The pod covers much ground, including:
Kimmel's roots in Brooklyn as well as Las Vegas...
The highs and lows of his radio career...
Starting out as a TV personality on Win Ben Stein's Money and The Man Show...
Where late night television is going...
Kimmel's fishing lodge in Idaho...
Jimmy Kimmel is an American late-night talk-show personality, producer, and comedian best known as the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Kimmel was raised in Las Vegas, where he spent his childhood cultivating a love of pranks and practical jokes, which served as unlikely training for future television hijinks. Inspired by his idol David Letterman, Kimmel began hosting an interview show on a local college radio station while he was still in high school.
In 1994 Kimmel joined The Kevin & Bean Show, a morning show on Los Angeles radio station KROQ, first as a producer and then as an on-air personality blending sports and humor as Jimmy the Sports Guy.
From 1997 to 2002 Kimmel appeared alongside Ben Stein on the television game show Win Ben Stein’s Money.
Beginning in 1999, Kimmel and Adam Carolla co-hosted The Man Show, a talk show aimed at young male audiences with a mix of scantily clad women and irreverent humor.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! debuted in 2003 after Kimmel was selected over several other popular potential hosts to fill the ABC television network’s 12:05 AM time slot. The show was slow to take off, initially suffering from low ratings and difficulty attracting guests, as Kimmel worked to shed the frat-boy image he had established as a host of The Man Show.
He also hosted various awards shows, including the Emmys (2012, 2016, and 2020) and the Oscars (2017 and 2018). In 2020 he became the host of a celebrity version of the prime-time game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
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