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television host, producer, writer, comedian, voice actor, musician and radio
personality. He is the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a latenight talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel also hosted the 64th
Primetime Emmy Awards on September 23, 2012.
Prior to hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he was best known as the co-host of Comedy
Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. Kimmel has also produced such
shows as Crank Yankers, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, and The Andy
Milonakis Show.
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Career
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Radio career
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Comedy Central
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Personal life
Filmography
References
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He is, and was raised, Catholic, and as a child served as an altar boy.[7][8] Kimmel's
mother is of Italian ancestry; two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were
German emigrants, and his family's surname was "Kmmel" several generations
back.[9][10][11][12]
The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old.[4] He
graduated from Ed W. Clark High School there,[13] and then attended University of
Nevada (for one year) and Arizona State University (for two years). He failed to
obtain a university degree.[14] He received an honorary degree UNLV in 2013.
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Kimmel's uncle, Frank Potenza ("Uncle Frank"), appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011.[15] 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![16]