Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an
American late-night talk
show, created and hosted by
Jimmy
Kimmel and broadcast on
ABC.
The nightly hour-long show made its debut on January 26, 2003,
following
Super Bowl XXXVII.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by
Jackhole Productions in association
with
ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone
Television). The
TV Guide Network
used to rebroadcast the previous night's episodes at 7:00pm Eastern
Time, but this has since been discontinued.
Westwood One, through 2008 and most of 2009,
carried radio highlights of the show under the name "Great Moments
with Jimmy Kimmel," but these were dropped in September 2009 in
favor of highlights from
The Jay
Leno Show.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is no longer truly "live"; instead, it
is taped at 7:00 pm Pacific Time on the day of broadcast (two hours
before it reaches air on the East Coast), except in the event of
reruns. On rare occasions, though, it airs a special live edition,
usually after the
Academy Awards
ceremonies.
It is the only late-night (talk show) program in the United States
that doesn't tape in the afternoon, and has become the longest
running ABC late-night talk show since
The Dick Cavett Show in the early
1970s. On April 14, 2009 after the March
sweeps break, the show began broadcasting in
720p HDTV.
History
The hour-long program made its debut after
Super Bowl XXXVII on January 26, 2003. The
program originally aired live (albeit with a
broadcast delay of a few seconds) in the
Eastern Time Zone. In 2004, due to
increasing concerns about offending local affiliates, the show
began its current practice of taping an hour before it is aired so
network executives can vet it before it goes to air.
It airs weeknights
after Nightline
in most parts of the country but the start time varies by
affiliate, with even ABC O&O WLS-TV
in Chicago
delaying the show by an hour for a rerun of The Oprah Winfrey
Show.
Cold Open
These are two minute segments before the theme song and actual
show. Originally it was for a miniature monologue and to talk about
the guests on the show. Over time, this segment has expanded to
include miniature skits and other devices to plug a product from
one of the show's sponsors (better known as "integrated
commercials", which are rarely repeated). The Cold Open device has
since been adopted by late night rival
The Late Late Show with
Craig Ferguson.
Talent
The show's
house band is
Cleto and the Cletones, led by
saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III, a childhood friend of Kimmel's. The
other members in the band are Cleto Escobedo Jr. (the bandleader's
father, on tenor and alto
saxophone), Jeff
Babko (keyboards), Toshi Yanagi (guitar), Jimmy Earl (bass), and
Jonathan Dresel (drums). Like other talk shows with live bands,
Cleto and the Cletones play the show's opening and closing themes
and plays into and out of commercial breaks (they usually play
through the entire break for the studio audience). The show's
opening theme was written by Jonathan Kimmel and Cleto Escobedo III
and sung by
Robert Goulet.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
singer Dicky
Barrett is the show's
announcer. The
show used to feature announcers from the audience, but after the
Bosstones went on hiatus in 2004, Dicky became the permanent
announcer.
"Uncle Frank" Potenza, Kimmel's real-life uncle, serves as a
security guard for the show.
Potenza
was a New York
City
police officer and a
personal security guard for Frank
Sinatra. Guillermo Rodriguez is the real-life Parking
Lot Security Guard for the show, and frequently serves as a
celebrity gossip correspondent in a segment called "Guillermo's
Hollywood Round-Up".
Veatrice Rice was
another parking lot security guard who had several of her own
segments on the show until her death from cancer January 21,
2009.
Popular segments
- Behind the News: Clips are shown from
worldwide newscasts of people who disrupt a reporter during his or
her news segment.
- Breaking News with Pablo Suzuki: Reporter
Pablo Suzuki stands by with pedestrians,
reporting false and tragic news. When the pedestrian tries to give
their opinion on the subject, Pablo usually interrupts them, or
changes the subject. This skit has been retired after Suzuki
refused to renew his contract with the show in 2007.
- Cousin Sal on Location: Cousin Sal usually
performs skits out of the studio, such as impersonating a store employee,
purposely giving customers bad service,
insulting them or giving them something they did not order/ask
for.
- Guillermo's Hollywood Round-Up: Guillermo,
dressed in a cowboy outfit and a lasso, reports the latest entertainment news in front
of a magazine stand. Most of the news reported by Guillermo is
incorrect due to his accent and/or reading
skills.
- Guillermo in Movies: One of the more popular
segments, parking lot attendant Guillermo
is superimposed into current movies. Some of the movies he's been "featured" in
include Bourne Ultimatum,
Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Spider-Man 3, The Simpsons Movie, and Jumper
- How Is This News?: A segment in which they
feature a real-life news story which is seen as pointless or
otherwise non-"newsworthy".
- Jake Byrd... Celebrity
Avenger!: An occasional actor on the show (and a member of
Jimmy's writing staff), Anthony
Barbieri does a periodic piece, in which he plays a fictional
character Jake Byrd, and insinuates
himself into real life events around the country. Often he fools
those at the event, and even the media,
into believing he's a part of the story. Some of the court cases
that he appeared at include Paris
Hilton, O.J. Simpson, and Michael
Jackson. This skit was retired for a time, after Byrd
supposedly quit the show in 2007, but has recently returned.
- Jimmy Kimmel Live Concert Series: See "music"
section below.
- This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: Every
Friday (occasionally Thursdays, if rerun on Friday), a parody on
the FCC's censorship rules airs, where TV clips are
unnecessarily bleeped and blurred, creating the impression of a far
more risqué incident than what had actually been said. Example:
When someone says "Thank you" they bleep out every part of "thank"
except for the "k" so it sounds like they said the "F" word.
Recently, Kimmel also cited the Parents Television Council, a
group known for filing the majority of FCC complaints, as an
influence for this segment. The segment's popularity extends far
beyond people just tuning in to see it every week; many video
editors have uploaded their own versions of unnecessary censorship
on YouTube, usually aimed at one theme, such
as Disney or Harry Potter.
- Uncle Frank and Aunt Chippy's Adventures:
Jimmy sends his Uncle Frank and his ex-wife Conchetta "Chippy"
Potenza to do various activities. (Such as drawing nude models,
paint balling, snake wrangling,
learning self-defense)
- Unintentional Joke of the Day: A clip is
shown, where the line said is usually a sexual innuendo.
- Worst Team on Television: Uncle Frank,
Veatrice, and Guillermo discuss a popular topic of the day, usually
having no clue what they're talking about and eventually devolving
into nonsense and insults. It was retired after Veatrice's death in
2009.
Locations/special episodes
Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Houston
On January
30, 2004 the show did its first ever show in Houston
, in
preparation for Super Bowl
XXXVIII.
Quentin Tarantino Directed Episode
On
April 20, 2004,
Quentin Tarantino directed and produced an
episode incorporating his signature camera shots, lighting, fashion
and music elements.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! - Best of
2004
On December 20, 2004, Jimmy Kimmel Live! reflected on the best
moments from 2004 during a special year-in-review show hosted by
James Lipton.
Non-Denominational All-Star Celebrity Holiday
Special
On December 22, 2004, Kimmel will offer his own witty take on
conventional holiday specials in the style of
Andy Williams,
Perry
Como or
Bob Hope, featuring a
sing-along of "Winter Wonderland" with
Mike
Tyson, a woodwind duet with
Kenny G,
color commentary by movie critics
Roger
Ebert &
Richard Roeper,
children's stories read by
Flavor Flav
and special appearances by
Green Day,
Serena Williams, actress
Jolene Blalock and musical guest
Chris Isaak.
Destiny's Child Episode
On November 15, 2005, the entire show is devoted to
Destiny's Child. This episode, which was the
first to devote an entire episode to a musical guest, was also
their final television appearance as a group.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Detroit
From
January 31, 2006 to February 5, 2006, Kimmel took the show on the
road for a week as it originated from the Gem Theatre
in Detroit
(the host
city of Super Bowl XL).
Jerome Bettis of the
Pittsburgh Steelers and
Matt Hasselbeck of the
Seattle Seahawks were the guests.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards
(2006)
On March 5, 2006, Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired the first special
post-
Academy Awards.
But instead of
originating from its regular home at the El Capitan
Theatre
, the show taped at the El Portal Theatre, in
neighboring Los
Angeles
community North Hollywood
. The guests were:
Jon
Stewart,
Quentin Tarantino and
Johnny Knoxville.
J.J. Abrams Directed
Episode
On May 12, 2006,
J.J. Abrams guest-directed one episode, with featured
guests
Dominic Monaghan, J.J.
Abrams himself, and musical guests
Taking Back Sunday.
Jimmy Kimmel Live's 'All-Star Salute To Jimmy Kimmel
Live! Prime Time Special
On September 13, 2006, a special
prime
time edition of
Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired. This special
showed memorable clips from the show's 3 3/4 years on the
air.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards
(2007)
The second
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards
show aired on February 25, 2007. Among the featured guests who
appeared in this episode were
Dr. Phil,
Ellen DeGeneres (host of the 79th
Annual Academy awards), and musical guest
Gwen Stefani.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! on a Bus
In an
episode that originally aired on May 15, 2007, Jimmy traveled
through Santa Monica,
CA
in an official city Big
Blue Bus. Jimmy Kimmel and his house band picked up
unsuspecting passengers along the 15-stop bus route, in addition to
his celebrity guests (
Paula Abdul,
Flavor Flav, and musical guest
Feist).
Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Pontiac Garage
In this episode that aired on May 22, 2007, Jimmy welcomes
heavy metal singer
Ozzy Osbourne to kick off his new album,
Black Rain. Three
of Ozzy's songs were performed:
I
Don't Wanna Stop,
Crazy Train, and
Not Going Away.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Fifth Anniversary
episode
The show commemorated its fifth anniversary on January 31, 2008
with long time girlfriend
Sarah
Silverman who "surprised" Kimmel with a "music video" of her
and longtime butt of jokes actor
Matt
Damon (see below). A star-studded clip (originally intended to
wish Happy Birthday on November 13, 2007, but pre-empted by the
2007-2008
Writers Guild of America strike) was shown featuring
appearances by
Regis Philbin,
Kelly Ripa,
Jon
Stewart,
Elvis Costello,
Shaquille O'Neal, the hosts from
The View (except
Barbara Walters),
The
Killers,
Andy Dick,
Don Rickles,
Charles
Barkley,
Adam Carolla,
Mike Piazza,
Steve
Garvey,
Stephen Colbert,
Mike Tyson, and finally
Tom Cruise. An "Anniversary Special Unnecessary
Censorship" was featured showing memorable "censored" moments the
show has mocked. The musical guest was a replay of
Coldplay's performance on the first show. At five
years, the series is ABC's longest running entertainment late-night
show in over thirty years.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards
(2008)
The third
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards show
aired on February 24, 2008. Among the featured guests who appeared
in this episode were
Ben Affleck (whom
with Kimmel made a rebuttal video to the Silverman-Damon video),
Jon Stewart (host of the 80th Annual
Academy awards), and musical guest
Mary
J. Blige.
1,000th show
The 1,000th
Jimmy Kimmel Live show aired on April 3, 2008.
Scheduled guests were
Richard
Simmons and musical guest
Kid Rock, who
performed on the Pontiac Garage outdoor stage.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Game Night (2008)
These episodes aired at 8pm ET and preceded the network's
2008 NBA Finals coverage each game night.
These special half-hour pre-game shows began airing on June 5, 2008
and continued through June 17, 2008 (the final night of the NBA
Finals), when the
Boston Celtics won
their 17th NBA World Championship by defeating the
Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2.
Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night Of Stars
Jimmy Kimmel’s Big Night of Stars, which aired prior to the
2008 Primetime Emmy
Awards on September 21, 2008 at 7pm ET, featured guests Ryan
Seacrest, Tracy Morgan, Salma Hayek and Kobe Bryant.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s James Bond Edition
Jimmy Kimmel's James Bond Edition aired on November 13, 2008, which
featured an opening montage of Kimmel as
James Bond with guests that included actor
Daniel Craig, actress
Olga Kurylenko, and musical guest
Ben Folds featuring
Regina Spektor.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards
(2009)
The fourth
Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the Academy Awards
show aired on February 22, 2009. Among the featured guests who
appeared in this episode were
Mel Gibson,
Tom Cruise, and musical guest
Robin Thicke.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Game Night (2009)
These special half-hour episodes began airing on June 4, 2009 and
continued through June 14, 2009, when the Los Angeles Lakers won
their 15th NBA World Championship by defeating the
Orlando Magic in 5 games.
Notable guests and events
- During
Game 2 of the 2004 NBA Finals in
Detroit
, Kimmel
appeared on ABC's halftime show to make an on-air plug for his
show. He suggested that if the Detroit Pistons defeated the Los Angeles Lakers, "they're gonna burn
the city of Detroit down ... and it's not worth it." Officials with
Detroit's ABC affiliate, WXYZ-TV
, immediately
announced that night's show would not air on the station that
night. Hours later, ABC officials pulled that night's show
from the entire network. Kimmel later apologized. The incident led
ABC officials to force Kimmel to tape his show an hour before it
airs in most of the country to check for offending content.
- In May 2006, Kimmel staged a stunt on his show whereby a
rattlesnake bites him on the hand. At
first it appeared real, but as it progresses there are clues that
it is faked. The show follows Kimmel as he is taken to the
hospital, which would never happen if it were real. After a
commercial break he continues to do the show from his hospital bed
with the band, having traveled in the ambulance, at his bedside. The rush to get him in
the hospital tied in with his guests from the ABC show,
Grey's Anatomy.
- On the January 19, 2007 episode thrash metal band Slayer made their first network TV appearance,
performing the songs "Eyes of the
Insane" and "Jihad".
- In February 2007, Andy Dick was
forcibly removed during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel
Live!, after repeatedly touching guest Ivanka Trump without her permission. After
rubbing Trump's legs and touching her hair, Jimmy Kimmel begged him
to behave himself. When Dick asked Trump to "give him a big, fat,
sloppy kiss right on the lips" and grabbed her arm, Kimmel called
in two security guards. In May 2007, he
made another appearance on Kimmel, which began by showing the clip
of him being dragged out of his previous appearance, and then
wheeled out, Hannibal Lecter-style,
on a dolly. To date, Dick is the only guest to have been forcibly
removed from the show. When Dick appeared on Kimmel on January 2,
2008, there were no references to his incident with Trump.
- Kimmel underwent an emergency appendectomy on June 20,
2007, which forced the cancellation of the show's scheduled tapings
for June 21-22. Instead, ABC rebroadcast the two episodes that
originally aired during the 2007 NBA
Finals.
- On November 5, 2007, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, along with
most of the other late night talk shows, immediately began airing
in reruns as the 2007-2008 Writers
Guild of America strike began. The WGA strike forced the
cancellation of the show's scheduled tapings through the end of the
year.
- On January 2, 2008, Jimmy Kimmel Live! along with the
Tonight Show with Jay
Leno, Late
Night with Conan O'Brien, and Last Call with Carson Daly
returned to air without writers, with the WGA still on strike. This
was in response to the deal by David
Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants with the WGA to allow
Late Show with David
Letterman and Late Late Show with Craig
Ferguson to return with writers. According to Sarah
Silverman, Kimmel had been paying the show's staff "out of his own
pocket" during the strike. When the show went back on the air, he
reran taped sketches so that the still-striking writers would be
"paid residual
every single day".
- On January 10, 2008, Jay Leno appeared
on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, while Kimmel was a guest on the
Tonight Show
that same night.
- On May 1, 2008, Stone Temple
Pilots appeared playing their first show since their break up
in 2003. The songs "Vasoline" and "Trippin' on a Hole in a
Paper Heart" were televised.
- On January 23, 2009, the show ran a small
collection of videoclips honoring security
guard Veatrice Rice, who had died of cancer.
She was particularly known for playing a quiet character whose
punchlines were famous for including
obscene words.
- On April 14, 2009, the show began broadcasting in HD.
- On November 18, 2009 the show did a parody of Cougar Town starring Courtney Cox. Cloris
Leachman was shown as the star of Sabertooth Tiger
Town.
Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon
Frequently at the end of the show, Kimmel thanks the guests as
usual, but then adds, "Our apologies to
Matt
Damon, we ran out of time." Kimmel told
TMZ.com that he says this "for no good reason at
all," continuing, "A star like Matt Damon would never be scheduled
to appear near the end of the show where he can be bumped." On
September 12, 2006, Damon appeared on
Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
A montage of clips demonstrating the numerous times Kimmel
performed the bit was shown and, after a very lengthy introduction
by Kimmel, Damon appeared on stage. After a few seconds, Kimmel
apologized and stated that the show was out of time. He asked Damon
if he could come back tomorrow, to which he replied, "Go f***
yourself." Damon continued to curse at Kimmel throughout the
rolling of the credits, ultimately slapping the desk and walking
off the set with Kimmel chasing after him. In the December 17, 2006
issue of
USA Weekend, Kimmel himself confirmed that the
Damon incident was a joke, putting the debate to rest. In the June
5, 2007 episode, Kimmel sent his sidekick Guillermo to the
Ocean's Thirteen premiere
to interview Matt Damon, though when he started the interview, he
said that they were out of time, at which point Damon assumed that
Kimmel sent him. In the August 2, 2007 episode, Kimmel then
announced that Guillermo was taking on the role of Jason Bourne,
who was played by Damon, for
The Bourne Ultimatum. A
clip was shown in which Guillermo was playing Bourne, until Damon
showed up and thought that Kimmel was now trying to bump him from
his movie. Damon tried to chase Guillermo but Guillermo slapped him
and jumped through a wall.
"I'm Fucking Matt Damon" and response video
In a related segment that aired on January 31, 2007, Kimmel's then
long-time girlfriend
Sarah Silverman
announced, via a music video, that she had been "fucking Matt
Damon." Damon took an additional jab at Kimmel's long running gag
by telling Kimmel at the end of the video, "Jimmy, we're out of
time. Sorry." On
February 24, on
Kimmel's third post-Oscar show, he debuted his rebuttal video
announcing that he's "fucking
Ben
Affleck." In addition to Affleck, the video featured
Robin Williams,
Don
Cheadle,
Harrison Ford,
Cameron Diaz,
Christina Applegate,
Benji Madden with
Joel
Madden from
Good Charlotte,
Dicky Barrett,
Christopher Mintz-Plasse,
Lance Bass,
Dominic
Monaghan,
Meat Loaf,
Pete Wentz,
Joan Jett,
Huey Lewis,
Perry Farrell,
Macy
Gray,
Rebecca Romijn,
Lauren Conrad,
Josh
Groban,
Mike Shinoda with David
Farrell from
Linkin Park and unnamed
choir singers as recording booth singers, along with
Brad Pitt as a delivery man.
In late February 2008,
Quick
Stop Entertainment premiered a
parody
video entitled "I'm Fucking
Seth
Rogen" as a promotion for
Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
The videos have also been parodied in a scene at the end of
Disaster Movie; in the
original version all the characters sing that they're "dating" each
other, but in the uncensored DVD version they all sing they're
"fucking" each other.
In July 2008,
the
Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences announced that the "I'm Fucking
Matt Damon" had received a
Creative
Arts Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music
And Lyrics, competing against two songs from
Flight of the
Conchords, one from
MADtv,
and another from
Phineas and
Ferb. It won in that category as well as for editing.
Silverman, who accepted the award, thanked Damon who, she stated,
had little to do with the video's popularity, and Kimmel "who broke
my heart—who will have a special place in my heart."
Sets
The stage where the show is taped has gone through many changes,
from the addition of a platform in front of the stage for Jimmy to
do his monologue, to various stage backgrounds.
In January 2005, the
show's original set at LA's famed El Capitan Theatre, which had video screens in the background and the
band performing on the left side of the stage, was replaced with
the current set, which has a city in the background. The
band now performs on the right side of the stage.
In the special February 25, 2007 episode of
Jimmy Kimmel
Live! (the second "After the Academy Awards"
show), the current set was slightly tweaked when an illustrated
picture of a city, which was seen in the background from January
2005 to February 2007, was replaced with a 3D collage of Los Angeles and Hollywood (including the adjacent Kodak Theatre
across from the studio where his show is broadcast
from). The 3D image, which was first used during
Lionel Richie's outdoor stage performances in
the September 16, 2006 episode, was created by artists Colin Cheer
and Brian Walters.
Music
In the
Jimmy Kimmel Live Concert Series segment, there is
a musical performance at the end of the show, which is performed on
either an indoor or outdoor stage, or on location.
Coors Light previously
sponsored most of the show's musical performances from 2004-2006.
Pontiac was the previous sponsor until its parent company,
General Motors, filed for bankruptcy in
2009.
In June 2005,
Jimmy Kimmel Live! partnered with
Pontiac for its concerts from the Pontiac Garage
outdoor stage in Hollywood. Streaming videos of off-air
performances, which are shown in their entirety, can be seen by
going to the show's Web site and clicking on the "Pontiac Garage"
link.
Other end-of-show segments
At the end of some shows, there are
comedians doing
stand-up
comedy. This is occasionally seen in place of the
Jimmy
Kimmel Live Concert Series segment. Another end-of-show
segment is the rarely seen
Future Talent Showcase.
International broadcasts
See also
References
- Jimmy Kimmel Live Ticket & Taping
Information
- http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09100/961840-67.stm
- Why Andy Dick Was Escorted off Jimmy Kimmel's
Stage
- Jimmy Kimmel Has Emergency Appendectomy
- http://news.lalate.com/2009/01/23/veatrice-rice/
-
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2009/01/abc-family-march-2009-highlights-cbs.html
- More "I Just GOTTA KNOW!" - Halle, Jimmy and Denise
- TMZ.com - Entertainment News, Celebrity Gossip and Hollywood
Rumors
- USA WEEKEND Magazine
- QUICK STOP EXCLUSIVE: I’m Fucking Seth Rogen »
Quick Stop Entertainment
- http://cdn.emmys.tv/awards/2008pte/60thpte_noms.php
- ABC.com: Jimmy Kimmel Live! - Jimmy Kimmel Live
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