Jimmy Kimmel
American talk show host and comedian
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| January 2025 | Debuted a new intro featuring a drone flyover of Hollywood landmarks, including the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood Boulevard, and the theater, with Cleto and the Cletones performing on the set. |
| January 13 2025 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! resumed production at El Capitan immediately following the previous suspension. |
| January 8 2025 | Production of Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended due to ongoing wildfires in Southern California near the El Capitan filming location. |
| 2024 | Fourth time hosting the Academy Awards. |
| 2024 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for 96th Academy Awards. |
| 2024 | Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Academy Awards for the fourth time. |
| 2024 | Jimmy Kimmel is set to release 'High Hopes'. |
| March 10 2024 | Kimmel is scheduled to host the 96th Academy Awards. |
| February 2024 | The 'Previously on Jimmy Kimmel Live!' segment was dropped after being aired since September 2023. |
| February 21 2024 | Kimmel hinted that he may not renew his contract for further seasons after 2026 during an interview with the Los Angeles Times. |
| 2023 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nominated for Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television. |
| 2023 | Hosts the Academy Awards for the third time. |
| 2023 | The basketball-themed broadcasts under the title Jimmy Kimmel Game Night were discontinued due to the NBA moving up its weeknight start times and the impact of a writers' strike. |
| September 2023 | The program began with a 'Previously on Jimmy Kimmel Live!' segment, parodying recap segments of various drama shows. |
| September 2023 | The introduction format for the show was simplified, showing the logo before Kimmel took the stage. |
| August 30 2023 | Jimmy Kimmel began hosting the comedy podcast 'Strike Force Five' alongside fellow hosts Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver, aimed at supporting their staff affected by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike. |
| January 26 2023 | The program celebrated Kimmel becoming the longest-serving late-night talk show host at that time, marking over 20 years of the show. |
| January 16 2023 | During the week of January 16, 2023, Jimmy Kimmel Live! ranked as the No. 1 late-night talk show among adults 18-49, beating NBC's 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' by 21%. |
| 2022 | Lou Wilson began serving as the show's announcer, replacing Dicky Barrett. |
| 2022 | The last known special live edition of Jimmy Kimmel Game Night aired before its discontinuation. |
| 2022 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nominated for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. |
| 2022 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned to Citytv in Canada as a tape-delayed broadcast. |
| November 2022 | In an appearance on the 'Naked Lunch' podcast, Kimmel revealed he warned ABC executives that he would leave the show if he could not tell jokes about Donald Trump, acknowledging he lost half his audience during that period. |
| September 26 2022 | During the ratings report for the week of September 26, 2022, Jimmy Kimmel Live! ranked as the No. 1 late-night talk show among adults 18-49 while broadcasting from Brooklyn, New York. |
| September 20 2022 | ABC announced that Kimmel had signed a three-year contract extension to continue as host and executive producer. |
| July 7 2022 | 'Generation Gap' premiered as a game show produced by Jimmy Kimmel and Mark Burnett, hosted by Kelly Ripa. |
| June 6 2022 | In the week of June 6, 2022, Jimmy Kimmel Live! ranked as the No. 1 late-night talk show for the second consecutive week among adults 18-49. |
| April 1 2022 | Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon switched places as part of an April Fools' Day prank, with Kimmel hosting The Tonight Show. |
| April 1 2022 | On April Fools' Day, Jimmy Fallon announced Matt Damon as a guest, but instead revealed Justin Timberlake in a comedic impersonation of Damon. |
| 2021 | Jimmy Kimmel voiced Ted Templeton again in The Boss Baby: Family Business. |
| 2021 | Jimmy Kimmel voiced Marty Muckraker in PAW Patrol: The Movie. |
| 2021 | Kimmel became the title sponsor of the LA Bowl, officially known as the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl, for the years 2021 and 2022. |
| 2021 | For the 2020-21 television season, Jimmy Kimmel Live! surpassed NBC's The Tonight Show in total viewers. |
| 2021 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nominated for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. |
| November 18 2021 | On this date, YouTube implemented a change that hid the number of dislikes on videos, which affected Kimmel's earlier sketch that had become the most disliked video on his channel. |
| May 2021 | The show's intro was modified to feature multiple angles of the logo after the audience returned. |
| 2020 | Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards |
| 2020 | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and Good Times won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live). |
| 2020 | Jimmy Kimmel co-hosted and was also an executive producer for Revenge of the Nerds. |
| 2020 | Kimmel learned from a genealogy report that he and Martha Stewart are cousins on the TV show Finding Your Roots. |
| 2020 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! beat The Tonight Show in total viewers for the 2020-21 television season. |
| 2020 | Hosts the Primetime Emmy Awards for the third time. |
| 2020 | Jimmy Kimmel and others were nominated for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for 'Jimmy Kimmel's Quarantine Minilogues'. |
| 2020 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nominated for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. |
| 2020 | Ervin D. Hurd Jr. and others were nominated for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series for the episode 'Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn – Jon Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Ripa and Music from David Byrne'. |
| 2020 | Christian Hibbard and others were nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Series for the episode 'Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn – Jason Alexander, Tracy Morgan, John Krasinski, Paul Shaffer and Music from Kanye West'. |
| September 2020 | Upon returning to the studio in late September, the show began using a picture of the classic 1962 ABC ID recreated in widescreen format. |
| September 2020 | Upon Kimmel's return to the studio, a special recreation of the classic 1962 ABC ID was introduced. |
| September 21 2020 | Kimmel returned to the show, which resumed taping from the Hollywood Masonic Temple without a studio audience. |
| June 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Damon made a surprise appearance on Kimmel's show from one of Kimmel's bedrooms, leading to humorous revelations about Kimmel's relationship. |
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