I love Jimmy Kimmel. Ain’t no 2 ways about it. Ever since I first saw him on the Man Show. I wasn’t sure who the brains of the operation was but I know now it wasn’t Adam Carolla.
Jimmy is a comedy genius and it seems he knew actually
what he wanted to be from
his first day of being a teenager. And his dream came true Halloween night 2012
when he
interviewed David Letterman on his own show Late Night with Jimmie Kimmel.
It was great to see Jimmy get choked up while interviewing his idol. I even got chills seeing him get verklempt chatting with David Letterman in a very one-sided
bromantic conversation trying to get Letterman to hang out with him as
his buddy. The night was great for
Kimmel as this meeting of Late Night talk show minds attracted 2.35 million
views.
Jimmy has been on a roll since his early days on the Comedy Channel but this year
he’s on fire. From being the headliner
at The White House Correspondent’s Dinner earlier this year to being at the
right place at the right time, bringing his show to Brooklyn, bringing much
needed laughter to some very times in New York. He even popped as I was watching the South
Park “Fish
Dicks” episode on Netflix, just as I was about to write this blog entry. Jimmy is currently omnipresent.
The reason I love Jimmy (and the reason I believe everyone
loves Jimmy Kimmel) is because not only is he funny, he’s genuine.
From the time he picked his loyal sidekick Guillermo to the time he
devoted a whole show to his late Uncle
Frank, Jimmy had me not from “hello” but definitely from his first “I
have to apologize to Matt Damon & Goodnight.”
You can’t say that about David Letterman or Jay Leno. No offense to Jay Leno fans, but I can’t
stand the site of the guy on Jimmy Carson’s old show. I like Letterman much more but that’s the
thing with the elder statesmen of the Late Night shows, you either love’em or
hate’em. But Jimmy has always been one
of the guys, has his cousin & uncle on the show, has a portly Mexican
friend who he made work out last night in Subway pre-commercial and gets all
fumble-cotton-pukey-mouth around his idol. Jimmy feels like family.
Keep up the great work Jimmy. It’s obvious you knew a bit of the “Secret” before it became
a book & video phenomenon. Simply
putting “L8 Night” on your birthday cake at 13 & on the license plate of
your first car may not have made you a Late Night King but it definitely put
you on that path. You’ve become the
inspiration you saw on the screen as a kid.
Thank you for the laughs & Keep’em coming. By the way, nice touch in ending the show
last night from Brooklyn with The Avett Brothers' I and Love and You. Genius.
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