melanie martinez is on the way.s in the world. he wrote "blink," "the tipping point," "outliers." i think he wrote "yoga for dummies." he's written a lot of stuff. this is his new one. it's called "talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know." please welcome malcolm gladwell! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ how are you? >> i'm good. >> jimmy: very good to see you. congratulations on the book. i'm sure it is a lot of work and then when it comes out i'm sure it's very satisfying. >> i'm enjoying myself. it's been many, many years since i had -- six years since my last book. >> jimmy: talk about the title of the book, "talking to strangers" and -- >> the book is all about this idea that we think -- all the tools we have for making sense of our friends betray us when we talk to strangers. so we're really good -- if i know you really well, i have a whole series of strategies i use to kind of understand you, decode your behavior. >> jimmy: unconsciously. >> unconsciously and consciously. >> jimmy: o

and music from melanie martinez. and now, pace yourself, jimmy kimmel!mmy: thank you. i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us on a night that is -- this is a special night. this is always a magic night for our network. this is the night on which the premiere of a new season of "d

booker, malcolm gladwell, lake bell, hugh bonneville and zach galifianakis, plus music from melanie martinezmaren morris. so please join us for each and every night of that. [cheers and applause] our first guest tonight is a two-time oscar winner. he is actor, director, humanitarian, and author. his newest book, "bob honey sings jimmy crack corn" is available now. please welcome sean penn. ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: how you doin'? >> doin' well. >> jimmy: thanks for coming. we have a late show tonight because of the debate. did you get to watch it? >> i came here early so that i could watch it. >> jimmy: excellent. >> and mercifully you have an open bar. >> jimmy: yes. >> because i find it very stressful. >> jimmy: the debate itself? >> debating. >> jimmy: mm-hm. even if you're not actually debating? >> i, i, i worried for every one of them. yeah, i feel it in my bones, because it is not an organic place for debate, strangely enough. it's what you were saying in the monologue. >> jimmy: it's weird. you have to be concise, and you can't get into detail. and you have to hit all the righ