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Jimmy Kimmel Live - Season 24 Episode 46 -
Quinta Brunson, Teyana Taylor, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend
Quinta Brunson, Teyana Taylor, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend
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00:00All right, Winta Brunson, Tiana Taylor, plus music from Tasha Cobbs Leonard and John Legend with the Kletos.
00:09And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:30Please, please, calm down for God's sake.
00:34It's very nice.
00:37Jimmy, thank you for watching.
00:40Thank you for joining us here.
00:41Please have a seat.
00:42We're in Hollywood.
00:44The award season and the norovirus are officially upon us again.
00:49You know, we'll be handing out awards every weekend for the next three months here, starting this morning with the nominees for the Golden Globes.
00:56And last night, they handed out the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, hosted by Donald Trump.
01:02Donald Trump was the host of the show.
01:04He's been boasting about hosting, saying, we've never had a president host the Kennedy Center Honors before, which, yeah, why do you think that is?
01:14We've also never had Neil Patrick Harris order a military strike on a fishing boat before.
01:20Trump was obviously very excited to headline this once prestigious event.
01:24He even waddled the red carpet, where he was all fired up.
01:28How have you prepared the host tonight?
01:31Well, maybe I haven't prepared.
01:32Maybe you want to be a little bit loose.
01:35If you look at the great hosts, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, those are the greats.
01:41If you look at the not-so-greats, like Jimmy Kimmel, he's from Harry Potter.
01:45That is very hurtful.
01:52I thought we were friends.
01:54I don't know what's going on.
01:56He is really fixated.
01:58I'm starting to think he might have a crush on me.
02:00I thought you've never had a president hosting the awards before.
02:03This is the first.
02:04I'm sure they'll give me great reviews, right?
02:06You know?
02:07They'll say, he was horrible.
02:08He was terrible.
02:10It was a horrible situation.
02:11No, we'll do fine.
02:13I've watched some of the people that host.
02:15Jimmy Kimmel was horrible.
02:17Some of these people.
02:18If I can't beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don't think I should be president.
02:24Agreed.
02:26I'm with you.
02:27I don't think I've ever agreed with anything more than that.
02:31Do you think he even knows I've never hosted the Kennedy Center Honors?
02:41Maybe he's confusing me with Queen Latifah?
02:43I don't know.
02:43And as far as this who has more talent thing goes, it seems like he's challenging me to
02:48a contest, which, if so, I'm open to it.
02:50Let's do it.
02:51Let's have a talent competition.
02:52I will come out, I'll tell a few jokes, I'll draw something, I'll play my clarinet, he
02:59can play golf, spank a porn star, and ruin a country.
03:04I'm kidding, of course.
03:05The truth is, Donald Trump is a talented, he's a very talented person.
03:08I mean, the man can sing.
03:13The man can act.
03:15Excuse me, where's the lobby?
03:17Down the hall and to the left.
03:18Thanks.
03:19He can dance.
03:24He does impressions.
03:30He is athletic.
03:33And he's not only an amazing artist, he also is an incredible poet, too.
03:41So much talent.
03:43So much talent, the only way you can contain it is to lock him up.
03:47And I'll tell you something.
03:49The Kennedy Center is lucky to have him.
03:54Do you think the center will eventually be named the Trump Kennedy Center?
03:57I don't know.
03:58I hear that, but I don't know.
04:00That's not up to me.
04:00That's up to the board.
04:01That's up to the board.
04:03I appointed and am chairman of.
04:05That's totally up to them.
04:06You know, before he knocked down the White House, Trump ordered major renovations to the Kennedy Center, and he was pretty excited to talk about that, too.
04:13And we've done a lot of work.
04:15We've redone great marble floors that were beat to hell.
04:20And we've replaced them with the most beautiful marble, the statuary marble.
04:25It's called an Italy statuary, a great white and black marble that forms Greece in big parts of Italy.
04:33And Italy during a time when Italy was extremely strong, and Greece when Greece was Greece.
04:40Well, Greece was Greece.
04:42You know, Greece was first Greece, then came Greece, too, which wasn't as good as Greece.
04:50And I have to say, I always wonder what Melania thinks when he starts rambling on and on about this construction stuff.
04:58And last night, we finally found out.
05:00It's a massive change.
05:01You know, the white against the white marble?
05:03The marble is being rejuvenated.
05:05They're great pieces of marble, but they've been let go and they've been tired.
05:10And I always say, you can take a hundredth of an inch off of a piece of marble and you have a brand new piece of marble.
05:16Nobody does it.
05:17It's not an easy process.
05:19Marble, he is always saying things about f***ing marble.
05:24She is just counting the minutes till those Epstein files come out.
05:28Trump said he was 98% involved in selecting the honorees at the Kennedy Center.
05:33The man doesn't know who half the scumbags he pardoned this month are, but he is laser focused on that.
05:38The honorees included George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, the band KISS, who are the only people who wear more makeup than he does,
05:45and our official ambassador to Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone.
05:49Got a Kennedy Center honor.
05:51There they are, Rambo and Dumbo together.
05:55Rocky and Bull Kankle with Gene Simmons looking on.
05:57Trump was also the recipient of an award this weekend.
06:01On Friday, he was given the first ever FIFA Peace Prize.
06:04FIFA, the governing body of soccer, got nervous because Trump was threatening to pull the World Cup out of blue U.S. cities like L.A. and San Francisco,
06:12which would have, it would have cost them a lot of money to move the games to Bakersfield.
06:15So they did something you could call a genius, and you might be right.
06:19They tapped into his disappointment from not winning the Nobel Peace Prize and created their own peace prize, the FIFA Peace Prize,
06:27which is like if NASCAR started handing out Peabody Awards.
06:30It means nothing.
06:31And no one, not even the president, knew who would get it.
06:35Have you been told that you were going to receive the inaugural Peace Prize today from FIFA?
06:40I have not been told.
06:41There's a rumor about it, but I have not been told.
06:44I don't know that I'm getting it.
06:45I haven't been officially noticed.
06:46I've been hearing about a Peace Prize, but I want to really save lives.
06:49I don't need prizes.
06:50Yeah, but if you're handing them out, I'll take two.
06:54I mean, he knew full well he was getting this dumb fake prize.
06:57That's why he showed up at the event.
06:59This whole scam was concocted by the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino,
07:03who looks like Voldemort trying to sell you a timeshare.
07:07I have to say, Trump was so pleased.
07:09He hasn't been this happy since the day before Eric was born.
07:14Mr. President, this is your prize.
07:18This is your Peace Prize.
07:20There is also a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go.
07:28Right now.
07:29Okay.
07:30Let me hold.
07:31Ah, fantastic.
07:33Excellent.
07:38He couldn't hand out all those Kennedy Center medals without getting one himself.
07:42You know how when you bring a birthday present to an eight-year-old,
07:44you have to bring another one for a five-year-old brother?
07:46This was basically that.
07:50This is truly one of the great honors of my life.
07:53And beyond awards, Gianni and I were discussing this.
07:56We saved millions and millions of lives.
07:59So many different wars that we're able to end.
08:02In some cases, a little bit before they started.
08:05That's right.
08:07Wars begin at the moment of conception.
08:10It's, uh...
08:10I think wars have to start before you end them, no?
08:13How would that work?
08:14Like, he calls up France and goes,
08:16Don't you even think about going into Finland.
08:19Putting a made-up medal around your neck and bragging about it
08:23is like masturbating and telling your friends you got laid this weekend.
08:26It is really...
08:28One of the greatest honors of his life.
08:36Everyone, even his family, knows this is a BS prize designed to keep him from screwing up the World Cup.
08:41Except for him.
08:42It is so deeply pathetic, it almost makes me feel bad for him.
08:46I want to thank, uh, by the way, uh, my family, my great first lady.
08:52Melania, you're right here, and thank you very much.
08:58See, that smile always gives way to pain.
09:01It never...
09:02Thank you, Melania.
09:03Your contractual obligations for the month of December are now complete.
09:07You really don't have to hand it to this FIFA guy.
09:09He spent $300 at a trophy shop.
09:11He got the President of the United States to do anything he wants.
09:15Mr. President, this way, this way.
09:18Or this way.
09:19You can do what you want.
09:21I will just show you how it works.
09:23I've done a few of them.
09:24Don't be scared, right?
09:26So you have to, uh, basically mingle the balls a little bit.
09:31That's right.
09:32You mingle the balls.
09:33You mingle the balls, and then you fondle the shaft.
09:36I was...
09:36This whole thing is so embarrassing.
09:40It really is.
09:41Uh, look at his face when they show him the medal.
09:44He does this...
09:45And then he does this cringy little move where he kind of yoinks it out of the box.
09:50Like the Grinch stealing the star of the...
09:53Cindy Lou's Christmas tree.
09:57And then we have our lumbering dope grinning from ear to ear with this meaningless medal.
10:03Like a fat kid who gets a karate trophy for breaking a piece of balsa wood.
10:07And the FIFA guy is like, President Trump, are you such a big boy?
10:13You stop so many wars.
10:15We have a golden pizza prize just for you because you're so, so good.
10:19Even the trophy looked like it didn't want to be seen there.
10:22Look at this trophy.
10:23It looks like it's like an embarrassed teenager hiding his head in his hands.
10:30Meanwhile, the bombs keep dropping on our Secretary of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth, who's a frontrunner
10:37for the next presidential pardon after the so-called double tap on that boat.
10:41Or should I say on the people who were in the boat before the boat was capsized by U.S. missiles.
10:47The president and top lawmakers from both parties say they want the video of the strike to be released.
10:52But Pete Hegseth, even though he claims it was all legal and clean, he doesn't seem so eager to want that.
10:58So, Mr. Secretary, you will be releasing that full video.
11:01We are reviewing it right now.
11:03Is that a yes or no?
11:04That is, for, the most important thing to me are the ongoing operations in the Caribbean.
11:11Right.
11:14Listen, he doesn't have time to release potential evidence of war crimes.
11:17He's very busy committing new ones right now.
11:20Trump initially said he agreed the video should be released, but then he said he didn't say that, which he did say.
11:26So far, he's been standing by Pete Hegseth, but maybe not after he sees this.
11:30This is Pete Hegseth speaking about this very subject and the president nine years ago.
11:36It's typical Trump.
11:38All bluster, very little substance.
11:40The military's not going to follow illegal orders.
11:42If you're doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that.
11:49That's why the military said it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander-in-chief.
11:54He talks a tough game.
11:55But then when pressed on it, he's an armchair tough guy.
11:58Now, Hegseth made those comments back in 2016, before he had his spine removed and replaced with a Mar-a-Lago pool noodle.
12:07So, but it's really amazing.
12:08Everybody in Trump's cabinet just sold their soul.
12:10Hegseth calls him an armchair tough guy.
12:13J.D. Vance called him America's Hitler.
12:15RFK called him a buffoon.
12:17Cash Patel, well, he liked, I think he liked him from the beginning, which is worse.
12:21And then on the flip side, we have Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is now factoring into the big story here in Hollywood this weekend is Netflix buying Warner Brothers.
12:30Netflix reached a deal to buy Warner Brothers Discovery for $82.7 billion.
12:35Warner Brothers owns the rights to Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, for everything.
12:41They own every, if the deal goes through, Netflix will have everything on their app.
12:46But they have to get government approval first.
12:48Trump said he will be personally involved in the decision on the merger, which is a cute way of saying I am currently accepting bribes to see if the merger goes through.
12:58But after the deal was announced, Netflix, I don't know if you got this, they sent an email to subscribers that said nothing is changing today, which is what you tell your kids when you're getting divorced.
13:09But the other bidders were Comcast and Paramount, and Paramount is not giving up.
13:13Today they launched a hostile takeover bid backed by a group of investors that include Jared Kushner and his Saudi benefactors.
13:20But at the end of the day, whichever company gets this is going to come down to whether the president would rather win the first ever Netflix Warner Brothers Peace Prize or the HBO Paramount Medal of Honor.
13:31Today Trump's mad at his buddy Larry Ellison, who owns Paramount, which owns CBS, which airs 60 Minutes, which last night aired an interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene, who did not have nice things to say about Trump.
13:43Trump responded. Today, he wrote, the only reason Marjorie Taylor Trader Brown, Greene turns brown under stress, went bad is that she was jilted by the president of the United States.
13:55Certainly not the first time she has been jilted. Marjorie is not America First or MAGA. Her new views are those of a very dumb person.
14:03My real problem with the show, however, wasn't the low IQ Trader. It was that new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air.
14:10They are no better than the old ownership, who just paid me millions of dollars for fake reporting about your favorite president, me.
14:17Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten worse.
14:21Well, I'm sorry that you feel that way about 60 Minutes.
14:24And the last thing I want to do is upset you during this sensitive time.
14:28But I have one more bit of entertainment news to share, and that is that I've decided to extend my contract here at ABC for another year.
14:35Please, please, please, please, please. It's embarrassing, but our show's been renewed until May of 2027, or until the world ends, whichever comes through.
14:57But I thought about it. I decided, I gave it a lot of thought, and decided I would like to spend less time with my family.
15:04And so to our audience here and at home, I'm honored and humbled to be a part of your routine, whether it's in bed at night or during your morning toilet time.
15:14It means a lot to me to have your attention and to work with this great group of people for another year.
15:20My co-workers, even my co-workers, even the ones who do bad things, like, for instance, the ones who promise to hang out and maybe even sing a karaoke song with me
15:30at our Christmas party on Thursday night because, well, we've been friends ever since I discovered all five-foot-two of them working security in our parking lot.
15:39But then when our song came up, I end up standing there like an idiot, alone on stage with two microphones, singing a duet by myself,
15:49because he told us he was going to the bathroom and instead snuck out to his car and went home the minutes he finishes his dessert.
15:56So even people like that, I am excited to work with. Are you excited, Guillermo?
16:02Yeah, I'm very excited, Jimmy. But listen, I want to apologize.
16:07You do? Yeah.
16:08Yeah, I apologize. I promise you it won't happen again.
16:11Oh, you said that last year.
16:12No, this one. I swear to God.
16:13Oh, this year won't happen again again?
16:15No, it won't happen again. I swear. I'm going to sing a duet with you. I promise you.
16:21Okay, Guillermo, that's great.
16:22Deal.
16:23Okay, great.
16:23Watch this. Let's get a picture of this.
16:27Bill.
16:28Because I'm going to tell you something.
16:30I promise you.
16:31If you don't do it, I'm going to sue you.
16:33Okay.
16:33You can do whatever you want.
16:35I am going to take you to court, okay?
16:38Okay.
16:38Now go back to your chair and don't ever come over here again.
16:41All right.
16:42We have a fun show tonight.
16:43Tiana Taylor is here.
16:45We have music on special top-runner with John Legend.
16:47And we'll be back with Quinta Brutson.
16:53All right, and welcome back tonight.
17:03She is a force to be reckoned with in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another.
17:09And her TV show, All's Fair, Tiana Taylor is with us.
17:12And then later, this is her Grammy-nominated album called Tasha, music from Tasha, Cobbs, Leonard, and John Legend.
17:20This week...
17:21Oh, we got good shows this week with Matthew McConaughey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rachel Sennett, Regina Hall, Pete Buttigieg will be here.
17:29We'll have music from Howard Jones and The Pretty Reckless, and tomorrow night, David Letterman will join us.
17:34So please join us tonight.
17:36Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-winning writer and actor from Philadelphia.
17:41You can see the mid-season finale of Abbott Elementary Wednesday night here on ABC.
17:45And the next day on Hulu, please welcome Quinta Brunson.
17:52Hi.
17:53How are you?
17:54Hi, guys.
17:55I'm so good.
17:57How stylish you are.
17:58Really stylish.
18:02Thank you so much.
18:03Thank you so much.
18:04Thank you so much.
18:05It's the man outside when they hand you things to sign.
18:19Yeah.
18:20There was a nice man, a nice bald black man who said, I like this dress.
18:23Ladies should wear more dresses like this.
18:25And I thought that was the sweetest compliment in the world.
18:28Oh, good.
18:29Well, I'm glad you took it because some people might say, hey, don't worry about what I'm wearing.
18:32Worry about what you're wearing, Baldy.
18:34That's what I should have said.
18:35You're right.
18:36Never mind.
18:37That's for that guy.
18:38Um, congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination.
18:42You got a Critics' Choice nomination a few days ago.
18:47Yes.
18:48Thank you so much.
18:49That's pretty exciting.
18:50I'm very excited.
18:51Especially Critics' Choice because my co-star, Chris Perfetti, was nominated.
18:55And he plays Jacob on the show.
18:57And he's just been doing fantastic work for the past five years.
19:01And I'm really, really happy.
19:02And he's a very nice guy, too.
19:04He's so wonderful.
19:05Was he getting upset that everyone else was getting nominated?
19:07No, never.
19:08He wasn't.
19:09He is the kindest man in the world.
19:10It's not a thought to him.
19:11He doesn't think about awards or nominations or anything except for acting.
19:15He's just an actor and he comes to do a good job and be on set and do good work.
19:21So he's the exact type of person that you want to see something like this have something for it.
19:27Yeah.
19:28You want to see somebody who doesn't care about it get it.
19:30Yes.
19:31That's what I like.
19:32In the same way you want to see somebody who doesn't drive win a car.
19:37No.
19:38Sure.
19:39For maybe a bad analogy.
19:40Yeah.
19:41I want to ask you about the Eagles because they're playing on Monday Night Football tonight.
19:45Yeah.
19:46And not only are they on Monday Night Football, they're like at SoFi Stadium not so far from us.
19:49Yes.
19:50I was given some free tickets.
19:51You were.
19:52But I had something else to do tonight.
19:53Yeah.
19:54Did you know that when you agreed to be on our show, you didn't put two and two together?
19:58No, I did not.
19:59Yeah, yeah.
20:00In fact, they gave me the tickets.
20:01I went to the Bears game.
20:02They're not from Chicago.
20:07They're actual Bears.
20:08I went to that game where the Bears whipped us.
20:12And so, I don't know.
20:16But so I got some free tickets there.
20:19And I was like, you know, I don't know.
20:20I might have to work or something.
20:21And they were like, just take them.
20:23I checked my calendar.
20:24I was like, I think I'm in the clear.
20:25I can go to that game.
20:27But on my calendar, it just said JK, which I thought meant joke.
20:31Like.
20:32Just kidding.
20:33Free jokey joke time.
20:34And no, it meant Jimmy Kimmel.
20:36So I had to cancel going to the game.
20:39Yeah.
20:40Well, I'm happy to be here.
20:41I know.
20:42I'm glad you're here.
20:43I know you're superstitious though, because I remember you telling me once that, I think
20:46last season, you said you had to stop watching the games.
20:49And once you did stop watching the games, the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
20:52Yeah.
20:53Yeah.
20:54So maybe it's better that you're here right now.
20:55I think so.
20:56Yeah.
20:57That's what I'm going to go with.
20:58Yeah.
20:59The Eagles.
21:00Yeah.
21:01Oh, speaking of the Eagles.
21:02I want to show you something, because this is something I saw a couple of weeks ago.
21:05I said, please save this for when Quinta is here.
21:07Oh, no.
21:08This is from a local Philadelphia public school.
21:10Aw.
21:11First game.
21:12We're here.
21:13Go down.
21:14Let's go down.
21:15Oh, yes.
21:16Oh, he's getting out.
21:17Go.
21:18Yes.
21:19Yes.
21:20Yes.
21:21Oh, we got another one.
21:24Yes.
21:25Yes.
21:26Yes.
21:27Nice work.
21:28Give him another one.
21:29That's going to live.
21:30Evo!
21:31Evo!
21:32Evo!
21:33Evo!
21:34Now, as a pretend educator in the Philadelphia area, should children be behaving like that at
21:43school?
21:44Should they be?
21:45Yes.
21:46Uh, probably not.
21:47Mm-hmm.
21:48But does it lay the groundwork for them to become full-fledged Philadelphia sports fans?
21:53Well, they already are before they even get to that school.
21:56You know what I mean?
21:57It does seem like they were already filled with rage, weren't they?
21:58Yes, they are.
21:59You get that in the hospital the moment you're born.
22:00It's your doctor who's screaming, it's a boy!
22:01Go birds!
22:02At you!
22:03When you're born.
22:04Doctor gives you a little slap.
22:05You slap the doctor right back.
22:06Yeah.
22:07Yeah.
22:08Yeah.
22:09That's how it goes.
22:10Um, yeah.
22:11I'm not ashamed of that clip.
22:12I'm proud of it.
22:13You, um, you started...
22:14This is, you know, a particularly fun charity, I think.
22:16Yeah.
22:17What is your charity called the Quinta Brunson?
22:18Yes.
22:19I thought it was, like, a little obnoxious to have the name in it, but they thought it would
22:32make people participate more.
22:34But it's called the Quinta Brunson Fund for field trips.
22:38For field trips?
22:39Yes.
22:40So field trips are a really, really, really big part of my educational journey.
22:44The best thing about school.
22:45The best thing about school.
22:46Yeah.
22:47Really?
22:48The best thing about school.
22:49And, um, what many people don't know is that field trips are starting to go away in
22:55a lot of public schools.
22:56There's not a lot of money for field trips.
22:58Oh.
22:59Um, and so I just wanted to find a way where I can make the most impact in the Philadelphia
23:04school district.
23:05It's not always easy to make things happen that you want to make happen.
23:09But field trips were so big for me, and I realized that that's one thing where all it
23:13really took was money.
23:14Right.
23:15And permission slips.
23:16But that's not my business.
23:17And all the permission slips, the whole thing.
23:18Yeah.
23:19So I started this fund for anyone who wants to donate.
23:22You don't have to be from Philadelphia.
23:24Um, I donated $20,000 to get it kicked off.
23:27Mm-hmm.
23:28And you guys don't have to match me.
23:29If you want to match me, you can.
23:30Um, yeah.
23:31Can I ask, what are your, like, do you have memories of field trips that you love?
23:36Yeah.
23:37So my teachers were amazing.
23:38Any book we read, they would try to take us to a field trip that, um, was inspired by
23:42the book.
23:43Really?
23:44Um, was, yeah.
23:45So one, one I remember was going to Grand Central Station because we read a story about
23:49a cricket that got lost in Grand Central Station.
23:52I don't remember the name of the book, um, but I remember the field trip.
23:56And that was only to New York.
23:57I'm from Philly.
23:58That's two hours away.
23:59But you'd be surprised how many kids from Philly never get to go to New York.
24:04That was my first time ever going there.
24:06And it changed my life.
24:08And I think that those field trips are important.
24:11Yeah.
24:12I mean, I, I don't, I, I, we didn't take good field trips, um, when I was growing up.
24:17Yeah.
24:18I mean, in Brooklyn, we did.
24:19We would go to the planetarium, which was great.
24:21That's fun.
24:22And the Bronx Zoo, which was great.
24:23Right, right.
24:24But, um, when I was a Cub Scout, we took a field trip.
24:26Yeah.
24:27And we went to a Carvel ice cream store.
24:29You know, Carvel?
24:30Which I love, by the way.
24:31Yeah.
24:32But what happened was we went to the Carvel.
24:34Yeah.
24:35And we, uh, went behind the counter and saw how the machine worked.
24:37And then they sent us home.
24:38We never, we did not get any.
24:39You didn't get any ice cream?
24:40That's cool.
24:41I, honestly, if I could go back in time.
24:45Yeah.
24:46A lot of people say they would, there are a lot of things they would kill Hitler or whatever.
24:49Right.
24:50We went back to just before that to find out what the hell these people were thinking.
24:54Yeah.
24:55Sending us, sending a group of seven-year-old boys to Carvel.
24:58And not giving you ice cream.
24:59And not giving them any ice cream.
25:00That's cruel.
25:01And if your fund was around, boy, maybe we would have had ice cream.
25:05Look, I think you would have.
25:07And if people want to donate to this fund, you can help little Jimmy's everywhere.
25:11Oh, you know what?
25:12Get that ice cream.
25:13Look, Big Jimmy's gonna make a donation to the fund as well.
25:16Printer Brunson, Abbott Elementary.
25:24Good morning, Janine.
25:26Good morning, Barbara.
25:27And happy birthday.
25:29What are you gonna do to celebrate?
25:31Okay, so last night, I was still 29.
25:33I go to Rubenstein's and turn up with my friends.
25:36But today, I'm 30.
25:38Very adult.
25:39So, I'll be going to a very mature dinner with Gregory and my mommy.
25:43Your mother?
25:44Yeah.
25:45Oh, and she is arriving now.
25:47Breathing past the front door biddies.
25:49Meet you in the room with the sad people and the free food.
25:51She's on her way here.
25:52That is from the mid-season finale of Abbott Elementary, which you can watch Wednesday night.
25:58Quinta Brunson is with us.
26:00Your mom is played by Taraji P. Henson, which is fun.
26:03Yeah, it's fantastic.
26:04Is she anything like your real mom?
26:06No, my real mom is wonderful.
26:08Wait, hold on.
26:09Hold on.
26:11Hold on.
26:12Not too much on Taraji.
26:13Taraji the person is great.
26:15The character Veneta is horrible.
26:16The character.
26:17My mom is amazing.
26:18Yes.
26:19Yes, yes.
26:20Just to be clear.
26:21No, this is a fictional mother that was put together by stories of many horrible tales
26:26of mothers that I was fascinated with.
26:28Just people who had really, really horrible relationships with their mom.
26:31So you say to the writers, you're like, okay, we got this character.
26:34It's my mom.
26:35She's a terrible woman.
26:36Tell me about your terrible mom stories.
26:38It's more they just start talking about their...
26:41They just start telling them.
26:42Yeah.
26:43I don't mind for it.
26:44But you know what?
26:45I think it's great to be able to explore those kinds of relationships because a lot of people
26:49relate to them.
26:50Yeah.
26:51Need healing from them.
26:52Need to know how to deal with them and reckon from them.
26:54So, or reckon with them.
26:55So, yeah, I like being able to explore that.
26:57And sometimes there's nothing, there's something about a true story that just, it hits.
27:02Just hits.
27:03Yeah, right?
27:04Yeah.
27:05Yeah, it's really good.
27:06Yeah.
27:07And what did you do for your own 30th birthday?
27:08For my 30th birthday, I went to Vegas.
27:12Oh, you went to Las Vegas.
27:13I went to Las Vegas.
27:14I went to Las Vegas.
27:15I went to Las Vegas.
27:17I stayed at the Cosmopolitan.
27:20I didn't do anything special.
27:22I went to one of those weird little shows downstairs.
27:25Oh, a lounge show?
27:26Yeah, it's like the weird ones where it's like a play, but they're naked.
27:31Oh.
27:32Do you know what I mean?
27:33I don't know why they're naked.
27:34A what?
27:35Well, they're naked to get people to come to them.
27:37Yes.
27:38See, I was there for the story.
27:39I was like, what?
27:40This doesn't connect.
27:41Why is the alien having sex with the maid?
27:43I don't understand.
27:44I was confused.
27:46So why didn't you go, why did you go to that show?
27:49Did you, it seemed just strange to you?
27:51And you thought that would be the one to see?
27:52I thought it was going to be a fun show about space.
27:54And then I get in there and titties.
27:57I was very confused.
27:59I didn't know.
28:00I had never been to a Vegas show before.
28:02That was my first time.
28:03And I just thought, I thought the...
28:04I love that that's the one you went to.
28:05I thought the Cosmo was a family establishment.
28:08I didn't know that's what they were doing.
28:10You know what, none of it is really for the family.
28:12Yeah.
28:13They say it is.
28:14And there are spots you can go, but...
28:15It's not.
28:16Yeah.
28:17Yeah, no, no.
28:18They're saying, yeah.
28:19But it's good that you didn't bring any kids along with you,
28:20because that would have been quite a surprise.
28:22You're also speaking of kids in Zootopia 2,
28:25the sequel to Zootopia.
28:26Yes.
28:27Yes.
28:28Zootopia 2.
28:29Really exciting.
28:30My kids loved that movie.
28:31That's great.
28:32The first one was so wonderful.
28:34I was so honored to ask to be part of the second one.
28:37It's an incredible, incredible movie.
28:41If you haven't taken your family yet, it's a great movie.
28:43I think everybody did.
28:44It seems like everybody in the world went to see it already, right?
28:45I know.
28:46I know.
28:47I know.
28:48I know.
28:49Yeah, it was either like that or Wicked over the break.
28:52Well, I promise you, yes, we will be seeing that movie over
28:55and over and over and over and over and over and over again
28:57in our home.
28:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:59Excited.
29:00Well, it's great to see you.
29:01The mid-season finale.
29:02Yes.
29:03Mid-season finale is what we're calling it.
29:04Mid-season.
29:05Yes.
29:06It's like halftime of the season.
29:07Yes.
29:08Don't you have that too here?
29:09No, no.
29:10We just keep going and going and going until people throw up.
29:12I hope you keep going and going and going for really long.
29:14Well, thank you.
29:15I appreciate that.
29:16A great point to Brunson, everybody.
29:18Abbott Elementary, Wednesday nights, 8.30 here at ABC.
29:21Watch it the next day on Hulu.
29:23We'll be back with Tiana Taylor.
29:33Hi there.
29:34Welcome back.
29:35These are from Kashakov's Leonard and John Legend is on the way.
29:38Our next guest is having a very good year.
29:40Her album, Escape Room, is up for a Grammy.
29:42She has a hit TV show on Hulu called All's Fair.
29:45And this morning she was nominated for a Golden Globe for the movie One Battle After Another.
29:49This is a new consciousness.
29:51New consciousness?
29:52Yeah.
29:53I'm not your other buddy.
29:56I'm not your mother.
29:59You want your power over me, the same reason you want your power over the world.
30:05You and your crumbling ego will never do this revolution like me.
30:11One Battle After Another is in theaters and on demand now.
30:14Please welcome Tiana Taylor.
30:16How are you?
30:17Hey y'all.
30:18Yeah.
30:19You know what?
30:20You look like an award winner in this outfit.
30:21Oh my God, thank you.
30:22I knew I was coming to see you today.
30:23I was like, let me throw on my suit.
30:24Congratulations.
30:25I just mentioned, I mean, you seem to have been nominated for all the awards.
30:31I was coming to see you today.
30:32I was like, let me throw on my suit.
30:33Congratulations.
30:34I just mentioned, I mean, you seem to have been nominated for all the awards there are.
30:56You might get a FIFA Peace Prize while you're out.
30:59Maybe.
31:00Take me through your morning.
31:03Do you wake up to find out if you're nominated?
31:05How does it work?
31:06Yeah, it's crazy because I had got my feet and nails done
31:09late last night, and I wound up falling asleep on the couch.
31:14And usually, I'm like a 7 AM waker-upper.
31:17The nominations came on at 5.
31:18Right.
31:19For some reason, it was like I just kept tossing and turning,
31:22and then my people was in the kitchen making noise,
31:24and I sleep light.
31:25So I woke up, and it was on.
31:26I was like, ah!
31:27And I tried to turn back around and go back to sleep,
31:30but then I couldn't.
31:31So I was just sitting there watching.
31:33My stomach was in my booty.
31:34I was just like, what is, what's about to happen?
31:37And I guess what we was watching was delayed,
31:39because then my whole team called me on a group chat.
31:41It was like 20 of us.
31:42Oh.
31:43Well, my agents, everybody called me like, ah!
31:45Congratulations!
31:46And I was like, wait, they didn't say it yet.
31:47Come on, what's happening?
31:49Yeah, so.
31:49Somebody had hit pause on your DVR.
31:52Yeah, I was like, I'm a little delayed.
31:54I'm a little delayed.
31:55Who was most excited in your family about this?
31:57My mom.
31:58Your mom, yeah.
31:59Everybody is super excited, but I actually
32:00get scared when I'm nominated for something,
32:03because she will, like, almost catch an asthma attack.
32:07I'm like, girl, you have to calm down.
32:08Oh, really?
32:09No, she's like, ah, ah, ah, ah.
32:11I'm like, Mom?
32:13Like, you know, I'd be scared.
32:16I'm like, winning is scared.
32:18Yeah, right.
32:19It's scary.
32:19Winning is scary, because my mom is, like, hyperventilating.
32:22I'm like, girl, you got to calm down.
32:23Now, how are you going to handle this with your mom?
32:26If she comes, will she come with you to any of these shows?
32:27That's what I'm saying.
32:28I'm going to, she is going to come with me,
32:30but we're going to have to have a little talk
32:31before we go and get this popping, because it's like, girl.
32:34You could have a doctor with you is really what you need.
32:36That's what I'm saying.
32:37I mean, I'm already in culinary school.
32:39I'm thinking maybe I should just go to school for, you know,
32:41to be a nurse as well.
32:42You're going to culinary school, right?
32:44Yeah, maybe it would make sense to take a paramedics class.
32:47You know what I'm saying?
32:48I mean, at this point, I'm doing everything.
32:50I love that you're going to culinary school.
32:52In the middle of this, you've got all this stuff going on
32:55with the music career and the acting career,
32:57and you're like, I'm going to learn to cook.
32:59Yes, because culinary cooking, the art of it,
33:03keeps me grounded.
33:04You know, it gives you the time to be in the kitchen
33:07and be quiet.
33:08You know what I'm saying?
33:09And really just, like, cook and smell the food
33:12and taste test all the food and eat all the food.
33:15You know what I'm saying?
33:16Well, when you say you're going to culinary school,
33:18do you go to a place and you're in a class
33:20with other students learning how to chop and that other thing?
33:24I go to Escoffia.
33:25They actually do have a campus, but of course, I'm here with you.
33:28I can't be on campus, so I get to do it online,
33:31which is actually harder because you don't have your chef there
33:34to say, no, fix this, fix this.
33:36It's kind of like, figure it out.
33:38So you keep up no matter where you are.
33:39I keep up no matter where.
33:40I was on my way to the one battle after another premiere
33:43doing my discussion panels, my discussion forums.
33:46Like, I don't play no games.
33:47Like, I take pride in making sure my schoolwork is turned in.
33:51I'm a straight-A student.
33:52I like that.
33:54I be so proud.
33:55I be so proud.
33:57Yes.
33:57What do you like making?
33:58What are you learning to make, and what do you enjoy making?
34:01You know what's crazy?
34:02Out of everything, I've been learning so much.
34:03I mean, like, fabricating protein, all types of stuff.
34:06But my favorite, and I think it's the kids' favorite,
34:08is making pizza from scratch.
34:10Making pizza from scratch.
34:11Yeah, it was really, really good.
34:13But it wasn't like DiGiorno, delivery of DiGiorno.
34:16It wasn't that.
34:16Like, it's like real brick-style, like, pizza.
34:20But I also made butter from scratch, cornbread,
34:24whipped cream, palms puree, peel-off rice, all types.
34:30I mean, I'm learning.
34:31I even opened up my palate to a lot of things
34:33that I thought I would never eat.
34:34Oh, it's now making you eat more things.
34:35Yeah, I've never been a fan of zucchini.
34:37Until now.
34:39Until I made it.
34:40It's so much stuff that I'm like, ooh, I would never, ooh, ooh.
34:43How am I going to pass this test?
34:44But then.
34:45I know you like to bring food, as I recall, to the award shows.
34:49I sneak food.
34:50I smuggle food into the award show.
34:51You smuggle food into the award show.
34:52Yes, I do.
34:53Which is smart, because they go on for four hours,
34:55and nobody has anything to eat.
34:57Yeah, just as long as I don't get banned, you know?
35:00Yeah, well, no, I don't think you can get banned for that.
35:01In fact, people get pretty excited.
35:03In fact, at the Golden Globes, it's like a circular table,
35:06right?
35:06You know what?
35:07I heard that the food be good at the Golden Globes.
35:09Oh, so they do have food at the Golden Globes.
35:10Yeah, they said it's a round table.
35:12You've been there.
35:12No, I've never been to the Golden Globes.
35:13You've never been to the Golden Globes?
35:14No, no.
35:15You going to celebrate your friend?
35:16Well, I, yeah.
35:17I'm not saying I'm going to win, I'm just saying.
35:18Yeah, I'll come with you, sure.
35:20We're going to have on our suits.
35:21Will your parents be mad, or your mom be mad?
35:23No, I just think you've got to bring an inhaler.
35:26OK, yeah.
35:26You know, you're going to have to work.
35:27You know what I'm saying?
35:28You're going to have to work.
35:29I'll take CPR class, and then I'll come with you.
35:30You know what I'm saying?
35:31Yeah, because we've got to calm Mickie Taylor down.
35:32And she'd be, she's so cute.
35:33She'd just be so happy.
35:34She was on the plane today, didn't have no Wi-Fi,
35:36so she couldn't get on the group chat call today.
35:39So she's in the text like, I'm losing it on this plane.
35:42At all times, there's no Wi-Fi.
35:44She finally got the Wi-Fi.
35:45By the way, you were absolutely great in the movie.
35:48I did want to say that.
35:51And you and Leo really do some making out.
35:56And so, I mean, there's some, there's licking involved.
35:59There's all sorts of stuff happening there.
36:01That's all you got from that?
36:02Well, it's not all I got, but it's the top line item.
36:08So do you, like, did you, when you work with Leo,
36:12had like, were you like, just Titanic?
36:14You're too young for that, right?
36:16You know what's crazy is, technically,
36:18I was too young for Titanic.
36:20I was not too young to be in front of a windowpane
36:23singing Celine Dion with all, everything in me.
36:26Like, literally, when Titanic came out, it would be,
36:29I was like seven or eight, first of all, you guys.
36:31And I would be in the hallway playing around with my friends.
36:34Like, we all play in the hallway.
36:35And my mom would play, you know,
36:38the Titanic soundtrack out loud.
36:39And while all the other kids is playing,
36:41my ear is to the door.
36:43And I mean, I'm singing every night.
36:45And I mean, I'm like singing my heart out
36:47like I'm in front of a windowpane and it's raining.
36:49You hear me?
36:50I said, listen, I am too young to be this invested
36:54into the Titanic and Celine.
36:56But it was just everything.
36:58And you loved the movie itself?
36:59I loved the movie itself, yes.
37:01I loved the movie.
37:02I loved the soundtrack, like everything.
37:03I was mad when my girl threw the chain back in the pool.
37:08I was upset about that.
37:09You already threw Jack.
37:11Now you're going to throw the chain.
37:14Yeah, she's very inconsiderate.
37:15One thing she's going to do is put something under that water.
37:17She's going to let it go.
37:18She let that hand go, oh, you frozen, goodbye.
37:21And then put the chain in there.
37:23I said, oh, my god.
37:24I don't even know what to congratulate.
37:26Congratulations on all of the things, I guess.
37:28Yeah, maybe next time you come back,
37:30we could do some cooking or something like that.
37:32That would be so much fun.
37:33You could show us something that you've learned.
37:35Yeah.
37:35Yeah.
37:36You want to tell everybody, one battle after another.
37:38It's in theaters on On Demand Now,
37:40and the season of All Spares tomorrow on Hulu.
37:43We'll be back with Tasha Cobbs-Leonard and John Legend.
37:51Her Grammy-nominated album is called Tasha,
37:54here at the song Church, with help from John Legend,
37:57Tasha Cobbs-Leonard.
38:13Oh, I, oh, I, oh, I, oh, I, oh, I, oh.
38:17Where is the choir?
38:20I can't hear them singing.
38:22Where is the preacher?
38:25I can't hear him preaching.
38:28Where are those church bells?
38:31I don't hear them ringing.
38:34Where is that feeling?
38:38And where's the piano?
38:42With all love is bang.
38:45And where are those people?
38:48With all of their praising.
38:51And all the emotion that I have been chasing.
38:57Where is that feeling?
39:00Yeah, yeah.
39:01Oh, oh.
39:04God, it's just you and me now.
39:07You tell me what to do now.
39:10Teach me how to have church on a Monday.
39:14Hey!
39:15You can be my company.
39:18Here's my heart.
39:19You take the lead.
39:21Teach me how to have church on a Monday.
39:25Oh, oh, oh, oh.
39:36Oh, oh, oh, oh.
39:38Understanding, you're more than a building
39:42When the service is over, I'll still be singing
39:48You'll meet me right here, and I'll be waiting
39:53Oh, what a feeling, hey, yeah, yeah
40:00God, it's just you and me now
40:04Tell me what to do now
40:07Teach me how to have church on a Monday
40:11You can be my company
40:15Give my heart, you'll take the lead
40:18Teach me how to have church on a Monday
40:22Oh, oh, oh
40:26Oh, oh
40:30Oh, oh
40:33Oh, oh, oh
40:37Oh, oh, oh
40:39Oh, oh, oh
40:41Oh, oh, oh
40:43Oh, oh, oh
40:45Oh, oh, oh
40:47You give me my company
40:50Here's my heart, you'll take the lead
40:53Teach me how to have church on a Sunday
40:58Oh, oh, oh, oh
40:59Oh, oh, oh
41:00Oh, oh, oh
41:00Oh
41:01Oh, oh, oh
41:01Oh, oh, oh
41:02Give my words of joy in who
41:07Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
41:08Well, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
41:11Oh, oh, oh, oh
41:13Oh, oh, oh, oh
41:14Oh, oh, oh, oh
41:14I want to put a song on your face
41:16On a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, down every day
41:21Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
41:21Oh, oh, oh, oh
41:22Yeah!
41:23He just had a half-stretch!
41:27Yeah!
41:28Yeah!
41:29Yeah!
41:30Yeah!
41:31Yeah!
41:32Yeah!
41:33Yeah!
41:34Yeah!
41:35Yeah!
41:36Yeah!
41:37Thanks to Quinta Brunson, Tiana Taylor, Tajikov, Leonard, and John Legend.
41:41Apologies to Matt Payman.
41:43Nightlight is next.
41:45Good night!
41:46Yeah!
41:47Yeah!
41:48Yeah!
41:49Yeah!
41:50Thank you!
41:52Thank you!
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