Jimmy Kimmel unsurprisingly had a whole lot more Will Smith/slap jokes prepared for this year’s Oscars, but executive producer Molly McNearney (who’s also Kimmel’s wife) explained why they were ultimately cut from the show in a new interview with Variety. “We didn’t want to make this year all about last …
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Speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of his third Oscar-hosting stint, Jimmy Kimmel relayed that him and his late-night writing team had been putting in hours and hours of prep work for cinema’s biggest night. Well, it finally came. And Kimmel didn’t disappoint. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! funnyman kicked off his …
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Now this was a damn good Oscar Night. The 95th Academy Awards show sure helped dispel the bad odor of the past few years. Watching the In Memoriam interlude last year, as a cheerleader squad honored dead people by singing “Spirit in the Sky,” I said aloud, “This show can’t …
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With blockbuster movies like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water nominated for Best Picture, more eyes will be on this Sunday’s Academy Awards — and the night’s host, Jimmy Kimmel. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! ringleader will be hosting the Oscars for the third time. He was, of …
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Jimmy Kimmel clearly got a kick out of Rolling Stone’s new report about former president Donald Trump’s futile efforts to get Disney to censor the late-night host. As he joked on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night: “In other words, President Karen demanded to speak to my manager.” On Sunday, we …
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In early 2018, the American national security apparatus was fixated on reports that North Korea was building nuclear weapons that could reach the U.S. or that Russia was plotting chemical weapons assassinations in Europe. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump was busy targeting his idea of an enemy of the state: late …
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Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the Oscars. To usher in the occasion, he’s joined by Top Gun: Maverick stars Jon Hamm and Charles Parnell in the first trailer for the 2023 awards show. The two-time (soon to be three-time) host puts on the Maverick flight suit for the …
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In a stranger-than-fiction moment, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell‘s return to Jimmy Kimmel Live took place from inside a claw machine on Tuesday night. Explaining that Lindell had been trying to get back on his show for a long time, Kimmel invited him on caveat that he do so while sitting …
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Jimmy Kimmel came back from the holidays ready to roast the latest political flops from over the break. Naturally, he took a shot at newly elected congressman George Santos, who spent his first morning on Capitol Hill dodging reporters and getting iced by his fellow Republicans. Kimmel went down the …
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Michelle Obama visited the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday to talk about her new book, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, which released in Nov. During her interview with Kimmel, Obama shared stories of her first visit to Hawaii to visit Barack’s grandparents during Christmas and …
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