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tonight, annette bening, director paul thomas anderson, "this week in unnecessary censorship," and music from sylvan esso. and now, more than ever, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: welcome. that's very nice. hi there, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. thanks for coming. i dreamed about you last night. that's very nice. i have did say, i'm excited. i had a big day. i hosted hq trivia today. you play hq on your phone, you're aware of it? [ cheers and applause ] if you don't know, hq is a trivia app founded by a pair of developers who wanted to answer a relatively simple question which was, how can we make 500,000 people feel stupid all at the same time? [ laughter ] if you've ever seen a group of people gathered around a phone at exactly 3:00 yelling "genghis khan, it's genghis khan!" you've seen people playing hq. i hosted today and it was fun. i read the questions, i gave the answers. you feel a lot smart where you already know the answers. i felt like alex trebek today. thanks to hq for letting me do that. guillermo and cousin sal and i in

tonight, annette bening, director paul thomas anderson, "this week in unnecessary censorship," and musiclvan esso. and now, more than ever, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: welcome. that's very nice. hi there, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. thanks for coming. i dreamed about you last night. that's very nice. i have did say, i'm excited. i had a big day. i hosted hq trivia today.

tonight, annette bening, director paul thomas anderson, "this week in unnecessary censorship," and music from sylvan esso. and now, more than ever, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: welcome. that's very nice. hi there, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. thanks for coming.

tonight, annette bening, director paul thomas anderson, "this week in unnecessary censorship," and musicm sylvan esso. and now, more than ever, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: welcome. that's very nice. hi there, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. thanks for coming. i dreamed about you last night. that's very nice. i have did say, i'm excited. i had a big day. i hosted hq

tomorrow night, annette bening will be here, director paul thomas anderson will join us, and we'll have esso. please join us for all that. our first guest tonight has given his heart, soul, and beautiful blonde hair to marvel comics as the mighty thor. next, he tackles a real-life hero, as a green beret in "12 strong." it opens in theaters january 19th. please welcome chris hemsworth. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: what's happening? thank you very much. just wrapped "avengers" a couple of days ago. >> jimmy: which one? >> three and four. >> jimmy: that could be it, that could be all the "avengers"? >> yeah, we shot most of last year, back to back. it was a long, long shoot. >> jimmy: has it sunk in this could be the last time you ever see the hulk again? [ laughter ] >> stop looking at the green tennis ball that represents the hulk? [ laughter ] it's funny, we were -- the last couple of months had just felt like you wanted to get to the end. all of us were like, how many more days left? this last week i was sitting there and as they wrapped me, all of a sudden it hit me, wait a sec

and later this week, chris hemsworth, annette bening, darren criss and paul thomas anderson, with musico and elvis costello too. so join us for all of that. my first guest tonight is a three-time oscar winner, nine-time golden globe winner. she's good at other things too. we're focused on movies right now. you can see her now as real-life newspaper publisher katharine graham in a film steven spielberg directed called "the post." please welcome meryl streep. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you doing? thanks for coming. >> thank you. >> jimmy: it's great to have you here. first of all, i should say congratulations on your oscar nomination. i know they don't come out for -- [ cheers and applause ] they don't come out for another two weeks, but who are we kidding? you're going to get one. >> now you're going to feel really bad when i don't. >> jimmy: no. that will never, ever happen. i won't host the show if you're not nominated. how about that? i will go on strike if you are not nominated. hey, could i get you some medical marijuana or some recreational marijuana while we're he

next week we have new shows with meryl streep, gary oldman, chris hemsworth, annette bening, jason ritter thomas anderson, phil rosenthal and we will have music from blake shelton, huncho jack, sylvan esso, and the great elvis costello. please join us for that. i tell you what. it seems like just yesterday that our first guest split himself in two to play the winklevoss twins in the social network but it was many films ago and on sunday, he will vie for his first golden globe for name" it's in theaters now, please welcome armie hammer. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you? >> i'm good. >> jimmy: i heard you almost didn't make it tonight. >> no, i got stuck in new york in that crazy-ass blizzard. >> jimmy: it becomes too cold to fly a plane, which is crazy. >> it was too cold to fly a plane, it was too cold to do anything, i got stuck in jfk airport for 9 1/2 hours trying to get on one plane and the next plane and the next plane. >> jimmy: thank you for sticking with it and coming. i assume it was for -- you had to come anyway for the golden globes. >> yeah, an afi thing, yeah.