She also got Tim Cook to agree to a huge donation from Apple.
A major effort deserves a major push and on Monday night (April 6) Lady Gaga made history by appearing on all the major late night talk shows to announce the lineup for the Global Citizen/World Health Organization “One World: Together at Home” concert. After a brief appearance last week on The Tonight Show during which she didn’t say much, but promised big news, Gaga was back Zooming with Jimmy Fallon from her home office to first reveal who is hosting the prime time event.
“Would you like to know who’s hosting?” she asked Fallon, who eagerly said yes just hours after the full lineup of the show was announced. “You… I got Jimmy Fallon and guess who else I got?” she asked, holding up a pink Post-It note with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel’s name on it as well. The late night giants will come together to help host the show on NBC, CBS and ABC. “The thing I’ve been most excited about is when I talk to people and I just see everyone want to jump in and help and be a part of it,” Gaga said of the two-hour show (8-10 p.m. ET) that will air on April 18.
Gaga noted that the cast of Sesame Street will also be in the house, as well as actors and athletes for a show she hopes will put a spotlight on the “global, kind community that’s coming together right now,” with a focus on the medical teams doing the brave frontline work, as well as what she said was the “kind” cultural moment we’re all experiencing and the strength of the human spirit in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The announced artist lineup for the show will include Gaga, Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Billy Joe Armstrong, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, Finneas, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Sir Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan and Stevie Wonder; the event will be broadcast live on ABC, NBC and ViacomCBS networks and iHeartMedia in the U.S. and Bell Media platforms in Canada and on BBC One, and stream on Alibaba, Amazon Prime Video, Apple, beIN Media Group, Facebook, Instagram, LiveXLive, Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, TIDAL, TuneIn, Twitch, Twitter, Yahoo and YouTube.
Gaga stressed that the show isn’t a telethon or a fundraiser, since she’s already raised $35 million already, including generous donations from IBM and Cisco, and, in a live call on Fallon, Apple CEO Tim Cook, who FaceTimed in to the show to confirm a “sizable” donation to the cause.
“Of course we appreciate everything that Apple has done already to support the COVID-19 relief effort]. As the CEO of Apple, we’re very grateful to you,” Gaga told Cook.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live! Gaga said she hasn’t left the house in a month and has spent most of the time in quarantine making calls to more than 68 philanthropists and corporate donors to fundraise for the show so that people at home didn’t have to worry about donating during the broadcast. “The truth is that I feel very blessed that I have a home. I feel blessed that I have access to good food and that it’s healthy and clean and I wanted to figure out what I could do with my time to be of service,” she told Kimmel.
Watch Gaga’s late night appearances below.
(Kimmel at 7:30)
(Colbert at 2:45)
