Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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| Created by | Jimmy Kimmel |
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| Directed by | Andy Fisher |
| Starring | Jimmy Kimmel,[a] also featuring
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| Music by | Cleto and the Cletones |
| Opening theme | "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", sung by Robert Goulet |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 23 |
| No. of episodes | 3,588[2][1] |
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| Running time | 40 minutes[b] |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | January 26, 2003 – present |
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The nightly hour-long show tapes and is based out of the El Capitan Entertainment Centre (ECEC), formerly the Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, Los Angeles, 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 12:05 a.m. ET/PT before moving to 11:35 p.m. on January 8, 2013. Contrary to its title, the show has not regularly aired live since April 23, 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane.[4]
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by 12:05 AM Productions, LLC, in association with Kimmelot and 20th Television. 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). It is the second longest-running late night talk show, by host, on any network surpassed only by The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
On September 17, 2025, ABC suspended the show indefinitely after Kimmel's remarks regarding the MAGA movement's reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk drew threats from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr and an announcement from station owner Nexstar that its ABC-affiliated stations were dropping the program "for the foreseeable future".[5]
- ^ a b c d "Jimmy Kimmel Live! (a Guest Stars & Air Dates Guide)". epguides. Archived from the original on October 1, 2020.
- ^ Saad, Nardine (January 27, 2023). "'Jimmy Kimmel' Anniversary Show Invites Debut Guests Snoop, Clooney (Sorry, Matt Damon)". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
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- ^ Steinberg, Brian (September 17, 2025). "ABC Pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Indefinitely After Host's Charlie Kirk Comments". Variety. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
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