tonight -- kobe bryant -- from "splitting up together", oliver hudson. and music from the mighty mighty bosstones -- and now while we're at it here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very nice. thank you. i'm jimmy. i'm the host. thank you very much. thank you for coming. thank you for joining us on our exciting night. tonight, i'm sure a lot of you know, tonight is lotto night in america. did any of you -- any of you buy a ticket for the mega millions drawing tonight? any of you get -- all right. did you guys win the lotto? because you seem very excited. tonight's jackpot, the lottery jackpot was the biggest in lotto history, $1.6 billion, which is a lot. usually to get that kind of money for doing nothing, you would have to be -- fred trump would have to be your father. and i -- i know a lot of people have this thought but if i won the lottery, first thing i would do is i would storm into my office and tell myself i quit. like, you -- i will see you in hell. but the chances of winning the lottery are 1 in 302 million, roughly the same od

. >> the role of jack on "this is us" went to milo ventimiglia, it could have gone to oliver hudson.>> i auditioned for "easy a." i wanted it so bad. >> well, guess what? you didn't get it. you didn't get it because you suck. >>> we love surprises here. and all i can say is carrie underwood's husband mike fisher has a huge surprise for her tonight. mike just did a parody of her hit "before he cheats" and only we have the premiere. ♪ right she's probably saying i'm done ♪ >> mike and his buddy austin join us now from nashville. mike, i'm sure your wife is watching this. what do you want to tell her because i think her mind is going to be blown? >> believe it or not she's not a hunting fan. so i think she wanted to be able to plead the fifth and be surprised. we just wanted to have fun with it. we wanted to obviously show case my vocal talent. ♪ right now he's probably out grazing with a corn fed doe and he's probably getting frisky ♪ >> did you get permission from the artist who recorded the song? ♪ right now he's probably slow dancing ♪ >> carrie didn't write the song. we didn't have

tonight -- kobe bryant -- from "splitting up together", oliver hudson.the mighty mighty bosstones -- and now while we're at it here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very nice. thank you. i'm jimmy. i'm the host. thank you very much. thank you for coming. thank you for joining us on our exciting night. tonight, i'm sure a lot of you

>> and while we love milo ventimiglia as jack on "this is us" the role could have gone to oliver hudsonheduled for a fishing trip. >> and even besties can end up fighting it out for a part. >> i didn't get it. >> straight ahead, oprah's favorite things is here! >> oh, my gosh. it's so good. >> so why is gayle king at holiday odds with lady o? >> i actually don't like that role. >> and our leann rimes exclusive. a surprising story about the day she met her husband. >> i was 14 at the time. >> nutcracker! >> "elf" turns 15. we're with will ferrell sharing stories you never, never knew. >> i did all my own stunt food eating. >> but first -- ♪ >> "for king and country" is topping the charts with their latest album "burn the ship." the christian pop brother duo debuted number one on billboard's top christian album charts and number 7 on the overall billboard 200 charts. >> when you see those charts come out and the different things, you're just grateful people give you a job we enjoy like this and we get to have conversations with you today. >> the brothers feature their wives on the song "p