Brooklyn, New York City – In January, Jimmy Kimmel will celebrate 20 years of hosting his own Late Night TV talk show.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! It is now the longest running late night show still on the air and has just signed a new contract extension with ABC for another 3 years.
Kimmel was born in Brooklyn and lived there until he was nine, and this week, he’s back home to host week-long performances from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)—thousands will return to welcome this native son. .
His show home may be in Hollywood, but Kimmel is still close to friends and family in New York City, and the place is just a few miles from the Mill Basin neighborhood where he grew up.
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His trip home became an annual tradition until COVID canceled it for a few years.
“It’s always a great feeling to be back in Brooklyn, but it’s an especially great feeling because we’ve been trapped,” Kimmel said. “It feels like the world is back to normal even though everyone in my crew is still wearing a mask.”
To promote his guest lineup this week, the star used the Ocky Way, enlisting the famous bodega manager TikTok from Red Hook to explain who will be on the show.
“First let’s start with Jimmy Kimmel,” said Rahim, General Ok Muhammed. “Then we add the guests. We put David Letterman on the show. Then we add Amy Schumer, then Ben Stiller, Mila Kunis, Jason Bateman, Tracy Morgan…
These musical acts include Run the Jewels and Paul Simon.
It’s been many decades since the Kimmel family left Brooklyn and moved to Las Vegas, but the star’s ties to the old neighborhood remain strong.
And that’s one reason why he first came back a decade ago during superstorm Sandy.
“Tonight, I came back to save my people from the storm,” he told his fans in 2012, and they responded with cheers.
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This time around, we meet Kimmel between rehearsals at BAM, just days after ABC announced his contract extension.
He said, “ABC came to me and said, ‘We’d like you to stay.’ We like you to stay as you like.” “I looked around my desk, and thought, ‘I don’t want to clean this stuff up.
He said he never expected his show to last two decades.
“There were a few times I felt like the plane was headed toward Earth, and somehow we pulled it off,” he said. “But I knew I’d give it my all, and I think it’s important that I always do that.”
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