The summer of Jimmy Kimmel Live guest hosts rolls on, with a super glam Kerry Washington taking the reins for Monday night's show. She was joined by her dad Earl, whom she reveals was an Emmy-deserving background extra on Little Fires Everywhere.
"He's the most adorable man in America, and he loves to tell jokes," she said, "so when he heard I was doing my first late night monologue, he wanted to pitch in and help me out with material, because he doesn't think I'm funny."
Earl is indeed completely adorable, telling Washington about the importance of humor during tough times, and kicking off with a meta moment: "How do you know it's a dad joke? It becomes ap-parent."
I won't spoil the others, because if there's a dad joke out there which you somehow haven't heard that is a gift from the universe. But possibly the best moment — apart from his pleased "oh oh oh!" when he nails a delivery — is when Earl whiffs the punchline on his topical final joke, making Washington properly lose it.
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