tonight. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. for sandhya patel, larry beal, ♪ ba da ba ba da ba ba da ba ba da ba ♪ ♪ "jimmy kimmel live" ♪ back at home! >> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the shoate. thank you for joining us. the 21st day, of the 21st year, of the 21st century, and you know what that means? nothing. it is also our first full day of trumplessness here in the u.s.a. there were no crazy tweets from the potus account today. no exclamation points. no all caps. this is kind of fun. i've been doing this all day today. if you have one of these at home, you should try it yourself. watch this. alexa, is donald trump president? >> donald trump is a former president of the united states.

>> jimmy: former president. alexa, what is he doing now? >> he is at home in florida yelling at the tv and sucking his thumb. >> jimmy: the joe biden administration is under way. i have to say, it feels good to only have to worry about a deadly pandemic all day. it is kind of sad how much of my life, and brainspace, and energy i spent focused on this awful, selfish con-man for the past five years. paying attention to every stupid thing he said, every dumb move or horrible policy he came up with. i don't have a joke for that, i just wanted to point out how sad it is. but it's time to move on. the bidens are moved in. their dogs must be going crazy. because everything smells like fried chicken in there. did you watch the inaugural concert last night, guillermo? >> guillermo: yeah, it was fantastic, jimmy. >> jimmy: you did.

you enjoyed it? what was the highlight for you? >> guillermo: katy perry and demi lovato. >> jimmy: okay, always the ladies. >> guillermo: always. >> jimmy: in case you didn't see it, tom hanks hosted a star-studded "celebrating america" concert. the lineup was tremendous -- the ones guillermo mentioned, bruce springsteen, john legend, justin timberlake, foo fighters, and the man of the hour -- broadway joe biden himself! ♪ hail to the chief ♪ >> hello. >> jimmy: uh, can i help you, sir? the gardening supplies are in the back. it did feel calming. it felt familiar and warm, watching these people we know come together. i think it's because this is kind of like a spin-off presidency. joe biden was one of the most beloved supporting characters from the obama administration, now he's got his own show.

basically, this is the "frasier" of presidencies. grampotus hit the ground walking at a very brisk pace. seems like a lot of work is being done. he rejoined the paris climate accords. he ended the muslim travel ban. at the pentagon, they put the real nuclear codes back in the football. dr. fauci was back, a reinvigorated dr. fauci. that was good to see. fauci answered questions, he shared a lot of information, he told us about a new strain of the virus in south africa. he seemed happy to be out of captivity. biden signed several orders related to the pandemic today. one will require travelers to wear masks on planes, trains, and city buses. they've been trying to get people to wear masks on the plane but this order makes it a federal mandate. so, if people don't like it, they have to leave the plane. preferably while it's in the air. biden also got rid of the diet coke button today. you know, trump had a button, in the oval office.

and every time he pushed it, they would bring in a diet coke on a silver tray. it was the job his son eric was born to do. that's gone now. joe prefers a tall, cool tumbler full of sarsaparilla. what the biden team is doing right now is like when you open the hood of a car you've had in storage, your dad's '67 shelby gt, and you find out rats got inside, and ate the insulation from the wires and chewed up the upholste upholstery, crapped a little. at the top of the list of things they need to dramatically improve is trump's vaccine rollout plan. which will be a challenge as we found out today it does not exist, there was no roll-out plan. i have to say with all these problems, it kinda makes you wonder how joe is gonna find time to watch five hours of "rachel maddow" every day. that's what presidents do, right? we have not heard a peep from donald trump, and we are grateful to him for that. trump spent his first full day out of office on the golf course.

so nothing has really changed. he is putting and plotting. trump is already said to be planning his return to the political stage. after less than one day. trump is going to keep coming back, even if it doesn't make any sense. like the emperor in the "star wars" movies. emperor palpateeny tiny hands. trump got a meatball hero's welcome yesterday in palm beach. fans held signs along his drive to mar-a-lago. "trump won! election fraud!" so you can see the healing has begun. but just because trump is down in florida, doesn't mean his friends in washington have forgotten him. senator lindsey graham was on fox news last night, buttering his big bankrupt baby up, and warning members of his party not to turn their backs on him. >> this has been a consequential presidency. three supreme court justices. i hope president trump understands that his legacy and his best future lies with the republican party. i hope people in our party

understand the party itself. if you're wanting to erase donald trump from the party, you're going to get erased. >> jimmy: or just crossed out in black sharpie. i wish trump would just tell us what he has on lindsey graham and set the man free. you almost feel bad for these guys. poor sean hannity. he has a show to do every night. he used to get calls from the president. yeah, they were long, rambling call calls, but they were from the president of the united states. now he's stuck with this. >> tomorrow on this program we'll have the delaware laptop repairman. he and his hard drive. >> jimmy: oh, boy. this is the delaware laptop repairman who looks like he gives tours of lock necessarily. monster sighting guaranteed. he's the laptop repairman. at the center of all this. you know the genius bar? he works at the opposite of that. this has been a tough week for the q-anon crowd. the prophecies they've built much of their lives around did not come to fruition. these guys woke up yesterday,

thinking they were about to watch trump round up and arrest all the elites, the pedophiles. and by 6:00, tom hanks was introducing bill clinton to congratulate joe biden on being president. what q-anon members experienced yesterday was the equivalent of leaving out cookies for santa, and in the morning, finding them untouched. what happened to the great awakening? did q forget to set his alarm clock? these are posts from the q message boards from yesterday. the day started out with a hopeful, excited tone. today's the day. holy s, i'm not going to be able to think about anything else until something happens. i've got the popcorn ready, i'm so excited. the storm is here. they cannot stop what is happening today. they knew all the details of the big plan. this one had everything. the inauguration will go ahead as planned on wednesday. the indictment will be unsealed wednesday morning and arrest warrants will be issued. once everybody is in place, the

national guard will be used to secure the perimeter of the capitol grounds. nobody out, nobody in. marines will be guarding the tunnels. as biden comes out, the secret service will detain and issue the arrest warrants on approximately 50 to 100 members of the audience, biden, pelosi, schumer, obama, clinton, they'll all be transported to an underground military base by marines where they will be tried for their crimes by military tribunal. all televisions will automatically tune into this trial, no matter what station you set it to. enjoy the show. but then there was no show, joe biden got sworn in, there were no arrests. no marines, no military tribunal. our tvs didn't automatically change channels. which is probably the least realistic thing on the list. everyone just sat there watching j. lo. and that was confusing. look at this. where is the arrests? oh my god. i'm freaking out. heart beating so fast. hyperventilating. i lost my entire life saving

betting on trump to win. i trusted trump that the truth would come out and i'd get my money back. q, where is the arrests? this is an embarrassment. well, i'm the official laughingstock of my family now, awesome. omg, none of this was real. but then there was a glimmer of hope. hold the line, military's the only way. i'm still 100% confident president trump will be serving four more years. pray. and then reality hit. q was a larp the entire f'ing time. larp is a live action role playing game, i had to look that up. everyone got strung along and tricked. and finally, we got conned. yes, you most certainly did. you got donned. that's what happened. but instead of accepting it, many of these characters are doubling down with more banana-headed ideas. this apparently is how it works. with conspiracy fans. they just move on to the next one. when the first one doesn't come true. one new theory was that the black-and-gray coat melania wore

during her final address resembled the tv static that would signal the media blackout of trump's military takeover. which if you believe melania is thinking about anything other than getting some alone time with her tennis pro, you really are crazy. by the way, the poor fact checkers at "the washington post," they've been tracking all of donald trump's false or misleading statements since he took office. and yesterday they posted their final tally. 30,573 lies. that is a record that will never be broken. if those lies were points, donald trump would be the nba's eighth all-time leading scorer, ahead of shaq, just behind wilt chamberlain. but the difference between him and them is he did it in four years. he averaged 21 lies a day. and those are just the lies he told in public. if you add in the ones he told melania, and screamed at the tv, it'd probably be a million. he is the greatest liar of all time. he is b.s. elliot.

he is lies-a-minelli. hoax hogan. fiberace. dupe a lipa! that's the thing i will miss about trump. doing what he does, coming up with insulting nicknames. over the past four years, we've come up with a lot of them. but the time's passed now. so to remember all that delicious low hanging fruit, to cement them in our minds, we combed through more than 4,000 pages of our monologues and whittled them down to the best and asked a grammy-nominated musician to bring them to life in song. and now, it's time to take a trip down memory name. with a 41-pun-musical salute to the many nicknames of donald trump. the great rufus wainwright. ♪ let's raise a glass my friend america is great again ♪ ♪ to celebrate the last four years the laughs we've had and

many tears ♪ ♪ we send off number 45 with names he was called on "jimmy kimmel live" ♪ ♪ trump-a-loopa ♪ ♪ pumpkin porn humper ♪ ♪ unhappy gilmore ♪ ♪ commander in beef ♪ ♪ elcrappy tan ♪ ♪ grab-ass grandpa ♪ ♪ orange hulk ♪ ♪ abrascam lincoln ♪ ♪ flabio ♪ ♪ twitter machine ♪ ♪ hydroxy horror picture show ♪ ♪ orange julius cesar ♪

♪ spreaddy kruger ♪ ♪ genghis khan ♪ ♪ putin's peepee pal ♪ lightning round! ♪ tweety gonzales ♪ ♪ danny soprano ♪ ♪ kentucky five ♪ ♪ donnie vader ♪ ♪ papa grandpa ♪ ♪ the lock her up ness monster ♪ ♪ hungry hungry hypocrite ♪ ♪ thank god we're finally done ♪ ♪ with this [ bleep ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, rufus. rufus wainwright.

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♪ >> jimmy: welcome back. tonight, cnn's chief political correspondent, dana bash is with us. then, later their album is called "always tomorrow." they're from right here in los angeles, music from best coast. next week, we've got new shows and i have a list of who's on them. michelle pfeiffer, 98 comey watts, addition shepard, anthony anderson, george lopez, my cousin sal will be our guest. he has a new book called "you

can't lose them all," and we will have all our family secrets. music from death cab for cutie. leslie odom jr, arlo parks, and i don't know how, but they found me. please join us next week for all that. our first guest tonight has an oscar, a golden globe, seven emmys, who knows, probably a spelling bee medal too. her new movie, "breaking news in yuba county" opens in select theatres and digitally february 12th. please say hello at your home to allison janney. how alison, how are you? >> hey, jimmy, i'm good, i'm good. this is nothing to do with politics but i feel better than i've felt in four years and one day. >> jimmy: what a coincidence, huh? now i was told you were going to be at work, but it looks like either you have the biggest trailer in show business history, or you're at home. >> i actually got out early, so i got to come home, which i'm so

happy. it's much more comfortable, much better setting than my room at work. this is better, trust me. >> jimmy: you are shooting "mom," your sitcom, eighth season of the show. >> can't believe it. >> jimmy: i assume there's no audience, there are no people there to watch like there usually are? >> no, we started back in october. we've been really lucky that we've kept being able to do the shows, because we have a lot of covid protocols and shields and masks. you know, i get tested like -- i get tested almost seven to eight times a week, depending on whether or not i'm going to be doing kissing scenes. >> jimmy: really? wow. >> yeah. yeah. >> jimmy: that's interesting. >> yeah. >> jimmy: guillermo and i do that too, sometimes we'll get up to a dozen just so we can kiss during commercial breaks. okay, so you're still doing kissing scenes, that's bold. >> yeah. >> jimmy: in a lot of productions, i know people have

said, well, if there are going to be kissing scenes you have to put my husband in this, put my wife in it, i'm not going to kiss a stranger. i wonder how long it will be before we go back to normal where we don't have to have tests before a kissing scene. >> i cannot predict that, but i will say i had a funny -- even before covid, i had a scene partner who i had to kiss with. he was such a germophobe, he would putney o neosporin on his and ask me to put it on mine before kissing. >> jimmy: what? that doesn't do anything. >> i took it very personally. what does he think i put in my mouth? i don't know. it kind of unnerved me. you know, people are germophobes. >> jimmy: by any chance was this howie mandel? >> you might think so, but no, it was not howie mandel. i will not say who it was. >> jimmy: what tests do you get? >> i get -- i call it the

mid-nose swirl. not the brain tickle, but the mid-nose swirl. and everyone laughs at me but i really love the way it feels. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah, i'm like, can you keep doing that a little honker? it's like a puppy getting scratched or something. keep doing that it feels so good. it relaxes me, i don't know. >> jimmy: i think your dog heard "puppy getting scratched" and wandered into the room. are you like that with your ears? are you a q-tip abuser? >> i am. there was an ear doctor, what's an ear doctor? an ear doctor? >> jimmy: ent, ear, nose and throat. >> he said, don't put anything in your ear smaller than an elbow. i did not listen to him. i love the q-tip in the ear, oh, yeah. >> love it too. i love it. my ent said the opposite. he said, you're going to put my kids through college with this,

so keep going with the q-tips in your ear. >> you've never burst your eardrum? >> jimmy: yeah, i have. i've perforated my eardrum a number of times. i'll get ear infections out of it, the whole thing. but i love it so much, it's worth it. >> does it hurt? does it hurt when you burst your eardrums? does it bleed? what does it do? >> jimmy: it leaks. i didn't like totally -- it's not like i went in one ear and came out the other with the q-tip. but i get a little rough in there, i understand that. you know, i know that this is an interesting thing for you, especially with the focus on politics. i wonder if there's some connection here. but "the west wing" now, because the show was streaming, had a big resurgence in popularity, right? a whole new audience. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: is that strange to be

asked about something you shot so long ago, 15 years ago or something? >> i love it. not at all, i love it. i stay in touch with all of them. we're on an chain. >> jimmy: with your cast members? >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: oh. >> it's so much fun. we text about absolutely everything. and there's a lot of abuse given on those text chains. >> jimmy: oh, who is the recipient of the abuse given? >> oh -- actually, josh molina is. and i -- >> jimmy: i would have guessed that, i have a feeling he's getting all the abuse on the "scandal" text chain also. >> he is, i step back and watch, i can't play with the big boys on that thing. they'll crush me, they'll make me cry. this is what due lay posted. i don't know if you can see this. of josh. >> jimmy: i -- that's josh? >> that's josh. well, you know. taken a million years ago. but then brad will say, haven't

we been through enough this year? you know, just -- back and forth, crazy texts. >> jimmy: wow. i am going to have to google that picture of josh after my wife goes to bed. wow. i can't believe that. how did i never get hold of that picture of josh? will you send that to me, please? >> i totally will send it to you. >> jimmy: wow. that's crazy. >> no idea -- i didn't know he was a swimsuit model at some point in his career. >> jimmy: i never would have guessed that. let's take a break. when we come back, we'll talk about the new movie "breaking news in yuba county." allison janney is with us, be right back.

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can you think of anyone that might want to harm your husband? >> oh my goodness, no. i mean -- i -- i don't think so. karl was such a sweet man. why would anyone take him -- this is a photo of me and karl in case you need it for all the press conferences and whatnot. >> jimmy: allison janney is with us, "breaking news in yuba county" is her movie. where is yuba county? northern california, right? >> it is in northern california, although the writer, amanda adoko, i think she wanted to pick everytown, usa.

it's not specifically unique to yuba county. just smalltown, usa. >> jimmy: did you shoot in yuba? i've seen yuba city. >> you have? yuba city? >> jimmy: ex, i think i've seen it on a freeway or something. maybe not. there must be a yuba city in yuba county, right? >> sure. >> jimmy: we're in l.a. county. you better brush up on this stuff. you're a major figure in yuba county now. everyone who lives there is going to see this movie seven times. they'll go, hey! you know, it's this and that and whatever! you might want to learn before you become their queen. >> you're right, i need to brush up on yuba county stats. i don't know anything about it other than any that i don't know anything about. we didn't shoot it in yuba county, we shot it in mississippi. because tate taylor, who is the director, has his -- he's got a whole film production company down there with stages and

everything. and he doesn't just shoot a movie, he throws a party. it's like actor film camp. just -- it's the most fun experience, from shooting the movie to afterwards. everyone sort of lives together in these houses, this compound he has down there. >> jimmy: wow. >> you know, you break bread together, you work together, dance, work hard, play hard. it's an incredible -- it was an incredible experience. then also, getting all of those cast members -- i felt like i was throwing a party, and i was so honored that everybody i invited wanted to come and play. i felt -- it was -- it was extraordinary working with -- >> jimmy: let me name some of the folks. mila kunis, juliette lewis, bridget everett, awkwafina, wanda sykes. yeah, that seems like a fun group. >> a pretty great group. i didn't get to do any scenes with wanda, but i got to dance in the kitchen with her one

night. it was just -- it was so much fun. >> jimmy: wanda is the funniest. wanda is hilarious. >> she really is. i just -- i have such a crush on her, i love her. we had a great time. it's such a great -- it's a fun -- kind of like -- i play this character who's kind of the invisible woman, who's not seen or heard or appreciated enough in her life. and she makes a decision that opens kind of a pandora's box of chaos. i call it -- sort of a butterfly effect, where she makes one choice and it affects so many people's lives. and i think it's kind of like a crime comedy or -- a cromedy? >> jimmy: that's good. you may have just come up with a new term. >> i think i did. cromedy. >> jimmy: crimedy. we've got a game we want to play, a short version of it. >> okay. >> jimmy: you've been in many films. some we all remember, others we

and possibly maybe even you do not remember, all right? i'm going to give you a one-line description of a tv show or movie. you tell me if you were in it or not. >> okay. >> jimmy: bonus points if you tell me the name of the character you played. are you ready? >> no. >> jimmy: let's play "was i in it?" all right. a couple deals with their problematic daughter's cocaine addiction. were you in it? that's it, that's all you get. >> what was that? are you serious? >> jimmy: yeah. >> no, i wasn't in that. >> jimmy: let's take a look at the clip. >> where was he getting cocaine? >> my god. >> how much was he using? why didn't somebody tell me? >> jimmy: how tall is that man next to you? 11 feet tall? >> i was sitting down. oh my god. oh my god, that was joanne woodward.

hysterical. okay. >> jimmy: that was called "blind spot." okay? all right? >> i remember. >> jimmy: a young mother fights to lose custody of her son when he is born a ginger. were you in it? >> no way. no. >> jimmy: that one is called "caught red-headed." no, we made that one up. >> caught red-headed. >> jimmy: i'll give you one more. an earthling is kidnapped by an alien mom named cookie, they get married and start a family. were you in it? >> i should have been in it. >> jimmy: you were not? >> i auditioned for it. i don't think i got it. >> jimmy: well -- you're incorrect. you actually did get it. it's called "aliens in the family." >> what? >> jimmy: that just means you're

very successful. and forgetful. >> i have alzheimer's. this is an alzheimer's test, that's what it is. >> jimmy: years from now we'll see if allison janney remembers she was in "breaking news in yuba county." it's in theaters february 12th. thanks, allison. it's in theaters february 12th. thanks, allison. be right back with dana bash. 's! neutrogena®. the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists. rapid wrinkle repair® visibly smooths fine lines in 1 week. deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles... and other wrinkle creams goodbye! rapid wrinkle repair®. pair with our most concentrated retinol ever for 2x the power. neutrogena®. introducing new extra charged coffee at dunkin'. because it's time for a little extra this year. extra boost. extra kick. so we're extra good to go. get a medium hot or iced

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>> jimmy: welcome back. music from best coast is on the way. if you watch cnn, you know tapper, and cooper, and dana, and blitzer. our next guest is one of them. she just covered the inauguration of the new president of the united states. starting this sunday she is bimonthly anchor of "state of the union" with jake. here to tell us everything she knows, please welcome dana bash. hi, dana, how are you? >> hi, jimmy, thanks for having me. >> jimmy: thanks for being -- it's confusing because i'm looking at you on a monitor and i feel like i'm just watching television. >> it's weird for me too. >> jimmy: is that your apartment? >> no, this is cnn. i'm still here. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i don't think i'm ever going to leave. >> jimmy: how many hours did you work yesterday? >> let's see. the alarm went off at 4:00. and then we were on the air from 7:00 a.m. until midnight. a little bit of a break in between, though. but it was a long day. >> jimmy: wow. what do you do in the break? do you go to sleep?

>> so i tried. we had about a two-hour break. and i was so tired by the time we got to the break. and i got into bed. and the streets were really empty here in d.c. and so i thought, okay, it's going to be quiet. for some reason, a band found its way like right under my hotel room. >> jimmy: ya >> jimmy: great. >> it was so loud, and i couldn't sleep. i was wired anyway. >> jimmy: was it three doors down, by any chance? >> i wish. >> jimmy: you guys had a big day yesterday. a lot of people watched. in fact, we learned that more people watched this inauguration than watched donald trump's inauguration, which i'm sure doesn't bother him at all. >> no, not at all. >> jimmy: you said something on the air. what did you say that i think some people got upset about? you said, he is a small man. right? donald trump? >> yeah. but you know, it was at this moment where we were watching

the monitor, we were watching the overhead shot of him walking across the lawn towards the helicopter for the very last time. and i was thinking about it, and i was thinking, wow, he looks so small, literally. then i realized that that is true in so many ways, and it just came tumbling out of my mouth as part of the discussion billion fact that he was doing that and he wasn't going to the inauguration of his successor. >> jimmy: i don't think i would last two shows, doing something live like that, without saying something that in4 yated everybody. it must be hard. even the light moments. you see bernie sanders sitting there, looks like his mom put his coat on him, his mittens, and he's carrying a manila envelope for reasons unknown. and it must be -- do you have to bite your tongue, ever? >> yes. but sometimes you need levity, or maybe especially in these times when everything is so

intense. it's not so bad, especially when you're on tv for a million hours like we were on inauguration day yesterday, to do something funny. by the way, you mentioned bernie sanders and his envelope. i did some reporting. i found out what was in that envelope, if you want to know. >> jimmy: oh, what was in it? >> it's actually not that exciting. >> jimmy: oh. >> tickets. his inauguration tickets. it was that huge envelope, but it was his little tickets, but he held on to the envelope with his mittens. >> jimmy: isn't that beautiful. i mean, really. yeah, i guess it makes sense. just practically. that it would be hard to get at your tickets when you have mittens and a big coat on. but on the other hand, why is bernie the only one with an envelope? and you know he reused that envelope, too. he didn't throw that envelope out. that envelope is back at his house right now. it's like, he's putting bills in there or something like that. you had bernie on as your first guest as official anchor of your sunday morning show on sunday,

correct? >> yes. he is going to be on. he's obviously -- that moment -- maybe not just the walking down in the mittens but him sitting there, we've all seen the memes, internet sensation. he's also going to be the chairman of the senate budget committee. and he's going to have a really important role in the biden administration. because so much of what president biden wants to do is going to go through that committee. we're going to have a lot to talk about, and we're going to have other guests as well. >> jimmy: is the inauguration fun in washington? is that usually a big, fun event that this year felt -- like you felt it was disappointing in some way? >> yeah. it really is. i mean, i've covered a lot of inaugurations. and, you know, as a reporter, you go to the event, you go to the capitol. i didn't do that this year. there was limited space. not just because of security, but of course because of covid. >> jimmy: right. >> and then you go to the parade. there really was not much of one. a little one.

most of it was virtual. then you go and you cover the balls. there were no balls. we got to see some awesome fireworks. we were in a great position to see those fireworks last night. i've never seen anything like that. >> jimmy: that was amazing. i was watching with my wife and i felt like -- i was like, these are spectacular fireworks. it's as if they said, we're not spending any money on anything else, let's just blow it all up in the sky. yeah, that was pretty great. >> we were right behind the white house. so we were facing the fireworks, and it was almost as if they were doing it for us. it was -- it was such a show. i've seen a lot of fireworks here in washington, nothing like that. but about the inauguration, it was very diffen becau oon over wednesdays before, of course, the insurrection. the wednesday after that, the impeachment. even though it wasn't as ebullient and people holding flags in the streets, there was

something that still was really nice about the fact that they still got it together and they were still able through all these obstacles to do the ceremony that we're so used to seeing. >> jimmy: yeah, and it was -- it was actually very entertaining and very well done. the whole thing was so well put together, often not the case. what's the first inauguration you were at? >> well, the first inauguration that i went to was unofficial. by unofficial, i broke in, maybe. was in -- i was in college here in washington. and i had been interning for a local station. so -- i don't know if you know. in normal times when you go to work, you have an d., ri this was not an i.d., it was a lanyard that said the name of the station. i had two of them, so i gave it to my best friend, karen malkin, weea are we going to get in. but it was a long time ago, pre-9/ pre-9/11, bill clinton's first

inauguration. we took the metro, walked up the hill, independence avenue. we kept saying, walk with a purpose, pretend like you know what you're doing. and it worked. they made sure that we were okay, that we didn't have anything dangerous on us. but we got right in. we saw the names of people's seats. we couldn't believe where we were. we snuck into the place where the cameras were going to be. we saw behind us, it was 1993, it was michael keaton, courteney cox. we looked at each other, i can't believe we're sitting in front of michael keaton and courteney cox. we made it the whole time. >> jimmy: you had better seats than batman and friends, that's pretty good. congratulations on the big promotion. your first show, sunday, 9:00 a.m., noon eastern, "state of the union" on cnn, dana bash. thanks, appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> jimmy: be right back with best coast. >> dicky: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz.

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♪ >> jimmy: one more item, it's thursday night, that means it's time to bleep and blur the big tv moments of the week whether they need it or not. it's "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> let's start afresh. all of us. let's begin to listen to one another again. hear one another. [ bleep ] one another. >> it was authentically joe biden, it was, you know, common man touch. we even got the word [ bleep ] in there. >> the line this stood out to me is my [ bleep ] is in this. >> the transfer of power from one president to another

typically involves a [ bleep ] at the white house. >> i grew up realizing this was a great country, thinking that, ended up going for [ bleep ] chickens to being a governor of a state. >> werrdwhat? everyone's [ bleep ] a are you? i don't know ever [ bleep ]ed a turtle. >> this is not the [ bleep ] size, this is the [ bleep ] size, we're happy about that. >> even given the extraordinary circumstance of him blowing off the inauguration and having his own farewell speech this morning. cnn saying he had a pathetic, tiny little [ bleep ]. i think we're seeing a journalistic celebration. >> we're not expecting to see the president [ bleep ] himself, we're not expecting the president to [ bleep ] his adult children. >> so have a good life. we will see you soon. [ bleep ] you. [ bleep ] you very much. [ bleep ] you very much. [ bleep ] you. >> jimmy: i want to thank allison janney, dana bash, best coast, and rufus wainwright, apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next. now if you'll excuse me, i have

to get back to playing "roadblocks." thanks for watching, good night. this is "nightline." >> tonight, wartime pandemic. waiting for their shot. fractured families ravaged by covid-19. now holding on to hope in a vial. >> you've got to give everybody a fighting chance. >> that's right. >> the new president's plans and mandates. >> mask up. >> and the new prognosis now that fauci is finally free to speak. >> it is somewhat of a liberating feeling. plus sign of the times. the high-risk warnings and what the doctor who treated the first patient has learned one year after the very first case came to the u.s. and pure poetry. the presidential poet getting the surprise of her life. >>