whether it's the mar-a-lago raid or the unselect committee hoax, the perfect georgia phone call. it was absolutely perfect, or the stormy "horse-faced" daniels exploitation plot, they're all sick, and it's fake news. >> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- jennifer hudson. donnie yen. and music larkin poe. with cleto and the cletones. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheering and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you. welcome. hi there.

i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for joining us on the day is as you probably know the first official day of spring. can you feel it? the days are getting longer. indictments are in the air. it's really magical. it's the calm before the stormy. you know how we've been saying for years that one of these days, we're gonna wake up, and trump will have been arrested? for one of these many crimes. well, that day could be tomorrow. and how do we know that day could be tomorrow? we know that because, on saturday, trump, in what seemed to be an effort to rally the troops, wrote -- "the far and away leading republican candidate and former president of the united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week. protest, take our nation back!" well, we already did take it back, from you. now go away. i don't know. but you never know with him. either he's about to be

arrested, or he's releasing another round of digital trading cards. for us to buy. we don't know for sure. but he went totally truth postal this weekend. he said america is a dying third world country. the election was "stollen" with two ls. he called for protests. he said they should investigate the investigators. he suggested the nypd should let refuse to arrest him. let's just say he was very presidential this weekend. he's absolutely spinning out because he knows it's melania's birthday next month and she might finally get her wish. if trump does get indicted tomorrow, the secret service would bring him to the manhattan district attorney's office for a mugshot and fingerprints. assuming they can find an inkpad small enough for his fingers. maybe they'll use the tip of a sharpie. just tap it. some trump supporters online have been talking about creating what they call a "patriot moat" to surround him and prevent the police from taking him in. which is genius.

and as all this is happening, republicans in the house of representatives are gathered in orlando for their annual "issues" retreat. they've definitely got issues! to retreat from all the usual low lives which are screaming witch hunt about this. jim jordan, matt gaetz, and speaker kevin mccarthy, who, at one time kevin mccarthy blasted trump over january 6th. now he sees things differently. >> i don't think people should protest this, no. and i think president trump, if you talk to him, he doesn't elieve that either. doesn't >> jimmy: wait, what? >> i think the thing you may misinterpret when president trump talks, when someone says they can protest, he would professor be referring to my tweet. educate people about what's going on. he is not talking in a harmful way. >> jimmy: right. like in all caps "they're ing - killing our nation as we sit back and watch. we must save america! protest, protest, protest!" he meant stay home. read up. educate yourself!

speaker mccarthy, by the way, isn't the only one embarrassing himself to stay on the good side of the crazies. mike pence, the guy the maga hatters wanted to hang on january 6th, mike pence weighed in with words that are so profoundly meaningless, even if you were to print them out, you'd still have a blank page. >> i know that you think big picture. nobody is above the law. you don't think donald trump is above the law. >> nobody is above the law. but nobody is beneath the law either. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, has somebody been gnawing on mother's scented candles again? because that doesn't make any sense at all. and then we have rudy giuliani, who believes we are focused on the wrong thing. recount dracula says we shouldn't be focused on what our president paid a porn star to be

quiet. we should be focused on hunter biden's laptop. >> the hard drive is absolutely true. it will reveal a family -- not the entire family, but a large number of crooks and perverts. i also put the emphasis on the second one, perverts. you cannot believe the conduct. >> i think we're having a technical difficulty right there. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: well, if anyone knows about perverts, it's the dude who tried to whip it out for borat's daughter! s they for sure. [ applause ] even florida governor ron desantis defended trump. he had some b.s. thing george soros-funded judge tirade prepared that conveniently ignored why trump is in this fix. but he also slipped a zinger in at trump's expense. >> you're talking about this situation with, and look, i don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of

alleged affair. i can't speak to that. >> jimmy: it's ron desassy all of the sudden. as you might have imagined, that comment did not play well in trumptown. he wrote right back, he wrote "ron desanctimonious will probably find out about false accusations and fake stories some time in the future as he gets older, wiser, and better known when he is unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that are underaged or possibly a man. that's what this has come to now. oh, yeah? you're gay. i guess that's all he has left. the truth is, there's no good reason for trump to be in any of this trouble. if casa-no-brain had just paid stormy daniels out of his $130,000 pizza hut money, he wouldn't be in this situation. he wouldn't have an issue in new york. so many of his legal problems are based on him being an idiot. if president karen hadn't picked up the phone and called around georgia, asking to speak to its

manager to find 11,000 votes, he wouldn't have an issue in georgia. if he just tweeted the words "calm down, go home" four hours earlier, like everyone, including his daughter told him to, he wouldn't have an issue on january 6th. and if the great white hope cest hadn't boxed up his love letters from the saudis and kim jong-un -- if he hadn't squirreled them out of the white house and into the rec room at golf-a-lago, he wouldn't have an issue with the fbi. in every case, the reason he's in trouble is because he's the dumbest criminal in the world. it's all on himself. he's all cabonehead is what he s donald trump's day was from joe biden's. while trump was banging on that all caps button with his greasy little thumbs, biden was hosting the cast of "ted lasso" at the white house. trump is getting ready to be arrested while biden is eating biscuits with ted lasso. and while the rest of the

country was watching basketball this weekend, trump showed up in tulsa this saturday to see the ncaa wrestling championship. you know trump himself did some wrestling. he wrestled vince mcmahon at wrestlemania. so, this is his world. his area of expertise. there was a kid at the tournament, a three-time national champion from iowa named spencer lee. he won 58 matches in a row until he ran into matt ramos from purdue. . >> he's going to pull one of the biggest upsets in ncaa wrestling history. >> he is looking for fall! wow! >> spencer lee's mom kathy and her glasses did not survive that match. >> oh, and that's unfortunate. that's unfortunate to see. this is the -- this is the -- this is what happens here. >> jimmy: well, if that isn't a lenscrafters commercial by the end of the week, a major opportunity has been blown. this is delightful coming off

st. patrick's day. i want to congrat it will our good friends, the 6 abc news team in philadelphia for providing us with an absolutely stellar edition of the "unintentional joke of the day." >> here is your exclusive weather. now i'm double fisted for st. patrick's day and another woman who likes to be double-fisted in a different way, i think, jesse. >> she means beer. she means beer. >> jimmy: of course she means beer. what else would she mean? in florida, things seem to get nuttier every day. in the sunshine state. republicans there are considering legislation now that would ban teachers from discussing menstruation and human sexuality in elementary school. the bill was put forward by state house member stan mcclain, this is stan. he is a man with a smile that says, "mommy, i filled my diaper." and he says that if girls experience their menstrual cycle in fifth grade, teachers would be prohibited from discussing it

with them until they are in the sixth grade. which makes sense. if a girl gets her period in fifth grade, just tell her to wait a year. you know, guys, just because your state looks like a penis, doesn't mean you have to act like one all the time. [ applause ] it's now creating so much controversy and confusion for educators in florida, the state legislature had to release a public service announcement. >> hi, i'm clint mcintyre, public information director for the florida state legislature there has been some hullabaloo recently over what can and can't be discussed in our public schools. so i'm here to clear it up. >> can girls ask questions about their first period? >> absolutely not. because frankly, it's yucky. simply put, bleeding is bad. kbr whether it's from accidentally shooting yourself while cleaning your guns or hitting a boat

trailer. a confused child mentions her per -- tell her it's like burger sauce. like santa, girls will figure out eventually. >> can girls ask their mothers about menstruation? >> no. why would you? mothers are women, and if you get mom going, she is going to mention preg nancy. and apologies to nancy. that's gross. children need to learn about pregnancy the florida way, by getting knocked up in the parking lot at a pickle concert. >> so who should girls talk to? >> it's better if girls don't ask questions at all. you ever hear the phrase "curiosity killed the cat?" the cat is dead. that's why we spent our entire legislative session making it illegal for kids to identify as cats. you won't find a single litter box or tampon anywhere near our schools because they attract coyotes. and here in florida we have a saying. coyotes are like books.

they're dangerous. now if you'll excuse me, i have a lot of cocaine to do. >> paid for by the florida department of education and the daytona bar association. [ applause ] >> is this still on? >> jimmy: happy women's history month, everybody. we've got a good show for you tonight. from "john wick: chapter 4," donnie yen is here. we have music from larkin poe. and we'll be right back with jennifer hudson. [ cheering and applause ] ♪ abc's "jimmy kimmel live!" brought to you by the volkswagen atlas.

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[ cheering ] then later, their album is called "blood harmony," larkin poe from the mercedes benz stage. [ cheering ] you can see larkin poe live at the new orleans jazz and heritage festival on may 4th. this week we have new shows with jeff goldblum, julie bowen, giancarlo esposito and molly shannon, with music from nickel creek and depeche mode. so please join us for that. nearly 20 years ago, our first guest finished 7th on "american idol," and went on to become an egot winner while everyone who finished ahead of her did not. now, she reaches the highest peak in show business of all, that of talk show host. watch "the jennifer hudson show" weekdays. please welcome jennifer hudson. [ cheering and applause ] ♪

>> jimmy: how are you? >> i am good. >> jimmy: it's great to have you here. >> i'm happy to be here. it feels so different. >> jimmy: does it feel different? >> yeah. >> jimmy: are you now evaluating everything because you have a talk show. you're looking around and this is like this and that is like that. >> i am. >> jimmy: it's a funny thing. >> it is. because now i get to be on a talk show as a talk show host being interviewed. >> jimmy: that's right. >> that's what's going through my mind. >> jimmy: it's very meta and very incestuous in some ways, isn't it, really? are you enjoying this job? >> i think it is the funnest job i have ever had. >> jimmy: really? >> it's so fun. and i've had a lot of jobs, okay. listen, you know, because the audience is always amazing. the energy lifts me up. [ cheering ] that's all i ever need when i come out. i call it the happy place. so it's like a party. they get out there and they dance and they sing. they wear they best outfits. everything that i live for, i get to live it every day. >> jimmy: we don't have any of

that here. no one dances. no singing. and usually there is somebody wearing shorts with their big knees in the front. although tonight -- well, it rained today. everybody is pretty clothed. but, yeah, it's an interesting job. it's a weird job to have. >> well, is it weird? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. >> especially coming from a sing position. like i remember when we first started like the preparation part for it. i said we're going to go here and talk again? and then i was like wait, it's a talk show. >> jimmy: yes. >> that part was odd to me. >> jimmy: that was the part, you hadn't heard the word talk in there. >> it took me a long time. oh, we're going to talk some more. >> jimmy: what is your daily routine? i personally get here at 5:15 every morning just to practice -- just to practice saying "welcome to the show, everybody." and then take a nap until noon. no, but what is yours? >> my daily routine. i like to have a inner peace

moment. >> jimmy: okay. >> as soon as we get up. as you know, as soon as we walk into the studio, everybody knocking on the door and a thousand people with 10,000 things to talk about. i like to set my mind and have my dai davy walk. my son always takes a walk when he is in l.a. i make a point to have my own. i go all the way to the starbucks. and somebody picks me up. when i get to the studio, it's breakfast time. and then i go to class. i call it class, because i'm learning this whole talk showness. although i will talk your head off. for being in the talk show space, it's a whole new world. >> jimmy: interesting. >> i call it going to class. >> jimmy: you think of it like school. and each meeting is a different subject? >> yeah, well, kind of. first period is the briefing. >> jimmy: okay. >> like we discuss what's going to happen throughout the day, in the day, who i'm going to meet, who i get to jenniferize. >> jimmy: okay. >> after that, breakfast is before that, which breakfast and lunch is back-to-back. and then we do a rehearsal.

so the second period right there. >> jimmy: you eat breakfast and then immediately have lunch? >> that's what i said! that's why i need the davy walk because we eating too much. and then having to sit on the couch. i need a little break. when lunch happens, guess what i do? >> jimmy: dinner? >> nope. i thought maybe. maybe you're like -- doing intermittent like i eat for one hour a day and then for 23 nothing. >> it's a lot of eating. it's almost too much. okay. 9:30 lunch is at 10:30. and then it's a meeting. but then i ride my bike. >> jimmy: oh, you do? >> yes. i love to ride my bike around the lot. sometimes i run into the guests. hey, you need something from the store? jennifer? >> jimmy: do people visiting the lot see you riding around? >> yes. >> jimmy: oh, they must love that. >> sometimes you see the tour buss go by. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and sometimes hey, you dip off to the side and kind of run a little bit. >> jimmy: yeah. wow, that's interesting.

boy, you're having like -- you're hosting a talk show in the same way you would see like in the movies if somebody was hosting a talk show, riding around the lot, doing all this stuff. i'm just hunched over my computer all day. >> we got to get you a bike. >> jimmy: i know. we do. do you have people now asking you the same questions over and over again liwhich guests have u not had on that you want to have or which guests did you like the most? which did you like the least? >> yes. that does have happen. >> jimmy: do you have prepared anwers for that? >> can you really be prepared for that? >> jimmy: yeah. you have to have one. i would never ask you that question. but if you have one, it ends it. so you can tell them, yeah, this person and then you move on. >> see, but every time i meet new guests, then they become my favorite guests, you know? i don't think i have a least. >> jimmy: you have my favorite guest on tomorrow, charles barkley. >> he is a new favorite of mine! >> jimmy: he is a great guy. >> he's amazing. >> jimmy: he is so much fun to interview because he will say

anything. >> he will say anything. >> jimmy: he has no filter whatsoever. >> nobody warned me of that. >> jimmy: and a vast array of subjects. he is not limited to basketball by any stretch of the imagination. hi, see not. i have to say. charles is the happy place. it's a family show. what are we talking about. >> jimmy: your first guest, which is a big deal for a talk show, who is your first guest. your first guest was simon cowell. >> simon cowell. >> jimmy: who is the guy that you appeared in front of. [ applause ] >> jimmy: and who evaluate you'd. when you finished seventh, which is so fun to any about. it really makes you realize america is not good at making decisions, right? >> see, that's why i wanted to have him as the first guest. because still to this day, people come up and like i don't watch "american idol" no more. they shouldn't have vote you'd off. you know that was like 20 years ago, right? i'm okay. i made it through it. i'm all right. so i say what better way to start this new chant and journey of my life than to have simon

cowell, who helped me start my first journey which was on "american idol" where i was introduced to the world. so he was the first guest. >> jimmy: does he now claim that he knew all along you'd be the standout from that group? >>. no. >> jimmy: no, he doesn't? okay. >> no. he felt so different. like he wasn't the same simon from "american idol." who is this? >> jimmy: that simon if he still existed in this current climate would be probably beheaded and they would put his head on a stick of some kind, and they would carry it through a town, you know. >> you know what? he is much nicer now. no need to do that. >> jimmy: there is no need to do that. as you know, we have to take a break every once in a while for a commercial. we'll be right back with jennifer hudson, everybody. [ cheering ] ♪ who says you can't get everything you want? like going for bold without going broke... and staying true to your taste while staying on budget. who says rising costs means lowering the bar?

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♪ >> jimmy: we're back with jennifer hudson. she's got "the jennifer hudson show clover every weekday. how hold is your son now? >> david is 13 now. >> jimmy: does he know? does he watch your show? >> he watches it on tiktok. >> jimmy: he does? >> of course. everything comes from tiktok. i wasn't famous to him. it doesn't matter what i did until i got a talk show. so now he calls me jennifer hudson. >> jimmy: oh, he does? >> jennifer hudson! we were at the all-star game, and he wanted to meet king james. and all i heard was jennifer hudson, jennifer hudson, come over here and introduce us to king james. oh, here i come.

these are my children. so i had my son and seven of his cousins. so i call it camp david. i run around with a whole basketball team. >> jimmy: wow. that is a lot of kids. you took eight kids to a all-star game? >> yes, i did. >> jimmy: and lebron, did he come over? >> he came right over, yes, he did. >> jimmy: so your son is real. he is getting positive reinforcement from embarrassing you in public by shouting out your name? >> i guess so. he knows he gets perk. when they're little, they don't know what's going on. >> jimmy: no. >> they see the superheroes. they cool, but not mommy. >> jimmy: that's all they want. but you take them to things and you get good seats at the game. and really, they're ruined for the rest of their lives, right? where do you go? how do you go sit in the back when you're a teenager. >> no line weight, yeah, none of that stuff at all. >> jimmy: none of that stuff, yeah. you had to explain that to him and to his cousins also. especially the cousins. >> yeah. i guess. i think i spoiled them all. >> jimmy: once lebron james shows up, there is really not much you can do.

>> but i get cool points though. >> jimmy: does he have a phone at this age? >> oh, yes, he does. he has a phone. >> jimmy: how old do you think is the right age for a kid to get a phone? >> that's a tough question. >> jimmy: yeah. >> maybe 12? >> jimmy: 12. okay. that seems reasonable, right? >> but you got check their phone, though. >> jimmy: do you go through his phone? >> uh-huh. >> jimmy: oh you do? >> yes, i'm going to check the phone. >> jimmy: does he know you go through the phone? >> he no now if he didn't. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: maybe if this one isn't on tiktok, he won't see it. >> maybe. but everything is on tiktok. so what are we supposed to do, but we do text. >> jimmy: okay, you text. do you text him? do you send long confusing, sometimes meandering text messages to your son like most moms do? >> i think every mom does that, right? >> jimmy: well, my dad is more guilty of that than my mother is for sure. >> yeah? >> jimmy: yes, absolutely. i get long texts about his shoulder, you know. >> about his shoulder?

>> jimmy: he likes to cover all the body parts. >> i don't send them like that, but i will shoot him a text. >> jimmy: okay. now what we've done here tonight, and we were wondering if you would be so kind as to play a role in this. and that is we've collected -- these are real text messages from the parents of people who work on our staff. >> oh, okay. >> jimmy: and i know you're a talk show host, but let's also, you know, you came into our lives as a singer. so i was wondering -- [ cheering ] -- if you would be so kind as to put some of these, again, real texts to music. >> real texts. you want me to sing to it the music? >> jimmy: well, you can do it however you like. but we'll start with the fix text, which is there at the top of the page. this one is from a young lady named healther who works here from her dad who was experiencing some laundry drama. >> okay. >> jimmy: okay. so, if you would. >> let me see. >> what's on my spirit, if i could give you something.

♪ can i get a hmm -- can you give me that chord? ♪ say my grandma took my socks out of sock bin, and she them ♪ snow jimmy, tell me why she do it? as a result, i am missing my black louie lemon sock ♪ ♪ can you check through the clothes that she washed for yyou, yeah, yeah, can i get a yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ now let me see where i'm at ♪ there was a blue pair of sox ♪ ♪ i said a blue pair of socks ♪ ♪ they were in my sock bag, they

do not belong to me ♪ ♪ they are either yours or your your mama [ cheering ] ♪ your mama's, your mama's ♪ >> jimmy: i can't believe you finished seventh. that's ridiculous! all right. the next one, that was absolutely incredible. >> oh my god. >> jimmy: is from jamie's mom. [ cheering ] >> jimmy: jamie is a writer here at the show. and i think her mom has a lot going on. here we go. >> okay. okay. >> jimmy: number two. >> number two. can i get a -- [ clapping ] >> give me some rhythm. ♪ hey officially locked out of netflix with no password ♪ i like that.

♪ i'm officially locked out of netflix with no password ♪ i said, >> jimmy: i'll ask them. ♪ i've just been locked out of my netflix account with no password, no password ♪ ♪ so i had do get my own acount, now ask jeff please, ask jeff please one more time! ask jeff please ♪ >> jimmy: wow, you made something incredible than. should we do one more? >> one more. >> jimmy: all right. let's see. any one of these look good, particularly interesting to you? >> i like the last one. >> jimmy: you like that last

one? that one is from jamie also. all right? >> because they told jamie what they need toe say. >> jimmy: uh-huh. do you need any music for this? ♪ jamie, i said jamie, jamie -- [ cheering ] -- ♪ i'm not in the mood, she said i'm not in the mood, i'm not the mood for your [ bleep ] ♪ ♪ jamie, jamie mcintyre i'm not in the mood, i said i'm not in the mood for your [ applause ]

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>> jimmy: hi there. we're back. music from larkin poe is on the way. our next guest is a hard-kicking, sword-wielding, imperial stormtrooper-slaying global action star. starting friday, he goes foot to foot with keanu reeves in "john wick: chapter 4." ♪ >> they gave you my name. >> yeah. >> i'm sorry. >> me too. [ cheering and applause ] >> jimmy: please say hello to donnie yen. ♪

>> jimmy: how are you? >> very good. >> jimmy: very good to see you. boy, you've been a big global action star for a long time now, right? >> i'm old. >> jimmy: you know, i think it's funny because here in the united states, when an actor does his own stunts, it's like a big deal. there is much celebration and a lot of pride associated with that. whereas in hong kong, everybody does, right? >> that is just the way we shoot films. we try to do everything ourselves. >> jimmy: what happens, though, in the event that you get -- mark up your face or get injured or whatever and the film has to stop? >> if you get hit on one side and you can't shoot a close-up or something, you're going turn to the other side and shoot from the other side. >> jimmy: just shoot the other side? >> that's the way it is. a lot of times there is no like a pretraining or preparation. we jump right on the sets and we just feel the set out. and we improvise.

these choreography stunts usually improvise on the sets. >> is that true? that is remarkable. >> yeah. >> jimmy: so that sort of thing, like doing a ride-along and where if you're going to play a shoemaker, you go and work in a cobbler shop for six years. you see that as nonsense, american nonsense. >> no, not nonsense. normally we don't have a lot of budget and time to do what we need to do, right. so i remember when i was shooting with, for example, with jackie chan, we walk on the set. both jackie and i look at the set, oh, what can we do? jump off this building, kick this door down, and i punch you and you block. all right. let's shoot. just like that. >> jimmy: when you got two -- when you have two superstars like that, when it's you and jackie chan, is there any like -- as far as who wins, is that something that is like that worked out in a contract beforehand? >> i'm old, but he is older. >> jimmy: so he gets the win. >> he is the seniority.

>> jimmy: he is the s seniority. your mom was a martial arts master. she had a studio. >> she runs a martial art school in boston. i spend a lot of time living in boston when i was a kid. >> jimmy: so when your mom has a martial arts studio, is she tough? >> very tough. >> jimmy: rigid? >> she dragged me out of my bed 5:30 in the morning before i go to school. >> jimmy: and beat you up? >> pretty much. grab these wooden stick and whip me. >> jimmy: is that right? >> yes, she did that. >> jimmy: just to make sure you got up? >> just to make sure, do the split, throw the kicks, do that. >> jimmy: so she wanted to make sure that if you happened to be attacked at sunrise, you would be ready for anything. so you're in this movie, this john wick movie, which is a very big deal. [ cheering ] >> jimmy: they're great movies. and your character is a blind assassin named caine. >> that's right. >> jimmy: which is kind of

funny, right? caine. >> oh. >> jimmy: oh, that was not intentional? but do you think there are any -- [ laughter ] any blind assassins in real life? >> well, i play a blind character once. >> jimmy: maybe they start thinking of you as blind in a weird way. >> i hope not. >> jimmy: you know who is great at blind? donnie yen. so you play this guy, and he's blind, and yet he has these abilities in a way like daredevil. you know daredevil. >> of course. >> jimmy: the cartoon character. but blind also seems like a real disadvantage as far as assassins go. >> it wasn't easy to do because first of all, i have to act a certain way. and i have a pair of sunglasses on. and when i was fighting with all these stuntmen, i had to be really careful because i have this cane i was whipping around,

going really fast. i didn't want to hurt anybody. but at the same time, i didn't want to not open up and have my movements kind of diminished. so i had to be really cautious, at the same time be free. that was really tough do. >> jimmy: even just fighting with sunglasses on is a weird thing to do. >> they kept falling offer my face. >> jimmy: you once had a scene with mike tyson. did you choreograph that? >> we did. but at the same time, i've always been a big fan of mike. when i was doing this movie with him, "ape man know what to expect. mike, i love him, but then he doesn't really is a lot of film experience. i didn't want him to come to the set and start swinging. what am i supposed to do? and my character, ant-man, i was supposed to be very poised and very calm, and always block

these strikes at the very last second. so there was this choreography where mike was coming at me with a left hook, you know, his famous hooks, right. and he was supposed to knock this punching bag right next to my face. and it close-ups on me, and we were doing it, going at it very fast. and i said wait a minute, what am i going to do? i promised my wife that i got to get home in one piece. so i felt his punch was coming at me 90 miles per hour. i kid you not. and i couldn't really move sooner because remember, i have to be poised. and i felt his arm, his forearm kind of -- i felt the wind, it was like a tornado, and then oh. and he knocked that punching bag like. >> jimmy: he's strong. he's very strong. and he'll eat your ear right off if he feels like it too. >> you know what's the funny thing? there was another choreography where he was coming at me with a

flurry of punches. >> jimmy: right. >> and i have to do this martial ar technique. which us doing this style where there is a lot of short elbow blocks. so i was blocking his techniques. okay. the scene went really well, and the next day we had a press conference. all the reporter came. and they were asking me, oh, how was it working with mike? did you get injured and this? they showed a lot of attention to me. and then mike jumped out and picked up his arms and he had this bandage wrapped around his pinkie. why you giving donnie all this love when my -- accidentally fractured his pinkie. i fractured mike tyson's pinkie. that's a pretty funny story, right? >> jimmy: oh, yeah. i didn't know he had pinkies. i thought he had five thumbs on each hand. >> just a lovely man, you know. >> jimmy: we have a clip from maybe the first movie you ever

shot. >> second movie. >> jimmy: second movie. here we go. this is great. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheering ] >> jimmy: that is something. >> embarrassing. >> jimmy: embarrassing? >> that's embarrassing. >> jimmy: is that how you get dressed every morning? >> no. >> jimmy: why do you keep the shoes so high on the shelf. if you put the shoe on the ground, it's so much easier to get into. >> those are the times. >> jimmy: i wish i could be embarrass in that way. it's pretty incredible. it's good to have you here.

congratulations on the big moech, "john wick: chapter 4." donnie yen, everybody. we'll be back with larkin poe. . >> lou: the jimmy kimmel concert series is presented by mercedes- mercedes-benz. the all electric lineup is here.

>> lou: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is presented by mercedes-benz. the all-electric mercedes-benz line-up is here. >> jimmy: thanks to jennifer hudson and donnie yen. apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next, but first, the album is called "blood harmony." here with the song "bad spell," larkin poe! [ cheering and applause ] ♪ ♪ boy, you cast a bad spell a bad spell over me ♪ ♪ you got me ringing like a doorbell ♪ ♪ you got me buzzing like a yellow bee ♪

'matelspl over me ♪ad spell in the first degree ♪ ♪ oh, it's a bad spell talking 'bout a bad spell ♪ ♪ boy, you fast as lightning lightning in the rain ♪ ♪ you're kicking sparks like a fuse box ♪ ♪ you been rattling my window panes ♪ ♪ boy, you cast a bad spell a bad spell over me ♪ ♪ you better beware you better take good care ♪ ♪ i'ma get ya it's a guarantee ♪ ♪ oh, it's a bad spell talking 'bout a bad spell ♪ ♪ a bad spellov m o y casd spell

a bad spell over me ♪ ♪

♪ i had a premonition and i don't wanna be right ♪ ♪ but i saw that black cat creeping ♪ ♪ on my front porch last night ♪ ♪ who's that on my telephone when i hear that line go click ♪ ♪i'm gonna light a single candle, y'all ♪ ♪ but you know i can't resist ♪ ♪ ohh, a bad spell over me bad spell ♪ ♪ bad spell bad spell ♪ [ applause ]

tonight, 20 years later, the u.s.-led invasion of iraq and the images of the shock and awe campaign might be distant memories for many americans, but not for those who served. >> all the elements of war were present that day. >> abc news embedded with marine battalion fox 2/5 and revisited with them to discuss the war and the wounds that have yet to heal. there are more of us that died by suicide in my unit than were killed in iraq. >> remembering the fallen. >> i loved him. he meant a lot to me. >> what were the lessons learned? plus, retired four-star general david petraeus, who helped lead the war. >> my greatest regret is iraq has still not fulfilled the hopes th