Jimmy Kimmel Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live is a late-night talk show in the United States created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broadcasted from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California.

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Talk show - United States - Jimmy Kimmel - El Capitan Theatre - Hollywood, California

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Despite the name, the show is actually taped an hour before it begins airing in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. The hour-long program premiered after Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003 on ABC. It airs weeknights at 12:06am (11:06pm Central Standard Time), resulting in the show beginning in the middle of competitors The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, and ending in the middle of Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Late Show. The program currently follows Nightline on the ABC network. Some people speculate that Kimmel will move to the 11:35pm slot after Ted Koppel retires.

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Eastern Standard Time Zone - Super Bowl XXXVII - 2003 - ABC - Central Standard Time - The Tonight Show - The Late Show with David Letterman - Late Night with Conan O'Brien - The Late Late Show - Nightline - Ted Koppel

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Music is provided by the band Cleto and the Cletones, led by Jimmy Kimmel's childhood friend, Cleto Escobedo, Jr. Kimmel's relatives, Frank Potenza, called Uncle Frank, and Sal Iacono, called Cousin Sal, are "characters" that appear on the program in most episodes. Uncle Frank is often set out to do reporting on the red carpet of a movie premiere or awards show, where he will do things like mistake the celebrity he is talking to for a different person. Cousin Sal usually does skits out of the studio such as impersonating a store employee and purposely giving customers bad service, insulting them, or giving them something they did not order/ask for. There is a musical performance at the end of the show, that performs on either an indoor or outdoor stage. Early episodes of the show had a different announcer each night and a different co-host each week, Dicky Barrett, lead singer of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, is now the permanent announcer, and there are no longer co-hosts. The stage the show is filmed on has gone through many changes, from the addition of a platform in front of the stage for Jimmy to do his monologue on, to various stage backgrounds.

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Cleto and the Cletones - Cleto Escobedo, Jr. - Dicky Barrett - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

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On Fridays there is a segment called "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship", a parody on the FCC's censorship rules, where TV clips are unnecessarily bleeped and blurred. Clips from news, shows, or events during the week will have a nominally inoffensive word or phrase bleeped and the mouths blurred in a way that makes it sound/look like the person in the clip had issued a profanity. Another similar obfuscation makes a wave to a crowd look like an inappropriate gesture.

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FCC - Censorship - Bleeped - Profanity - An inappropriate gesture

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Kimmel previously had Andy Milonakis, an obese (purported to be) kid who become an Internet phenomenon and was a regular on the show in 2003-2004.

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Andy Milonakis - Internet phenomenon - 2003 - 2004

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An occasional actor on the show, Anthony (Tony) Barbieri does a periodic piece, where he plays a fictional character Jake Byrd, and insinuates himself into real life events around the country. Often he fools those at the event, and even the media, into believing he's a part of the story. Most often he portrays himself as an overly enthusiastic protestor about something or as a fan of somebody (or something) famous.

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The show is also known for its parody of R. Kelly's song "Trapped in the Closet," The Pizza.

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R. Kelly's - Trapped in the Closet - The Pizza

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