Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, sometimes shortened to JKL, is an American late-night political satire talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and broadcast on ABC. The nightly hour-long show is held at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California. It debuted on January 26, 2003 as part of ABC's lead-out programming for Super Bowl XXXVII. For its first ten years, Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired at either the midnight or 12:05 a.m. ET/PT before moving to 11:35 p.m. on January 8, 2013. Despite its name, the show has not regularly aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane.
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Created by | Jimmy Kimmel |
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Directed by | Andy Fisher |
Presented by | Jimmy Kimmel |
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Opening theme | "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", sung by Robert Goulet |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 21 |
No. of episodes | 3,588 (as of January 26, 2023) |
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Running time | 40 minutes |
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Network | ABC |
Release | January 26, 2003 |
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by Kimmelot in association with ABC Signature. It holds the title as the longest running late-night talk show on the network, having aired for more than three times as long as either The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1975) or Politically Incorrect (1997–2002).