Like me, our first guest has his own talk show,
and he's doing it from home please.
Welcome my friend, Jimmy Kimmel.
Hi, Ellen.
How are you doing?
Are you feeling anxious at all?
Because you don't look anxious when I see
you relaxed in your home.
I kind of-- you know me, I don't really go out that often.
I don't go to parties.
I enjoy being home.
I love the solitude.
I mean, I miss, obviously, normal life.
I miss going to a restaurant and doing things.
But how are you?
The kids are bouncing off the walls, but otherwise, yeah,
there definitely is a silver lining.
There definitely is something good about being in the house
and looking at all the things that I
think I'm going to get done.
And then of course, I never get any of them done.
But there is something positive about it.
And my wife and I haven't had a single fight
the whole time in quarantine, which I think is good.
And I think we're both on our extra best behavior.
I know I am, at least.
Yeah.
Because you know how couples have fights and then
they'll storm out or give each other the silent treatment
for days on end?
I feel like you can't really do that unless you've got some
kind of giant house, you cannot do something like that anymore.
Yeah.
Like, Eddie Murphy could go into his bowling alley or something,
right?
Right.
Eddie could bowl or play video games.
I've noticed that you are making videos of-- really,
not necessarily making videos, but sneaking up
on Portia while she's cooking
Yeah.
And how has that been?
Have you noticed-- has she gotten good at it over the last
few weeks--
cooking seeminly every night?
No.
No, that's not true.
Although she is going out.
We're trying to support the restaurants here, too,
because there is still restaurant-- look,
we just went through the fires and mudslides up here.
And all of the restaurants were out of business,
all the waitstaff was laid off.
Everybody was just getting back to normal.
And so we're trying to support all the restaurants-- that's
what I'm telling her.
But look, she's learned how to cook,
which is more than I can say I've done.
I don't cook.
And she's gotten pretty good at it.
But we do want to support the restaurants here, too.
So it's been a little bit of both.
She's been cooking.
She's not good at--
here's the thing that she's good at.
She's good at slicing her fingers.
She's good at-- one time, someone
told her to use a mandoline instead of a cheese grater,
so she used a mandoline, but she didn't
know there was a plastic thing that you're supposed
to hold the thing with.
So then she sliced her finger with a mandoline.
So because you're a cook-- you're actually a really good
cook, so I mean, y'all are set.
Yeah, we're OK in the cooking department.
Is it true that on that same day-- because I'm not
sure on social media how it lined up--
but that same day that Portia sliced her finger,
she was also shocked by the electric fence?
Yes, yes.
In one day, she was electrocuted trying
to pet a horse because she's leaning
over a fence and [INAUDIBLE] horse.
This has been a hellish nightmare.
Yeah, it's safer when she doesn't cook
and she just stays inside.
What is your go-to?
Is there a regular meal that you've
been cooking or have you kind of veered off and tried
new things?
I've tried a couple of new things.
But the thing I cook more than anything
is something we call pastatina.
That's what it's called in the house.
And basically, it's cannellini beans, garlic, olive oil,
and a little bit of flavoring.
And I make a pasta for the kids with Parmesan cheese.
And they demand this every day.
Every single meal, I say, what do you guys want?
And every meal, they say, pastatina.
They would eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
every single day.
So that is our main item of sustenance here at the show--
I mean here at home, rather.
The show!
At your show, yes.
Would you do me a favor and send that recipe to me
so I can have Portia try that?
And then we'll post that and see how she does?
Absolutely.
I'll make her a little video showing her how I do it,
and then she can see my strategies, my technique.
OK, we're back with Jimmy Kimmel.
Now listen, I know that you love to go to Costco--
Ellen--
What?
Andy is peeing in your yard right now.
Andy is urinating in your yard right now.
That's OK.
That's all right.
That's what he's supposed to do.
[INAUDIBLE]
It's totally fine.
Social distancing.
It's going to rain soon.
It'll water it all down.
So last night or whenever this airs--
I don't know when that happened--
but playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire with your kids--
and I thought that was so clever the way you did it.
And Jane and Billy are so adorable, I can't take it.
Billy was a reluctant participant,
but I do this at meals often, and they love it.
I just make up questions and then
they have multiple choice questions.
And they have to answer them.
And they love it.
They go crazy.
And that's when I knew that Who Wants
to be a Millionaire-- that there's really something there.
Because if you can get a five-year-old and a
two-year-old interested in it, then you've
got a game on your hands.
I love it.
I mean, I love that show, and how did this come about?
When did you decide that you were
going to take on this new job?
Apparently, it was decided for me and I didn't know it.
I didn't know ABC was planning to bring the show back.
And the guy who produces the show
is a guy named Michael Davies, who really gave me
my start in television.
And so I worked with him on a game show
called Win Ben Stein's Money, which
was the first thing I ever did.
And so he called and asked me if I would do this,
and I was like, yeah, I'd love to.
And it seemed as though they had already
made plans for me to do it.
And I loved doing it, honestly.
It is a lot of fun to do.
I know you're telling me that Game of Games is a lot of fun
for you to do, and that's why you do it.
But it is fun.
And it's great to be in the position of asking
the questions, because it makes you
feel like it gives the idea that you are smart, when really, I'm
not that intelligent.
I disagree with that.
I think you're very smart.
But yes, it does put you in that situation
of being the person that knows the answer.
So you had celebrities.
Which celebrity did the best?
Let's see-- who did the best?
I don't want to reveal who did the best, because it will
reveal too much, but I will tell you
that the thing that surprised me the most was Anderson Cooper
was on the show.
And obviously, he's a very bright guy
and he knows what's going on in the news.
And you're going to find this shocking--
I'm glad you're sitting, because I'm
going to tell you that Anderson Cooper did not
know that the Bachelor, Peter, is a pilot.
He had no idea.
He has no idea about, really, anything
when it comes to pop culture.
It doesn't shock me.
But you know what, I think that-- no, I would've
thought he knew at least that.
I would have thought he knew about The Bachelor and Peter
being a pilot.
But Andy?
Yes, ma'am?
Where are you?
I'm resting.
Are you sitting down?
I was actually laying down.
I think that we--
OK.
Sorry.
That's OK.
I just you got hurt or something.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll be back after this.
So Costco-- you love Costco, right?
I do.
I love it.
It's my favorite thing to do.
I go to Costco about once every 2 and 1/2 weeks, I'd say.
What did you not plan for this quarantine,
and what are you running out of?
Can I tell you something?
I'm very pleased with myself right now,
because I am, if nothing else, prepared
for a situation like this.
I buy too much stuff all the time.
I've got cans of food--
I could build a fort out of the number of cans that I have.
I've got pasta.
I've got tomatoes.
People make fun of me for stockpiling,
but nobody's making fun of me now.
And if there's trouble, this is the place to be.
Right.
Except that nobody can be with you.
Except-- that's even better, you know?
Yes.
So when it was announced that there was no prom this year,
which is really a shame for a lot of people--
they look forward to that, that's a big deal
for everyone--
you did not go to yours, right?
I did not go to prom, I did not go to homecoming,
I was not asked to go to the Sadie Hawkins dance.
If there was a dance in high school,
I was at home watching The Fall Guy on TV.
So you don't feel bad for people that didn't go to prom,
but you think it's character building?
Because you turned out OK.
Well, here's the silver lining.
They at least have a reason why they--
like, my reason for not going to prom
was my physical appearance.
Their reason is there's a pandemic.
Right.
Well, first of all, I disagree with--
I mean, I didn't know you back then,
I don't know what you look like back then,
but I can't imagine that your personal appearance was
in any way the reason that you didn't go to prom.
I think you probably just had different priorities.
Well, you know, you're lucky you have short hair,
because my hair is now almost completely out of control.
I'm doing everything I can--
it's like you remember those Jiffy Pop popcorn, you just
put them right on the stove, and suddenly, they
get unusually huge?
I'm at the precipice of that at all times right now.
And I actually bought a Flowbee--
you remember those things from a television?
They're hooked up to a vacuum and they cut your hair?
And I'm thinking about cutting my own hair.
Can you still buy a Flowbee?
You can.
There's a company.
The Flowbee company is still churning them out.
And apparently, they're popular now,
because people know they're going to be in for a while.
Well, it's short, and of course, my roots are growing out,
my hair is dark, and I don't know what color it's
going to be by the end of this.
It's getting very dark.
But you don't have to worry about that.
You just need to cut your hair [INAUDIBLE]..
Mine is going the opposite way.
Yeah.
What do you miss?
Do you miss having the studio audience?
I do.
I do miss having the studio audience.
Yes, it's strange--
I did radio for 12 years, so I do have some background
in no one laughing.
Also, I was married for a time and no one
was laughing then, either.
But it is strange, and it's a weird transition.
I feel like I've made it, and I wonder
what it's going to be like when we eventually go back.
Will it be startling?
Like when you did your Netflix special
and you went back to stand up comedy,
you probably didn't realize that you wouldn't be seeing anything
like that again anytime soon.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can't imagine if I had been working and building up
to shooting a special, and then this happens, and then
you can't do it.
I mean, it's like everybody.
There's all these athletes and there's
what's going to happen with all the sports.
It's very strange.
And I know you feel the same way I do.
I'm very blessed that I'm in a position where I'm OK and safe.
But it just is for so many people
out there for so many reasons, a very scary time.
And I think it's scarier because we
don't have a clear understanding of when this is going to end
and how it's going to end.
Do you miss giving things away?
Like, when the Amazon guy comes to your house,
do you hand him a bowl or a candle or anything like that?
No, I have a whole bunch of 4K TCL Roku TVs
and they're all stacked up.
Anybody that comes by, I give them a TCL Roku TV.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, it's hard.
It's really a very strange thing.
I was telling somebody about this the other day, and I said,
do you think this is something that, I guess,
we'll talk to our grandchildren about
or our kids will talk to their grandchildren about?
That time?
Or will this become part of our lives?
I mean, I really wonder how we will look back
at this 10, 15 years from now.
I know.
I think 10, 15 years from now, I hope that we're back
to some sort of normalcy.
But I think for a while, it is going
to be a very isolated existence for a lot of us
until we all feel safe, and healthy, and get a vaccine,
and figure all this out.
Well, listen, you're going to be entertaining people
with your show.
I'm going to entertain people with my show.
I'm going to do Game of Games, you're
going to do Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
And it starts airing when?
Wednesday night.
It will be every Wednesday night on ABC.
Wednesday night.
I'm on Tuesday night.
You're on Wednesday night.
Everybody is going to be entertained by us.
We'll keep doing the best we can.
What, Andy?
I'm just happy.
I'm happy for Jimmy.
I'm happy for you.
All Right
I'm happy that you guys--
I mean it.
I think right now, people need to laugh and have fun.
And you guys are doing a good job of it
with this three hour interview.
All right.
He just called it a three hour interview.
I like talking to my friend, Jimmy.
I miss him.
It's like an Andy aquarium back there.
It's the best.
I'm going to feed him at some point, too.
I'll bring some tongs and bring him some something.
All right, I love you, say hi to Molly.
Love you too.
And I'll see you soon.
Please give Portia our best and I'll send you that recipe.
Oh, thanks so much.
All right, we'll be back.