Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nearly Jon Stewart Live! During a visit to Ted Danson’sWhere Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Jimmy Kimmel revealed how he inadvertently swiped the ABC gig from fellow comic Jon Stewart. In the early 2000s, ABC was on the hunt for someone to host a late-night show, …
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Jimmy Kimmel Live returned to air just over two weeks ago after ABC and Disney suspended the show after Jimmy Kimmel criticized right-wingers for trying to “score political points” off the murder of Charlie Kirk in a monologue. During an interview at the Bloomberg Screentime media conference in Hollywood, Kimmel …
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Jimmy Kimmel is officially more popular than Donald Trump. Or, at least, he is according to a new YouGov poll. “I am more popular than the president of the United States,” Kimmel announced proudly during the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “You remember the guy who keeps saying I …
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Bruce Springsteen stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night to offer some much-needed words of hope — and also talk about the one time he tried doing karaoke. Near the end of the interview — which was conducted alongside Springsteen biopic star Jeremy Allen White — Kimmel asked Springsteen …
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Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert appeared on each other’s shows last night, using both opportunities to reflect on the recent chaos that has befallen late-night TV. Colbert sat down on Jimmy Kimmel Live, which is taping in Brooklyn this week, for an interview about his show being cancelled and winning …
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More than 550 actors, directors, writers and musicians — including Jane Fonda, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal, Gracie Abrams, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, John Legend, Janelle Monae, and Natalie Portman — have teamed up to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment, a group originally formed in …
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Public Enemy appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform a medley of “Don’t Believe the Hype,” “The Hits Just Keep on Comin’,” and “Fight the Power.” As the rap group took the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Jimmy Kimmel is hosting a week of shows, the musicians …
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The Trump administration’s attempt to silence Jimmy Kimmel appears to have backfired. The host’s broadcast return to late-night television on Tuesday brought in 6.2 million views, four timeshis usual audience, according to data from Nielsen. Meanwhile, Kimmel’s monologue on YouTube has reached 21 million views and counting, making it his …
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The Office stars Oscar Nuñez and Kate Flannery scored big on Thursday’s season finale of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The actors, playing for Planned Parenthood and Philadelphia food bank Philabundance, won the coveted $1 million prize. On the game show, the duo reached the final question: “The word …
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Sinclair has ended its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, announcing the show will resume airing on its ABC affiliates Friday night, Sept. 26. In a statement, the company said, “Our objective throughout this process has been to ensure that programming remains accurate and engaging for the widest possible audience. We …
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