Jimmy Kimmel on UFOs, "Scandal", & His Emotional Stomach

Jimmy Kimmel on UFOs, "Scandal", & His Emotional Stomach
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No trip to SXSW is complete without a one-on-one with Jimmy Kimmel! YH catches up with the comedian backstage at his talk show in Austin, Texas, to find out more about his SXSW experiences, including the range of emotions his stomach goes through during the course of the festival and the one non-BBQ-related happening he finds most intriguing. He also gives us the story behind a #TBT pic with Adam Carolla and tells us about his stint on "Scandal"!
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How do y'all? Nikki Novak here for Young Hollywood in Austin, Texas. We are at Jimmy Kimmel Live and we are here to talk to Jimmy Kimmel.
I'm here with the fabulous Jimmy Kimmel who.
Thank you for calling me fabulous. You are fabulous. You're one of my top five favorite people.
Really? Who are the other ones?
I knew you were going to ask me that.
Well, I want to see what company I'm in.
Britney Spears, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Kevin Hart. Okay. Dave Franco.
Okay, good. That's a good list so far. Who else do I have?
None of your family, it's all celebrities.
Oh, forget my family. It's all celebrities.
I mean, you know, professional sense. Professional sense. So, last year you and I sat here and you were new to Instagram.
Yeah.
And we did one of those selfies and I told you you needed to raise the camera a little bit higher because it makes you look better when it's more flattering.
Oh, is there an art to it? Art should we be in it together?
Well, if you would like, I mean, I'd be more than happy to be in it. Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, the key is I think
Do you want me to hold the mic for you while you?
Uh, sure. Okay. I think the key is I don't look as bad if I go high. Oh, high, yeah, if you go high. Yes, if you go high. Oh. Perfect. We're going to hashtag that bad boy. We got to pick a good filter too. #meatswets. You haven't really been doing the throwback Thursdays. So, I have a picture for you that I thought maybe you could use for a throwback. Okay. And you kind of
Oh, where did you find that?
You kind of look like Guillermo in this picture. That's right. Adam Corrola is in that picture. He popped him out of it. He cropped him out. He's like popped him out of it. Throwback Thursday. Here's me and some random eyebrow. Now, I I maybe know why you guys hired Guillermo. It's just that you was like an, you know, throwback to yourself.
I think that was a Halloween at um I hope it was Halloween. I don't know what that was.
Yeah. Yeah, it's a great book. It's a fabulous. I remember we went and bought those hats together.
You did. You told me he still has it. He probably does. This is up in his office right now. I probably still have mine too. Yeah. I think we bought it at like Aardvark. There's some weird store in LA called Aardvark and yeah, we bought those hats.
You could put that up into a who wore it best.
Yeah, well, neither one of us wore it well.
Um, so you just had Obama on the show. And you talked about your um UFO, you said the first thing you would do if you went into the White House is um check out the UFO situation and see if there's actually. Are you a believer?
Yeah. I'm not a disbeliever. I'm not a believer or a disbeliever. I I'd like to know if there's any evidence uh of UFOs and I you know.
No personal experiences?
Nah, I don't know, you know.
Anything weird feeling like you're being watched?
I was fishing once and a friend and I were uh we thought we saw something change course in the sky, but we he and I were also pretty drunk, so.
It could have been anything. Okay, I think you might have just been drunk. Um, I wanted to mention to you, we once tried to steal Guillermo. We brought him to our studio.
Yeah.
We fed him. We tried to steal him. I wanted to find out, it could be karma that he's now trying to steal your show because you didn't let us have him.
From time to time he does, he does his own little show. You're doing the Guillermo show now.
Yeah, Guillermo show. Now, he has a bikini dancer in the back and he has.
He does.
How did he get that part and you didn't get that?
I used to have it on a different show, I did. With the guy with the hat.
Oh, that guy?
Yeah, I think I used up all my chits in that regard.
So, you were just, you just did a bit on Scandal.
I did, yeah.
Yeah, playing yourself.
Yeah.
Now, I wanted to know if you had the lingo down because you know on Scandal they go like this. They're like, "Hello Mr. President." "Yes Mr. President. I wanted to talk to you right now. Right now, right now. No, no later, right now." The other thing is they like to say, "He's the President of the United States of America. President of the United States."
There's a lot of the President of the United States of America. And um, leader of the Free World is said a lot also. They also seem to say things in threes. They will say, "Get this, this, and this." It's almost like a a well written book report. You start with the uh, strong point, the middle one maybe not quite as strong, but the last one is as strong as it gets.
Um, you tweeted that your stomach was excited to be in Austin. Yes. Um, Typically, bring me through the emotions of your stomach. Where are you right now?
Right now, my stomach's feeling pretty content. I had
Content is a good word.
I had, I don't know how you pronounce it. Is it Frosus or Freesus uh, chicken. Uh, I had a um, brisket taco and a chicken taco about 40 minutes ago. Okay. Uh, so, I'm feeling pretty good right now. Yeah.
And usually at the end of South by, what how would you describe the the feeling?
Uh, well, my stomach is angry at the end because A, we're leaving and B, I've done terrible things to it. You can't say barbecue. One thing you should do in Austin. You've been here so many times. You obviously love this town. One of the great things I think about Austin is people turn their houses into after-hour bars, which makes me wonder why there's even why there's a closing time, like, I mean, if you're going to allow people to open their homes and make them into bars where you can buy beers and hang around and bring strangers, what's the point of even having a closing time? But that's what happens. The bars close and then there are whole neighborhoods that turn into bars.
Did you hear that you can now rent out your bathroom to people?
Wow. No. Is that an app or something?
Yeah. Really? I guess that could come in handy. I like a clean bathroom. Would you tell Guillermo to call me back? We went on a date last year. He never called me.
Uh, you are you sure you want that?
Yeah. I do. Okay. I will. I really want him. You know what? I better let you use this bathroom. My gosh. Thanks so much. Great to see you again.
All right. Good to see you.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nikki Novak
Interviewer for Young Hollywood
- Jimmy Kimmel
Comedian and talk show host, subject of the interview
- Britney Spears
Mentioned as a joke by Jimmy Kimmel
- Kevin Hart
Mentioned by Jimmy Kimmel as a favorite person
- Dave Franco
Mentioned by Jimmy Kimmel as a favorite person
- Guillermo
Mentioned in a throwback photo and as part of a recurring joke
- Adam Carolla
Featured in a throwback photo with Jimmy Kimmel
- Obama
Jimmy Kimmel recently interviewed him on his show
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