Jimmy Kimmel celebrated 20 years of late-night hosting by reading some of the reviews from his first show—including one critic who said it was the “kind of mess created by a sick infant with a leaky diaper.”
Exactly 20 years to the day since his late-night show premiered on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel delivered an epic primetime special in which he reflected on two decades of comedy and welcomed back the same three guests he booked for his very first post-Super Bowl episode: George Clooney, Snoop Dogg and Coldplay.
“And those were the good reviews!” Kimmel joked. “Why these people at ABC hired me, I still have no idea.” Calling out some of the people who believed in him early on, he added, “You should all have been fired for this. And, in fact, two of you were fired for that. But thank you.” “It takes a lot of people to make something this dumb,” Kimmel said. “And we have covered a lot of dumb stuff over the past 20 years.” But as much as they have focused on Snooki and Sarah Palin, he did point out that he was also “allowed to use this platform to speak out about issues that matter to me, like health care and sensible gun laws.”
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