--- title: Kerry Washington Hates Group Texts: Jimmy Kimmel Live! description: A new Jimmy Kimmel sketch proves there's one problem even Scandal's ultimate fixer Kerry Washington can't solve: avoiding a group text. canonical: https://time.com/4468395/kerry-washington-group-text-jimmy-kimmel-live/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-26T15:56:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:54.952Z og:title: Kerry Washington Hates Group Texts Even More Than You Do og:description: Nothing can stop the madness og:url: https://time.com/4468395/kerry-washington-group-text-jimmy-kimmel-live/ 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: Kerry Washington Hates Group Texts Even More Than You Do twitter:description: Nothing can stop the madness twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kerry Washington Hates Group Texts Even More Than You Do  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 26, 2016 3:56 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 26, 2016 3:56 PM UTC Although [Kerry Washington](http://time.com/4361079/kerry-washington-black-casting/) plays ultimate fixer [Olivia Pope](http://time.com/4051216/kerry-washington-stephen-colbert-olivia-pope/) on _Scandal_, a new [_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ ](http://time.com/4462478/hillary-clinton-health-rumors-jimmy-kimmel/)sketch proves there’s one problem even she can’t solve: avoiding a group text. In a “trailer” that debuted during Thursday’s episode of the late night show, Washington plays a woman who is trying to spend a relaxing night at home when she is suddenly bombarded by an onslaught of group texts. Despite several extreme attempts to stop the incoming messages — including flushing her phone down the toilet and shooting it with a gun — a horrified Washington finally realizes there is no escape. Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4468395/kerry-washington-group-text-jimmy-kimmel-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4468395/kerry-washington-group-text-jimmy-kimmel-live/"},"headline":"Kerry Washington Hates Group Texts Even More Than You Do","datePublished":"2016-08-26T15:56:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:54.952Z","description":"Nothing can stop the madness","url":"https://time.com/4468395/kerry-washington-group-text-jimmy-kimmel-live/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Kerry Washington","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/4468395/kerry-washington-group-text-jimmy-kimmel-live/","name":"Kerry Washington Hates Group Texts Even More Than You Do"}}]}] ```