tonight melanie griffith. from "scandal" kerry washington.th the stars" pamela anderson. and music from alanis morissette. with cleto and the cletones. and now, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. for everything, really. everybody all right? you guys feel okay tonight? good, good. i'm glad we got that out of the way. i hope you're having a good fall so far. do you know it's fall? fall came in on saturday. although you wouldn't know it here in hollywood. it's still hot. the leaves don't fall off the trees in four months. our kids jump in discarded head shots -- you get a lot of paper cuts but it's fun. look, i got a little piece of john stamos. enjoy. [ applause ] we also have a new season of "dancing with the stars" this week. it was the first elimination night for "dancing with the stars" all-stars tonight. all of the dancing stars from previous seasons are on the show. it's the best of the not very best. tonight's elimination was pamela anderson. she had the lowest score, 1

it seems ridiculous but may look back on it and say melanie griffith invefrntsed this.> jimmy: have you met the family. >> the creator of the show is dana and her brother is ben fox and matt plays ben fox on the show. >> jimmy: you play the creator. >> i play kate fox which is sort of a mixture of dana and a character that we created. >> jimmy: i see and do you try to emulate what they do and watch/study them. >> sort of, yeah. sort of. dana is an amazing woman so she's really amazing to watch and i try to be like her but she's really cool so -- >> jimmy: what's wrong with the other guy? >> well, nothing is wrong with him but ben fox is the kind of guy that the first table read we had for the show you do table reads before you do an episode and he was sitting next to the head of fox at the table. he was not invited. >> jimmy: he just showed up. >> he was just there. and he -- so matt faxon gets to play that kind of person which is amazing. >> jimmy: i see so he likes to be a part of the action. >> yeah. he'll be on set and i'll be like what are you doing here. i'm here

. >> tomorrow night we'll be joined by melanie griffith, kerry washington, the first castoff from dancingnd have music from alanis morissette. and later this week, keanu reeves, selena gomez, ginnfer goodwin, from the new abc show "the neighbors" lenny venito, and music from hot chip and tony bennett. >> jimmy: last night our first guest proved that in addition to being a good wife, she's one of america's outstanding actresses; her show, "the good wife" returns to cbs sunday at 9pm. please welcome julianna margulies. [ cheers and applause ] >>> you were out even later than i was last night. i was at your heart -- he had a great party. >> jimmy: i'm sorry i didn't see you at the party. i was sitting in the corner going, we got to go home. my girlfriend kept going, it's your party, you need to stay to the end. i wanted to go home. >> that's because you had to work the next day. and you did a great job. you did. i'm not just saying that. it can be a long show. i looked at my husband and i said, it's over. it's the first time i ever felt it went fast. >> thank you, i appreciate that. i get th