Jimmy Kimmel Gives Update on Son Billys Health as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Returns
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00:00How's Billy doing? He just had his third open heart surgery and we know that you know you
00:03two have been on quite a journey but I think everybody is rooting for you you know we love
00:08the update. Well I appreciate that yeah Billy's doing great he had open heart surgery he's you
00:14know he's got the scars and everything but he's just mentally he's right back where he was which
00:19is crazy and physically he's you know he's we're gonna have to be careful with him for a couple
00:24of months but he's doing really well thank you. It's amazing how kids are just so resilient and
00:28they they just go. They're made of rubber you know they actually I we you know everybody says
00:33that our kids are so resilient the doctors actually explained it to me which I don't
00:36know why it never occurred to me before it's like yeah because they're still growing so and
00:41we are not at least ideally we're not we're shrinking and we're dying dying we're withering
00:47and shriveling. This season we've got two celebrity contestants in the hot seat working to win big
00:52money for charity the most dramatic hour of three people sitting on stools in the history of
00:57American television. All right is that your millionaire suit is that the official millionaire
01:02you know I wear the same thing every night so that when we edit the show we boil everything
01:07down we put everybody in order it doesn't look different so I have like a uniform. Okay I love
01:13the set I mean it hasn't changed a lot but tell me what's going on explain the set a little bit.
01:18Well first of all we're standing on a tv a big round tv which is kind of crazy right I mean
01:24the fact that we're I don't think they had this at the beginning you know the first season
01:27it was all the whole set was made of light brights you remember the light bright little it was crazy
01:32it took months to put together so we have this tv and it can do pretty much every anything you want
01:38and then we got the two hot seats because this year we have not one but celebrity teams yeah
01:44and we are trying to get and we have succeeded in getting celebrity teams who know each other.
01:50Okay is there a celebrity team that was worse than you thought they'd be? Oh worse than I
01:56thought they'd be interesting you know I don't necessarily go in with a big you know you don't
02:03know really because some of these people like for instance like Zach Braff, Donald Faison.
02:08So much fun. Played doctors on tv but then their phone a friend who I'm in their minds at least is
02:14smarter than they are was the janitor on the show so show business throws it all out of whack you
02:20got the doctors asking the janitor what they should do. How about Stamos and Coulier? Stamos and Coulier
02:26knows he's a trivia guy he knows a lot of stuff he did a lot of impersonations also during we heard a
02:32lot of cartoon characters and a lot of dead celebrities but they were good they did pretty
02:37well. They did well yeah. Okay who was the best? The best well I can't really say because it reveals
02:43the game and we haven't finished shooting but there's some good ones people want some serious
02:47money. Okay I'll give you that I wanted to see some of the set and is there stuff on the screens
02:52right now is there is there something on the screen there is yeah I want to see I mean Jimmy
02:56this is this is the big boy seat can I sit can I sit in the big boy seat for a second okay this is
03:02the Regis seat it's not the Jimmy seat it's always the Regis seat and what I have here is a screen
03:08and on the screen the question pops up now I don't see the question until right before it pops
03:13up and then the answers will pop up and I see those and then I have my little setup here tells
03:19me how much money they have how much money they can lose how far away they are from a million
03:24dollars it's really very um complicated there's there's also an iPad down here and it has books
03:30on it and Apple TV just in case just in case I want to read or catch up on one of my favorite
03:34shows during the show no this is so they can text me to say go to break um you know or uh
03:41you got something wrong we need to stop whatever you know Regis had a chance to visit before he
03:46passed away how are you how are you gosh you look fantastic so do you shall we take a look at the
03:53set let's do it okay what does that legacy mean I mean he was such a great host he was really
04:00the best of the best not only was he the best of the best hello everybody and welcome to Monday
04:06night of who wants to be a millionaire we now just think of who wants to be a millionaire
04:10and we think of Regis but nobody was thinking about Regis when this show went on the air
04:15Regis wasn't really he wasn't a game show host he was you know crazy uncle Regis in the morning
04:20and it just worked so well there's some things that's funny like you could put as much thought
04:24into these things as as you like but some things sometimes you plant a seed and something crazy
04:30grows and that show I mean you remember was like I mean it was all anybody was talking
04:35about for a whole year and a half people went crazy
04:50I want to ask you how are you balancing all this stuff because you still have a day job
04:54but this is a little break for you now right yeah uh you know what I do I just um I cut out
04:58all the family time I ignore my children you're like guys good luck dad'll see you when it comes
05:04September I'll see you when you're at your high school graduation yeah no it's uh you know what
05:09the truth of the matter is even though it's like a whole season of shows we shoot it in a weekend
05:13so it's not that big a deal I missed the weekend sincere apologies to Matt Damon we ran out of
05:19time for him tonight we'll get him on the air again soon Matt Damon apologies ran out of time
05:24apologies to Matt Damon we ran out of time I want to apologize to Matt Damon
05:28we ran out of time for him Matt Damon he extremely overrated Matt Damon
05:36Matt Damon is there any chance that he could ever come up maybe Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
05:40maybe you have them on maybe they you know are contestants on there well listen Ben would be
05:44great he's very smart uh I don't know about the other guy you know you have to be able to read
05:49that's one of the things you um have to have some general intelligence I think to play this game
05:56and I think that's uh he's 0 for 2 in those categories Jimmy invite him invite him to come
06:02on come on I mean invite who Matt Matt Day invite him no no I you know what um I I I would never
06:09do that to the game or to the memory of Regis he can't play the game it never ends does it
06:17it never ends by the way are there any other folks as you look forward and the celebrity
06:21thing will be huge are there any other folks you want to have you know it would be fun
06:25Oprah and Gail they would be great Oprah and Gail would be so good yeah that would be fun
06:30but although a million dollars to Oprah is like what do I have we could play what's in Oprah's purse
06:36she's giving that away she's not taking a penny of it out of here her and Gail are like we're fine
06:40we're gonna be okay and by the way Jimmy and you go into next season right who are some of the folks
06:45that you want to bring on the show next year and how much you you've joked around but you've said
06:49I don't know how much longer I'll do this as far as uh am I when am I retiring I've decided to stop
06:55saying because I always say something and then it turns out to be different than the decision that
06:59I make um but as far as who who I still want to have on the show there's not that many people
07:04who haven't been on the show you know Madonna's never been on my show why not I don't know the
07:09pope has never been on the show we recently had Stevie Wonder on the show performing for the
07:15first time
07:28he'd been on the show as a guest before but he had not performed which was fantastic
07:33uh Banksy is somebody that I would like you know the mysterious artist Banksy's not going to reveal
07:38himself but he could leave art in your studio I would love to figure out some way to have Banksy
07:44on the show that would be fun for me I think that would be great all right Jimmy we're waiting for
07:48when our seats are available Nichelle and I will come yeah we'll we will play right there well no
07:53there's two of us are you ready to play billionaire we're ready we're ready