Audrey Hobert Twirls Through “Chateau” on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Audrey Hobert returned to late-night television this week with a performance of “Chateau” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, twirling through the song and capping it with a comically abridged guitar solo.

The appearance marks her second late-night booking in less than a year. Hobert made her late-night debut on The Tonight Show last October, where she performed “Sue Me” styled like a school talent show. That performance went viral and introduced her to a whole new audience — a fact that raised the stakes considerably for her follow-up outing on Kimmel’s stage.

The new performance gives “Chateau” the physical, theatrical treatment that made her first television appearance a breakout moment. Where “Sue Me” borrowed the visual language of a school gymnasium talent show, the “Chateau” rendition leans on choreographed twirling and a deliberately truncated guitar solo played for laughs.

The television stop lands at a busy moment in Hobert’s schedule. Tonight she closes out a three-night run at New York’s Brooklyn Paramount in support of her 2025 album, Who’s the Clown?

She has also kept busy in the studio and on the radio. Hobert recently contributed a co-write to Daughter From Hell, the new release from her close friend and longtime collaborator Gracie Abrams. And she stopped by the NPR offices to record her own Tiny Desk Concert, joining the long-running series that has become a rite of passage for emerging songwriters.

For listeners arriving at Hobert’s catalog through the Kimmel performance, Sam Sodomsky’s column “It’s a Good Time to Get Into Audrey Hobert” offers a critical entry point into her work.

With a viral debut behind her, a sold-scale New York residency closing tonight, and collaborations with one of pop’s most prominent young names, Hobert’s second late-night appearance suggests the October moment was less a fluke than the start of a run.