especially this one. clint eastwood, 82 years old, rambled a bit. but brought the crowd to his feet, nevertheless, with a call for change. >> when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. i'll start it, you finish it. go ahead -- >> make my day! >> reporter: that's the most popular theme here, obama's got to go. and romney went after it too. after disillusions obama voters. >> hope and change had a powerful appeal. but tonight i ask a simple question. if you felt that excitement when you voted for barack obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's president obama? >> but this was personal and emotional at times when he looked back at the days he and his wife ann were raising their five sons, days gone by. >> but if you ask ann and i what we'd give to break up just one

more fight between the boys, or wake up in the morning and discover a pile of kids asleep in our room -- >> reporter: it is a matter of trust, electing a president. >> good evening, fellow republicans. >> reporter: and that has been a theme here this week. you can trust mitt romney. the good son, who adored his successful father. the faithful husband who stood by his high school sweetheart for 43 years of marriage, through thick and thin, the doting dad of five and dilating grand dad of 18. >> you can trust mitt. >> reporter: ann romney who lives with m.s. and survived breast cancer with her husband's support, tested as only a wife can, tuesday night. >> he loves america. he will take us to a better place, just as he took me home safely from that dance. give him that chance. ♪ >> reporter: and last night, paul ryan spoke of romney as a

man of faith, a minority faith he's given so much of his life to as a bishop and major donor to the mormon church. >> the man who will accept jour nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. he's a fine man. worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country. >> reporter: but mitt romney's long public career, the way he's veered around on so many of the issues of the day, has raised questions about him, even here on the convention floor, as we heard the other day. >> what do you think mitt romney's biggest challenge is here at this convention? >> i think it's a matter of trust and, is he genuine in what he's saying? >> on health care. >> no, no, i like mandates. >> reporter: on abortion. >> i believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country. >> reporter: on ronald reagan's conservative legacy. >> i'm not trying to return to

reagan-bush. >> reporter: he's modified his positions in ways that have many left voters confused, even suspicious. what do the voters think of him? >> most don't know too much about it. that's number one. what voters want to know, how does that experience that he's had to date, how does it inform the policies he's going to propose as president of the united states? >> reporter: so one of romney's biggest task was to square the circle of his own political life. tonight he said his life experience means he can fix the problems the country faces, promising energy and nps, cutting the deficit and no new taxes for the middle class. in the end, what he promised was hard work and character. >> if i'm elected president of the united states, i will work with my energy and soul to restore that america, to lift our eyes to a better america, that future is out there,

waiting for us. our children deserve it, our nation depends on it, the peace and freedom of the world require it, and with your help, we will deliver it. let us begin that future for america tonight! >> and so the next chapter of mitt romney's life saga begins, did this work? we'll have to see. barack obama goes next week. just ahead, the crisis and aftermath of hurricane isaac, my co-anchor, bill weir is on the scene where thousands have had to evacuate their homes. [ thunder crashes ] [ male announcer ] if you think all batteries are the same... consider this: when the unexpected happens, there's one brand of battery more emergency workers trust in their maglites: duracell. one reason: duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. so, whether it's 10 years' of life's sunny days... or... the occasional stormy one... trust goes a long way.

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convention, the specter of hurricane isaac has hovered over the proceedings. they flashed up the number on the big screen the number for the red cross for donations. bill weir is on the scene there in the aftermath down in new orleans. bill? >> reporter: well, wonder of wonders, we're getting a glimpse of the moon over new orleans tonight for the first time since the storm rolled in. and for the million people without power, they will take all the light they can get. i actually had an experience to be over this city today and met a couple who really exemplify isaac's aftershock. >> this is just to document what hurricane isaac is doing to our area. >> that is the voice of dottie daniels. and over there is the house of dottie and murray daniels. but that's not their white car. no, that was put there by the wind-churned lake ponchartrain. this afternoon, they loaded a suitcase and their 20-year-old

cat into the basket of a coast guard helicopter. and when they touched down, they were still shaking their heads at isaac's surprising power. >> the storm surge came up so fast that nobody expected anything like that. we've never seen anything like that in my time. >> reporter: that is coast guard lieutenant caitlin mitchell wurster. she and her crew have pent the last couple days plucking the wet and surprised out of isaac's aftermath. but she did have enough time to show me around the american water world that is southern louisiana today, and the trip was proof that zip code affluence doesn't matter to mother nature. i saw mansions in slidell and shacks in plaquemines parish, sharing equal misery. isaac left such a mess out here. the daniels live in la place which is a complete disaster zone, the site of so much human

drama today. matt gutman has the latest details. >> reporter: communities in exodus, faces of desperation, young, old, frightens faces, yet relieved for the rescuesers to arrive. tens of thousands on the move as the awares rise faster than they could flee. in la place, thousands of national gardsmen and volunteers looking like an amphibious assault. this deer barely keeping fist head above water. in mississippi, a tornado crushing this house. my crew and i spent the day in la place, louisiana, where 3,100 residents were evacuated by helicopter and boat. we set out in the dead of night to link up with alpha team of the louisiana wildlife and fisheries. >> driving through three feet of

water. this place is nearly impassable. all the roads in and out, except for one, apparently, are out. >> reporter: finally at dawn, we found dwaine parker. with ten shallow boats we rowed towards developments entirely submerged. >> is it going down? >> on the rise just a tad. >> even the rescuers were shocked. >> we went through katrina, but never had the flooding. never had this before, never, never. >> reporter: while the fortress of levees kept the city safe, some of the smaller surrounding communities were swamped as their own local levees failed to protect them. the water, relentless. this woman, wading through in search of her father. >> he's right here on the corner. >> he stayed thinking this would be safe and wouldn't flood. >> yeah, it doesn't flood for

katrina. >> most homes had been abandoned. >> anyone there? >> reporter: the water rising four inches an hour, now lapping over street signs, the tops of mailboxes and cars, barely poking out of the water. while most of her neighbors had been ferried to safety, anna mcclung stayed. >> the house is ruined. everything's ruined. it's okay because we're out. now we just have to get to my husband to let him know we're okay. it was stupid for me to wait this long. i'm very glad that i have family and friends to help. >> reporter: now she was still trying to salvage some of her belongings. she and her family boarded our boat and we ferried her to safety. so many carried only the clothes they were wearing and pets. amidst the cold and damp and the loss -- >> i lost everything pch. >> it was scary. >> this is the worst it's ever been. i've never seen it like that.

>> reporter: while to the north of new orleans, a new anxiety today, tens of thousands more people told to evacuate when a dam threatened to break. >> sometimes the keepsakes are more important than the furnitu furniture. >> reporter: we were there as families were given 90 minutute to flee. what are you taking? >> pictures of my siblings, my children, my sister's children. >> reporter: how stressful is this? you have very little time. >> very, very stressful. >> reporter: the worry, this lake would spill over, and tonight engineers are using pumps to relieve the pressure on the swollen dam. we were lucky to get out of there. the back road we took to get in was more flooded on the way out. we spoke with rescuers who have gone back in, they say everybody who wanted to be evacuated has been. still the national guard will go back in using thermal technology

to make sure nobody was left behind in an evacuation area. >> matt, many thanks. so much work to do, so many stories to tell. abc's extreme weather team will keep doing just that tomorrow morning on "good morning america." let's go back to tampa and terry. >> bill, you and i are in different worlds tonight. thank you for your work and matt for his work down there as well. here at the convention, the show went on, including everybody's favorite moment, the balloon drop. when we come back, the man behind the magic of that big drop.

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it's a tradition everybody loves at these conventions, the big balloon drop. abc's david wright meets the man whose military precision and years of experience are behind the big balloon drop. >> reporter: it's the crowning moment for every candidate, if for the nation's highest honors, the money shot, anointing the crowd in red, white, and blue. pulling it off and this man's responsibility. he's uniquely qualified. >> my first jop in life was as a balloon seller in disneyland. >> reporter: skills he's honed

in 40-plus years as a balloon man. >> i can do a thousand balloons an hour by myself. >> you're great at birthday parties. >> reporter: birthday parties, and gop conventions. do you do democratic conventions? >> we did the one in l.a. back in 2000. >> reporter: in 1980, they seemed to come down one by one. >> supposed to be a big huge drop, the end of the convention, a great hoorah and we all said it was an omen, and it turned out to be. >> in 2004, cnn was listening to the audio during john kerry's balloon drop. >> all balloons should be moving. drop it. >> bursting his bubble on what was supposed to be a big night.

the republicans are good at this stuff. in 2004, he dropped a record 100,000 balloons. four years later, double that number. so many balloons, nbc's andrea mitchell, seemed to be drowning. >> she was in a spot where they were loading up on her. they'll be some spot tonight that gets an overwhelming amount of balloons. >> reporter: tonight they were hoping to avoid the avalanche. so they scaled back, 120,000 or so. it was picture perfect. a toast in red, white, and blue. i'm david wright for "nightline" in tampa. >> thanks to david wright for that cracker jack reporting on the balloon drop. thanks for watching abc news. "good morning america" will have the latest on the storm. i'll be in charlotte next week at the democratic national convention. jimmy kimmel and up next and we'll see you here tomorrow.

>> dicky: tonight on jimmy kimmel live -- >> are kids still spelling boobs upside down on their calculator? or has that been replaced by actual boobs on the iphone? >> i was on family ties. i was bully number two. >> jimmy: who were you bullying? >> i deaf kid, actually. >> dicky: and music from president clinton: this election to me is aut which... candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation.

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and now, not only that, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: all right. hi, i'm jimmy. thank you for coming. thank you for watching. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for braving the intense heat to be here tonight. i know it's very hot outside. today is a terrible day to be a dog walker. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you know. probably every day is a terrible day to be a dog walker. even though it's still the middle of august today was the first day of school for most public school students here in l.a. are kids still spelling the word "boobs" upside down on the -- their calculator? [ laughter ] or has that been replaced by the

actual boobs on the iphone? first day of school is very scary. tens of thousands of p.e. students were forced to shower as a group for the very first time. i think it's important for you to know that's about as traumatic as it gets. i still use the beginning of the school year to buy nice a new lunch box. the national retail foundation estimates that the average american family will spend $688 on back-to-school shopping this year. i love hearing this, my family spent an average of -- what it did a trapper keeper cost? two bucks? my family spent an average of two bucks on back to school stuff. as far as i know neither of my parents has ever purchased so much as a pencil. i guess my dad would steal that from work and bring it home. and my mother has never thrown out a pen. my mother has a drawer full in the kitchen jam-packed with pens without a drop of ink.

but she refuses to throw them out. i say get rid of them go to costco and get some more. i don't know if she's waiting for them to come back to life like jesus. [ laughter ] or she's building some kind of a nest with them. but she for some reason has retained every pen that's ever been smuggled into our home. we have a fun assignment for parents of young and teenage kids tonight. tonight, i'm issuing one of our world famous youtube challenges. we've done this before -- at halloween, we asked -- [ applause ] thank you. i'll wait on the applause button. on halloween last year, we asked parents to pretend they ate all their kids' candy and that was great. at christmas, we had parents give kids intentionally crappy gifts and that was great. on father's day, we asked kids to surprise their dads by spraying them with a hose which resulted in wonderful moments like this. >> why are you doing this!

>> jimmy: and moments like this. [ laughter ] >> what are you doing! >> jimmy: and this. >> son of a -- you -- you -- [ applause ] >> jimmy: so our challenge this time -- [ applause ] >> jimmy: it's a little bit complicated. but it's aimed at kids going back to school. here's what i'd like you to do, tell your kids you got them new clothes for back to school. hand them a bag that contains the worst outfit that you can come up with. make them try it on. vid yoi tape the whole -- videotape the whole thing. upload it to youtube entitled hey, jimmy kimmel, i got my kid a horrible outfit. that way we can find it easily. we'll be able to collect these and we could show it on the

program. everyone wins, except the kid. [ applause ] do that for us. here's an interesting bit of news, a new government survey has found in 2011 for the first time, 12 states had what they described as very high obesity rates. which i can't tell if that's good or bad news because that means 38 didn't, right? the last time it was done, 2007, -- 2010, only nine states had high obesity. but i guess three states went on a binge. alabama, michigan, missouri, oklahoma, south carolina, and west virginia ranked fattest. mississippi was number one fattest. colorado was the least fat state, only 21% obesity. i guess it's hard to work up an appetite when everybody smells like this guy. [ laughter ] the survey was conducted by telephone. it's just as easily could have been conducted by mirror. i wonder how that works. hi, we're doing a survey, how fat are you? [ laughter ] it's a good thing people don't

lie about their weight because otherwise we might even be fatter than we thought. here's a great moment in local news. this is from the nbc affiliate in brownsville, texas. a news anchor whose name i won't pronounce came back from a commercial and got tripped up on the date. one of the trickiest things a news person can deliver. >> good morning, i'm natasha finley with your news center update. today is august 8th -- tuesday -- pardon me, wednesday -- 2008 -- 2012. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: she was distracted by the apostrophe in her name. something very odd going on in saudi arabia right now. apparently, they're planning to build a new city that will be reserved exclusively for women to work. a whole city with women only. where the froyo lines will be nuts.

we have a woman-only city here in america, too, and called "the view" and it's terrifying. [ applause ] you know, they're doing this because women make up 16% of the saudi arabia workforce because of the extensive restrictions they have to deal with over there. women in saudi arabia need a male guardian's consent to get married. they need consent to get divorced. they need permission to travel and they need a male chaperone if they want to work in the mixed gender workplace. they're a little bit behind medieval times. the planners of the city, there are two challenges. getting women into the city. number two, keeping steven tyler out of the city. [ laughter ] i'd like to send bruce jenner into this. just to make sure men don't sneak in, everyone entering the city will be forced to sit through the director's cut of "sex and the city ii." [ laughter ] meanwhile, gender barriers are being broken here in the united states. "the price is right" has

announced for the first time in 40 seasons on the air they're looking for a male prize model. it's a very prestigious job for models good at doing this. [ laughter ] basically, the job is to smile, wave and look handsome. you know, if this whitehouse thing doesn't go well. i know a couple of guys that would be perfect for this. these guys. [ applause ] they've got the whole package, right? [ applause ] i do know somebody who would be great for this job. hey, show them what they've won. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪

>> jimmy: okay. guillermo, guillermo's been behaving very strangely since i sent him to see magic mike. so there. this is fascinating. this is a letter. it's kind of a form letter that somali pirates send out after they take hostages. reuters got their hands on this. this is not a joke. this is real. it's a real letter that starts "to whom it may concern." subject, congratulations to the company/owner." typically, it's followed by good news, rarely do you get pirates used rusty automatic weapons to take your employees hostage. it says, having seen when my pirate action group, p.a.g., has control over your vessel, we are saying, welcome to jamal's

pirate action group. i hope we get to meet jamal. and you have to follow by our law to return back to your vessel and crew safely. in order to fulfill my suggestion, you have to do every step, if you want to do it. otherwise, you will lose the vessel and crew because we have entitle to do everything if i do not oboy our regulations. i think jamal has been taking courses at the university of phoenix. [ applause ] it goes on, do not imagine that we are making to you intimidation, but we send this message to every company owner that we hijack from vessels, et cetera. this is a regular thing now. it's not just business. best regards, the general commander of the group, jamal. you notice at the bottom, jamal has his own seal.

i don't have my own seal. i bet seal doesn't even have his own seal. jamal does. apparently, the ransom letters are working. somali pirates they say earned $160 million in ransom money last year. the best two jobs in the world right now are pirate and kardashian. [ cheers and applause ] what? do we have some kardashians here? do we have fans of literature tonight? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i said literature, not litter. every since oprah went to cable, i've been trying to pick up the slack left over from her book club, the only problem is, i don't how to read. i asked my aunt to start reading books for us. my aunt finally got around to reading one of the most popular books. it's time for my aunt chippy's book review. >> books. ♪ reading. ♪ review.

♪ on a scale of 1 to 10, if this was between mice [ bleep ] and elephant [ bleep ], it's elephant [ bleep ], and if you can think of something even bigger than elephant [ bleep ], please let me know because i would class it in that category and certainly give you credit for it. elephant [ bleep ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: : five stars. baseball's on. i know probably most of you are on facebook. they added a new feature to their site. life event. life events are things that people put on their profiles when they get married or buy a house. the new life event is for women expecting a child. you can put expecting a child. which means we finally might be able to see pictures of people's babies on facebook.

it also allows you to post a story about the pregnancy and share who the father is. wait, i'm confused, isn't that what maury povich is for? [ cheers and applause ] the olympics have been over for days and already an athlete is stripped of a medal. let's play a guessing game. i want you to try to guess which of these women tested positive for steroids? the russia, the kazakhky or the women from belarus. [ applause ] nadsia, congratulations, you weren't lying. when the guy from the olympic committee told her she had been stripped of the medal, she threw him 27 feet, ironically, setting another record. there's a biography of mick jagger out right now which claims that mick jagger has

slept with more than 4,000 women. that's like then of nadia, right? i looked it up and according to the statistics the arrange man sleeps with six women. an average of six women in his lifetime. we thought this would be a good pedestrian question. we go out on the street and ask a random question, tonight's question is have you slept with over or under six women? the way we see this work, we see a guy introduce himself, stop the video, and we all guess together to guess whether he slept with more than six or over six. are you ready? let's begin. >> todd from connecticut. >> how old are you? >> 40. >> have you slept with over or under six women? >> jimmy: okay. a lot of people are saying under. let's see how todd did. >> over. [ cheers and applause ]

>> jimmy: next up. >> my name is dominick, i am from england. >> how old are you, sir? >> i'm 29. >> have you slept with over or under six women? >> jimmy: every single person in the audience says under. sorry, dominick. >> under. [ applause ] >> how many? >> four. >> jimmy: poor dominick. >> my name is aaron harper, i'm from indiana. yeah! >> how old are you? >> 51. >> have you slept with over or under six women? >> jimmy: only one person is saying under. and the other 250 say over, all right. >> probably over. >> give me your number, lifetime. >> probably over a hundred. seriously, probably over a hundred. >> are you still doing it? >> i'm still doing it.

[ applause ] >> jimmy: you can't argue with that. who else do we have? >> how old are you? >> 19. >> have you slept with over or under six women? >> jimmy: under. most everyone says under. >> under six. >> under? >> i've slept with four. >> tell me their names. >> haley, jacie, alexa -- you caught me lying. i guess three now. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how many more do we have? two more, all right. >> batman. >> what's your real name. >> bruce wayne. just joking. daniel. >> daniel, how old are you? >> 35. >> have you slept with over or under six women?

>> jimmy: split on batman here. >> over. >> over. >> okay. under. [ laughter ] >> under six women. >> how many? >> one. >> one? >> one. >> jimmy: he cracked under pressure. one more. >> bobby from los angeles. >> how old are you? >> 22. >> have you slept with over or under six women? >> jimmy: everyone says under. this poor guy. >> huh? >> i think under. >> how many under? >> as in none. >> why's that? >> well, i'm very picky. >> jimmy: that's pretty picky. thank you, everyone. [ applause ] we have a good show, from the movie "bachelorette" rebel wilson is here. we have music from good old war. and we'll be right back with joseph gordon-levitt. so stick around.

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toipt on the program, you know her from the movie bridesmaids. her new movie which has nothing to do with tv dating, it's called "bachelorette." rebel wilson is with us. and war ez is here, joined by thomas hayden church, rick bayless, and music from jjamz. our first guest is a very talented young man whom you know from the movies "inception," "500 days of summer," and this summer's blockbuster "the dark knight rises." next up, he plays a bike messenger peddling for his life in the new action thriller "premium rush." >> ah -- hey! give me the envelope. >> no! [ car horns ]

>> ah! >> whoa! >> hey, hey, hey! slow down! "premium rush" opens in theaters august 24th. please say hello to joseph gordon-levitt. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: great to have you here. >> thanks, man. good to be here. >> jimmy: i remember when i'd watch you on "third rock from the sun" i thought, that kid's going to be a big star one day. i did. every once in a while, i spot a kid on a sitcom. and then i feel good about myself because i was right. >> and when i used to watch you jimmy the sports guy. [ applause ]

>> jimmy: did you really? >> totally. i used to listen to the kevin bean show every morning. >> jimmy: very nice. it's weird to think of you as a kid -- >> it's weird to see your face. >> jimmy: yeah, i have one. it is weird to see my face. is gordon-levitt, is that because you were a child star and you legally have to have three last names? >> my mom's name is jane gordon and my dad's name is levitt. i guess they figured why should the woman give up her name? >> jimmy: very progressive, indeed. >> come on, some love for that? [ applause ] >> jimmy: what do they do, your parents? >> my parents have had several careers. i guess they started at journalists, they met working at kpsk. on the radio. >> jimmy: the radio? >> yeah, public broadcasting. [ applause ] >> jimmy: so you were raised in the world of public broadcasting? >> i guess i was. you're right. >> jimmy: like alex keaton on "family ties."

>> is that what happened? >> jimmy: that's what happened. >> wait, wasn't he a republican? >> jimmy: yeah. but his dad worked at the public television station. >> i forgot that detail. >> i was on "family ties," did you know that? >> jimmy: were you really? >> yeah, i was bully number two. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: who were you bullying? >> a deaf kid, actually. it's true. the main show was about how brian, the main kid, made friends with this kid who was deaf. he learned sign language and stuff. i was one of the two closed-minded bullies. who weren't willing to accept the deaf kid. >> jimmy: wow, that's quite a credit. >> well, got to start somewhere, jimmy. >> jimmy: i don't know if this is okay to talk to you about it but i'm dying to talk to you about it. your robin, the boy wonder. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you are the boy wonder. >> i'm john blake, gotham city police department. >> jimmy: right now, sure. but we know there's a bird

flying around in your name. >> it's pretty awesome, though, right? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it's great. >> i was a fan of those movies before i ever met chris or did "inception." or ever thought i was going to get to do "the dark knight rises." he's such a great story teller and film maker. >> jimmy: great movies. will you be robin in your own movie? >> i don't get to decide those things. >> jimmy: all right. i'll take your caginess as a yes. >> is that cagey? do you think i get to make that decision? >> jimmy: why would they set up the whole thing on the end and just give up on the franchise? it doesn't make sense. >> this is the truth. i don't think it's necessarily a set-up. i think it's a great end for that trilogy. if you go back to how batman begins, he's talking about how batman is more than a man, he's a symbol. and a hero can be anybody. we all have heroes inside of us. that runs throughout the entire trilogy. >> jimmy: how do i have a hero

inside of me? >> you do. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i'm wrong, actually, right now, i have a meatball hero inside me of. >> oh, that's about as close as i get. you're on "sesame street" as well. speaking of public broadcasting, that's a big deal. i don't recognize this muppet, though. >> i didn't know him at first. he's new, like 5 years old. his name is murray. >> jimmy: he looks like a drunk version of elmo. [ laughter ] >> you're right. it's elmo who was 37 and still wasn't doing anything with his life. he talked like humphrey bogart or something. >> jimmy: being on "sesame street" is great, right? >> it's true. you're friends with emily blunt, right? >> jimmy: yeah. >> me too. we did a movie that's coming out this month. she showed me this footage on

her phone, because did a bit in the muppet movie. the muppeteers don't stop. they don't break character. when it's in between take and you're waiting around, she showed me this footage of kermit and ralph just waiting. like the muppeteers were still in character with their hands in a muppet, hanging out. like this, looking around. and rolf was on the blackberry. i'm not kidding you. manipulating rolf from his black berry. >> jimmy: a dog using a blackberry. >> and they perk up and get into character. she showed me this footage. >> jimmy: it's disturbing in a way, isn't it? >> i think it's awesome. and that's what happened. at first you're running the line with the puppeteer and he's not running the muppet. then he puts his hand inside that and all of a sudden, you're talking with a red-haired monster. he stays alive. it's like working with an actor. >> jimmy: it is s working with actor. with a hairy glove.

>> but you forget there's a hand inside the guy. i didn't get to do it with kermit. >> jimmy: i did one on sesame street with abby cadabby who i didn't know about. apparently, she's very popular. >> i feel better now that you didn't get to do it with kermit the frog. >> but my mom and i got to wish oscar a happy birthday. >> jimmy: you did? >> yeah, i brought my mom when i went to shoot sesame street. and they do that segment. in addition to the main segment. and one was to wish oscar happy birthday. ivities like, mom, come on, do it with me. it was cute. they probably won't use it. >> jimmy: i saw the new movie. it's very entertaining. >> you liked it? >> jimmy: yeah, i liked it a lot. it's interesting, this world of bike messengers which i really never thought about. a world of people who ride around new york and get killed like three times a year or something like it. >> bike culture, it's a real thing. it's a real community.

i appreciate it. i doesn't know about it either. i rode a bike just like anybody. >> jimmy: it looked like you were in serious danger for real, in the movie, riding a bicycle. >> yeah, that's kind of what you do going 40 miles an hour with cars. it's sort of dangerous. >> jimmy: in the movie, there's blood all over it. your outfit. >> you saw the outfit? >> jimmy: yeah. and there's real blood over your body. >> i got hurt. >> jimmy: you did get hurt? >> i did. i went through the rear windshield of a taxicab. >> jimmy: how did that happen? isn't that planned? >> it is. shouldr i should say, everyone was safety conscious. it was a perfect storm. a lot of things happened. part of it was my fault. i'll start by saying i was going too fast. they put a camera on the back of a motorcycle and that's how they shoot it. i got ahead of the motorcycle which i shouldn't have done. then what happened, we're shooting in new york city and the united nations is there. they have diplomats in new york. who have diplomat license plates who basically break the laws. and don't have to follow traffic

laws. this diplomat broke through the lockup, passed our cones and our cops and double-parked in the middle of the shot. >> jimmy: really. >> long story short, i ended up going through the rear windshield of the taxicab. >> jimmy: which country? >> we didn't see him. he was a hit and run. they took off. didn't stop and take responsibility. >> jimmy: you got hit by a diplomat? i heard of diplomatic immunity, i never saw it used in practice. >> that's what happened -- we had the whole street blocked off. >> jimmy: right. >> he broke through. i had to get around him. >> jimmy: this is why we got to stop letting foreigners in this country. i'm really sorry, guillermo. i don't mean you specifically. the movie was very entertaining. great to have you here. joseph gordon-levitt, everybody. "premium rush." we'll be back with rebel wilson! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪

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