Jimmy Kimmel Live! hosted a “Newsom Twosome” on Tuesday night, when California governor Gavin Newsom met… California governor Gavin Newsom, as played by recurring guest Josh Meyers.
Following an actual interview—Newsom is making the rounds on behalf of Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery—host Jimmy Kimmel told the governor that he had a surprise for him. Enter Meyers’ Gavin Newsom, via skateboard, and fresh from “a ribbon-cutting session at a shelter for nonbinary chihuahuas.”
The faux Newsom then set about presenting the teased award.
“Oh, gov Gav…,” he started. “For your tireless work of uniting the people of Cali—from the meth dealers of Riverside, to the shapely Armenians of the Glendale galleria… from chakra doulas and yoga thems to farmer’s market furries and rollerbladers with gluten sensitivities—I, Governor Gavin D. Newsom, in association with the Wounded Waymos Project, and the three remaining original members of Incubus, present to you, Governor Gavin C. Newsom, with the 2026 FIFA Skydance Paramount Netflix Warner Bros. Big Ass Lipton Cup O Peace!”
Meyers’ gov proceeded to note that the trophy is “plated with platinum that was ethically sourced from all my expired AMEX cards,” and that it “holds an entire magnum of this sick-ass sauv blanc,” which he and the true Newsom sipped from, of course, paper straws.
Newsom then gave a short speech—namely, asking if the trophy comes with “a third term.”
Watch the full award presentation above.
Tuesday night marked Newsom’s third appearance on JKL. He first stopped by in February 2013, when he was lieutenant governor of California and was hosting The Gavin Newsom Show on (deep cut alert!) Current TV. He first returned in May 2021, when his first term as governor was facing a recall.
Josh Meyers, meanwhile, has brought his Newsom impersonation to JKL a total of a dozen times now, dating back to November 2023 and as recently as February 24 of this year. But his first late-night forays as the Golden State politico came on brother Seth’s Late Night, starting with an early-pandemic coronavirus briefing in May 2020 (when the show was taping remotely).
