and music from maybach music group featuring rick ross.cleto and the cletones. ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" >> dicky: and now, chances are, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you. thank you. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming out tonight. and i want you to know that unlike that quitter oprah, i'm here for you. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] that's right. i will never leave you. even if you ask me to leave you, i will not go. but we'll get to oprah later. why start things on a down note when we have a new "american idol." the season finale of "american idol" tonight, thank god, enough already, really. there are a number of high profile music performances on the show tonight. marc anthony, lady gaga, carrie underwood, beyonce, bono, the edge, lil' jon, tim mcgraw, judas priest and tom jones. it was like a mix tape from an ex-boyfriend who hated you. to no one's surprise, 17-year-old scotty mccreary took home the -- what, belt, do they get a championship belt? all th

christina aguilera will be here, and we'll have music from big sean and maybach music group featuring rick ross our first guest tonight is a very, very funny woman. she is an emmy-winning writer and performer whom you know from "curb your enthusiasm," and "the new adventures of old christine," among many other things. you can see her live and in person at the borgata hotel casino and spa in atlantic city on june 4th. please say hello to wanda sykes. [ applause ] it's great to see you. >> it has been a long time. >> jimmy: really has. are you glad the world didn't end this weekend? >> i'm so glad the world didn't end because i really want to see that last oprah show. boy, i'd have been bummed. i follow her 25 years and you miss the last one. >> jimmy: yeah, been looking forward to it. >> i'd be, like, what the hell is this, send me back. actually, i knew nothing went down because, you know, 'cause i was following oprah. i follow oprah on twitter, you know. >> jimmy: oh, right, does that put you in the clear? >> that put me in the clear. she was my barometer. if oprah's still here, i know nothing

guest: i would agree with what ross said. rick perry has fund-raising ability and organization.e has a tea party swagger that no one else, no serious candidate possesses. tim pawlenty tries with his over-produced videos, but rick perry can walk that walk. host: a tweet from jimmy. charles hurt, your thoughts. guest: we had to. five years of democrats in washington. almost peer control in congress. hanging this on either side is absurd. host: florida, our line for republicans. you're on the "washington journal." caller: not only am i democrat, i showed -- shook john f. kennedy's hand. i am a union person. i am 53. it looks like they want to privatize all highways and hospitals. they want to privatize law enforcement, anything that is public is something they want to get their hands on. for all the right wingers, they think social security is going away. if it was going away, they would not be trying to privatize it. the gentleman in the black coach is trying to look liberal. the one on the right is actually a true democrat. rep. -- rick perry wanted to secede from the union. sara

dan thank you if rick perry wants texas to secede from the union then why is he thinking of running for president. well first of all when he suggested that texas might see there was ross applause not here in texas but in the other forty nine states. is. really figured out how to put the goober in gubernatorial. just going again and again with not only the session not a comma but this is a guy who said this is one of the most dangerous cities in america. or as happens to be in mexico. shoved through a sonogram bill requiring that anybody one who might want to have an abortion might want to consider an abortion should first have to have a summer. involving a device. protruding right into her body but perry said that this was not any big government invasion going to individual because after all you didn't have to get pregnant so there you have a fellow who prayed for rain we had a three day prefer any here in texas because we have a bit of a drought and not a drop you know god and apparently was on vacation during that we can't but you know what obama came to texas that just a couple of weeks later right here in austin texas had an overnight stop an exploiter we're going