>> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight, queen latifah, danny ramirez and music from pusha t. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you for joining us. a big night of basketball in america. thank you. game 1 earlier tonight, game 1 of the nba finals between the boston celtics and the golden

state warriors up in san francisco. the game aired earlier on abc tonight. it's mute buffalo wild wings. they see us, but nobody's listening. [ laughter ] obviously fans in both the bay area and bean town are excited. two great franchises are playing. it's not just the fans excited. the celtics got a nice shout out from the coach of the cross town new england patriots bill belichick. he's very fired up. >> congratulations to the team, the staff, the organization. great accomplishment. look forward to seeing that play out. [ laughter ] >> my god, calm down, man. you're going to blow a vein out of your head. [ applause ] >> it's as if he's giving a toast at his daughter's wedding to o.j.

[ applause ] earlier tonight, we were on in primetime earlier tonight, our annual game night special. adam sandler was our guest. some of show may have been preempted by the president's speech. joe biden announced he would address the topic of gun violence after a string of mass shootings. everyone agrees something must be done. republicans would like it to be nothing, i think, but we can agree on what we need to do. there are many nutty theories being kicked around to distract us from the simple fact we just need to make sure sick individuals don't have easy access to these high-powered guns. but some like laura ingraham of fox news would have us believe marijuana is to blame. >> respected medical studies for years now have demonstrated that pot use, especially among teens, can trigger psychosis. and increase the chance that a young person will develop violent behaviors. >> jimmy: okay. maybe we should make sure those young people don't have ar-15s

in their home. [ cheers and applause ] that is really a hell of an angle to take. you know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel when you're blaming pot. who can forget the willie nelson killing spree of 1985? [ laughter ] coming up with nonsensical and made-up crap to create a cloud of uncertainty at a time we might finally be ready to actually do something about this. garbage person marjorie taylor greene of georgia has been trying to pin some of the blame in her way on those who support the lgbtq plus community. >> salvador ramos, who was hispanic, clearly had a lot of m mental issues going on as shown with him wearing eyeliner, cross dressing. >> jimmy: never happened, not true. hispanic has nothing to do with anything, but keep going.

>> i think some of the most dangerous people in america are trans terrorists because these are the people that want to groom your children and talk them into changing their gender. these people are terrorists. they just want you to think that all of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans, generation, generation, probably in four or five generations no one will be straight any more. everyone will be either gay or trans or nonconforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are. >> jimmy: and happy pride month to you, too, marjorie. [ cheers and applause ] vile, disgusting, yellow headed melted donkey from shrek. [ laughter ] there has to be a back story. why is she so angry at gay people? marjorie taylor greene believes in traditional marriage.

one husband, one wife, one personal trainer and one sex guru. sarah palin paved the way for mtg keeping busy warning fox news the democrats are trying to wipe them out. >> do you think they want to make life easier for the average person or not? >> absolutely not. they want be to wipe out the middle class, the mom and joe six-packs, us peons. they want to wipe us out in terms of influence so they can have more power. >> jimmy: says the woman zooming in from what appears to be a 9,000 square foot home, joe six park. the hypocrisy, they don't even try to hide it any more. i guess they don't need to hide it. nobody seems to notice. donald trump, jr., is always talking about china, very anti-china. my father was tough on china. hunter biden is in bed with china. i happened to be scrolling through his website because this is what i do. he's got an online store, really some wonderful products, like this, f joe biden hat. that is, quote, designed and

embroidered in the usa. you see that right there? it may have been designed and embroidered here, but we ordered one of the hats -- [ laughter ] boy, you're not going to believe this. it was actually made in -- oh, how about that? china. you won't find that on his website, though. and there's a lot of them. here's a let's go brandon shirt we bought there, designed and printed in the usa. no, siree, that's nicaragua for you. just in time for pride month, we got this let's get biden to quit, lgbtq designed and printed in the usa. let's acee. this one is el salvador, yeah. and finally, this lovely sentiment in a world full off alecs and b kyle.

why doesn't he have them made here? they cost 30% more. guillermo, hand me one of our shirts. this is the jimmy kimmel shirt we sell. [ cheers and applause ] i don't know where the label on this thing is, but -- oh, yeah, okay, here we go. made where? made in the u.s. of a., united states of america. [ applause ] that's right. pay something patriotic so i can celebrate. shameless, worthless kidd-gil and leaches is what these people are. [ applause ] americans were headed to las vegas to get married by elvis. may have to come up with a less interesting plan because the company that's in charge of the elvis presley's brand has ordered wedding chapels in nevada to stop using elvis in their ceremonies. so from now on, if you want that, you'll have to get married

by professional rock and roll king jumpsuit cape costume man instead. as if it wasn't already sad enough to be an elvis impersonator. whenever you have a story like this, one you of the great things about it is it gives the many local news men and women in this country a chance to let their creative juices flow, and boy did they flow today. >> elvis has left the building and he might be leaving las vegas for good. >> elvis has left the building. >> elvis has left the building. >> elvis has left the building. >> elvis has left the building. >> wedding chapels in vegas are all shook up. >> a legal filing that has them all shook up. >> chapel all shook up. >> elvis impersonators are all shook up. >> elvis has left the building. >> elvis has left the building. >> elvis has left the building. >> elvis has left the building. >> come on. >> i knew it. >> i'm all shook up. [ applause ] >> jimmy: well done, everybody.

you know, there's an experiment about to happen in canada that's going to start at the beginning of next year. [ cheers and applause ] fans of experiments or canadian? [ laughter ] could be both, i guess. british columbia is going to become the first canadian province to decriminalize small amounts of cocaine, heroin, mdma, fentanyl and meth. which happen to be all the ingredients you need to make florida at home. [ applause ] they're going to be legal. they're going to try it out for three years and see what happens. i'll tell you what's going to happen. their summer is going to be a lot more fun than ours. that's what's going to happen. [ laughter ] one of the things, you know in our audience, we do the show right in the heart of hollywood on hollywood boulevard. visitors pass by our theater every day. sometimes we enjoy peppering them with questions from reporters.

one of the resourceful zbiez t guys that works here, tony bambarini, the first of what we hope will be many editions of "breaking the news." ♪ ♪ [ laughter ] >> hollywood, a stinking cesspool of superheroes and clueless tourists. where are you guys from? >> brazil. >> nobody is sure why the deadly swarm of murder hornets have made their hive here on this leg post on hollywood boulevard. slowly, slowly. they smell here. slowly walk by. slowly. slowly. over half of all children traveling with their parents would rather be with their friends. >> definitely. >> attractive women dating much, much less attractive men,

hollywood sitcom trope or something that affects real-life people. tonight, we are here on hollywood boulevard talking to very, very high-priced prostitutes about the modern sex indu industry. the newest trend in holly weird, child husbands? please continue to scour the area for the assisted liveding facility peeping tom. he is believed to be riding a bicycle and wearing maroon. please, be vigilant. [ laughter ] >> lou: still to come. >> i keep saying russian nuclear missiles are about to hit los angeles, and it's nuclear missiles. [ laughter ] as nearly 95% of the tour buses in the city test positive for bed bugs, it's time to ask, is the bus worth the bite? [ laughter ] hey, guys. >> announcer: and this.

>> why your dog has even less time to live than you think. cherish it. >> not for long. >> it's national cheer for happiness day here on hollywood boulevard. >> yay. >> but some people are having a hard time celebrating after the gruesome discoveries here this morning. b roll shots, we show the bodies, the coroner coming, cover up the bodies, the body parts strewn all over the boulevard. the police come, they gather the bodies. see the coroner wagon driving away. all that and myweekend weather after the break. [ applause ] >> jimmy: all right. thank you, tony. we have a good show for you tonight, "top gun: maverick" danny ramirez is here. we'll be back with queen

latifah. [ cheers and applause ] >> announcer: abc's "jimmy kimmel live!" brought to you by nissan.

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ramirez is with us. [ cheers and applause ] later on, his album is called -- debuted at number one. pusha t. [ applause ] on sunday night we're back in primetime for our "jimmy kimmel live!" nba game night finals game night. that will be on the east coast after the game on the west coast. please join us at whatever time is convenient for you. our first guest tonight is rapper, actor, equalizer and still the only member of the royal family to get a lifetime achievement award from emt. opens on netflix next wednesday, please welcome queen latifah. ♪ [ cheers and applause ]

>> jimmy: you look great. wow, you really look fantastic. i like that. >> i love the studio. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i haven't seen you in a long time, my friend. >> i know. it has been a very long time. >> jimmy: how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. how about you? >> jimmy: doing great. i was thinking about because queen elizabeth was having her 70th jubilee. >> i saw that. >> jimmy: do you feel like, where's my jubilee? you've been queen quite sometime here. >> if it's 70 years, i might take a vacation or two. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: is there any camaraderie between queens? do you send her a note or proclamation? >> we slay one another. we are [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: more of a "game of thrones" queen. >> we make pets. >> jimmy: have you met the queen? >> i've not met the queen, not

in person. >> jimmy: oh, wow. do you think she knows about you? [ laughter ] >> she seems cool. [ laughter ] i figure somebody put her up who i am by this time. >> jimmy: i would certainly hope so. >> i think so, i think she would know who i am. you feel [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: i know you love the nba, you love the games. you love basketball in general. who are you rooting for in this series? >> why are you trying to set me up? [ laughter ] i thought we were cool. >> jimmy: do you know players on the teams? >> i know a couple players on the teams, yes, i do. >> jimmy: you're not from san francisco, you're not from boston. these are not your towns. >> i am bi-coastal. kind of west side something-something, but then i'm also from jersey, so i'm kind of, you know, so i stay out of it. [ laughter ] i root for everybody. i love this time of year. we're here, we're at the finals now. i've been like locked in with the playoffs, and i'm a big steph curry fan.

i've been watching him since college. [ cheers and applause ] it's exciting to watch how he's changed the game, you know, with his playing style. so i just want to see a good competition. i don't want to see anybody get blown out by 30 points. i want to see nail biters every game. you know what i mean? i want my money's worth. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i wonder being from new jersey, you can root for any number of teams being from new jersey. you can root for the nets, then the knicks or the 76ers really, right? >> i mean, i could, but i'm definitely a nets fan. i've been a lifelong nets and knicks fan. i'm kind of local teams when it comes to that. >> jimmy: would you go to the games as a kid? >> i didn't get to go to games as a kid. i didn't really have -- we didn't have that kind of money in the house. no nose bleeds. i mean, i watched a lot of games. i used to live over a barber shop, and one of the nets players, darrell dawkins, who was the first to ever break a

backboard. [ applause ] >> jimmy: one of the greatest. >> one of the greatest of all time used to come get his haircut downstairs. the word would go out in the neighborhood. darrell dawkins is downstairs. you'd see the benz roll up, parked in front. we're a lower middle class neighborhood in east orange. this big superstar who is a giant, you know? >> jimmy: yeah. >> who is super cool comes to get his hair cut. he speaks to everybody. he came -- >> jimmy: i remember the poster. he was holding a rim, a net as if he'd just torn it down. >> i have that poster on my wall. >> jimmy: chocolate thunder. the best nickname ever. [ applause ] i know something about that. did you know how he got that nickname chocolate thunder? >> i dare not ask, jimmy. >> jimmy: stevie wonder gave him that nickname. >> my favorite musician. >> jimmy: your favorite musician gave your favorite basketball

player his nickname. >> really? [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's what darrell said. >> i'm going to keep that piece of trivia in my brain. thank you so much. >> jimmy: i'll probably say it again. pretend you never heard it before. >> you know who darrell dawkins -- >> jimmy: spread it around. you're more than welcome to take that. >> did you hear about darrell dawkins and stevie wonder? you know who gave him his nickname, right? how am i doing? >> jimmy: you're doing well. it seems real. you played basketball in high school, right? >> i did. >> jimmy: you had like a good team. >> yeah, our team took state twice. >> jimmy: what position did you play? >> i played power forward. >> jimmy: power forward. did you model yourself after anyone? >> i kind of did. i kind of wanted to play like charles barkley. when he came in he was just big and solid and very strong. and i was like big and solid and very strong, you know. and, you know, i just wanted to be able to play like him. i mean, i couldn't play that

good, but, you know. >> jimmy: no one can really. >> i definitely was strong. and as i got coached i got better and better at my game. >> jimmy: you played in one of those old mtv rocking jock games where they would mix the players with -- real players and celebrities. >> yes. >> jimmy: some of them fancy themselves nba players. >> yes, they do. >> jimmy: i've been involved in one of those before. i coached a team with magic johnson. it was funny dealing with the egos of the celebrity players who wanted to get in. >> worse than nba players, right? >> jimmy: way worse. >> because they swear they can play in the league, and they cannot play in the league. [ laughter ] but this is like their moment, you know what i mean? and they want to show everybody and they just like -- >> jimmy: when you do something like that, as you said, the word moment. this to me is a moment. sean kemp who is a great player, played for the supersonics. okay. let's take a look. >> queen latifah has just been a

huge force in this game for the bricklayers. look at this. she's calling for a one on one with sean kemp. take her on, baby. >> battle of the sexes. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that was 1994. >> 1994, god, i was 24. that is for entertainment purposes only. >> jimmy: some globetrotters tpe action going on there. >> it was fun. we wanted to try to entertain the audience, the fans. those games are like more for the fans than anybody else. you know, of course, sean kemp could throw my shot across the studio if he wanted to. >> jimmy: right. >> it was just like that was the kind of fun and camaraderie we had. i wish they would do these games a lot more. >> jimmy: by the way, i really enjoyed your film. we're going to see a clip from

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you don't get it. the kid is like scotty pippin and a wolf had a baby. >> so, why are you saying, he has a hairy face? >> when this kid puts it together, if he puts it together, he will be top 10 in this league.

being the guy that finds the guy matters in this business. >> they could fire you for this. >> t, the kid is special. >> okay. >> for the t or the whole thing? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: queen latifah in "hustle" which is -- i had no idea it was going to be like a serious movie. i thought its what going to be some kind of comedy. well, it is funny, but also, you were -- did you imagine you would be playing adam sandler's significant other? >> yes. [ applause ] >> jimmy: you really have some foresight. >> i love adam sandler. come on. >> jimmy: how can you not love adam sandler? >> i was admiring his sneakers today. hey, go to the store and get queen a couple pair of these. and they showed up at my room. [ laughter ] so he's a good provider.

[ applause ] and i appreciate him. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: did he ask what your size was or did he just know? >> yes, asked my size. what size are you? this is happening right now. >> jimmy: next you ought to compliment his car or something. feels like he got off easy on that one. >> nice lamborghini you you have there. >> jimmy: seems like you work with adam one time, you keep coming back. it's like a band of musicians almost or something where they keep congregating. >> i think i got adamed >> jimmy: you got adamed? >> his camp has been together and they're like family forever. mine is, too. we pitched our tents next to each other and worked and became like family and family. i don't know. maybe you never know. maybe i'll pop up in one of these movies. >> jimmy: you grown up. >> wooo!

grown [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: when you made the transition from being hip-hop artist to acting, were you nervous that first time? >> uh, yes, i was super nervous. my first acting job was with spike lee. i didn't know what i was doing. i had no clue. i did "jungle fever" i had this scene i had to shoot. [ applause ] wesley snipes, annabella. i got lucky. spike was looking for a female rapper to play this park. mona got the gig, but she got pregnant and she couldn't do it. so who's next? me. the rest is history. [ w's that? >> jimmy: moni is going to be so mad at her kid when she hears the story. did you sense that with some of these? there are so many nba players

and nba personalities in this movie who are acting for the first time. >> they are, but they are so good. >> jimmy: they are good. >> they are so good. when you see this movie, you're not going to believe it. they -- we really scored because juancho who plays -- >> jimmy: he plays for the utah jazz. you recruited him to play the lead role in this film. he is great in the movie. >> he is great in the movie. so is anthony edwards. you know, they're just talking smack to each other the whole movie, but they're actually really good friends in real life. and i think anthony told him about the movie, and that's sort of how they found juancho. >> jimmy: unbelievable. >> i love it. >> jimmy: i don't know how you missed him. he's 18 feet tall. at the premiere last night. everybody is all dressed up. almost everyone's all dressed up. [ laughter ] are these the sneakers adam got

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[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: still on the way, music from presidentusha t. "top gun: maverick" is in theaters now. please say hello to danny ramirez. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you doing? >> better now. this is unreal. >> jimmy: congratulations on this enormous success. it took forever to come out.

[ applause ] man oh, man. >> finally came out. >> jimmy: are people approaching you a lot saying they saw you in the movie? >> i recently came to new hampshire to take a hike -- >> jimmy: that's a long way to go for a hike. [ laughter ] >> it was during opening weekend and i'm just like, i was invited by a family friend to go out and just like remove myself from the chaos. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> so drove back six hours, forgot about the movie, except the group chat which i'm sure you've heard about, which is on "top gun" we all have like, it feels like a family group chat. >> jimmy: oh, yeah, one of the guys told me about this. all the guys like the main guys -- >> it's monica, too. monica, jay, greg, tarzan. >> jimmy: tarzan, his nickname. >> myles, glen, and tom is on a different thread. but -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: tom is on the no screwing around thread. >> with the one that we have, i

basically, i send everyone's gifts of their previous work. so if myles ever says something dumb, i send a whiplash. glen screen play. insecure. we were keeping up with what it was doing, box office numbers wise, and it was insane. it was just crazy that it was finally happening, and -- >> jimmy: you don't know if people are going to go cram into a theater and watch it, right? >> it feels like a little bubble, you're hearing all the great things about it because, like, we know how good it was. >> jimmy: they say even when it's projected on a screen, the jet engines themselves kill covid. >> i heard that, too. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's what tom told me anyway. so the movie is a huge success, and, well, i mean obviously it's a huge success. and you're working with tom cruise. we've had a number of actors from the film on the show, and everybody has a great story about tom. i'm wondering what the story behind this is, because this

seems to be in kind of an off-duty type situation. >> so, that actually -- my last day filming, we were flying up in the -- i don't want to spoil anything. it was a very intense flight sequence. we were by the mountains, and so i land the f-18. we take the memory card out. we go 0 into a briefing room whh has 40, 50 people. we saw the footage. everyone is clapping. that's a picture wrap with dan ramirez. tom says, hey, you going to l.a.? yeah. grab your bags. so tom on the final day flies me and tarzan to l.a. on his p.j., and he pilots us into this like private airport. we land, we take that picture, and then right after he's like, you guys are the next great stars. you guys have got to take this to the next level. [ applause ] i appreciate it.

it's beautiful, beautiful, like just speech. i never felt more inspired than that moment. just like that, he pops on his helmet, gets on his motorcycle and zips away. [ laughter ] like in two seconds i couldn't see where he was at. was this real? [ laughter ] and then, yeah. >> jimmy: do the other guys on the text chain know he gave you guys that speech and potentially not them? >> i mean, i remind them of it all the time. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you do, all right. >> we're taking this to the next level. >> jimmy: almost seems like a lot of work for tom cruise to be so tom cruisy all the time. >> it's actually so easy. like, i think he makes it look easy, but it's just like he's on like -- he's just tom cruise. [ laughter ] there's no other way to put it. jay has a story when he first met him. he takes off his helmet and then he disappears into thin air. >> jimmy: the hielmet.

>> the helmet. he goes right into a handshake. how does that happen? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: where did you grow up? >> born in chicago, grew up in miami so i'm a big canes fan. >> jimmy: grew up in miami, from chicago. that's quite a transition. >> went to nyu. >> jimmy: did your family come to the premiere? did they go to see the movie? what did they do? >> yeah. my mom saw it in mexico, miami. there's a screening in colombia for a big chunk of my family. but -- >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah. during the mexico premiere, my mom was like, weren't you afraid of flying? i started the whole project being deathly afraid of flying. >> jimmy: really? did you tell them that beforehand? >> no, i lied -- [ laughter ] we had to sign a paper, essentially a waiver saying we weren't afraid of feels like. it's too big an audition so i lied. joe calls me a week later. by the way, there is this entire training schedule you're part of. what do you mean? and so we had 40-plus hours of flight time.

so when i told her that, when she saw it, she remembered this moment when i was a little kid. in mexico, i had my grandma tie these two toy tracks that were kind of, you know, straight aways. i had her tie them on -- hot wheels tracks. they kind of looked like wheing airplane wings. she thought i would go around the front yard and zoom around. instead i climbed on the outside of this railing onto the second floor, and i just like looked out into the horizon and i just leapt. and i thought i was going to fly and essentially this lady that was selling tortillas, found me unconscious on the ground. [ laughter ] and she lets out this unreal scream. next thing i know i'm waking up in my aunt's arms bawling with this massive bump on my head. i might still have it. [ laughter ] i was crying. and i blamed the wind

conditions. [ laughter ] as to why, as to why i didn't fly. >> jimmy: the wind conditions? >> yeah. >> jimmy: a young meteorologist. >> i needed an excuse. >> jimmy: is that why you're afraid to fly? >> i think be that's what started the complex. >> jimmy: you didn't fly. that's the problem. you did not fly. you fell. >> when you look out into the horizon and it feels like you're gonna go somewhere, and then the next thing i knew i was blacked out. >> jimmy: hold on a minute. now i'm thinking about the marvel tv show, the falcon and the winter soldier where at the end, falcon, anthony mackie, hands you his broken wings and he says something to the effect of, take these broken wings and learn to fly again. learn to live so free. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: maybe i punched that up a little. >> i think you under sold it. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, so you -- so you are going to be the falcon, right? [ laughter ] >> well, i think -- i've taken

to the skies. i love the skies now more than ever. i love pulling gs. if i were to do that, i'd have to do it practically. i can't go back now. >> jimmy: yeah, tom would want you to grow actual wings and fly. [ laughter ] that's how tom would do it. >> i think i might try to find out where those hot wheels tracks are to try to grow it from there. >> jimmy: you might want to switch to match boxcars. great to see you in the movie. glad you survived the fall. "top gun: maverick." it's in theaters. danny ramirez, everybody. we will be right back with music from pusha t. [ cheers and applause ] >> lou: the "jimmy kimmel live!" concert series is presented by mercedes eq. all electric, all mercedes.

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