Emmy Awards 2020 Jimmy Kimmel Hosts the PandEMMYs The PandEMMYs is what Jimmy Kimmel called it during his opening monologue – and that was much of the intrigue: how would they pull off a truly live award show? The bit off the top, cutting to past footage of people in the theatre, went on a bit too long, non? By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 06:57 am
Jimmy Kimmel Intro for August 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, 140! 140 LIVE FEEDS! Maybe it’s just the broadcast and production nerds that care about this but making the Emmys happen might actually be more interesting than the actual Emmys this year. Variety interviewed Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart for an exclusive about the planning that’s By Lainey • Aug 25, 2020 09:03 am
Jimmy Kimmel Intro for June 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, Cody wrote yesterday about the current Jimmy Kimmel controversy and I posted about Tina Fey and 30 Rock pulling four Blackface episodes. Last week, Howard Stern went on the air to address his past use of Blackface and the n-word. This was in response to Donald Trump Jr By Lainey • Jun 24, 2020 09:02 am
Douchebags Is Jimmy Kimmel cancelled? (Lainey: yesterday we introduced to you our newest contributor, Cody Kreller. His first post about Beyoncé can be read here. We haven’t yet had the chance to build him his own profile on the site and we won’t be able to get to that until the weekend so By Cody • Jun 23, 2020 04:04 pm
Stephen Colbert Lady Gaga Unites Late Night Jimmy Fallon called Lady Gaga last week but she wasn’t ready to make her announcement, promising that they’d be ready to roll with it today. She’s curating a television special, in collaboration with Global Citizen and the World Health Organisation “to celebrate and encourage the power of By Lainey • Apr 07, 2020 01:05 pm
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel accused of workplace toxicity It is never surprising to me when I hear horror stories from behind the scenes of late-night talk shows. Diva guests, demanding bosses, frustrated writers cranking out dozens, if not hundreds, of jokes a day only to get nothing on air—a late night talk show is a particular stew By Sarah • Mar 11, 2020 10:36 am
Jimmy Kimmel Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram record As I wrote when I dedicated a full post to Jennifer Aniston joining Instagram a couple of days ago, it’s not newsworthy when just any celebrity jumps on the platform, but it is newsworthy when a celebrity of her status, who has previously insisted she would resist it, jumps By Lainey • Oct 17, 2019 12:56 pm
BFFs Matt & Ben together again I mean, it’s not that they were ever apart, but we don’t see them together a lot these days. We see Matt Damon with Chris Hemsworth, often. A Matt and Ben Affleck sighting, however, has become more rare. The Matt + Ben thing, though, well it’s still a By Lainey • Oct 29, 2018 01:02 pm
Oscars 2018 Jimmy Kimmel Hosted, Surprising Everyone I mean, how do you follow up after… you know? This year’s Oscar ceremony was, on balance, pretty great. It moved. There were a couple of surprises and warm moments, and more than one win that was a surprise while not quite being an upset. For example, while I By Duana • Mar 05, 2018 03:48 am
Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional return It feels insensitive. Everything I am thinking of writing about Jimmy Kimmel’s return to his show last night feels insensitive. Not because I don’t think his emotional monologue was great – it was. It was necessary and powerful and even though he put his 7-month old baby on television, By Kathleen • Dec 12, 2017 03:44 pm
Oscars 2017 Oscar Host Jimmy Kimmel The rules have changed. Throw out the playbook. The Oscars will never be the same ever again. So it’s fitting that Jimmy Kimmel was the host. Because what do we say about the Oscar hosts every year? “Ugh, they were boring.” “God, where did they even go? I forgot By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 04:52 am
Jimmy Kimmel Intro for February 23, 2017 Dear Gossips, Jimmy Kimmel, host of this year’s Oscars, has been giving interviews all over the place ahead of the show on Sunday. He says pretty much the same thing from outlet to outlet. Except he gave us a heads up in Vanity Fair: “The thing about the schedule By Lainey • Feb 23, 2017 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise: Run and Top Gun Jack Reacher: Never Stop Stopping, which is not the real title but the title of the underappreciated Andy Samberg parody film earlier this year, opens this weekend. So Tom Cruise is on press tour. Not as intense as the press tours we've seen from him in the past By Lainey • Oct 19, 2016 01:02 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Matt Damon: Emmy’s surprise guest Sarah always talks about HBO’s Game Of Thrones dragon budget and how many times they can show the dragons based on how much money they have for CGI every time the dragons show up. And then a dragon showed up in the first 2 minutes of the Emmys. How By Lainey • Sep 19, 2016 01:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt’s back Yesterday was World AIDS Day. Jimmy Kimmel dedicated his entire show last night to fundraising for RED. Bono was there. Scarlett Johansson showed up to sing with Barry Manilow. Olivia Wilde helped out and played a home shopping host. And then there was Matt Damon. As you know, Matt and By Lainey • Dec 02, 2015 11:40 am
Judgy Moms Jimmy Says Vaccinate We all know Lainey has been a teeny bit concerned about getting chicken pox, which would suck. But you know what would probably suck even more? Measles! And it’s so freakishly contagious that it’s hard not to get paranoid about it. (Lainey: which is why I just got By Maria • Mar 02, 2015 01:17 pm
