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Great !, 25 February 2005
Author: Michael J. Santos from LA California, United States

We just went to see Jimmy Kimmel Live last night(2-24-05) and we thought it was great ! Very professional production. Didn't have to wait in line very long, like some other tapings. Security was good also.

As far as the show is concerned - I think it is just as funny as its competitors. The Cousin Sal bits are hilarious. Uncle Frank is a really nice guy too ! If you are in the area, I would suggest getting tickets.

The audience isn't very large. Only about 100 people. The Band is great and the sound system is superb.

I hat this 10 line rule. Again, I think this is a great hour of late night television.

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Getting Better., 1 May 2004
Author: RedWings91 from Detroit

This show got off to a bad start. As a fan of 'The Man Show' and Adam Carolla on the radio show 'Loveline', I felt obligated to watch this show. I watched from it's debut after the Super Bowl untill about July of it's first season, and then I stoped. ABC had watered down Kimmel's best comedic qualities and the show struggled to get celebrities that mattered. To often did Carolla have to be a guest on the show, only proving that Jimmy is only funny when he and Adam play off each others jokes. But, in order to not turn off women offended by 'The Man Show', Adam could not become Jimmy's Co-host on a permenante basis. So Jimmy relied on weekly doeses of members of the Kimmel-Carolla comedy family (Kathy Griffen, David Allan Grier, Snoop Dogg,etc.) as guest hosts and stumbled through live broadcasts. In October, things began to change. With the probability that Jimmy would be cancelled high, he began to try to be himself instead of Letterman or Leno. Ratings began to improve slightly. I returned to the show on Halloween, and by Thanksgiving began to like the show alot more. In like Januarey ABC began bringing in guests from one movie for one week. This way bigger celebrities came on to promote films and shows. In February the show gave into ABC's request to try the show without co-hosts and tape some episodes. By mid-April co-hosts were gone and within the last 3 weeks of this post, all episodes were being taped. Now you see people promoting big movies on Kimmel aswell as Leno and Letterman and Jimmy has begun to emerge as a possible third big late night show.

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great, 2 July 2003
Author: colinwhitefan

I really like Jimmy Kimmel I find myself watching it more often than any other late night talk show. Jimmy isn't afraid to say something about anyone and he has some cool, interesting, and big name people on as either co-host or guests. I wouldn't be stunned if Jimmy Kimmel becomes the #1 late night talk show, Letterman, Leno, and the others have had their day.

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jimmy kimmel live, 29 December 2004
Author: jim stephens from United States

Jimmy Kimmel Live is a different type of late night talk show. Jimmy is a very creative person who has created a lot of shows, and is going for a different audience than the usual. He is going for the person who likes to see talk show guests, but also has a mix of live musical entertainment, the Jimmy Kimmel concert series, as well as ongoing members of the show doing various gags.

I think he is an excellent interviewer of his guests, and will make them look good on his show, as well as going for questions you won't hear others ask. His show edges more to the sort of show you always see at the later hour (which it occupies now), but may be on earlier in the future against the other two big late night shows.

The skits which are a part of the show include Cousin Sid and Uncle Frank are a fun to see, and some guests doing things you'd never expect them to do either.

I hope he has long running success on ABC and does well in the future.

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Getting up there, 15 July 2004
Author: Carrie Beth Anderson from Houston, Texas

I wouldn't say that Jimmy Kimmel Live has reached the caliber of other late night talk shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brian, it is an incredibly interesting show. As a Mighty Mighty BossTones fan, I loved the choice to hire Dicky Barrett as the permanent announcer. Some other parts of the show I like are "Unneccessary Censorship", "Dress the Band", "Sit and Be Fit", and Dicky's compliment. I predict that within a year Jimmy Kimmel will be the top late night TV host. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Another great part of J.K.L is the choice of bands and guests. I do miss the co-host for the week idea, but the show has gotten progressively better without it, so whatever works, right.

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Better Than Advertised... Oh, yeah. It's Not Advertised, 14 October 2006

Author: DeanNYC (thedeanofnyc@yahoo.com) from New York, NY

Jimmy Kimmel Live began in a big way: it followed Super Bowl XXXVII! A Sunday night start for a weeknight talk show gave the program a big (and literal) kickoff.

The original concept was a live telecast, nightly to the Eastern and Central time zones from Hollywood (hence the "Live" in the title). Kimmel was to have a weekly co-host (a throwback to "The Mike Douglas Show") presumably to help the show along as a sort of temp sidekick and bring a different sort of flavor to the program for that week. Co-hosts such as Snoop Dogg, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Kimmel's old "The Man Show" partner Adam Corolla were several of the people tapped for this honor.

Eventually, the co-host gimmick was phased out as Kimmel found his own personal style and humor and got comfortable in the format. They also ended the live broadcast after trying it for a longer time than expected. The show now is taped for all time zones, though it is consistently closest to live of any of the late night shows.

The program had some early controversy as the original announcer, Bob Einstein (a.k.a. "Super Dave Osbourne") quit the telecast shortly into the run of the series, for no explained reason. Later, he returned as a guest and all was apparently reconciled.

The biggest problem the program has is the airtime. Most affiliates run it after "Nightline," (and in some cases, after other additional programming) which means it trails "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and "Late Night With David Letterman" by at least thirty minutes if not more. When Dave and Jay get their silliness over and are ready for their guest interviews for the night, Jimmy is just arriving. This is a big problem as far as holding/capturing the audience.

However, if you do catch his opening, Kimmel is quite funny! He's far less grating on the eye and the ear than either of his elder talk show competitors, and he almost always has something genuinely funny to say about the world, the news and the people who make it, which is more than I can say for the other two. He also is great at commenting on film clips that the staff clearly works madly to get up and running for the nightly telecast. They know what they're doing.

The interviews are generally low-key and conversational, and are, unfortunately, not very inspired, as they often run toward the inane. But face it: it's an inane show! I mean, the host's uncle is the program's security guard, his cousin is an Ashton Kutcher "Punk'd" wannabe, his parking lot attendant is in most of the sketch performances and Kimmel is as self-deprecating as Charlie Brown. And yes. Kimmel has a sort of Charlie Brown quality to him; you root for him because you want to see him do well. That's a double edged sword, because who wants to have to "root for" a talk show host? ABC barely promotes the show in any way, hardly even as an afterthought for when guests from their hit series drop in for a chat! Clearly somebody at Disney doesn't like Jimmy, at least not as much as they like Rosie O'Donnell.

Jimmy's band, led by his childhood friend, Cleto Escobedo III, has learned a few songs, but they have a long way to go to catch up to Paul Shaffer or even Kevin Eubanks. At least they're trying.

Jimmy is a likable and watchable host who is at once making fun of the fact that he has a show just as much as he is relishing the fact that he's hosting. Hopefully ABC lets them continue to grow and maybe by the time Conan inherits Jay's Tonight Show desk, everyone will be tuned in to Kimmel.

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Jimmy Kimmel Show on Friday, 04/21/06, 22 April 2006
Author: jill_holl from United States

I'm not a regular viewer of this show but watched this episode because Regis Philbin was scheduled to appear. Thought the interview with Regis was great. Especially enjoyed hearing Regis & Jimmy sing & liked Regis' idea for a singing celebrities TV show.Why not? There's been a dancing with celebrities show, a skating with celebrities show, a cooking celebrities show. Think a show with celebrities who do not sing for a living, but have some musical talent combined with a musical "coach",competing over a 6 or 10 week period could be a fun summer replacement show. The show could be divided into categories such as solo singers, singers with a group, etc. There could be a panel of "experts" who vote each week & the public can vote each week as well (using the same type of voting system that was used on the Dancing with The Stars TV show), thereby eliminating someone each week until there is one winner in each category. Of course, the show should have a witty/funny host such as Tom Bergeron and an opposite sex co-host. What do other viewers think? Glad to hear about the award that Regis has won. He deserves it.

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We always watch him!, 25 April 2004
Author: jim001 from California, USA

Jimmy Kimmel is so funny. My wife and I laugh our pants off. We never miss him. His humor is outstanding. (except i do think he should lighten up on Star Jones-she doesn't deserve it-give her a break) Some of my favorite skits are the protests and support scenes for Michael Jackson. I love that guy he has on there who is Always supporting michael jackson---FUNNY stuff. I hope ABC keeps Jimmy Kimmel on for a long time. I enjoy his show so much. He is really cool with his guests too. I would rather watch him any day before any of those other night talk show hosts(not going to mention them) Jimmy if you are checking out the board-keep up the good work ;). Love the guests you choose too.

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Potential- but needs to be FUNNY, 18 September 2003
Author: autumnrhythm from New Jersey, US

I liked many of the pieces put together on the Man Show. I never liked Jimmy on "Win Ben Stein's Money" but I always loved Adam Carolla on the Howard Stern Show, so I checked it out. Since Jimmy is a devotee of David Letterman and Howard, I thought this show would be cool.

To my surprise, Jimmy is above average with guests (already better than Leno and better than Conan when he first started). And Jimmy is more of a common man than Conan or Dave- and quite more blunt and irreverent. However, Jimmy's main potential was to make late night comedy far bluer and politically incorrect than it is. He has failed to do that.

After coming out with an interview in Playboy saying his show would be "the comedy version of the Tonight Show!" Jimmy has instead hired hack writers (many first time proper "comedy" writers) to come up with sub-Leno/Conan bits. In other words, no punch lines, a lot of doctored pictures and video and random clips from TV shows that prompt Jimmy to make fun of them.

His first act (a.k.a. monologue) is, to be perfectly frank, unfunny. The jokes just aren't there. I don't know what the excuse could be for that. Howard Stern, at this late stage, is STILL funnier just going off the cuff. Jimmy and his numerable writers have all day to come up with jokes that make Jay Leno sound like Chris Rock, for God's sake.

The other major problem is the guest co-hosts: nice stunt, but the fun is wearing off. When you have a five-year-old rapper for a co-host or that old stand-by Mr. T, it's time to find a regular who can contribute to the comedy. After five days, it's just not funny. And if people don't like this host, you're wasting an entire segment of the show on them. Only a few guest co-hosts have been great, but it's not necessary to have them for five straight shows.

I honestly hope they revamp the show on their first anniversary and get a regular co-host (Adam Carolla would be first choice, but clearly Jimmy/ABC wanted to go without him) as they have with the announcer.

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Watch JKL once and Leno, Letterman, Kilborn, & Conan seem tame and out-dated., 23 April 2003
Author: missproducer from Orange, California

Jimmy Kimmel is brilliant. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is the freshest, funniest show on TV. Period. Despite a lack of big name celebrities (due to Leno's scare tactics) JKL has managed to flourish; largely due to Kimmel's quick wit and off the wall segments. What other show would feature Mike Tyson singing, a

pillow-fight between Goldberg and Jimmy's cousin Sal, Jay Mohr doing Nyquil shots, Snoop Dogg at the swap-meet and a gangsta spelling bee? And what other host would dare dance in his underwear and a fig leaf with a Japanese pop band on live TV? Only Jimmy Kimmel on JKL that's who.

Thank you Jimmy for resuscitating television.

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