Tim Allen joked about the similarities between military service and being behind bars as he looked back on his younger years in a new interview.The “Home Improvement” actor made the odd comparison while talking about his passion for giving back to military veterans during a Monday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”“I love helping our vets, I love anything I can do,” he said, while giving a shoutout to Wounded Warriors Project, a nonprofit that assists veterans and their families. “I should have gone into the military rather than prison,” Allen, who served two years in prison for drug trafficking in his 20s, continued. “I had a choice and prison is the way I went.”He then mused about how both experiences may have more in common than people think, saying, “It is the same sort of thing: food is kind of weird and you have to wear a uniform and all that.”Tim Allen joked he should've "gone into the military rather than prison" during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Monday.Randy Holmes/DisneyAllen was arrested in 1978 with over a pound of cocaine in his possession and subsequently pleaded guilty to drug charges.In a 2021 interview on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, the star of “Shifting Gears” said his time in prison taught him a certain type of discipline, like how to keep his head down and stay in line.“I just shut up and did what I was told,” Allen explained. “It was the first time ever I did what I was told and played the game... I learned literally how to live day by day. And I learned how to shut up. You definitely want to learn how to shut up.”Close