we have music from ben harper.nd we'll be right back with kevin bacon. [ applause ] and now most admired alum! get up there. this is so embarrassing. there's no way it's me. you know her.... you love her.... ruh roh. what are you doing here? it's anna gomez! who? our first gigillionaire! with at&t fiber, anna's got the fastest internet with hyper-gig speeds. i didn't know you went to this school. we have a lot in common. live like a gigillionaire with at&t fiber. now with speeds up to 5-gigs. limited availability. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome back. tonight, from "the upshaws," mike epps is with us. then later, a multi-instrumentalist with multiple grammys on his shelf, his new album is called "bloodline maintenance", out july 22nd, ben harper from the mercedes-eq stage. ben is great. we have new shows this week with a lot of martins on it. steve martin, martin lawrence, martin short, selena gomez, billy eichner, and mike tyson. please join us for all of that. our first guest tonight is a loose-footed m

tonight -- kevin bacon, mike epps, and music from ben harper, with cleto and the cletones. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, thank you. hello, everybody. welcome. hi, i'm jimmy. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. welcome back to those who were with us in prime time earlier tonight, for game five of the nba finals. you know, on friday night, we conducted an experiment. i don't know -- it was a dumb

tonight -- kevin bacon, mike epps, and music from ben harper, with cleto and the cletones.cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, thank you. hello, everybody. welcome. hi, i'm jimmy. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. welcome back to those who were with us in prime time earlier tonight, for game five of the nba finals. you know, on friday night, we conducted an experiment.

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jackson, kevin bacon, billy eichner, mike epps, ben harper, and mike tyson. and many, many more. and bathrobed american treasure. his new show, with john lithgow, is "the old man", premiering thursday on fx. please welcome jeff bridges. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: how are you? >> good, good. >> jimmy: i'm very happy to see you, and even more so than i would normally be happy to see you, which is pretty happy. >> yeah. >> jimmy: because you went through a lot since the last time you were here. >> yeah, what a dream. >> jimmy: a nightmare in some ways. >> it's funny, because you'd think it's a nightmare, only a nightmare, but no, it was a good dream, too. i learned so many things, being in that condition, right up with your mortality, you learned things you wouldn't know otherwise. >> jimmy: were you diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. then you and your wife both got covid, got very, very sick. >> for the lymphoma, they gave me chemo that stripped my immune system, and i had no defenses for covid. and that made the cancer look like nothing. >> is that right? really? wow.

jackson, kevin bacon, billy eichner, mike epps, ben harper, and mike tyson.join us next week, too. our first guest is an oscar-winning actor, musician, artist, and bathrobed american treasure. his new show with john lithgow is "the old man" premiering thursday on fx. please welcome jeff bridges. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you? >> good, good. >> jimmy: i'm very happy to see you, and even more so than i would normally be happy to see you. which is pretty happy. >> yeah. >> jimmy: because you went through a lot since the last time you were here. >> oh, yeah, what a dream. >> jimmy: yeah. i mean -- a nightmare in some ways. >> funny, you'd think it was a nightmare. only a nightmare. but it was a good dream too. i learned so many things. >> jimmy: wow. >> being in that condition, right up with your mortality. you learn things that you wouldn't have otherwise. >> jimmy: for those who don't know, and i do want to know the things you learned, you were diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma. >> that's right. >> jimmy: and that's tough just to start with.