know we're all with you. thank you, thank you so much. thank you doctors & nurses. ♪ >> 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

himself, joining us from his very own house of 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 ♪ yeah >> jimmy! >> jimmy: still the king. >> oh, sorry. >> jimmy: there's more? >> i got some wires >> 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. mega blaster.

>> 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 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 amazing? >> 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 lady 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 his 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. 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 will be with us when we come back with our health care hero of the week. ♪ rtant it is to have a safe, reliable vehicle right now, so toyota is here to help. for your peace of mind, many of our service centers are open. if you need to replace your vehicle- toyota will defer your payments for 90 days. and every new toyota comes with toyotacare, a no-cost maintenance plan for two years or 25,000 miles. we're here for you. contact your local toyota dealer to see how they can help. toyota (woman) tis there(vo)atural litter that tactuallyat tidy cats,

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at ochsner medical center in new orleans. say hello to jennell melansun. hello, jennell. >> i'm so excited to be here. >> jimmy: we're excited to have you on. tell us what you're doing every day and how you go about doing it. >> i am a med-surge nurse at ochsner medical center in new orleans. 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. >> are you taking care of 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 muffulettas 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: 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 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. if you have somebody you'd like to nominate, #healthcarehero and we'll find you. we'll be right back. ♪ heroes for leading this fight. for early mornings, late nights, double shifts, and overnights, for calloused hands and skin scrubbed raw. and for being brave enough to go to work today.

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"nightline" is next. now if you'll excuse me i'm going to the kitchen to eat a whole jar of nut butter. and i'm not even going to sit down. good night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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