![]() ![]() In 1990, Kimmel and Voss were fired by KZOK and were fired again a year later at WRBQ-FM in Tampa. Over the next 10 months, the hosts performed several stunts on air, including one that led to an $8,000 loss in advertising. ![]() In 1989, Kimmel landed his first paying job alongside Voss as morning drive co-host of The Me and Him Show at KZOK-FM in Seattle, Washington. While attending Arizona State University, he became a popular caller to the KZZP-FM afternoon show hosted by radio personalities Mike Elliott and Kent Voss in Phoenix, Arizona. He was the host of a Sunday night interview show on UNLV's college station, KUNV. Inspired by David Letterman's start in radio, Kimmel began working in radio while in high school. His brother Jonathan works on the show as a director. His cousin Sal Iacono performed Kimmel's former co-hosting duties during the last season of Win Ben Stein's Money and then became a writer and sketch performer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! His Aunt Chippy (Concetta Potenza) is also a featured part of the show. Kimmel's uncle, Frank Potenza ("Uncle Frank"), appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011. He received an honorary degree from UNLV in 2013. Clark High School and attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before transferring to Arizona State University. ![]() The family moved to Las Vegas when he was nine years old. According to a DNA test, Kimmel is also of partial Albanian descent. His family's surname was " Kümmel" (" caraway" in German) several generations back. Two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German immigrants. Kimmel's mother is of Italian ancestry from Ischia, Naples and her family migrated to the United States after the 1883 earthquake. He was raised Catholic and as a child, was an altar boy. He is the eldest of three children of Joan (Iacono) and James John Kimmel, who worked at American Express and was an IBM executive. Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin. Kimmel has hosted a late-night talk show the longest of all current late night television hosts in the United States, after Conan O'Brien’s retirement from hosting a late-night program. In 2018, Time named him as one of " The World's 100 Most Influential People". Kimmel has also produced shows including Crank Yankers, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, and The Andy Milonakis Show. He also hosted the Academy Awards in 2017, 20.īefore hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel was the co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 20. He is the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show which premiered on ABC on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California and on April 1, 2019, at a secondary home, the Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. ![]() To that end, expect a lot of road closures around Bev Hills Tuesday morning with the trip to the American Horror Story co-creator’s home and the subsequent drive of the motorcade out to LAX and Air Force One.īTW – Tinseltown political fixer Andy Spahn and Jennifer Perry were among the co-hosts breaking bread with POTUS tonight, as were past big contributors Crystal and Chris Sacca in a co-host capacity too.James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. A $33,400 a ticket event at Ryan Murphy’s tomorrow morning will be the 43rd and and very likely last H’wood cash-in for the 44th POTUS – with the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump now a mere two weeks away from Election night. With around $3 million raised for the HFC tonight out of his core donor base, this was the President’s 42nd Tinseltown fundraiser since taking office in January 2009. It was also a Hollywood ATM swan song of sorts for a President who has gotten a lot of dough out of this town for his own campaigns and those of fellow Democrats over the years. Unlike many of those past events at the home of the ex-DreamWorks Animation boss and others, tonight was closed media. for Obama, the relatively intimate setting at the Katzenberg’s Beverly Hills pad saw POTUS sitting down with near one-on-ones. “Many of us know this will be the last time we’ll see him while he’s still in office.” “It was actually somewhat emotional with the history this group have with the President,” one guest told Deadline of the 6 PM starting evening. Timothy Olyphant Reveals Why He Didn't Get The Role Of James T. ![]()
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