One of the highlights in the final chapter of Norman Lear‘s legendary career were the Live In Front Of a Studio Audience specials recreating episodes from his classic sitcoms. He executive produced them with Jimmy Kimmel, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) together while also developing a close friendship. On Wednesday night, hours
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continues to bring in the numbers, helped last week by David Letterman’s first return to the show since he stepped down. Last week, the CBS late-night show also posted its best week of ratings since the first week out of the writers strike and, on Monday, Letterman’s appearance helped
Fox News parted ways with Tucker Carlson and CNN cut ties with Don Lemon today giving the late-night show hosts a lot of material to sound off on in their monologues. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host dedicated his “Closer Look” segment to the media shakeups. Meyers questioned if Fox News had gone
Let the gloating begin. TV’s late-night comedy crowd is reveling in the luscious goodness that was dropped in their collective lap today after Fox News said it will pay $787.5 million to settle the defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over the cable net’s false election-rigging claims. Here’s some of what we’ve heard so
On Jimmy Kimmel Live! He goes in on the canceling of the Airline mask mandate–thanks to Florida. Mask mandate for planes and public transit was struck down by a federal judge. The ruling comes from a Florida judge. Thinking about the airline industry, Kimmel believes at least someone will benefit from the no mask policy.
A couple of veteran comics with long-running TV talk shows traded remembrances about “the comedian’s comedian” on Wednesday night. Real Time host Bill Maher was on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about his upcoming HBO special when the host asked him about Gilbert Gottfried, who died Tuesday at 67. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo
Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live! President Joe Biden’s supreme court justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was the topic of discussion. The candidate attended a confirmation hearing today but Kimmel highlights how racist some members of congress can be. “These hearings they give a number of our Republican senators a chance to compete in one of
Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host rags on Donald and Eric Trump and his desperation to take the heat off the Trump family. According to Kimmel, sources state they are having trouble piecing together his Jan. 6 phone records because he used various phones to make calls because he didn’t want White House staff
If 2020 was the year of the late-night bathtub and garage specials, the last twelve months saw somewhat of a return to normal for the entertainers making linear viewers laugh on a nightly basis. With all of the late-night hosts returned to the studio – albeit some such as Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee and Desus
Stephen Colbert bounded on to the stage of The Late Show on September 7 with a new look. The comedian was rocking a new moustache as well as a rejuvenated energy. Colbert said it was “lovely to be back” and joked that exec producer Chris Licht thought his new facial hair would lose him viewers.
Jimmy Kimmel is the latest late-night host to bring back a live studio audience. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! will welcome back a half capacity crowd at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. It comes after California reopened further last week. Guests for this evening’s show will include Sarah Paulson, Frank Grillo and musical guest Lucy
On Tuesday, Covid restrictions officially lifted in L.A. County, and Jimmy Kimmel was ready to celebrate. “Now, if you see a white woman screaming in Trader Joes, she’s not an anti-masker. She’s just mad they’re out of oat milk,” said the ABC late-night host. “It’s going to be a magical summer.” In his opening monologue
On Tuesday’s episode of his late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel tackled California’s insistence on staying a bit behind the federal curve, when it comes to the easing of Covid-19 health and safety protocols. “Thank you for joining us here in sunny Southern California, where we’re still wearing masks, no matter what the CDC says,” the
On tonight’s “Pranksgiving” edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel recalled what he considers the best April Fool’s Day prank in history. “Remember last year, when Trump promised the coronavirus would disappear by Easter?” he joked. “That was a good one.” Kimmel then turned to current events, picking up with the former president’s latest bit
On Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel returned for a Live! broadcast, after a full week of vacation. “I have to be honest, I’m glad to be back. We went on a cruise through the Suez Canal,” Kimmel joked. “You ever done that? Very slow. It’s almost as if we weren’t moving at all.” Kimmel was alluding to a fiasco
Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel addressed the need to “remain vigilant” with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic, with businesses across the U.S. opening up, and a potential new wave of the virus on the horizon. “The White House is trying to get as many people vaccinated before the new, more contagious variants