Posted on 08/21/2018 11:35:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Beast, the Emmy-nominated late-night host weighs in on Trump, Omarosa, Kanye, Hannity, Matt Damon, the Oscars and a lot more.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — When I walk into Jimmy Kimmel’s large corner office above the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, he offers me the customary bottle of water. “Or do you want eight Diet Cokes like the president?” he asks.
The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! is in a reflective mood but Trump jokes are never far from his mind. As we start our interview, Kimmel is lounging on a large sectional couch, wearing socks, jeans and an untucked shirt. His hair is noticeably less kempt than it will be when he takes the stage downstairs a few hours later. Just a few days away from a two week vacation, Kimmel seems ready for a break. “We’re pounding it out,” he says of this home stretch of shows.
As it has for most late-night hosts, the Trump administration has kept Kimmel on his toes, providing a never-ending stream of hilarious and/or terrifying news stories for him to joke and/or cry about in his nightly monologue. “The show’s never really finished until I’m standing on that stage,” he tells me at one point. “And it’s a pain in the ass, quite frankly, to be writing a monologue an hour before the show starts. But we do it a lot now.”
We begin our interview by talking about his show’s seventh consecutive nomination in the main Emmy category for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. It’s an award Jimmy Kimmel Live! has never won, losing out to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver the past two years and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report several times before that....
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Kind of ironic - if it weren’t for stories like this, I wouldn’t know that Kimmel exists....
Not to worry, Jimmy. You DON’T appeal to Trump’s base. Now run along.
Jimmy Kimmel is a #MeToo movement accusation away from being gone.
I miss The Man Show .......
I disagree; he’s bought himself an insurance policy.
Kimmel seems ready for a break. “We’re pounding it out,” he says of this home stretch of shows.”””
These showbiz douchbags often lose perspective on their lives and work. While it takes talent doing a TV show ain’t shit in the hard work department.
If NBC had any brains, they’d counter program with Johnny Carson reruns.
I’ve been watching Carson reruns lately. my husband loves them. it is nice to laugh again.
All the reports I’ve seen show that Carson was far from being a nice guy personally. He was, however, a master of comedic timing, he understood his audience, and was a magnificient interviewer.
You couldn’t be a nice guy and survive in the entertainment business for very long, it’s the nature of the beast.
Four fried chickens and a coke.
What did he say about Harvey Weinstein and the other fellow Hollywood entertainment types that have been sexual assaulters?
Notice they can’t get Trump, Fox News, Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham, Pence and Melania/Barron out of their heads? But they sure do like Shep Smith and that Lieutenant Colonel that just went rogue.
His kid almost dying was a sign from God that he shouldn’t reproduce.
#13 Imagine the approval number if the media and hollywood hucksters reported the actual facts.
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