"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" (2003) TV series 2003-????

Creator:

Jimmy Kimmel

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | unknown

Release Date:

26 January 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Talk-Show

Plot:

Jimmy Kimmel interviews celebrities.

Plot Keywords:

Late Night | Character Name In Title

Awards:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 7 nominations

Cast

Jimmy Kimmel

...

Himself - Host / ... (1,295 episodes, 2003-2009)

Also Known As:

Jimmy Kimmel (Australia)
The Jimmy Kimmel Project (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Jackhole Industries

Trivia:

The show was originally broadcast live. In 2004, due to increasing concerns about offending local affiliates, the show began taping an hour before airtime so network executives can vet it before it goes to air.

Quotes:

Jimmy Kimmel: Didn't you get bit by a spider or something?
Chester Bennington: Yes, I got bit on my ass by a spider. And I thought that I had cancer but...
Jimmy Kimmel: ...it turns out you have super powers!
Chester Bennington: It turns out now that I can climb buildings, and save people from criminal acts.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Colin Farrell/Scissor Sisters (#30.7)" (2004)

Talk show without firm footing passes on charm.

With a grin that might be mistaken for intoxication, Jimmy Kimmel spends most of Jimmy Kimmel Live seemingly bemused by all the corporate fuss made over his silly ideas (the now-prohibited open bar for the studio audience, his proposal to have a TV monitor on the desk so that he could flip over to competing shows should things become at all dull), and he hosts this talk show much the same way Al Pacino's suicidal ex-navy colonel waltzes through "Scent of a Woman": aware of his own encroaching demise, and free to be himself. The mortality rate of talk show hosts is not comforting to any young upstart, for every Leno and Letterman, there are Chevy Chases, Pat Sajaks, Lauren Huttons, Rick Deeses, Whoopi Goldbergs, Magic Johnsons, Keenan Ivory Wayanses, Chris Spencers, etc., but Kimmel seems to be downright tickled pink. Although defanged considerably since The Man Show and lacking an intrinsically hilarious writing team, he maintains (and relies on) a likeability that patches the often awkward holes well, like early Letterman without the memorable bits.