‘This Is So Dumb’: Cher Suffers Through Jimmy Kimmel Interview

Jimmy Kimmel had a hard time charming Cher Tuesday night when she joined his show for the first time in its 22-year history and answered some rapid fire questions about her life, telling the late night host towards the end of her interview, “This is so dumb.”

During her appearance on the show to promote the second part of her book Cher: The Memoir, Kimmel seemed to annoy the singer as she revealed she hadn’t even started writing the second part of the book, which is slated to release in November.

“The second part of your book, have you finished that yet?” Kimmel asked. Cher responded first with only a laugh. “No, I haven’t even started it!” she finally said, prompting Kimmel to ask, “Is that true?”

Cher gave him an icy look in response as he prodded further, “You haven’t even started it!” He added, “So it’s not coming out in November.” Cher, hit him with a serious “Yes, it is,” but Kimmel continued to poke: “We’ll see.”

That comment drew an even colder look from Cher, unaccompanied by a reassuring smirk to make it seem she was only jokingly annoyed. Still, Kimmel added, “November of what year?” He then offered his “help,” to which Cher simply replied, “No.”

Cher has been promoting her bombshell memoir with the same unreserved tone in which she wrote the unfiltered look at her life, from her childhood through meeting and marrying Sonny Bono. The press release for Part One says she lived a life “too immense for only one book.”

After asking the star when the last time was that she drove a car and whether or not she’s ever played a video game, Kimmel began his next question with “If you could turn back time,” referencing her iconic song. Cher replied before he could finish, “This is so dumb,” before attempting to answer the question about what year of her life she would relive.

“I don’t remember the year, because I’m dyslexic, but I was 60,” she said, even though the year she turned 40 was her “best.” When Kimmel asked why she wouldn’t go back to her best year instead of when she was 60, Cher replied simply, “I don’t know, it seemed like a good number.”

By the end of the 15-minute sit-down, Kimmel was sincerely thanking Cher for being his guest and telling her that he hoped she would “come back in November—if, indeed, you get the book finished.”

All Cher could muster in response was a back-handed compliment: “You’re a lot nicer and funnier than I thought you would be.”