ama: have a great night. >> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- viola davis. judd hirsch. and music from chase rice. with cleto and the cletones. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you very much. how are you? thank you, thank you, thank you. very nice. hi, everybody. i'm jimmy, i'm the host. thanks for coming. thanks for watching.ning us her hollywoo boy, i've got to tell you, we've got a lot of malarkey going on today. bigly malarkey!

i'm sure you've heard, on monday, we learned from fake news liberal media cbs that a handful of classified documents were found in a private office used by joe biden when he was teaching at the university of pennsylvania. and then last night, fake news liberal media msnbc reported biden's attorneys found a few more classified documents in the garage at the president's house in delaware. this morning, attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to look into all this. merrick garland, he's of course appointed by biden, he's bending over backwards to make sure this is handled in an unbiased way. which is a refreshing change from trump's attorney general, william barr, who used to bend over forwards. [ laughter and applause ] whenever the president asked him to. and while there are significant differences between this biden situation and the 15 boxes of documents tanny soprano left laying around at his golf club -- [ laughter ] and refused to give back. it's definitely embarrassing to

joe biden, and the gang at fox news wasted no time rubbing it in. >> mr. president, classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? >> let me -- we're going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon. bu as i said earlier this week -- by the way, my corvette's in a locked garage, okay? it's not like they're sitting out on the street. >> the material is in a locked garage this. >> yes, as well as my corvette. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's super proud of that corvette, isn't he? "you know i have a corvette." it's like we have a president burt reynolds all of a sudden. [ laughter ] which is more dangerous, joe biden having classified documents in his garage, or joe biden, having the keys to a corvette? [ laughter ] he calls it "stud force one." [ laughter ] meanwhile, we're getting golden mcnuggets two years after trump's time in office. according to a reporter from "the new york times," back in 2017, trump floated the idea of nuking north korea and blaming the attack on another country.

the old "canada did it" routine. [ laughter ] the book says trump pitched this to a small group including his chief of staff, john kelly. kelly then informed trump he would need approval from congress in order to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike, which, quote, "baffled and annoyed" trump. like when a dog sees itself in the mirror. [ laughter ] trump loved swinging those nuclear warheads around. back in 2018, i don't know if you remember, he tweeted, referencing kim jong-un, "i too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his. and my button works!" [ laughter ] it's hard to tell if he was threatening kim, or seducing him. [ laughter ] i don't know. if your button is so big and powerful, why hasn't melania launched it in years? huh? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] thank you, everybody. and while trump has really been tops as far as being the most-accomplished b.s. artist in

washington, he's getting a run for his money from another new yorker of ill repute. newly elected misrepresentative george santos. the latest fabrication that has come to light is santos lied about having a 3.9 gpa and claimed he was a volleyball star in college. if you've ever seen this guy, looks more hike a volleyball than a volleyball star. [ laughter ] at this point, santos has been exposed for either exaggerating or just plain making up, i don't know, every detail about his life. so much so that his own party, republicans in new york state, are demanding he resign immediately. and the press is having a very hard time getting him to answer questions. >> congress than? congressman santos? what is your response to those calling for you to resign? >> i will not resign, i will be continuing to hold my office elected by the people. >> jimmy: whoop. george santos slipping on a newspaper is a beautiful met met for for the last few

months. [ laughter ] and while he did not stop to answer questions from reporters, he did agree to sit down for an interview with one of the hardest-hitting journalists in news. >> embellishing one's resume isn't a crime, it's frankly how a lot of people get to congress. and we want everyone to be honest. and again, you've acknowledged that, and you're working for it going forward. one of the principal critiques i've heard is a lot of money was donated to your campaign by you, $700,000, i believe. where did it come from? >> i'll tell you where it didn't come from. it didn't come from china, ukraine, or burisma, how about that? >> jimmy: that's great. so where did it come from? [ laughter ] you're going to be shocked to hear this, matt gaetz didn't really press him on it. but even though, again, his own party in the state of new york is demanding he resign for being a serial liar or possibly worse, matt gaetz knows that the real villain isn't the person making up the lies, it's the ones reporting them. >> isn't "the new york times" going to come for every one of these republican is before it's over? >> every last one of them.

i just pray for all of you, when they come for you, that you have the same strength i have. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: even jesus is like, "jesus." [ laughter ] but he is strong, george santos. in fact, if you look at his website, you can see he "is the son of immigrants, who was born and raised in jackson heights, queens. his mother and father are immigrants to the united states from brazil, and he stands 9'7" tall and is stronger than godzilla." [ laughter ] the biggest book of the year so far belongs to prince harry. he is topping the best-seller charts. his memoir sold almost twice as many copies as barack obama's on the first day. and there's a reason for that. barack obama didn't write a chapter about getting frostbite on his penis. [ laughter ] the audiobook is number one too. this is an excerpt from prince harry's audiobook. this is a real excerpt, we didn't cook this up. you'll hear the prince describing his frostbitten naughty nozzle. >> my penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive and

borderline traumatized. the last place i wanted to be was in frostnippestan. >> jimmy: that's right, he said "frostnippestan," but go on. >> i've been trying home remedies, including one recommended to me by a friend. elizabeth arden cream. my mom used that on her lips, you want me to put that on my todger?" "it works, harry, trust me." i found a tube and the minute i opened it, the smell transported me through time. i felt as if my mother was right there in the room. i took a smidge and applied it down there." >> jimmy: he rubbed a smidge of mummy's lip balm on his tallywhacker, everybody. [ applause ] when they say write a tell-all, they don't mean tell all. it's just a phrase. >> it's so hard to think of mummy in the room with death. mummy, who danced with travolta, who quarrelled with elton, who dazzled the reagans.

could she really be in the great beyond? between these thoughts of mummy and death and my frostnipped penis, i was in danger of becoming as anxious as the groom. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: next book will have to create a little more distance between the words "mummy" and "my penis." [ laughter ] speaking of penises, elon musk is having trouble. his little twitter experiment is going sideways. twitter is reportedly so desperate for cash, they're thinking about selling usernames. according to "the new york times," to drum up revenue, elon musk wants to auction off popular handles from inactive accounts. the list of in-demand names include -- @boobieking69. iloveelon69. and 6969696969. [ laughter ] basically, anything with the number 69 is going to cost you. those are real. before these names are made available to the public, twitter held a private auction for high-worth individuals where some of the best names got snapped right up.

>> up next, waiting for porn on the cob. [ auctioneer calling ] we're going to buy howard sperm. [ auctioneer calling ] michael ass bender. [ auctioneer calling ] taintnicolas. [ auctioneer calling ] sold! yee-haw! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: all right, there you go. think about it. a lot of these tech companies, these big tech companies, got started in a garage. twitter is about to become the first to end in one. [ laughter ] we got a lot of rain here in los angeles this week. it's been raining cats and purse dogs, and we wanted to have fun with that because it rarely happens. so, when it was really coming down, we sent our in-house meteorologist out of the house to hollywood boulevard to mess with pedestrians passing by in a "slippery when wet" edition of "breaking the news."

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>> today we're finding out if l.a. rainwater is safe enough to drink. hold on one second. [ audience moaning ] cheers! [ audience moaning ] take a hit of that. take a hit of that. i can't do this. [ laughter ] maybe i shouldn't do this. >> i'm really okay, no, thank you. >> take a hit. just take one hit, one hit. the answer is "no." [ laughter ] >> disgusting! >> with all the rain, and now the power outages, next comes the inevitable looting. what'd you grab? >> from marshall's? a bag. >> you should be ashamed of yourself. >> why?

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>> jimmy: all right, i've got all my stuff. tonight, from steven spielberg's award-winning "the fabelmans," judd hirsch is with us. [ cheers and applause ] then later, a superstar, diamond-certified songwriter from asheville, north carolina. his latest album, "i hate cowboys and all dogs go to hell," comes out february 10th. chase rice from the mercedes eq stage. [ cheers and applause ] next week, we've got new shows with top-notch guests including jennifer lopez, jane fonda, sally field, lily tomlin, rita moreno, rob lowe, danny devito. and music from seal, fall out boy, and a boogie wit da hoodie. and i've never felt older or whiter than i do right now. [ laughter ] a boogie wit da hoodie will be here. our first guest tonight has a large and shiny collection of statuettes including an emmy, an oscar, two tonys, and now she's up for a grammy, too. she's the producer and s.a.g. award-nominated star of "the woman king." it returns to theaters tomorrow. please welcome viola davis.

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you? very good to see you. >> boy, i am so good. >> jimmy: yeah well, you are. >> yes. >> jimmy: some say great, yeah. >> i'm good. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you for stopping by and taking a break between collecting awards and statues and whatnot. >> no problem, it's good to be here. >> jimmy: are we at the point where you're out of people to thank? will you start thanking your dentist on the next one? >> no, i'll never thank the dentist. [ laughter ] i had three wisdom teeth removed just recently. i will never thank the dentist. >> jimmy: dentist is off the list. yesterday you were nominated for a s.a.g. award. [ cheers and applause ] which is great, exciting, i guess.

do they even call you anymore? or is it just like, "yeah, i know." >> i told them, don't call me early in the morning. >> jimmy: okay. >> don't call me early in the morning. but i have to tell you, the grammy thing? i am a serious actor, i am. i went to juilliard, i feel it's about the work. but i feel -- it's like my niece annabella, who had a meltdown at circus circus when she was 6 years old. >> jimmy: in las vegas. >> snot dripping, and crying. all she was saying was, "i want to win, i want to win!" [ laughter ] in my brain with the grammy, "i want to win, i want to win!" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i get it. if you win, you become part of the egot club. >> yeah. >> jimmy: which is a very small club. >> yes. >> jimmy: like 17 people or something in that club. >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. >> you know, something in me that says, you know -- "i deserve it!" [ laughter ] "all of them have already won it!" >> jimmy: now you've got the tony, the oscar, the emmy, t-o-e. you want the egot to mix things

up. who are you against? do you know who's in your category? >> let me think. lin-manuel miranda, questlove, mel brooks, and jamie foxx. >> jimmy: so it's not a cakewalk category. >> no, they're all great. listen, they could throw me a bone. >> jimmy: you are nominated for your audiobook. >> yeah. >> jimmy: i have your book right here. this is your book. you read the book, you got nominated, a grammy for reading "finding me." you had a very tough childhood, exceptionally tough childhood. >> yeah. >> jimmy: but there's also a lot of funny things that happened in your childhood. >> yes. >> jimmy: your family was superstitious. >> yes, they were. i come from a black family, black people have some superstitions. so we had -- whatever i put in that book, you can add about 10,000 more on top of it. >> jimmy: is that true? >> like, you couldn't bring an umbrella in the house. >> jimmy: uh-huh? >> and an umbrella that was up. >> jimmy: right, yeah.

>> which is like, why would you do that? you couldn't walk by a gravestone without crossing yourself. >> jimmy: uh-huh? >> so i did that once, and then my sister diane was like, "aahhhhh!" and i said, "what did i do?" "you walked over the grave! you've got to walk back, spit on your finger, dig it in the dirt, then cross yourself, then walk across." i said, "well, why?" she said, "that's because that person that's dead will never rest in peace!" and i was thinking, i don't know who the hell that is anyway. >> jimmy: maybe they don't deserve to rest in peace. >> yeah. then you can't sweep over your father's feet with your -- with the broom. you can't touch your father's feet with the broom. >> jimmy: why? >> because they'll go to jail, jimmy. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: is that why? if you sweep over -- see, i think -- well, no. you know what, growing up in an italian family, we did have a lot of weird superstitions. >> exactly. i was like, daddy, if you didn't do anything to go to jail, why

would you go to jail? then you know what you had to do, sweep back over it in a different direction, then he didn't go to jail. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: maybe this is too sensitive a subject. do you think it's possible that superstition was presented to you so that it became your fault that your father went to jail instead of his? >> absolutely. you know what, we could not sing that song "papa was a rolling stone." >> jimmy: you couldn't? >> yeah, because if papa was a rollinste,rer d house.'t sing that i and i was like, "well, why, daddy?" he's like, "don't sing that song!" >> jimmy: it hits home too hard, huh? >> uh-huh. >> jimmy: wow. you were at the palm springs film festival with cate blanchett, who presented you with -- >> beautiful cate blanchett. >> jimmy: yes. she's absolutely wonderful. what was the award that you received? >> the chairman's award. >> jimmy: the chairman's award. this is an award that is a lifetime achievement type of situation, right? >> yes. >> jimmy: and cate was asked to induct you. >> i want some of her dignity, her grace, her old soul depths,

and i want to look as fabulous as she looks in red on the red carpet. i want her deep-throated, sometimes joyous, but always knowing laugh. i want some of her sass. i want some of her ass. [ laughter ] i want some -- i just want all of this to rub off on me. >> jimmy: and then you went and stepped up. h, cati ullo twork . but you can't have my ass, cate. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: why can't cate have your ass? wouldn't it be nice if you gave cate your ass? >> cate cannot have my ass. listen, my husband wants the ass. he wants the ass, he wants the ass. >> jimmy: we're going to take a break. i'm going to ask about your husband, julius. viola davis is here. "the woman king" is the movie, and we'll be right back.

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it is not your fault, what happened to me. you are not the thing that hurt me. you are nawhi. you are my daughter. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that is viola davis in "the woman king" which is

returning to theaters for the long weekend. will you go -- have you ever gone to see this movie with a regular paying audience? is that something you do? >> oh my god, no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no? >> it's very difficult to watch yourself. but i will say that i've seen this movie three times. which i have never done with so many of my movies. because everyone in the audience is standing and cheering, and they're involved in it. and it just makes me so proud. i'm not going to lie. >> jimmy: i would think so, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> we were in south africa for five months shooting it. it's just -- >> jimmy: are there any of your films that you have not ever seen at all? >> absolutely. >> jimmy: really? >> and i'm not going to tell you, because you're going to get me in trouble. [ laughte ] >> jimmy: really? why do you think you'd get in trouble? is it because you didn't like them? is it because you can't bear to -- >> this is a very fragile business, you've got to massage egos. so i will massage egos until i retire, you know?

i'm not going on tell you. there's more than a few of them that i've never seen. [ laughter ] listen, i shot them. i did what i had to do. then i left. and i feel like i did my job. >> jimmy: wow. who is the young woman in that scene with you? >> thuso mbedu. unbelievable. >> jimmy: how old is she? >> 30, i think she's 30 years old. >> jimmy: i heard that, and i can't believe it, she looks so young. >> i know. you know what, i think she has a sense of humor about it. but she did tell someone once, she was like, "i'm 30 years old." >> jimmy: oh, yeah, it probably gets exhausting, i would imagine. >> yes, uh-huh. >> jimmy: going in to buy a beer at 7-eleven has got to be a whole thing. >> but she's awesome. >> jimmy: and you are producer, i know, of this movie. >> i am. >> jimmy: it took you years to get this thing -- >> seven years. >> jimmy: seven years to get this made, right? >> and i got it made at 56 years old, doing all that training five damn hours a day for three months, five months of shooting. i was like, this better be successful! [ laughter ] and it was.

>> jimmy: and a big hit for sure. [ cheers and applause ] i happened upon this, "architectural digest" this month. you and your husband julius at home. whose idea was it to allow the cameras into your house? >> mine. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it was your idea. for me, i don't know about you, if anything like this ever happened to me, i would need six months to clean up. because my house is a perpetual disaster. and your house is absolutely perfect. was it -- is it usually like this? >> it is. and i'm not kidding you, i told you that i married george jefferson, right? >> jimmy: right, yeah. >> i told you that i married george jefferson, who had a mother who would do the white glove test. it is always like that. except no one sees my drawers. >> jimmy: ah, your drawers. [ laughter ] >> i have candy in my underwear drawer. i have werthers. i have the sugar-free gummies. i have the regular gummies. >> jimmy: so you're going

trick-or-treating in your own closet. in the middle of the night. >> come on, isn't that the most beautiful thing that you have ever heard, though? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, but it's funny. [ laughter ] well, whatever you're doing, it all seems to be working. everything is -- i mean, i would imagine that everywhere you go, people probably tell you they love you. i see it in the audience here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] >> they do, they want to hug me all the time. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> and one guy at target. i love target. >> jimmy: uh-huh? >> one guy at target said -- you know what, no -- >> jimmy: he said, "why are you buying so much candy?" [ laughter ] >> there was one guy at h&m in germany, shooting "the hunger games" in germany. a big security guy in the front, he was on his phone, he was staring at me, following me around the store. and i was like, he's following

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: music from chase rice is on the way. our next guest is one of the all-time greats. an emmy, tony, and golden globe winning former cab driver who, at 87 years old plays steven spielberg's uncle boris in "the fabelmans." >> like me, like you, i think. we are junkies and art is our drug. family we love, but art, we meshugah for art. you think i want to leave my sisters, my mama, my papa, and stick my stupid head in the

mouth of lions? >> putting your head in a lion's mouth is art? >> ha ha ha! no, sticking your head in the mouth of lions was balls. making sure the lion don't eat my head, that is art. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "the fabelmans" is in theaters now. please welcome judd hirsch. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how you doing? >> uh. >> jimmy: wow, what a thrill it is to have you here. >> i thought you had a thousand people in the audience. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: not quite a thousand. >> it sounds a lot. >> jimmy: we asked a thousand to come, only 150 showed up. [ laughter ] >> i usual play for a thousand. >> jimmy: i know you do, but this is my deal. first of all, it's great to have you here. i got to meet you at a party about a month ago.

i kind of cornered you and talked your ear off and asked you if you would come on the show, and here you are. >> and i said, "don't bother me." [ laughter ] and you said something like, "you have to anyway." >> jimmy: i said, "the fabelmans, this is going to be nominated for things, you're gong to be expected to be out there." you guys won a golden globe for best drama. [ cheers and applause ] how did you wind up in "the fabelmans"? did you know steven spielberg previously? have you in mind for his uncle? >> no, no, no. i told him the story because it was true but he wouldn't have remembered it. i was some schlub off the street. somebody from universal somehow -- >> jimmy: when was this, how long ago are we talking? >> '73. >> jimmy: 1973, okay, wow. >> off the street, "would you like to read for this movie?" i had no idea, i'd never been to hollywood, i'd never been on television. it was the lead in a television movie ax 2 1/2-hour movie called "the law."

believe it. it won the emmy. >> jimmy: wow. >> none of this was in my vision. >> jimmy: uh-huh? >> i come out, read the script, it was like a big bible tome. it was eleanor killgarin. and she said, "let me introduce you to people in the office." she walked me around the office. this is so-and-so, so-and-so, so-and-so. there's a little guy sitting behind a desk with a script on the desk. she said, "this is steven spielberg, he's going to be very big." 50 years ago, this was. >> jimmy: wow. >> at least 50, right? and so i said, "oh, okay." then i went, got the part. started my career. >> jimmy: and what was the script he had sitting on his desk? >> "jaws." i reminded him about that. he said that was exactly the time he had -- he was working on "jaws." little guy, 24 years old. >> jimmy: wow. >> 24, 26 years old. >> jimmy: wow. >> i'm older than him. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that movie, "jaws," did that get made? [ laughter ] >> yeah, yeah, he said it was

the worst time of his life. >> jimmy: he phoned you, "i'd like you to play my uncle." did he tell you about his uncle? >> no, i just get this phone call, i didn't know who the hell it was. "s.s. wants to talk to j.h.," my agent said. i said, "well, who the hell is that?" >> jimmy: sally struthers. [ laughter ] >> sammy seibel, it could be anybody, right? i said, "i don't know any s.s., who the hell is this, why is it so secret?" i said," it's not the s.s.!" >> jimmy: you don't want it to be "the" s.s., no. >> i immediately thought, i didn't pay my taxes. so they said, "i think it's steven spielberg." i said, "so what, what's the secret here?" he said, "i don't know." i think it was 3:00 in the afternoon. i said, okay. this is an hour before, all right? i forgot the time. >> jimmy: oh. >> i'm walking around. all of a sudden, oh, crap, s.s. wants to talk to me! okay, turn around.

there's this guy sitting there, he's going like this. >> jimmy: on the zoom waiting for you? >> waiting for me. >> jimmy: oh, wow. >> i said, "i'm sorry," i said, "you're steven spielberg." have you ever identified somebody to themselves? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you probably get that a lot. >> a lot and they get the name wrong. >> jimmy: do they really? what do they call you? >> oh, it was this -- i was in a department store one time in new york and this woman walks up to me, and she says, "ho! you're him!" and i said, "whoa!" she says, "who are you?" "judd hirsch." and she said, "no, that's not the one." [ laughter and applause ] from that moment on -- from that moment on, i had to make up people. i had to start guessing who i might be. >> jimmy: i hope you're not tired of talking about this. because "taxi" for me is one of [ cheers and applause ]ll-time.-

not just one of the greatest shows of all-time, one of the greatest casts of all-time. >> yeah, so we got canceled after four years. >> jimmy: unbelievable. >> on abc. abc. >> jimmy: unbelievable that show got canceled. look at this. christopher lloyd, andy kaufman, tony danza, marilu henner, you, danny devito who's going to be here on monday. >> is he really? >> jimmy: he's going to be with us on monday. anything you want me to pass along? >> he doesn't like something, he throws it in the garbage. >> jimmy: is that true? >> that's what he did with the first script for "taxi." >> jimmy: he didn't like it? >> "who wrote this --" and threw it across the room. >> jimmy: that was his audition. you wind up on this show together. jim burrows, who's here, i read his book, he writes about the parties you guys would have after the show once a week. not only would it be your cast but casts from all the shows shooting on the lot. >> paramount, we were all -- all the shows were on the same night. >> jimmy: right, yeah. >> "three's company." "happy days."

>> jimmy: "laverne & shirley," all those shows. >> you'd know everybody. we'd visit each other on our sets. robin williams would come over once in a while. first time i met him, "so you're english?" i thought he was a shakespearean actor. he spoke like that. why, i don't know. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, he did have a -- >> i don't think he actually wanted to be himself, i think he wanted to be somebody else. >> jimmy: maybe you're right, you're probably right about that, yeah. >> i did. i came -- i was one of those kids that was brought up like -- if the word "crap" can be written out, each of those letters would describe part of my life. >> jimmy: in what way? >> well -- it would be like, you know -- i was, like, 3, 4, 5 years old, living on coney island. >> jimmy: wow, really? >> for a kid whose introduction to life is fiction. i mean, what -- i didn't live in real places. >> jimmy: yeah. >> you know? i would be there, there would be this -- there's five roller coasters, a parachute jump, luna park, steeplechase.

the only thing you knew is everything is fake. by the way, held with fear. you go to one of these places, they had a little short person -- >> jimmy: they had the freak show at coney island, yeah. >> it was in the amusement park. if you wanted to walk into the amusement park, there was a rolling barrel that you had to walk through. and there was a little guy. you couldn't see him. he had a little electric wand. he started walking. he'd jab you with this electric wand. >> jimmy: this was danny devito? [ laughter ] >> no! [ applause ] >> jimmy: do you remember -- did you go to those -- >> i'm in trouble, danny's going to kick the [ bleep ] out of me. >> jimmy: did you go to those shows, as they called them, the freak shows at the time, the world's hairiest woman -- >> you couldn't help it, you walk down the street, they had the barkers. "see the inside, you've got to see this elephant lady, her mother was hit by an elephant,

she's got a nose like this." because her mother was hit by an elephant? >> jimmy: wow, what a coincidence, you know? she got infected with the trunk virus or something, yeah. >> i'm telling you, to start life in fiction was to mean that my real life was already traded. you know? i didn't have one. i didn't have one yet, right? because we moved so many times. we moved like 12 times before i was in third grade. by the time we ended up in the bronx, i -- i was still looking back at that time because i went to kindergarten in coney island, i went to first grade in the bronx, second grade at another school in the bronx, third grade at another school in the bronx, went to junior high school -- that's where i do the my name on "taxi." >> jimmy: alex reiger? >> yeah, they started with -- the first day, i remember i opened the book, and i said, "oh, it says alex taylor." so they said, "okay, let's start." i said, "sorry, i can't play that name." looked at me as if i was crazy. "what name can you play?" and i had to think it up.

in five seconds, i thought of the funniest guy that i met in junior high school. that's all. i don't know who he is, i don't know where he is, he might not even be here anymore. we were the two funniest guys in junior high school. >> jimmy: his last name was reiger? >> last name was reiger. i remembered the way he spelt it. "just make it reiger." it sounds german, jewish. at least german. i didn't want to be pinholed. taylor to me was like -- i didn't want to play a guy like this. >> jimmy: louis depalma saying, "taylor!" it just doesn't work. "reiger!" >> he loved it. as soon as i said the name he's going, "reiger, reiger." [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: judd hirsch in "the fabelmans." it's in theaters now. thank you, judd. we'll be right back with chase rice! >> lou: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes e-q. all electric, all mercedes.

>> lou: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes e-q. all electric, all mercedes. >> jimmy: thanks to viola davis and judd hirsch. apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next, but first this is his album, "i hate

cowboys and all dogs go to hell." it comes out february 10th. here with the song "way down yonder," chase rice! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ up in the hills where coppers don't crack down on the them copper stills were makin' trap door ♪ ♪ tax free dollar bills up in the holler deals an honest way to make a ♪ ♪ livin six shot heavy metal hangin' from a holster in case we run into them ♪ ♪ boys from the county line over way down yonder where ♪ ♪ the outlaws wander you can feel that thunder in your bones ♪ ♪ rippin' hot rod runners under moonlight cover just some back glass ♪

♪ gunners on the road where you buy your bud with your moonshine money ♪ ♪ make your love where the bees make honey when the cut's where ♪ ♪ you're born and raised it's in your blood we were born this ♪ ♪ way down yonder way down way down ♪ ♪ way down way down yonder you can't avoid a bunch of ♪ ♪ bootleg berties and their bandit boys on some outpost wanted poster polaroids ♪ ♪ sayin' dead or alive goin eighty-five way down yonder where ♪ ♪ the outlaws wander you can feel that thunder in your bones ♪ ♪ rippin' hotrod runners under moonlight cover just some back glass ♪ ♪ gunners on the road where you buy your bud with your moonshine money ♪ ♪ make your love where the bees make honey

when the cut's where ♪ ♪ you're born and raised it's in your blood we were born this ♪ ♪ way down yonder way down way down ♪ ♪ way down way down yonder way down ♪ ♪ way down way down way down yonder ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ way down yonder ♪ ♪ ♪ somewhere between the hooch and hell-raising we all need saving ♪ ♪ way down yonder where the outlaws wander ♪ ♪ you can feel that thunder in your bones ♪ ♪ rippin' hotrod runners under moonlight cover just some back glass ♪ ♪ gunners on the road where you buy your bud with your moonshine money ♪ ♪ make your love where the bees make honey when the cut's where ♪ ♪ you're born and raised it's in your blood we were born this ♪ ♪ way down yonder

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♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, breaking news. lisa marie presley, the only child of legendary entertainer ellis presley, has died. the 54-year-old singer known for songs like "dirty laundry" was rushed to the hospital earlier today after a possible cardiac arrest. just days ago, she was on the red carpet at the golden globes with her mother, priscilla. we remember her life and legacy. plus school shooting shocker. >> as soon as i learned that we had a 6-year-old, i kind of took a step back. >> the first grader allegedly opening fire in his classroom. >> this shooting wasot