us here tonight. >> we appreciate your time. right now on jimmy jimmy, thank you for everything, jimmy. thank you for everything, and i was recently honored to receive the coalition's endorsement, and i want to thank you, you're really amazing. thank you. and a tough guy and a good guy. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live." tonight, taraji p. henson. luke combs. and music from nathaniel rateliff. and now jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: hi, everyone, thank you. i'm jimmy. i'm the host, thank you for watching. i tell you what, it took almost the whole four years, but donald trump finally got a massive crowd to cheer him outside the white house.

congratulations to him. what a weekend. people were dancing in the streets like ewoks after they blew up the death star. darth tax evader has been toppled. and america responded with a dance party. ♪ ♪ young man, there's no need to feel down ♪ ♪ i said young man, pick yourself off the ground ♪ ♪ i said young man, because you're in a new town ♪ ♪ there's no need to be unhappy, it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca, they have everything for young ♪ ♪ men to enjoy, you can hang out with all the boys ♪ ♪ it's fun to stay at the

ymca ♪ >> jimmy: that's right, you think she has any idea what the ymca is? only 71 more days, melania, then this scene outside the white house on saturday, where a reporter from fox news got a fresh whiff of victory. >> reporter: we haven't seen the violence or anger we saw in june on black lives matter plaza, might have something to do with the fact there's pungent smell of marijuana here. >> jimmy: that's right, weed can overcome. there were celebrations all across the country which is unusual. this doesn't typically happen after an election, but this one was different. >> having a competent administration won't make the coronavirus better in many, many communities, you'll have better unity in terms of messaging --

>> jimmy: go back, look right there, senator john mccain, returned from the great beyond to celebrate! isn't that something? >> fantastic. >> jimmy: donald trump is not accepting the results of the election. but joe biden is getting congratulatory calls from former presidents, world leaders, and even his own vp, kamala harris, who we slowed down to half speed for the first of -- who knows? what could be many editions of "drunk kamala harris." ♪ >> we did it! we did it, joe! you're going to be the next president of the united states. ♪ >> jimmy: trump may be going, but we still have a show to do. joe biden may be the oldest president ever elected, but he's also the president with the youngest teeth. on saturday, the president-elect

reached out to those who didn't vote for him. he said it's time to stop the harsh rhetoric. to lower the temperature. to see each other again. to listen to each other again. he said we must stop treating each other like enemies. we are not enemies. we are americans. which is a nice sentiment. and refreshing to hear. but i'm not sure joe understands what he's up against. the likes of slimy yellevangelist, kenneth copeland, who gave a sermon yesterday that would make jesus barf up a loaf and a fish. >> the media said what? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, the media said joe biden's president ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha woo! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. >> jimmy: well if they don't have covid now, i guess there's no way to get it. that doesn't seem completely demonic at all! the preacher with three private jets? laughing in tongues? meanwhile, our out of touch with reality-host is not letting go. he is both melting and doubling down on his claim that the election was stolen from him. on saturday morning, the prisoner-elect wrote, "i won this election by a lot." which was funny. and then, about an hour later, all the major news networks called the election for biden. trump was not watching tv for a change. when it happened, he was out playing golf. there he is, unhappy gilmore. making the deepest divots of his life. team trump is not cooperating with the biden team.

not only is the administration holding up the transition, they are getting all the sycophants on board to question the integrity of the election. of course, they aren't questioning the results of the races in the house and senate. i wonder why that is? why would the democrats have cheated and stolen the presidency, but given up the senate and house seats on the same "illegal" ballots? is it like when you cheat on a test, but purposely get a few wrong just to throw the teacher off the scent? are we supposed to believe there's a universe where nancy pelosi could have sent mitch mcconnell back to the exotic pet store he came from, and she chose not to? some trump supporters took to twitter to say things like, "if you don't include california, donald trump won the popular vote." right. and if you don't count the murders, ted bundy was a pretty good guy. one advisor for the trump campaign said the word "concede" is not in their vocabulary. along with a lot of words. and listen, i get that this is hard for donald trump. processing this loss is going to take time. i mean, this is the first time he's ever failed at anything

besides trump casinos, his airlines, mortgage, trump steaks, trump university, trump magazine, and donald jr. eric, et cetera. they keep saying "give him time." and we will give him time. he has until january 19th. then he's out. time's up. on the 20th. if trump really does refuse to leave the white house, they should just rename it "vietnam." he'll get out of it immediately. he's not going to win this, even he knows that, but he also cannot admit he lost, because he's a poorly-raised little monster who was born a millionaire. every other losing candidate for president found it within themselves to concede, and to remind our dear leader of that, we combed through concession speeches of the past, from which, perhaps he will find some inspiration. please don't hang his portrait >> our entire administration will work closely with his team

to ensure the smooth transition of power. >> the president is my opponent, not my enemy, i wish him well and pledge my support. >> what remains of partisan rhetoric must be put aside, god bless his stewardship of this country. >> i pledge to do my part to bridge the partisan divide. >> whether they supported me or president obama, i wish god speed to former opponent who will be my president. >> nation chose another leader so we join with us to pray for him and this great nation. >> we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president, we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> if you count the legal votes, i easily win. if you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us, if you count the votes that came in late. we're looking at them very

strongly. >> jimmy: please don't hang his portrait in the white house. just smash a mango on the wall instead. put his name under it. so far trumpland's bigly idea for how to prove there was voter fraud is to set up a hotline. where you could call in and report shenanigans. sadly, that hotline was immediately flooded with prank calls. which is a shame. and no one was more outraged than the president's fourth favorite son, eric. who tweeted, "the @dnc is spamming our voter fraud hotline to bog down thousands of complaints we are receiving! wonder what they have to hide?" good question, eric. this is the hotline number. (888) 503-3526. and folks, please, for the love of eric, do not call this number and claim to have discovered a shoebox full of mail-in ballots with the name bob abooey on them. again, the number not to call is, (888) 503-3526.

keep it and especially don't share it with people on tiktok, because, what? oh no. too late. >> how can i help you? >> do you know what's going on? >> what's going on sir? ♪ what's going on >> what was the voter fraud you witnessed? >> people literally spreading poop all over their ballots. >> we feel. ♪ downtrod, downtrod >> so fast. >> i was in line and there was this guy there, i don't know this is considered fraud or anything, but he was challenging to a fiddle competition. >> trump 2028, make america great again again again. >> that is against the law of our country.

>> you're one of those liberals, ain't you? >> absolutely not. >> let me talk to your manager. >> trump national warroom. ♪ >> jimmy: tok them up! this was not a prank. or maybe it was. i think it may have been. did you hear about that little four seasons mix-up? this is good, so on saturday, the president tweeted, "lawyers press conference at four seasons, philadelphia. 11:00 a.m." then ten minutes later, he replaced that tweet with this one, "big press conference today in philadelphia at four seasons total landscaping 11:30am!" four seasons total landscaping is a landscaping company in philadelphia. they do yards and for reasons that are still unknown, they had rudy giuliani making a speech from there. and this visual should tell you all you need to know about how it's going, okay? a big ugly garage door.

cement wall. a garden hose. an adult novelty shop right next door. with booths and everything. this is rudy giuliani at his rudiest. the former mayor made a grand entrance at the landscaping place, he had some words to say, and after he said them, he made a swift exit. this is the second-most embarrassing thing to happen to rudy this month. he somehow managed to out-borat himself. >> i know this city has a sad history of voter fraud. after all, joe frazier is still voting here. kind of hard since he died five years ago, but joe continues to vote. if i recall correctly, joe was a republican, so maybe i shouldn't complain. but we should see if joe is

voting democrat or republican now from the grave. also will smith's father has voted here twice since he died. >> jimmy: go lay down in your coffin and close the lid, re-count dracula. so there you go. trump's run for president began on a golden escalator and ended in an alley, next to a dildo store. say what you want about them, they know how to bookend a story. the even bigger news, pfizer today announced they have been working on a vaccine that is more than 90% effective in preventing the coronavirus. that's right, the makers of viagra figured out how to give everyone a boner again. thanks. the ceo of pfizer said the timing of the announcement coming after the election had nothing to do with politics. but they did name the vaccine "joebidenol." they are hoping to have 15-20 million doses of the vaccine available and approved by the end of the year. that is great news. i never thought i'd be rooting for a big pharmaceutical company. but i also never thought i'd be rubbing purell on my vegetables.

they'd better get a batch of those vaccines to the white house. because there is a new, new outbreak in the west wing. at least five more staffers have tested positive, including trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, who was seen maskless with djtj at trump's post-election party tuesday night. and you know who else tested positive? our favorite, dr. ben carson. was at the white house that night and now has the virus. he, by the way, is on the coronavirus task force. he does usually wear a mask. i the problem is it's this one. carson's spokesperson said ben "is in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics." i'm glad he does. donald trump has two black friends, he gave them both covid. it makes sense that no one in the white house wears a mask, i would want to die if i worked there too. joe biden today unveiled his new coronavirus task force. he is planning to spend

his first days in office issuing executive orders to try to undo some of the damage. basically, biden is going to fly around the earth counter-clockwise like superman, and reverse everything trump did. there is a lot to untangle. and we still have more than two months to go. there have been so many "moments" over the last four years, it's hard to remember even a tenth of it. so much incompetence, so many lies, one day there will be a ten-part miniseries about it on hbo, but in the meantime, there is a way to immortalize the many mistruths and mishaps while also filling your china cabinet with a historic heirloom that can be handed down from generation to generation. >> this is an important announcement, president trump has topped more than 20,000 lies in office. >> frankly, we did win this election. >> now celebrate his historic achievement, with the trump lies commemorative plate collection. elegant plates inscribed with the most memorable falsehoods.

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back. tonight, country music superstar luke combs will join us. then, after luke, his album is called "and it's still all right" music from nathaniel rateliff. terrific. we've got new shows this week with gillian anderson, dr. phil, john king from cnn, emmanuel acho, ellen pompeo, and music from ty dolla sign, maren morris, and chris stapleton. please join us for all of that. now that the presidential race is mostly decided, we turn our attention to other competitions of note. on november 22nd, our first guest will host the american music awards here on

abc. please welcome taraji p. henson. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> in the house! >> jimmy: how are you? welcome. i like your hair. your hair looks great. >> thank you. >> jimmy: is that permanent? >> it's a wig, trade-off, you like it? >> jimmy: i do. >> you want to be peg bundy next halloween? >> jimmy: it is peg bundy, isn't it? welcome, it's good to have you here. hap happy belated birthday, you turned 50 over the summer, i couldn't believe it. >> i think the nurse was drunk. >> jimmy: put the wrong year. i know, whatever you're very

youthful. when you were 12 did people think you were 4? >> that's funny, but i was 26 playing 16 here in hollywood. i was a fully grown woman and they were children. >> jimmy: the other actors? that's funny. >> and i was the -- we would have a break in between scenes, looking around, run out to my trailer get my cigarettes and be smoking like, taraji, we're ready, get away from me kid, i'll be in there in a minute. >> jimmy: that is funny. you're hosting the american music awards. that's a big deal. are you looking forward to it? >> i am so excited. i mean it's bitter sweet because i'm a theater actress, trained in theater, love a live audience. but you know, obviously because

of covid, that bitch. >> jimmy: right. >> no one can go outside and play. we're all punished. >> jimmy: had you agreed to host it before covid hit? >> actually no, happened after. >> jimmy: you knew what you were getting into. >> i knew what i was getting into. at this point i'll do anything to get out of the house. >> jimmy: will the bands be with us playing? >> yes. >> jimmy: no audience right? >> no audience. >> jimmy: like a concert for you. >> basically. >> jimmy: that's great in some ways. who is on the bill? >> you know, they didn't send me everything yet, but not >> jimmy: that might be hamburger. >> the asian group.

>> jimmy: bts. >> they're great. >> jimmy: have enthusiastic fans, they will be mad you're only one there and you called them b2k. >> eat your heart out. we'll be besties before this is over. >> jimmy: who was your bts as teenager? >> new edition. >> jimmy: me too. >> did it for me. >> jimmy: i won't get into it but i invented a dance still done at family weddings to their song. >> you have to show it, where's the deejay? >> jimmy: a little bit of it, "cool it now," starts like this, literal interpretation of the song. >> looks pretty easy. >> jimmy: all-time favorite? >> yeah, then boyz ii men came.

they were older. bo boyz ii men and then becoming a young lady, falling in love and dating, so we needed more mature music. i still made horrible choices. >> jimmy: you're a prince nut, too, right? you talked about meeting him. >> listen to me, when i was a teenager, we had -- i was president of the prince fan club. >> jimmy: for real, a real thing? >> it was our real thing. >> jimmy: name? >> lavender lovers, loved everything purple. we had sweatshirts and i just got rid of my boombox that i had lavender lover spray painted like graffiti on the side. >> jimmy: what did you do with it? >> i don't know. >> jimmy: you threw your childhood in the garbage?

>> don't make me feel like -- yeah, i did. >> jimmy: something else. did you see him live? >> i did see prince live. mom and dad both signed off on me playing hooky, me and my best friend, her parents to, standing in line all day and played hooky, got prince tickets. >> jimmy: how long was the line? >> wrapped around the building. it was at the basketball team plays in d.c., been so long, they changed it now. >> jimmy: where the wizards play, you were standing in line there. >> wrapped around the building, stadium, blocks long, and kept selling out. we were crying, but he added another show, emotional roller coaster. finally got up to the front, he added a show, yay! he must have added like four shows while we were standing there. >> jimmy: and canceled three of them later.

>> no, he didn't. prince in the younger days. i didn't say that. >> jimmy: we're sorry, prince. we're going to take a break and then do something interesting if you don't mind. we collected text message exchanges from members of the staff, with family and friends. thought might be fun to dramatize them. when we come back. taraji p. henson is with us, hosting the american music awards. we'll be right back. >> dicky: portions of "jimmy kimmel live" brought to you by -- whwith a serious illness, everything changes. and if you have to travel for care, like sam did? home can change, too. but, along with your donations, mcdonald's has helped ronald mcdonald house charities keep families like sam's together for more than 40 years. so that not everything changes for sam with cancer.

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back. we are back with taraji p. henson. taraji, i mentioned before the break what we're going to do is dramatize, act out some text message exchanges that went on between our staffers and their family and friends from the election, election week. what were you doing on election night itself? >> i was actually -- election night i was watching a movie. couldn't watch it. i had to disengage my anxiety.y. >> jimmy: what movie did you watch? >> russell crowe, "unhinged." i was unhinged so i had my bottle of vod -- i mean my water

bottle and watched "unhinged," two friends were glued to the tube so i would hit them with eyeball emoji and they would text me. >> jimmy: here's what you missed and action going on while were sending eyeball emojis back and forth, it's time for election text theater. tuesday night. are things bad yet? >> yup. [ bleep ] i don't get it. >> jimmy: it's gonna be okay though, right? >> i don't get it. i don't know how this is happening again. >> jimmy: nate silver needs to retire. i've lost all confidence in what that nerd says. >> it's like a nightmare. >> jimmy: end of exchange. thank you. wednesday night. oh god. this can't be happening. >> it's not. >> jimmy: it feels like it is. >> i don't know why i just took a shower. i'm profusely sweating.

>> jimmy: my whole body just took a violent turn, diarrhea city. >> exit polls are worthless. i'm sending you weed gummies. >> jimmy: omg! georgia! >> if we win georgia, i may cry my eyes out of my head. >> jimmy: i will put on my nikes and run to georgia. tonight. with a backpack full of champagne. i'll get there sometime before the inauguration. >> and scene. thursday night. just finished class, nice distraction. about to dive into cnn and overpriced cpk order. anxiety city is my new place of residence. >> jimmy: i'm feeling positive! i'd like to take a virtual pasta class. >> so stressed but was prepared for this. downing rosé. >> jimmy: lololol.

>> super pissed at kentucky. never going there. >> jimmy: and scene. friday night. so. on. edge. i'm hopeful but also practicing the canadian national anthem. >> these early results are giving me an ulcer. oh, man. >> jimmy: i know. it's still totally up in the air. >> my brain hurts. >> jimmy: i'm on my second mezcal. >> i had a drink before this apple cider martini, and now i'm having a third. how. is. it. this close?!? >> jimmy: i had to take a flexeril just to fall asleep last night. >> and scene. saturday morning. >> jimmy: they called pennsylvania! >> he wooonnb >> jimmy: i feel like i just lost 245 pounds. >> it's christmas in my house bitches. >> jimmy: and, fin.

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back. music from nathaniel rateliff is on the way. our next guest is a cma and acm award winning, multi-platinum-selling country music superstar who had a better year than pretty much everyone else. his deluxe album, "what you see ain't always what you get" is out now. please welcome luke combs. how are you? >> good, how about yourself? >> jimmy: good, where are you now? >> at home, outside of nashville. >> jimmy: how are you keeping busy? >> writing a lot of songs, got some chickens, which has been good. >> jimmy: to raise as pets? >> no -- well i guess pets.

they give us eggs, you know, pay the rent a little bit. >> jimmy: yeah, right. dogs don't give eggs, do they? >> you get love and compassion but i can't put those in a skillet, you know what i'm saying? >> jimmy: if a dog were to give you egg, probably shouldn't eat it. how many chickens? this is right up my alley. >> seven, soon to be ten. >> jimmy: rooster or hens? >> no rooster. >> jimmy: did you know one of the hens becomes the rooster when there's no rooster? >> i was aware, before we got chickens, looking to get eggs from somebody, had sign that said rooster eggs and father-in-law was able to trick buddy into asking for the free rooster eggs, got a kick out of that. >> jimmy: you're a big carolina panthers fan, they're on a roll,

huh? >> they're trying, almost beat the chiefs. quote/unquote rebuilding year, but looking good, played hard. i'm pumped. >> jimmy: didn't you make a weird bet with your friend? >> bet my band member neil on the falcons game that i would have to be vegan three months or he had to grow hair out three months. >> jimmy: what's so bad about growing your hair out? >> he shaves his head bald because he's got the monk style. we were going to make him grow hair out three months and not wear a hat on stage on do you remember shows? >> jimmy: where humans used to congregate. >> we had them back in the olden days. >> jimmy: you lost the bet. >> i did. 45 days i made it.

>> jimmy: 45 days, didn't do whole three months. >> okay, i went fishing and caught some mangrove snapper and couldn't not eat it. too good. >> jimmy: did you tell neil the bet was off? >> i told neil. he was not too upset. i guess he didn't have a choice. >> jimmy: you got married in the middle of this all going on. congratulations. did the pandemic put a little bit of a pin in the fun? >> just a little bit, man. we had to change venues a week before the wedding, that was really interesting. >> jimmy: why? because they closed down? >> the city where we got married, they imposed regulations a week before our wedding to limit gatherings from i guess open-ended to -- they limited to 50 or less. >> jimmy: that did not work for

you? >> but we made it work and it was great. >> jimmy: have to kick certain people out of the wedding? >> had to cut from 175 to 50. >> jimmy: oh, my god, hard enough to make the seating chart, then call 125 people and tell them they didn't make the cut. >> but everybody understood. it relieved a little bit of pressure. lot of people felt they would let us down if they didn't go, so it ended up being great. and everybody we wanted, almost everybody we wanted there was there. it was perfect. it's really about me and her being there. >> jimmy: did you write your own vows? >> we did not write our own vows. my wife was worried because i am a songwriter, mine might have been -- >> jimmy: if your vow was what you see ain't always what you get, might get nervous. >> yeah, she might not like

that. >> jimmy: haven't had a chance or honeymoon yet? >> we've had, in a way we've been hanging out together last eight months, every day. that's been really great in a lot of ways. we haven't -- that's not something i got to do a lot last four or five years. >> jimmy: been on the road so much, right. >> spend quality time i wanted with her. that's been fantastic to have in the midst -- i try to find bright spots in the year. >> jimmy: a bright spot is the cmas, you're nominated for album of the year and entertainer of the year. which is as i recall, garth brooks last year said as he won one day you're going to win this award and he's removed himself from the competition, pulled a big oprah move and pulled himself out of the contest, which is a nice thing to do, i guess. do you know garth? >> never met garth, actually.

>> jimmy: that's crazy, how is that possible? >> we've been as close to in the same large room of people as each other, just never happened. >> jimmy: were you too nervous to speak to him? >> i definitely wasn't just going to run up to him and expect him to know who i was, you know what i mean? what do you say to a guy. >> jimmy: hi, garth, i'm luke. >> i guess i could. >> jimmy: i could help you with this, i'm going to broker this get together. >> yeah. >> jimmy: we're going to dispense with all the uncomfortableness and i'm sure you'll hit it off forever and ever. >> hope so. would be cool. >> jimmy: congratulations, i think you have good shot winning entertainer of the year, album of the year. if you could pick one, which do you want? >> i don't know, that's loaded question. feel like either one, good answ

totally dodging here. >> jimmy: it's okay. >> i'm the guy that's like i feel like i was never supposed to make it this far in the sense of -- i don't know, i can't believe all the things that have happened to me have happened to me. this is my third time on your show. that's insane to me. so i think just anything like this is incredible. >> jimmy: this is a big part of why people love you, luke. that's it. you're a humble gentleman. congratulations on everything, marriage, album, all that stuff. this is the album, "what you see ain't always what you get," and watch the cma awards this wednesday, here on abc. we'll be right back with music from nathaniel rateliff. thanks luke. >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel

live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

>> the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >> jimmy: i want to thank taraji p. henson and luke combs, apologies to matt damon.

"nightline" is next but first, his album is called "and it's still all right." with the title track here is nathaniel rateliff! ♪ it ain't all right the hardness of my head ♪ ♪ now close your eyes and spin around ♪ ♪ say hard times you could find that it ♪ ♪ ain't the way that you want ♪ but it's still all right late at night ♪

♪ do you lay around wondering ♪ counting all the lines it ain't so funny now ♪ ♪ times are hard you get this far ♪ ♪ but it ain't the way that you want ♪ ♪ i'll be damned if this old man ♪ ♪ don't start to counting his losses ♪ ♪ but it's still alright they say you learn ♪ ♪ a lot out there how to scorch and burn ♪ ♪ gonna have to bury your friends ♪ ♪ and then you'll find it get worse ♪ ♪ standing out on the ledge with no way to get down ♪ ♪ start praying for wings to grow ♪

♪ baby just let go it ain't alright ♪ ♪ you keep spinning out ahead it was cold outside ♪ ♪ when i hit the ground said i could sleep here ♪ ♪ forget all the fear it will take time to grow ♪ ♪ maybe i don't know hey

tonight ♪ ♪ if you think about it remembering all the times ♪ ♪ that you pointed out say the glass is clear ♪ ♪ but all this fear starts a leaving a mark ♪ ♪ your idle hands are all that stands ♪ ♪ from your time in the dark but it's still all right ♪

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