An American comedian, host, and producer James Kimmel who are also known as the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! This show was aired in 2003, only on ABC. Prime Time Awards, and Academy Awards hosted by him two times. To know about his net worth, personal life, children, Wife, career and early life read here.
How is Jimmy Kimmel’s Life Before Fame?
Kimmel was born on November 13, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York to Joan and James John Kimmel. They shifted to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he completed his graduation from Ed W. Clark High School and enters the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and get an honorary degree. He has a brother named Jonathan and a sister, Jill.
From Where and How Did Jimmy Kimmel Start His Career?
Kimmel start his career on Radio, as he is influenced by David Letterman during his high school education. His first show on the radio he hosts was KUNV, his college UNLV station. During the time his at Arizona State University, he get more fame as he hosts the KZZP-FM afternoon show with Mike Elliott and Kent Voss in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1989 he join his first morning show The Me and Him Show at KZOK-FM in Seattle, Washington. But his hard work not worked and he, with his co-host Voss fired from the show. Then aired his own show KCMJ in Palm Springs, California. Adam Carolla, a comedian also meet him during his radio career.
Later Kimmel starts writing for Fox and then start getting offers from television producer Michael Davies. He rejected all offers till he get a comedian role as Ben Stein on Win Ben Stein’s Money game show which aired in 1997. In 1999 he co-produced a show with Daniel Kellison and co-hosted with Adam Carolla, The Man Show.
From his first show Win Ben Stein’s Money, he was replaced by nancy Pimental in 2001. As his show gets successful they include Carolla and Kellison, he produces and creates another show, with Jackhole Productions, Crank Yankers for Comedy Central. 2004 Montreat Comedy Festival-winning film Windy City Heat is written by Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
In 2003, Jimmy started his own show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, on ABC and left The Man Show. In 2008, Kimmel appeared in a mock video of “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck”, then his girlfriend Sarah Silverman and Daman also released a video at “I’m Fucking Matt Damon”.
This video was premiered on Jimmey’s live show by Ben Affleck himself with a long queue of stars including Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Dominic Monaghan, Benji Madden, and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte, Lance Bass, Macy Gray, Josh Groban, Huey Lewis, Perry Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Pete Wentz, Meat Loaf, Rebecca Romijn, Christina Applegate, Dom Joly, Mike Shinoda, Lauren Conrad, and Joan Jett, among others.
In 2013, this show also collected controversies because of kins talking and being invited on the show. When one of the children advised me to “kill all the people in China” then Kimmel answered “an interesting idea” and then some said that “Should we allow the Chinese to live?”
it has been interesting, over the years, to watch you blossom from the electric car guy into a fully-formed piece of shit @elonmusk https://t.co/ECkgEiQ29k
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) October 30, 2022
Later for this ABC apologized for that part “We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any community at large.” Kimmel was also fired from the show, later Kimmel also apologize by saying, “I thought it was obvious that I didn’t agree with that statement, but apparently it wasn’t … So I just wanted to say, I’m sorry, I apologize.”
Jimmy Kimmel’s Other Shows
Aside from Jimmy Kimmel Live! He appeared in “Jimmy the Fox Guy” on Fox Network. He worked here for more than four years, and the other show he appeared in include Live with Regis and Kelly, The Howard Stern Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the Late Show with David Letterman. In 2006, ABC premiered another show Set for Life which is also hosted by Kimmel. In 2011, he hosted ESPY Awards with a football player.
From 2003 to 2008, he hosts the American Music Awards continuously. Live with Regis and Kelly also appeared as a guest and hosted two times Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016. In 2018 Kimmelot production company was launched. In 2020 Kimmel back into the headlines because of his video with slurs against Fox but apologize later, “There is nothing more important to me than your respect, and I apologize to those who were genuinely hurt or offended by the makeup I wore or the words I spoke.”
Then he also includes Karl Malone in his statement by saying, “We hired makeup artists to make me look as much like Karl Malone as possible. I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head.”
If you like watching people watch things, my Aunt Chippy reacts to my 2016 episode of Finding Your Roots… @Ancestry @HenryLouisGates #Ischia https://t.co/iNrsMPCZ0P
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 22, 2022
Kimmel was mostly get inspired by David Letterman and Howard Stern, who stated about them, “His show was just so weird and different. I’d never seen anything like it. I didn’t know anyone who had a sense of humor like that.”
Jimmy Kimmel’s Personal Life
In 1998, Kimmel get married to Gina Maddy, and 14 years later they separated. Jimmy has one daughter Katherine and one son, Kevin. Then he falls in love with Sarah Silverman from 2002 to 2009. His co-host in Jimmy Kimmel Live! Molly McNearney also dated him in 2009 and then married her in 2013. Jane is their daughter who is born in 2014 and William “Billy” John is their son.
How Much is Jimmy Kimmel’s Net Worth?
Comedian and host Jimmey’s net worth is estimated at $ 50 million as his annual salary from his own show was $ 15 million. Aside from his show, he appeared in other several shows, awards shows, and movies. He has many homes in Los Angles as he bought a $2.175 million home. He also have another home in 2014 for $ 2.25 million in Hermosa. His current home’s value is more than $ 7.1 million.
.@MollyMcNearney and I thank YOU for helping us feed more than 1300 families this Thanksgiving with our friends at @StJosephCtr. We matched every donation – let’s do it again next month! pic.twitter.com/b9ULbyS006
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 24, 2022
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