A famous comedian and television show host, Jimmy Kimmel was born on 13th November 1967. He is originally born to Italian and German parents but is brought up in accordance to Catholic beliefs. His father, James Kimmel is an IBM Executive and his mother Joan is a house wife. He did his schooling from the Las Vegas and completed his graduation from Arizonian State University. Jimmy is a father of two children, daughter Katie and a Son Kevin. His two children are from his first wife Gina. They got married in the year 1988 but got divorced in 2002. Jimmy then dated Sarah Silverman, a comedian but they split after a long affair of 5 years.
Jimmy began his career early as a radio show host while he was doing his graduation from the Arizonian state university. He became very popular on campus for his shows and his popularity increased after he became the most popular caller at the afternoon show hosted by eminent RJ's like Mike Elliot. Jimmy finally got his first salaried employment as a co-host for the 'The Me and Him Show' which was aired at KZOK FM in Washington. After being fired for unknown reasons from this job, Jimmy was made to leave many radio jobs until he finally got the job of a sports comedy writer the morning show at KROQ FM for the show 'Kevin and Bean'.
His job at KROQ made him very famous and was well known as 'Jimmy the sports guy', he continued for 5 long years with the same job and finally left it giving reason that he wish to now concentrate more on the television industry. His television career began with the 'Win Ben Stein's Money' show, which he joined as the show host. This show made his presence felt on TV and it also earned him an Emmy Award for being the best game show host. Along with this show he was co-hosting and creating 'The man Show' on comedy central. In the year 2003 Jimmy joined
ABC for his own show '
Jimmy Kimmel live', he left 'the man show for this particular show on
ABC. He has also hosted the 'American Music Award' for
ABC for 4 years in a row.
Jimmy Kimmel live! Became very popular on TV and so did Jimmy Kimmel. He also worked with
FOX on a Football talk show '
FOX NFL Sunday'. He worked with
FOX for over 4 years. He also appeared on many other talk shows because of his popularity and demand. His work was not just limited to comedy central,
FOX and
ABC but he was also featured on
ESPN talk shows. Jimmy broke the Guinness records for travelling the longest distance in a single week for hosting two shows side by side Kelly and Live with Regis.
Jimmy also featured in a number of animated movies. He usually has lent his voice to dog characters.
