appreciate your time. right now on jimmy kimmel, dua ♪ badaba, badaba, badaba ♪ "jimmy kimmel live." ridiculous. back at home. >> jimmy: hi, i'm just a minu j the host of the show, thanks for joining us on the day we honor the life of martin luther king, jr., a real patriot, great man who lost his life to the same sick mentality that perm eats this country today, if were alive he'd go let me be more specific about this dream i had. at this time 15,000 national

guard troops are in washington, d.c. with hopes of not having a repeat of january 6th or worse. we've been seeing more footage of what happened in the capitol that day, it's a i lot worse than people guessed, fortunately these geniuses documented their crimes for the fbi to see. there were moments of levity, like this video by a new yorker reporter who had followed the qanoners leading up to the attack tells you all you need to know about the freedom dumbs. >> ted cruz was going to sell us out all along. >> really? >> objection to counting the electoral votes of the state of arizona, you guys remember that -- >> no that's -- wait a minute. >> first of all, ted cruz doesn't have any friends so i will stop you right there. secondly, i just wish these people were smart enough to know how dumb they are. i wish they could have that. so then they start rifling

through their friend ted's stuff. >> got to be something in here [ bleep ] against these scum bags. >> ted ted ted ted this, i think we're good. >> jimmy: so not exactly international espio nage. this attack on the capitol was a lot of things, horrifying, tragic, imbo c ilic andilic andd exceptionally ironic from the low lives assaulting a officer with blue lives matter flags and realtor giving herself a plug while breaking into the house, to the congressman complaining about being silenced while on television. to the anti-mask covid deniers

who wear their masks to hide their identity to the congresswoman arguing no trump rally ever led to attacks on police, hours after trump rally goers attack the police. to these animals who insist the capitol is our house and then smeared their bowel movements in it to this woman with spread love hat screaming you mother effers and these walls not the slightest bit effective when it comes to keeping people out. and this rocket scientist who stole a lecturn at stop the steal rally. and this woman died after being tramped by fellow rioters hours after she was photographed proudly waving a flag that said don't tread on me. i guess they didn't listen. so like rain on your wedding day, you know.

hopefully tomorrow will begin the process of turning these real life events back to the on one where they belong, two days away from calling donald trump president, 48 hour from now donald and malaria woops melania will be back home in mar-a-lago and trump leaving with approval rating at 29% for someone who inciting insurrection to over throw the government isn't bad, honestly, what would he have to do to get below 20%? eat the constitution. trump has the lowest average approval rating of any president in the modern era, only one to leave office with a lower rating was kevin space why. -- spacey. but fortunately trump doesn't care about approval and ratings. this was his official schedule again today. he cares about work, you can see he president trump will work from early in the morning to

late in the evening, make many calls and have many meetings, that's what they keep putting up. i love that. i hope they keep putting it out after he leaves. there was a flury at white house over the weekend, a number of characters going in and out, including mike lindel, the founder of my pillow only stuffed with human hair, mike's a former crack addict, there he is leaving the house, after mike that's the mover with the president's famous goldenk.commode, trump's friend the hamburgler stops by for a vizsla the -- visit and the qanon buffalo guy who lives with his mom. even as his reign comes to an end trump is still telling everyone he won the election. bill barr attorney general fell out of favor when he flat out told the president that is bull

you know what. president was very unhappen yi when he confrionted barr who why would you say such a thing, up must hate trump. he uses the third person, he uses trump instead of me, so when trump goes to prison he can make the case he doesn't have to. the recount of monte cysto is fixated at getting revenge at the house who voted against him on impeachment and new detail who's will or won't represent him in the senate, rudy guiliani saying he can't be on the impeachment defense team because he was a witness to the events, some saying he was part of what caused it, rudy claims, when he told the crowd let's have trial by combat before the idiots stormed the capitol he wasn't suggesting violence was just referencing characters from "game of thrones" and of course

the difference is the character always pays his debts. rudy's next project is interesting, he's running king jafri's reelection campaign so rudy is out but lindsey graham is back in. rebound he said count me out, guess he didn't mean it. he wrote a letter 2ksh - - - - i love watching these cowards ask for healing after spending the last four years treating the country like it's a rental car they got full coverage on. he said if republicans vet to convi convict trump in the senate it would destroy their party because four years ago he said if we dominate trump we will get destroyed and will deserve it. now he wants healing.

when lindsay gets that feeling he wants national healing. not only was he the first to skip out on the first president in 150 years he is also breaking norm from another established tradition, not going to leave a note for his successor. only letter trump's writes are to kim jong-un so he will not write joe biden a letter but is leaving him an angry mob and unemployment outof control pandemic and joe biden is set to have series of executive ors in the first ten days to undo some of what trump undid as quickly as possible. this is fascinating. each thing trump has done is something no other president ever did. >> these are things no other president would be doing, no other president frankly would be thinking about. >> standing up to china like no other president has ever done. >> they say no other president has done it. >> i've done things no other president would be capable of

doing. >> that's one i guarantee no other president is doing. >> no other president press them to pay i press them to pay. >> no other president has done anything like that. >> no other president thought of it. >> no other president said what i have done. >> no other president will ever do that. >> no other president has done this zippy. >> jimmy: zippy is his imaginary friend. ha ha. guillermo, do you understand that no other president that is done this? >> yeah he's crazy. he's a douchebag he's the worse president ever. >> jimmy: i was just seeing if you were awake, that's what pops out? >> yeah i'm listening to you. >> jimmy: thank you guillermo. perhaps trump's biggest accomplish over the-years he has done so much crazy stuff we forgot how ridiculous his hair looks. i was looking at the "new york times" article, look at this, the millionaire and mistress,

blond on top, old and creepy underneath. too peers he's sometime -- it appears he's styling with him hummus. if you see him for the first time you might think i didn't know cotton candy came in margarine flavor. the former first lady tweeted a farewell message and might be her be best video yet. >> in all circumstances i ask every american to be an ambassador of be best to focus on what united use. >> excuse me. i go from winning by a lot to losing a tight race. it's corrupt. >> jimmy: i knew he'd work his way around that twitter ban. the trump family is an empire on decline. they will not get a eight-figure book deal from random house. will not be getting a deal with

netflix to produce content and there's a whole industry that is been built around donald trump, most of it other nates if originates in china but some is american. with trump moving outside they're making one last push to cash in. >> america's greatest president, donald j. trump is stepping down. but you can step up to savings as harry maga hattery where everything must go. it's a full on insurrection. big and little hats. maga beanies. sweat bands. visors. bucket hats. construction helmets. beer helmets. durags and yarmukes. all of these products exist and come with the official maga hat certificate of authenticatisity making them collector items. >> don't lose those hats they'll

be very valuable some day. >> located? philadelphia across from four seasons total landscaping next to the other sex shop. >> what the hell do you have to lose. >> jimmy: nothing at all. you have to admit he sold a lot of ads. trump unveiled a list of names that will be immortalitized in statue-form in the national garden of american heroes, there are 244 names including george washington, muhammad ali, susan b anthony, betsy ross, babe ruth, and whitney houston, like he googled a list of famous people and pasted it on to white house letterhead. most all of these people you would agree would have hated donald trump but fortunately for him most of them are dead so he didn't have to hear about it. in addition to celebrities and historical figures this garden will include statues of entrepreneurs where there will

be a park in zk d.c. where you could sit on a bench between harriet tubman and the sham well guy. isn't that great. tomorrow trump's expected to issue about 100 pardons. right now every member of the manson family is like this. you can actually bet on who trump will pardon, for real, the odd's on favorite, lil wayne, they bonded over hip hop and cough syrup. pardons are quite the thing to put a criminal in charge of. like the showman he is, he's turned it into a made-for-tv event. >> sometime to play pardon ball. good evening i'm white house press secretary laura lee and it's time to let some of the president's friends off the hook. first up it's the u.n. ibomber. talk about a blast from the

past. next, jared foegele. he suffered enough. right. carol raskin run for the hills. r kelly i believe you could fly right out the metropolitan facility and finally, the don jr., sorry eric. see you back here tomorrow to have more clemency in the most shocking way. good night 1y50 it's abuse of power. we have a good show tonight with cynthia erivo, local natives featuring sharon van etten and dua lipa. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back. tonight cynthia erivo is with us and late er, music from local natives featuring sharon van etten. we have good shows this week with john oliver allison janney, dana bash from cnn and best coast, please join us for all that "rolling stone" just named our first guest the break out pop star, nominated for 6 gram yis and million instagram followers, please welcome dua lipa, how are you? >> i'm good, jimmy, how you

doing. >> jimmy: i'm good. i had a dream you came broke in to my house and 1yu78ed jumped on my bed. >> funny that. >> jimmy: last time you filled in for me as guest host, did you enjoy doing that. >> i had so much fun, i can't believe you let me do that honestly. it was a blast. >> jimmy: i was watching from home thinking, i hope he never comes back, i really do. was it easy for you? what was the hardest part of the job besides wearing my clothes? >> i guess the hardest part was the interview, really. you know, i got to talk to gwen ste stefani everything she said, just love, love, love it. accidentally, i did the funniest thing, i don't know if it was funny, was mortified afterwards

but i kind of called her now-fiancée, i called blake, i was like, so you're spending time at the farm with your husband, blake. she's like oh, he's not my husband but that founds nice. i felt so awkward about it but now they're engaged. so right, i definitely called it. >> jimmy: not only you called it you may have willed it to happen. it's possible. you ever hear of the book "the secret" where you visualize something. you don't know what's in it but i heard, if you visualize something it happens. in this case it seems to have happened. it probably was a good tip for blake if he was watching. >> see. >> jimmy: knowing the mistake was well-received. do you believe you're be invited to the wedding of gwen and blake. >> we're not that close yet, i'm working on it. >> jimmy: you probably have some time. i have tell you i follow you on instagram among the 59 million

who follow you on instagram. and you always look fantastic on instagram. and it make ms. he you are posing for this many photographs. we have just a couple days in a row here. there's this photo. it's like a professional shot, right. then there's this photo which has got to be a professional shot and then the outfits an the posing and all this stuff. i have a theory and it's a strange theory and i'm sure you won't admit it even if it's true, i believe there's two dua lipa's and i think your name say clue to that that we're not picking up on and that you have a twin or clone or some sort of alien being because i don't know how you can continue to live your life and pose for this many pictures. >> conspiracy-time, jimmy. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i wish i had a clone.

honestly. some days i'm just like, god, if only there was someone else to get up and do this for me today. but i just love it. i love playing dress up. i love, just, you don't know, social media comes quite naturally to me. >> let's take a look at a photograph that kicked up some dust here. >> ah. >> this picture is a great picture, very natural. what was the result of this photograph being posted? >> this is ridiculous. so, obviously you can see all of the emojis above. i like finding little random emojis, i put like a little baby bottle, little angel, some sparkles, random. i didn't -- i really didn't think this through, and i posted it and then i look at the comments and then somebody says is she pregnant? and i look at the picture and i look at the comment, i look at the comment, i look at the picture, look at the comment,

i'm like, surely i don't look pregnant and then i see people had been writing stories saying that i posted some cryptic message that i might be announcing my pregnancy. i'm like oh, my god these emojis have come to bite me in the ass. or the stomach. so i just deleted the caption but wasn't smart enough to take it off my twitter 1y50 . >> jimmy: you are not pregnant? >> just to clear it up, i'm not pregnant. >> jimmy: you don't appear to be pregnant but presuming you do, do you think you'll announce it through emojis. >> no because then i'd be the boy who cried wolf. >> jimmy: and you read the comments on your posts which is very interesting to me. >> yeah, occasionally. not all the time but i do occasionally. >> jimmy: and do you, do you enjoy looking at them? or does it make you worry?

or does it make you feel like maybe people are a little too into you? >> it depends. i mean, sometimes it's nice stuff and sometimes it's not so nice stuff. so, just, you know, take it with a pinch of salt. >> jimmy: yeah, it doesn't bother you much. >> no it doesn't bother me too much you just have to move on, you know 1y50 you -- 1y 1y50. >> jimmy: you have a 15-year-old brother does he enjoy all this? >> i think now, jim, my brother, he thinks i'm cool. sort of. but i do remember this one time i went to pick him up from school, a few years ago, i went into the school playground where the kids come out and saw me from affair and ran up to me and said back in the car, please, because you're going to embarrass as me.

i was like you're joking. he's like no, please, please, i'll walk out myself. and yeah, that was -- >> jimmy: when you were not much older than your brother is now, you moved back to london on your own. >> yeah. >> jimmy: does that, now does that seem like a good idea? >> well, now when i look at my little brother i think it's insane because i can't imagine him doing it. but i don't know, i was always very confident. i knew i wanted to do music but i was live where i didn't have the opportunities and i needed to be in london where everything was happening. it just felt like the right thing. now when i think back i can't even begin to remember how i convinced my parents. but yeah. >> jimmy: were you unsupervised? living by yourself? >> not completely by myself, i was living with another gal from kosovo she was studying her

masters in london and we were sharing a house together. >> jimmy: i see, i see. is this someone you keep in touch with? >> no, i don't keep in touch with her because -- ah, she wasn't very nice to me to be honest. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> no she would like go and take pictures of my messy room and send it to my mom. >> jimmy: really, are you messy? >> i was. i mean, at 15. definitely. 1y50 right, yeah, because i would imagine with all those outfit changes you do there's a lot of laundry and cleaning up to do. ha ha. >> oh, my gosh. >> jimmy: all right. we're going to take a break. dua lipa she's 234078 na-- dua lipa is nominated for everything under the sun, we'll be back with dua after this.

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>> jimmy: we are back with dua lipa, her album "future nostalg nostalgia" she's nominated for many, many grammys let's go through the list, album of the year, record of the year, song of the year, best pop solo performance, best pop vocal album, best pop duo group performance. best spicy chicken sandwich which i didn't know was on the list. that's pretty good. >> the spicy chicken sandwich is a good one to be nominated for. >> jimmy: they announce these nominations at the end of november and now they push the

grammys, they're supposed to be this month and are now pushed to the middle of march, i think, i mean, that's -- first of all, you get nominated and there's so much time between, also, like taylor swift could record like four more albums between now and then. >> i know it's a lot of time. >> jimmy: did you have something planned for the grammys? at the time after you were nominated, as far as performance goes? >> well, i mean, i'd love to perform for the grammys. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i guess because everything's in the air now so i'm not sure but i'm really excited about it. it's just nerve-racking to think about it. such a massive audience. >> i'm always impressed for the performance for these award shows because you have to come up with a whole new thing for each award show. how much goes into that, and is

that -- are you thinking of that stuff, do you have a group of people, is it a combination? how do you come up with these ideas? >> yeah it's a combination. i -- i -- it either starts from, like an outfit idea, i'm like how do i create around this, or it's something to do with the album cover or, you know, everything has some kind of link to the song and the music and the story behind it and i just like to create, you know, other dimensions with it. so, yeah, i'm excited. i'm excited, you know, hopefully i will get a chance to do something special for the grammy. >> jimmy: are you superstitious, would you write a speech without knowing you will win or not. >> i'm quite superstitious. >> jimmy: you are? >> yeah i don't like to jinx things. i like to let things happen as they go and then see. yeah, just go with the flow.

because i'm being albanian it came with the territory that i happen to be quite superstitious. >> are the albanian people particularly superstition? >> in my family, yeah. >> jimmy: what's one thing your family observes superstitio superstitious-wise. >> i think generally they're all a bit silly, but, like, don't take the trash out at night. don't wash your clothes on a friday. >> jimmy: ha ha. >> oh, if your nose itches you're going to get angry so you have to touch your bum couple times so you don't. your left palm is itchy you're going to make some money. right palm is sixy, you're going to lose some money. so the evil eye doesn't get you, for a special event, so that the

evil eye doesn't get you you have to wear your underwear inside out. >> jimmy: really? >> how about that one. >> jimmy: yeah, especially uncomfortable if it's a friday. >> all kinds of silly stuff. >> jimmy: well so far whatever you're doing -- >> that's more funny, silly stuff. >> jimmy: you're saying i shouldn't worry. you know, i did a dna test and i'm a little bit al b anian and happen to be a little bit superstition. >> really what are some of yours, maybe i'll take them on. >> jimmy: well, they're mostly sports related. the team i'm rooting for is winning and i'm sitting in a certain position i will stay in that position. bad things happen i will move out of that position. it's ridiculous. but it works. >> i totally, i feel that. i think i've definitely done something quite similar.

>> jimmy: it's very good to see you again. thanks again for filling in for me over the summer, dua lipa, her album "future nostalgia" she's all over instagram. we'll be right back. thanks dua. >> thanks 1yis jimmy. >> jimmy: take care. (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. at panera, when we make a pizza... we don't just “make a pizza.” we use fresh, clean ingredients... to make a masterpiece. order our new pepperoni and four cheese flatbread pizzas for delivery or pickup today. panera.

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1y50 welcome back. >> jimmy: welcome back. music from local natives featuring sharon van etten on the way. next guest is emmy, grammy and tony award winner an singer and private detective and stars alongside jason bateman on "the outstanding" hey cynthia erivo. >> hi. >> jimmy: what's going on behind you. >> it's for every zoom interview, it's whimsical so i stuck with it. >> jimmy: where are you right now? >> i'm in l.a., yeah. >> jimmy: you're in l.a., you're from england originally. >> london, yeah. >> jimmy: do you live here now? >> yes, i do, yeah. >> jimmy: when did you decide you were going to move?

it's always interesting to me when people leave their home country. >> yeah so moving to the u.s. was maybe about five years ago because of a project i was coming to do but moving to l.a. was just under a year ago, almost immediately after the pandemic happened. >> jimmy: oh, wow, so you moved here and haven't really been out of the house. >> no. >> jimmy: you have no idea what it's like to live in l.a., do you. >> i have no idea. >> jimmy: no reason really, wow. >> you know what, i think it's good that the sun is out and occasionally i get to run and do my exercise, what not. but i'm what you call a little bit nervous about it all so i'm pretty safe. i don't real leave the house. >> jimmy: i see. >> sunshine is great. >> jimmy: you originally moved to new york, i guess, to be part of the world of broadway. >> yes, yeah. >> jimmy: you did "color purple" which was produced by oprah. >> yeah. >> jimmy: which is exciting. i assume you're familiar with

her work. >> i am indeed familiar with her work, yes. a little bit. >> jimmy: what was it like when you met oprah for the first time. i remember mine, it was somewhat magical. >> you know what, i would say it was magical too, we were in the middle of a rehearsal for the show and we were singing the last song, the title track of the musical, she walk into the room and everyone burst into tears and for some reason i just got this sort of moment of determination for which i refused to stop singing. i said i will finish this song i will not fail in front of oprah winfrey frid-- and i continued last high note and she gave me this hug so i was singing this high note in her ear as she was hugging me the first time i met her. >> did she get mad? >> no i got a good old squeeze it was wonderful.

>> jimmy: what about the first time you met jason bateman was that equally magical. >> maybe magical in a very different way. it was over the phone. it was -- it was a facetime call, we were talking basket project, the first time i was talking about the project with him about "the outside evoutsid it was strange because it was lovely by the end i really wanted to do the project but couldn't tell if i got the project. we get to the end and he's like consider it. i was like does that mean i have the job or i don't, i don't really know. you go into a spiral. i ask my manager, should i call him or text. he said if i had questions should i text, and the question i had was do i have this job. so she says well if that's the question you have, text him the question. so i did. and then kind of found out that i had it but had to wait for

couple days. >> jimmy: well it worked out very well. this morning you were nominated for critic's choice award for your role in the outside er. >> i was indeed. >> jimmy: the critics are the only ones who really know anything so that's a good one. >> that's a good one to get, i was the last one to find out for sure. >> jimmy: is that right, why were you the last to find out. >> i guess it was totally unexpected so i wasn't even waiting for it, and i woke up this morning and had an e-mail from my mangum -- manager who said congratulations. i was like wonderful. >> jimmy: good thing your manager is clearer than jason is. >> she is very clear, yes. >> jimmy: you are tackling, quite -- i mean, really you're going to play aretha franklin. >> yeah. >> jimmy: who is beyond a legend, obviously, musically, as a figure in american history. >> yeah.

>> jimmy: and you're doing it for nat geo which i think is interesting, tell us about that, what is it that you're doing exactly? >> so it's an eight-part mini series about aretha franklin's life from the 60's through the '90s and it's everything from how she created her music to the life she was living while she was making all of this music and who she was really, yeah. >> jimmy: and the life she was living was an interesting life. >> it is, a very interesting life and she was very private about a lot of it. you're sort of relying on not just her music, what she said but like interviews and pictures, and you put all of the pieces together. she's fascinating and brilliant 1y . >> jimmy: yeah. >> and she went through a lot and made great music through it. >> jimmy: and through the '90s who is zooming who, in that era. >> yeah. >> you do regiona frankl --

>> jimmy: you do the singing? >> i do. >> jimmy: that's something else. nobody sang better than aretha. that's got to be intimidating, i would think. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. it take as you lot of practice. definitely a couple songs i was like i don't know if i could do this but you put the work in and put confidence in yourself and go for it. yeah. i've had amazing help. my vocal coach was wonderful and i love her music since i was a young girl so i'm lucky about knowing the music. >> jimmy: and you sang in oprah's ear so nothing can top that. >> i mean, yeah. >> jimmy: what's the toughest aretha franklin song to tackle? >> so "ain't no way" is tough for most of us, but i love it so i sing it anyway. but the toughest song i had to sing is called "never grow old" it has no time signature and

she's leading the piano. >> jimmy: wow. >> so i had to learn by listening, that's the only way you can. you can't rely on the instrumental or anything you have to rely on what she's doing. that was tough. >> jimmy: so she plays the piano do you play the piano. >> i do not. i had to learn a little bit for it. >> jimmy: i was going to ask the nails would make it difficult to play the piano, if anybody could, it would be you. you're really unbelievable talented thank you for being part of the show. >> thanks so much. >> jimmy: cynthia erivo, everybody, back with local natives featuring sharon van etten. stick around. >> announcer: jimmy kimmel concert series presented by mercedes-benz the best or nothing.

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