Salon.com > Jimmy Kimmel http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 13:20:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Jimmy Kimmel filters Charlie Sheen through a Peanuts lens http://www.salon.com/2011/03/01/kimmel_sheen_charlie_brown/ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/01/kimmel_sheen_charlie_brown/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/01/kimmel_sheen_charlie_brown Charlie Sheen's recent behavior has been erratic, confusing, some would say frightening. And Jimmy Kimmel wants to help make the sitcom star's interviews a little more palatable. That's why the late night host set the sounds of a Charlie Sheen media bonanza to the more familiar and comfortable confines of a Peanuts cartoon, as part of his ongoing Kimmel Kartoon segment.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/03/01/kimmel_sheen_charlie_brown/feed/ 2 Jimmy Kimmel lampoons “The King’s Speech” http://www.salon.com/2011/02/28/jimmy_kimmel_the_president_s_speech/ http://www.salon.com/2011/02/28/jimmy_kimmel_the_president_s_speech/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:39:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2011/02/28/jimmy_kimmel_the_president_s_speech Jimmy Kimmel was all over Best Picture winner "The King's Speech" during his show last night. The ABC late night host unveiled a spoof of the film, presented as a trailer for a new, Americanized version of the Oscar champion. It was titled, "The President's Speech," and featured former President George W. Bush and boxer Mike Tyson.

There isn't much that this send-up doesn't have. The 43rd President of the United States struggles to utter a coherent sentence during interviews and speeches, and brings in the "stupendously loquacious" former boxing champ -- who paints oil portraits of unicorns in his free time -- to clear up his vocal disability. This movie is not yet rated, but totally awesome.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/02/28/jimmy_kimmel_the_president_s_speech/feed/ 7 Jimmy Kimmel mashes up Peanuts with Jersey Shore fight http://www.salon.com/2011/02/15/jimmy_kimmel_jersey_shore_mash_up/ http://www.salon.com/2011/02/15/jimmy_kimmel_jersey_shore_mash_up/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:38:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/02/15/jimmy_kimmel_jersey_shore_mash_up Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has been setting the sounds of "Jersey Shore" against a classic "Peanuts" backdrop for some months now. But it's never been more relevant than last week's pressure cooker of an episode.

For those of you not acquainted with the trials and tribulations of Ronnie and Sammi Sweetheart, it suffices to say that stuff got ugly. The "Jersey Shore" couple broke up (again), which on its own wouldn't exactly be notable. It was the shrieking, flailing and mattress-flinging that struck a nerve.

Enter "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Somehow, transporting the histrionic dialogue out of the realm of Ed Hardy, duck phones and bronzer and into Charles Schulz's imagined world makes it a little less cringe-worthy. And as an added bonus, we took the liberty of culling some other great Kimmel mashups below.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/02/15/jimmy_kimmel_jersey_shore_mash_up/feed/ 1 Why you should be watching Jimmy Kimmel http://www.salon.com/2010/12/05/jimmy_kimmel_king_of_late_night/ http://www.salon.com/2010/12/05/jimmy_kimmel_king_of_late_night/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/heather_havrilesky/2010/12/04/jimmy_kimmel_king_of_late_night Shots were fired, angry accusations flew, risky stands were taken, and gigantic egos were bruised -- but did anyone really win the late night wars? Since waging a valiant crusade against NBC and Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien finally retreated to TBS, comforted by the rabid devotion of Team Coco members nationwide. But even as his ratings remain impressive, he's faced with one recurring question: How many self-deprecating basic cable jokes does it take to mask the defeat inherent in trading in a lifelong dream of hosting "The Tonight Show" for a spot in television's hinterlands? Meanwhile, Jay Leno continues to play the clueless country uncle who came home from the state fair with a shiny new Corvette he won at the ring toss, gamely telling his ultra-sophisticated fat jokes and terrorist jokes and ugly-sister jokes on a set about as stylish and edgy as the lobby of the Cheesecake Factory. Snickering on the sidelines, as always, is David Letterman, who delighted at playing the bemused onlooker in this bloody conflict, but still never emerged as the clear ratings winner of the lot. Although he must've taken some real satisfaction in demonstrating just how much pain and anguish NBC could've spared itself by awarding him "The Tonight Show" gig almost two decades ago, Letterman has been doing the same incredulous snark routine for so long now (without many variations or imaginative twists), that not even an awkward admission of infidelity could shake us out of our indifference.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/12/05/jimmy_kimmel_king_of_late_night/feed/ 73 Shatner and Ferrell’s late-night musical genius http://www.salon.com/2010/11/04/ferrell_shatner_late_night/ http://www.salon.com/2010/11/04/ferrell_shatner_late_night/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:52:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2010/11/04/ferrell_shatner_late_night Gods of late night comedy and off key singing; you have been too good to us this week. On Monday, you bestowed the odd little bonbon of Will Ferrell and boxer Manny Pacquiao dueting to the John Lennon classic "Imagine" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Why, aside from the fact that Ferrell has a new movie to promote, did this happen, you ask. Why was Ferrell in a white suit? What does he have to do with Manny Pacquiao? And why did the whole bit employ every screen wipe in the big book of TV screen wipes? Because any way you serve it, two men singing about harmony with zero regard for the musical meaning of the word is awesome, that's why.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/11/04/ferrell_shatner_late_night/feed/ 8 The Year in Sanity: Jimmy Kimmel http://www.salon.com/2010/10/12/jimmy_kimmel_year_sanity/ http://www.salon.com/2010/10/12/jimmy_kimmel_year_sanity/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2010/10/12/jimmy_kimmel_year_sanity Deep in the national nightmare of the notorious late-night wars of 2010, you couldn't wake up in the morning without a fresh dissection of what scathing remarks Conan O'Brien had pulled off, what digs Jay Leno had gotten in, and what satisfied glee David Letterman had vented the night before. Yet despite all the gags, the whole spectacle sometimes felt as terrible and exhausting as a dysfunctional family gathering -- replete with emotional baggage and hurt feelings. So it came as a welcome surprise when Jimmy Kimmel, the low-key dude who made his name with "The Man Show," emerged as the voice of clarity in the midst of the debacle.

Like everybody, he'd made a few jokes about the bloodbath. He'd even brazenly done an opening bit in Leno drag, big chin and all. But on January 14, he went above and beyond. Appearing via satellite on the "10 at 10" segment on Leno's own show, Kimmel defiantly, genially ripped the guy a new one. "I have a lot of questions to ask you about this whole thing," he said cheerily, speaking for everybody at home. And it was more than just crazy chutzpah to then go on to tell Jay Leno -- and his audience -- that the best prank he ever pulled was that "I told a guy that, five years from now, I'm gonna give you my show. And then when the five years came, I gave it to him, and then I took it back almost instantly." It was utterly sane.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/10/12/jimmy_kimmel_year_sanity/feed/ 18 “Lost”: The alternate ending http://www.salon.com/2010/05/24/lost_alternate_ending/ http://www.salon.com/2010/05/24/lost_alternate_ending/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 12:25:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2010/05/24/lost_alternate_ending So now that all the speculation is over and we know the true fates of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 – to the extent that such a thing is possible in the ambiguous Lostverse – we can't help wondering, what if they'd done it differently?

Well, if you were too busy quietly weeping and telling your dog you love him to catch Jimmy Kimmel's "Aloha to Lost" with the cast and crew late Sunday night, you might have missed Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof's revelation of their three alternate endings to the series. Far be it for us to spoil them -- we'll just say that we're a little in love with the cast and Kimmel today for giving us a taste of the vastly different "Lost" that might have been.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/05/24/lost_alternate_ending/feed/ 2 Kimmel slays Leno http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/kimmel_leno/ http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/kimmel_leno/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:16:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2010/01/15/kimmel_leno The bloodbath shows no signs of abating -- and the breakout supporting star in the Leno-Conan war is shaping up to be Jimmy Kimmel. After doing a viciously dead-on Leno impersonation on his own late-night ABC show earlier this week, Kimmel appeared on Leno last night and really let rip.

Leno himself got in a few relatively tame disses ("With all the controversy going on here at NBC, actually, ratings have gone up. So... you're welcome!") at the top of the show before handing over the wheel to Kimmel, who appeared via satellite to do Leno's "10 at 10" segment.

Kimmel eased in gently, sharing the secrets of doing a good Leno impression, and then became increasingly, hilariously brutal. Asked what the best prank he ever pulled was, he replied, "I told a guy that, five years from now, I'm gonna give you my show. And then when the five years came, I gave it to him, and then I took it back almost instantly." And it goes from there. Watching it, it's hard to say which is more cruelly funny -- Kimmel's digs or Leno's expression as he receives them.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/kimmel_leno/feed/ 18 I Like to Watch http://www.salon.com/2009/05/24/fall_tv/ http://www.salon.com/2009/05/24/fall_tv/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/i_like_to_watch//2009/05/24/fall_tv When things in your life aren't working, how do you respond? Do you make a fort out of couch cushions and hide in there with a loaded bong and some high-quality Swiss chocolate until the storm blows over? Or do you pledge to reinvent yourself from the ground up, taking on a brand-new regimen of diet, exercise, meditation and expensive closet organizers? Do you troubleshoot your problems, searching self-help books and consulting therapists for solutions to the major troubles that have plagued you? Or do you drink a four-pack of peach wine coolers, then take the phone off the hook and go back to bed?

At this week's Upfronts, in which the five networks present their fall lineups to advertisers, network executives revealed very different approaches to these challenging cultural and economic times for televised entertainments. Some networks reinvented themselves, others  sent out pot-smoke signals from the confines of their forts. Some networks meditated and consulted their gurus, while others got fall-down drunk on 40-ouncers of malt liquor and wandered off to sleep in the gutter.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2009/05/24/fall_tv/feed/ 93 George Takei’s response to Hardaway’s hate http://www.salon.com/2007/02/20/jimmy_kimmel_takei_hardaway/ http://www.salon.com/2007/02/20/jimmy_kimmel_takei_hardaway/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/02/20/jimmy_kimmel_takei_hardaway Thanks to a bunch of tipsters for bringing the following clip to our attention. In this comedy segment from the Jimmy Kimmel show, the artist formerly known as Sulu, shares his two cents -- in the form of a PSA -- regarding the recent blatantly homophobic remarks of former NBA player Tim Hardaway (for more on the incident click here).

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/02/20/jimmy_kimmel_takei_hardaway/feed/ 4 Jimmy Kimmel’s TV highlights http://www.salon.com/2005/12/21/kimmel_2/ http://www.salon.com/2005/12/21/kimmel_2/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/latenight/2005/12/21/kimmel Last night, Jimmy Kimmel shamelessly swiped from various cheeseball reality shows to create a 2005 highlight reel. Why didn't we think of that? So we thought about creating our own, but ... then came up with the brilliant idea of swiping it from Jimmy Kimmel!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2005/12/21/kimmel_2/feed/ 1 Surgically enhanced beauty and the beast http://www.salon.com/2005/12/15/kiss_2/ http://www.salon.com/2005/12/15/kiss_2/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:28:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/latenight/2005/12/15/kiss Jimmy Kimmel highlights a strange turn of phrase by Kiss frontman Paul Stanley.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2005/12/15/kiss_2/feed/ 1 Late-night pleasure! http://www.salon.com/2003/02/06/npthurs_121/ http://www.salon.com/2003/02/06/npthurs_121/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/col/reiter/2003/02/06/npthurs What's in a name? When it comes to Jimmy Kimmel's schlong, not much.

"I never felt the need to name my penis," the newly minted late-night talk-show host tells Maxim magazine.

Then again, he says, "My penis has a name for me. It calls me Jim."

Very imaginative on his penis' part.

But Kimmel gets a little more creative when there's ... um ... action involved. He admits to having come up with a rather unusual expression for pleasuring himself: "rubbing Rob Reiner."

"I made that up, but he doesn't know about it," Kimmel tells the magazine. "So don't tell him."

Wouldn't dream of it, though I'm sure there's a Meathead joke in there somewhere ...

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From the mouths of babes

"I cussed at a lady ... My daughter always said I had a potty mouth."

-- Courtney Love, explaining her recent air-rage arrest at London's Heathrow Airport to the press, upon her release by the police.

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Pool tool

Speaking of rubbing Rob Reiner ...

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2003/02/06/npthurs_121/feed/ 0 Dark late-night of the soul http://www.salon.com/2003/01/30/kimmel/ http://www.salon.com/2003/01/30/kimmel/#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/diary/2003/01/30/kimmel When David Letterman mocks his employers' cluelessness, the joke is on them. When Jimmy Kimmel does it, you want to send in a rescue crew. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" plays like a real, live "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here." The difference is that you really do want to get the poor guy out of there, because the environment seems so hostile and he looks so very alone.

Only three days after embarking on his new adventure, Kimmel's normally cute, self-effacing regular-guy persona has started to veer into darker territory. He seems defeated. His opening-night joke ("Welcome to 'Enjoy It While It Lasts,' my new talk show"), as well as Ted Koppel's introduction ("Good evening, I'm Ted Koppel. There will be no special post-Super Bowl edition of 'Nightline' tonight, so that ABC can bring you the following piece of garbage"), hangs over the show like a dark, portentous prophecy.

Like, where are the guests? After three days on the air -- three long days spent in the "co-hosting" company of Snoop Dogg, a man whose conversational skills and extemporaneous wit would be put to shame by a volleyball with a smiley-face painted on it -- Jimmy has spent an inordinate amount of time visiting with security guards, deeply disturbed "paranormal experts," relatives and Tammy Faye Bakker. You can't blame him for not appearing to be fascinated or even quite engaged -- but then again, it is his job, isn't it?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2003/01/30/kimmel/feed/ 0 Blue Glow http://www.salon.com/2001/06/14/glow_528/ http://www.salon.com/2001/06/14/glow_528/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/glow/2001/06/14/glow Series

Rory skips the family dinner for a date with Dean on a rerun of Gilmore Girls (8 p.m., WB). On a rerun of Will & Grace (9 p.m., NBC), Will is exasperated by his sportscaster boyfriend's wish to stay in the closet. Grissom investigates an apparent vehicular manslaughter that wasn't on a rerun of CSI (9 p.m., CBS). On a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC), two old dudes (Tom Poston, Tom Bosley) duke it out, and Weaver and Legaspi want to be more than friends.

Sports

U.S. Open Golf (noon, 5 p.m., 8 p.m., ESPN; 3 p.m., NBC)

Baseball:
College World Series (3 p.m., ESPN2)
Reds at White Sox (7 p.m., Fox Family)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Tom Brokaw, Meredith Edwards
David Letterman (CBS) Blink 182
Jay Leno (NBC) Martin Short, Missy Elliott with Nelly Furtado
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Joe Rogan, Mark Cuban
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Craig Bierko, Steve Earle
Craig Kilborn (CBS) Jimmy Kimmel

All times Eastern unless noted.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2001/06/14/glow_528/feed/ 0 How Sarah got her groove back http://www.salon.com/1999/06/14/sex_city/ http://www.salon.com/1999/06/14/sex_city/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/col/mill/1999/06/14/sex_city Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a walking doodle, a daydreamy collision of curves and straight lines. The wavy mane and wiggly bod don't quite prepare you for the playful intelligence of her long face, though, or the warmth of her gaze. Parker still bears traces of the roles she played as a kid actress -- spunky Little Orphan Annie, awkward Patty Greene, her teenage nerd from the '80s cult sitcom "Square Pegs" -- and you don't expect to find those particular humanizing qualities in someone who looks so hot in Prada. The element of surprise is Parker's greatest asset as an actress, but in her biggest films ("L.A. Story," "The First Wives Club"), she's been predictably cast as a bimbo with marshmallow for brains.

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