![]() ![]() His brother Jonathan works on the show as a director. His cousin Sal Iacono performed Kimmel's former co-hosting duties during the last season of Win Ben Stein's Money and then became a writer and sketch performer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! His Aunt Chippy (Concetta Potenza) is also a featured part of the show. Kimmel's uncle, Frank Potenza ("Uncle Frank"), appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011. He received an honorary degree from UNLV in 2013. Clark High School, and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before transferring to Arizona State University. The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old. According to a DNA test, Kimmel is also of partial Albanian descent. His family's surname was " Kümmel" (" caraway" in German) several generations back. Two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German immigrants. Kimmel's mother is of Italian ancestry from Ischia, Naples, and her family migrated to the United States after the 1883 earthquake. He was raised Catholic and, as a child, was an altar server. Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin as the eldest of three children of Joan (Iacono) and James John Kimmel, who worked at American Express and was an IBM executive. Kimmel is the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, following Conan O’Brien’s retirement from hosting a late-night program. In 2018, Time named him as one of " The World's 100 Most Influential People". Kimmel has also produced such shows as Crank Yankers, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, and The Andy Milonakis Show. ![]() Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 20, and the Academy Awards in 20.īefore hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel was the co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. He is the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California and on April 1, 2019, at a secondary home, the Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. ![]()
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