James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American comedian, actor, voice artist and television host. He is the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that airs on ABC. Prior to that, Kimmel was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. Kimmel is also a television producer, having produced shows such as Crank Yankers, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, and The Andy Milonakis Show.
Kimmel was born in the Mill Basin neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the eldest of three children of Joann (née Iacono), a homemaker, and James Kimmel, an IBM executive. He is Roman Catholic and, as a child, served as an altar boy. Kimmel is of German and Irish descent on his father’s side and Italian descent on his mother’s side. His uncle, Frank Potenza, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011.
The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old. He graduated from Ed W. Clark High School and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before attending Arizona State University for two years without completing a degree.
Plot
A television actor drinks too much and gets blackballed from the industry, and then he decides to break back in by directing his own movie. Eventually, he gets sober, and then falls off the wagon and goes crazy and turns his film into a musical.
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Danny Roane: When I think of Hell I think of the Devil dancing in licks of flames with lost souls behind cars and in cages. Can you get some of those by the way?::John Imbagliado: Oh yeah, I'll just go out to the prop store and pick up some lost souls.
Deidra Fennigan: [referring to Danny Roane] I haven't seen him since he went into rehab for I think about, DINK, the fourth time.
Nathan West: My mind is made of Hitler.
Leslie: Okay, sure... I'll just do it like this because I'm dyslectic and sideways.
Danny Roane: At least get some flames coming out here.::John Imbagliado: You mean real flames?::Danny Roane: Yeah.::John Imbagliado: No.::Danny Roane: It's just gas, get some tubing it'll be easy.::John Imbagliado: No, the whole thing will go up like a dinner box.::Danny Roane: Well you just make sure the whole thing is flame retarded.::John Imbagliado: Excuse me?::Danny Roane: Get some stuff on here that makes it flame retarded.::John Imbagliado: Retardant.::Danny Roane: What?::John Imbagliado: It's not flame retarded, it's ...::Danny Roane: Well make sure it's flame retarded that's my point.::John Imbagliado: No there's no such word as flame retarded, it's FLAME RETARDANT.::Danny Roane: No.::John Imbagliado: NO.::Danny Roane: No, it's retarded. Like it's slow to the flames. Flame retarded means it's slow to the flames.::John Imbagliado: You know I wish you wouldn't do that. My cousin is retarded, he's forty two years-old and all day long he eats mayonnaise with a spoon. So just stop with those jokes, I'd appreciate it.
Paul Gunderson: Is a line producer important to a film? I don't know, let me ask you a question - are your feet important to you walking?