Jimmy Kimmel sees the end of his late night tenure on the horizon
Jimmy Kimmel Live! will likely come to an end in the next three years, the host says
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Jimmy Kimmel admitted on his podcast Strike Force Five that he was about ready to quit the talk show biz right before the writers strike, when he realized “Oh yeah, it’s kinda nice to work.” But now that the strike is over, he’s envisioning quitting again. “I think this is my final contract,” he says in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. “I hate to even say it, because everyone’s laughing at me now—each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good. That seems like enough.”
The comedian has already hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! for more than 20 years, so it’s understandable that he might be weary of the grind. (Plus, he’s been saying he’s ready to quit for years now.) When he’s inundated with work, “I think, ‘I cannot wait until my contract is over,’” he said, “But then, I take the summer off or I go on strike, and you start going, ‘Yeah, I miss the fun stuff.’”
There’s fun stuff on the other side of the talk show, presumably. But Kimmel isn’t sure what his next chapter will look like, beyond the fact that “whenever I think of what I’m going to do when I stop working, it all involves more work.” However, he reflected that “It might not be anything that anyone other than me is aware of. I have a lot of hobbies—I love to cook, I love to draw, I imagine myself learning to do sculptures. I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms in my own bed, I’m going to think, ‘Oh, I was never able to get to this, and I was never able to get to that.’ I just know it about myself.”
Here’s what the next chapter won’t look like. “I won’t be doing stand-up after I stop doing the [talk] show—I am uncomfortable with it,” he revealed. Whatever it is won’t be a solo endeavor at all, it sounds like: “I love being a team player.”
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You better not be threatening us with a good time, Kimmel!
He isn’t. He never has.
“Victory is mine! Mwahahaha….OW!” — Aaron Rodgers, tearing his ACL, laughing.
He never seemed like he gave much of a shit about hosting the show, for better or worse.
And still far preferable to Fallon
certanly, is better step than eat a piece of shat. but shat is shat anyway
I never see clips of his shared on social media. Our local radio station does a “best of late night” bit in the morning when I’m driving to work. It’s a mix of Fallon jokes, Seth Meyers, Colbert, Oliver or SNL when they’re on. Kimmel makes it in the mix maybe once every two weeks.But what do I know? His ratings seem to be good.
Let’s all fondlly look back at the many classic Kimmel moments he’s given us:-making fun of Matt Damon-making fun of people for having “weird-sounding” names—-making fun of Matt Damon-good times, good times
I mean, making fun of Matt Damon got us “I’m fucking Matt Damon” which might not have been Kimmel’s work, but he at least gets partial credit.
Come on leave now ! Santos is suing you so run away now ! uncle Frank would kick your ass if he lived to see what you have become .
The older they get, him and Colbert get less and less funny and more and more…idk the word, strident. Like yeah, I know, Trump’s bad, I don’t need a lecture from the Man Show guy to tell me so.
But he’s gotta be out there counterbalancing Adam Carolla and all his b.s. nonsense.
If you’re finding multiple less funny, maybe you’re the one who’s changing.
Hmm, no, I’m pretty sure both have changed. Colbert did not use to get in front of the camera and give earnest speeches about the sad state of politics. Especially cause he was playing a character that was a parody of O’Reilly on his old show. And Kimmel at some point decided to atone for his past sins of wearing blackface and being on a misogynistic comedy show by doing the same.
Man Show Reboot? Maybe with Ben Stein jumping on trampolines?
Think they’ll replace him? Corden was replaced by a reboot of a Comedy Central gameshow which is mostly attracting D-list guests.
Lets do a change. org petition to do it in just one year. we can do it, team!