will arnett is with us.'s in his home studio, he's sharing tales of his work on the podcast "smartless" with jason bateman and sean hayes. it's a shame jason still gets plugs for the show even though he didn't show up for the interview. >> it is a shame. because this is the guy, this is the guy who's, you know, unprofessional. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> a bad friend to both of us. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> double whammy. >> jimmy: you -- by the way, the show is great. the podcast, the conceit of the show is very interesting, is one of the three of you will book a guest and not tell the other two who the guest is. and then they're surprised when they hear the voice of the person you're interviewing. it says your internet connection is unstable, will. [ laughter ] >> is that true? >> jimmy: there's a little message -- but we'll move past that. >> one second, one second, one second. >> jimmy: yes. >> stop twitching! [ laughter ] i told you i'm doing kimmel tonight! >> jimmy: the baby is twitching? >>

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tonight -- will arnett. mark hamill. rosamund pike. and music from nav featuring gunna.use ] >> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy kimmel. i'm the host. thanks for watching. thank you for watching our ash wednesday extravaganza. today marks the first day of lent. the whole year has been lent, i don't know. what's left to give up? [ laughter ] because of the pandemic some catholic churches had to improvise. they were offering a drive-through ash-sperience this morning. [ laughter ] this was some church in new jersey. >> remember you are dust and to dust you shall return. here's your eight-piece on finger-licking value meal. >> god bless you, father, and

palestinians once their leaders will come to their senses and understand that we are here to stay mr nice mr arnett me forever stanek but you had a perfect opportunity to show your desire for friendship with the palestinians by sharing your covert vaccines with them but you haven't done that to 2 tiny gestures a 100 and that 100 vaccine doses was sent 2 weeks ago for medical personnel and sometime soon 5000 says again for medical personnel why is it the palestinians living under occupation in the west bank don't get the same access to vaccines that israeli jews are getting living side by side with them in settlements by the discrimination again you have to understand that your facts are not correct. as i told you the palestinian authority is independent they have their own budget they have their own life and they made an agreement with countries to have seen both of them they did it with russia and china and other countries unfortunately they had problems. all these agreements were not fulfilled not because of us that because of problems between them and their colleagues so we voluntarily were read

he became a protege of arnett coleman, the jazz mugs igs. when we looked at the album, the drummer on the album was a guy named milford graves who i had gone to boys high school with and had ridden the subways and buses of new york every day for about three years. so i was very surprised to see him. we did interview him. he was out at bennington college. that was a surprise. the third surprise was that one of our classmates was gay, and he had had to suppress that his whole time at harvard. he was from atlanta. he tells -- in the book you'll see he tells some harrowing stories about being in the closet at that time at harvard and how he wanted to sort of keep that away from us, that sort of thing. the fourth surprise which is not in the book but is that one of our classmates was, while we were there, worked for the cia and his job was to keep an eye on us. we vowed to -- it's not in the book and we vowed not to tell his name. those were some of the surprises. >> along the way there was discoveries. being an academic myself, i couldn't wait t

manus: testing arnett forward, we finished a conversation with the ceo of ryanair.uite a bullish conversation in terms of the rollout of vaccines around europe and the momentum. do you share that level of enthusiasm, and how will that impact health care? >> on the health care side, i think the pandemic has taught us that health care is a super important part of the national infrastructure. we see currently a solid and healthy business environment in europe and china, and we also will see the u.s. market returning to growth in the second half of the calendar year, so yes, certainly, vaccinations help bring elective procedures and wellness tests and so on back to normal, but in the end, i think the pandemic, as bad as it is, it brought modern health care to top of mind of society. annmarie: the coronavirus is impacting regular planned operations and that of course is impacting sales of hospital equipment. how worried are you about the slow rollout from the european union when it comes to the vaccine? >> i believe, first of all, it's a good thing that europe is acting

cnn's arnett science with more. >> reporter: as the push to get his covid relief package passed continuesesident biden is acknowledging one element of that proposal may not ultimately make it into the final deal. that is the $15 minimum wage. that is something president biden promoted during the presidential campaign and something he wanted to include in this covid relief package. but in an interview with cbs, the president said that it may not survive due to the senate rules process. take a listen. >> you also want to raise the minimum wage to $15, is that something you would be willing to negotiate on in order to get republican support? >> apparently that's not going to occur because of the rules of the united states senate. >> you're saying the minimum wage won't be in this -- >> my guess is it will not be in it, but i do think that we should have a minimum wage stand by itself, $15 an hour, and work your way up to the $15. it doesn't have to be, boom. and all the economics show if you do that, the whole economy rises. >> reporter: if that proposal does not make it into the final packa