Jimmy Kimmel Shares Footage of Himself Battling 'Home Intruder'
Jimmy Kimmel
If Jimmy Kimmel thought things at home were going to be cool and calm after his son Billy's recent open heart surgery, he had another thing coming when an intruder crashed the boy's homecoming.
The 7-year-old had just spent the holiday weekend at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, for what the family hopes was his final of three procedures to correct his Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia—a rare congenital heart defect that involves multiple heart abnormalities, according to Boston Children's Hospital—when he arrived home early on Memorial Day.
But, as Kimmel detailed in his opening monologue on the latest episode of his late-night show, not even an hour after settling in, while the father-son duo were playing video games together, a hawk—and his prey—busted in through an open window.
A video clip shared by the comedian showed the bird thrashing about over the kitchen counter, which was surrounded by a wall of windows. Kimmel entered the frame as his wife, Molly McNearney, narrated from behind the camera, holding a broom out as far as possible to try to sweep it back toward the exit.
Unfortunately, each time Kimmel had it just centimeters away from the opening, it would jump over the broom and slam itself back into the closed sheets of glass, seemingly stunning itself before it fell straight to the ground.
It wasn't deterred for long, though, quickly flying to the other side of the room, with Billy watching nervously in the background. Kimmel sent the boy up the stairs and out of harm's way as his wife tried to find a box to put it in before it finally took off through the sliding door, leaving the dead bird it had flown in with on the couple's carpet.
Kimmel also shared an uncanny coincidence about the whole weekend, revealing that his wife had spotted a mourning dove—which is an omen of death, if you believe in that sort of thing (Kimmel doesn't)—on the window ledge in the hospital, which, understandably, made her "very freaked out."
You can probably guess what the carcass left behind "as a little welcome home gift" was.
"The hawk flies in and it kills...the omen of death!" he exclaimed, triggering raucous applause from the audience, who were shielded from having to view the aftermath, but we suppose it's safe to say that, in the grand scheme of things, there was no harm, no fowl!
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