Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Created byJimmy Kimmel
Written by
Directed byAndy Fisher
Presented byJimmy Kimmel
Starring
Announcer
Music byThe Cletones
Opening theme"Jimmy Kimmel Live!", sung by Robert Goulet
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons24
No. of episodes3,588
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Ken Crosby
  • Chris Fraticelli
  • David Craig
  • Tony Romero
  • Craig Powell
  • Patrick Friend
  • Nancy Fowkes
Production locations
Running time40 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseJanuary 26, 2003 (2003-01-26) –
present
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The nightly hour-long show tapes and is based out of the El Capitan Entertainment Centre (ECEC), formerly the Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It debuted on January 26, 2003, as part of ABC's lead-out programming for Super Bowl XXXVII. For its first ten years, Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired at 12:05 a.m. ET/PT before moving to 11:35 p.m. on January 8, 2013. Contrary to its title, the show has not regularly aired live since April 23, 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by 12:05 AM Productions, LLC, in association with Kimmelot and 20th Television. It holds the title as the longest running late-night talk show on the network, having aired for more than three times as long as either The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1975) or Politically Incorrect (1997–2002). It is the second longest-running late-night talk show, by host, on any network surpassed only by The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.