tonight -- benedict cumberbatch. kelly ripa. plus music from david byrne and the brooklyn youth chorus. presented by miller lite. with cleto and the cletones. and now, in your face and in your heart, jimmy kimmel! [cheers and ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. thank you. very nice. hi, everyone. thanks, i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching at home. thanks for coming. we are coming to you from the opera house at bam in brooklyn, new york. please relax. we're here all week. we're here for slightly less time than felicity huffman will be in prison. last night after the show i was walking over to barclay's with alisha key. they had a concert over there, and i saw a rat the size of a toddler, debt ad in the street. i picked it up, held it right above my head and turned to alicia keys and said welcome to arby's, may i take your order? did you watch the jets last night? watching the jets try to run on the patriots was like watching bill de blasio run for president. [cheers and applause] thank you. the jets, as you know, lost to

the sun, "ego warriors", it's got pictures of benedict cumberbatch and other celebrities that have beenrint isn't great but we can still support this cause. what do you think? calling his people hypocrites is a very easy way to ignore the subject. the subject is enormous and we are all hypocrites towards this. you can support climate change, but all of our carbon footprints our enormous. so it's incredibly tough. you can't get away from it. thanks, james. it's been great to have you in the programme. thank you for your comments. stay with us here on bbc news, so much more to come. hello, good morning. wednesday started on a dull and damp note for many parts of the country. once that rain cleared away, though, we did see some sunshine. a chance to dry off, though, although a lot of the ground is still saturated, and there are a couple of flood warnings still out there. but following the sunshine, the clearer skies have meant it's turned quite chilly, particularly for the eastern side of the uk. where we had that cloud earlier on, we've now got the clearer skies, but looking out to the we

tonight -- benedict cumberbatch. kelly ripa.ented by miller lite. with cleto and the cletones. and now, in your face and in your heart, jimmy kimmel! [cheers and ♪

eddie murphy, bruce springsteen, bernie sanders, benedict cumberbatch, alisha alisha alisa lot of surprisesnt guillermo to bob and barbara's lounge there, and -- [cheers and applause] hi guillermo. guillermo, are you dancing, are you sad that the bus trip is almost over? >> jimmy, i been in the bus for six days, and i feel like it was two years. >> jimmy: yeah. so bob and barbara's is a legendary bar in philadelphia, home to the longest-running drag show in philadelphia, which just happens to take place on thursday night. so we sent guillermo there. have you ever been to a drag show before? >> no, jimmy, this is my first time. >> new friends. please introduce us. what's happenin'? how's it goin'? hi there, what's your name? >> i'm lisa. >> hi, lisa, how are you? you run the show. you run the show, correct? >> yes, of course i run the show here. >> jimmy: and how long has this show been happening? >> 25 years. >> jimmy: wow. and by the way, i wanted everybody to go through and introduce yourselves real quickly. >> i'm ginger >> i'm ms. america 2020. >> i'm lady geisha staten. >> i'm karen >>

tomorrow night, benedict cumberbatch and kelly ripa will join us.ave music from david byrne and the brooklyn youth chorus, and a big surprise guest too. and later this week, senator bernie sanders, eddie murphy, ellie kemper, john krasinski, music from the national, the sugarhill gang. and who knows? maybe even something huge so please stick with us. we do have something we're working on. i cannot imagine a better way to kick off the week than with a visit from our first guest. he's one of the undisputed all-time greats, with a new movie called "western stars" opening in theatres friday. all the way from the holland tunnel of love, please welcome bruce springsteen. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: wow, it's so great to have you here, it really is a thrill for me to have you here. you know, if you don't mind, i want to tell you a story about how i discovered you and how you came into my life. i was living in las vegas. i was flying home to visit my family in brooklyn. i was a teenager. and this college girl was seated next to me and she said what

people - >> seth: who are the other people who do you got -- who else is back there >> it was benedict cumberbatcheth: wow >> and annie lennox. >> seth: those are some real - >> the big three >> seth: yeah, the big three [ laughter ] and then my -- >> seth: they're also roommates, right? >> yeah, all of them >> seth: the three of them yeah [ light laughter ] >> they all live together in a beautiful home and then my husband and i like little gremlins in the back -- [ laughter ] like, "oh, why did they let us do this? and so we're both very nervous and i'm trying to think of something to say i also putting on lipstick and shaking and freaking out and my husband who's very nervous, he just won't stop talking. he's like, "did you notice he had a paper cup? he was drinking coffee out of a paper cup. but it had a presidential seal who do you think does that do you think all his cups have presidential seals?" [ laughter ] i'm like, "shut up please, please." then when we're there, we're about to meet barack obama and he's beautiful and he's tall. and he's elegant and he's everything. smells good, right >>

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. >> reporter: jimmy kimmel back with benedict cumberbatch and kelly ripa. >> this show is great. >>re in brooklyn. >> reporter: jimmy sitting down with celebs and helping us out on "world news now." >> we're the show that comes on like two hours after yours so i feel we have some of the same viewers. we call ours insomniacs. any advice for us on our show "world news now"? >> i do love the idea it's the middle of the night and people like me who love being up at night, or who are disturbed and can't sleep, or a lot of women feeding their babies -- >> yes, new moms. >> shout-out to the new moms because those -- that's who you really want to connect with. >> i like sleeping on this slide right here. i'm a serious news man -- >> that's debatable. >> no, you've seen the show, right? you've seen the show. we still have fun, entertainment. i try to tell a joke. what i've learned, joke-telling is hard. so any advice to me at all? >> well, surround yourself with sycophants. that's my advice. people who will laugh at anything you say. then you won't even know you're not funny. >> speaking of,

benedict cumberbatch stars in "the current war director's cut," the epic story of the cutthroat competitionlly lit up the world, edison's dc versus westinghouse and tesla's ac. >> there are vultures in every venture, but did i mtion h system's lethal? >> his current kills people. >> he's playing dirty, you can too. >> he can't see the real force that moves things. it's not ac and dc, it's not currents, it's currency. >> this is costing us a fortune. >> westinghouse stole from me! >> that is our future. >> there's never going to be anything named tesla ever again. >> he was wrong. >> i enjoy historical dramas but the critics aren't exactly lighting up over "the current war." they're still giving it a solid 63% on rotten tomatoes, though. it crams too much into too little time, the result, information overload and a shortage of human drama. but another says it manages to make an everyday utility seem just as magical as it did 120 years ago. >> next to a crackling horror film i do not want to talk about but we have to. got to do my job. and this movie's just in time for halloween. elizabeth la