--- title: Gary Busey Announces Dancing With the Stars Appearance description: Gary Busey announces he will appear on Dancing With the Stars by riding a horse into the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio canonical: https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-02T16:34:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:12.553Z og:title: Gary Busey Just Proved He Really Knows How to Make an Entrance og:description: Watch him ride a horse into the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' studio og:url: https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gary Busey Just Proved He Really Knows How to Make an Entrance twitter:description: Watch him ride a horse into the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' studio twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gary Busey Just Proved He Really Knows How to Make an Entrance ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 2, 2015 4:34 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 2, 2015 4:34 PM UTC On _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ Tuesday night, actor Gary Busey made a dramatic entrance on horseback to announce that he would appear on the next season of _Dancing With the Stars._ When the comedian asked Busey what made him agree to be a part of the show, he simply replied, “I didn’t have anything else to do.” The next season of the ABC show premieres Sept. 14 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The other stars on the show will include Paula Deen, Chaka Khan and Nick Carter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"Gary Busey Just Proved He Really Knows How to Make an Entrance","datePublished":"2015-09-02T16:34:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:12.553Z","description":"Watch him ride a horse into the Jimmy Kimmel Live! studio","url":"https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"Gary Busey Just Proved He Really Knows How to Make an Entrance"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4020136/gary-busey-dancing-with-the-stars-horse-jimmy-kimmel/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```