As Donald Trump’s loose lips and looser concept of audio security move the goalposts for his supporters past “Well, so what if he said the most reviled racial slur imaginable?,” two very different late-night talk show guests had unsurprisingly different takes on the increasingly probable existence of the reported…
Kanye West went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, talking about all the things you’d expect a mercurial superstar to chat about on national TV: His wife, his work, his politics, his preferred masturbation habits. That last one came up when West responded to a question from Kimmel about his attitudes toward women in…
After wife Kim Kardashian appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week, Kanye West followed suit with a wide-ranging, 20-minute interview with Kimmel on Thursday. Actually, “wide-ranging” is selling the scope of their talk short, as Kimmel followed West’s conversation through the multi-hyphenate star’s discussion of his…
Kanye West doesn’t appear on late-night shows very often, possibly because he has a tendency to say and do controversial things when people give him a platform like that (or when he just hops on stage and takes the platform for himself), but West is set to make his big return to Jimmy Kimmel Live! later this week.…
It’s hard to imagine anyone not being happy for Mark Hamill’s perhaps unlikely return to big-screen stardom. After all, being the central figure in the biggest movie trilogy of all time and then watching your movie career peter out has to be a real kick in the pants. And yet, Hamill—who became a legendarily lauded…
Bobcat Goldthwait started out as a sweat-drenched, yowling standup comic, but he’s forged a legitimately impressive second career as a writer-director of thoughtfully provocative, darkly comic indie films (with the occasional Bigfoot flick thrown in). It’s not that surprising, really—Goldthwait’s standup was always a…
The gift that is the ongoing career rise of Tiffany Haddish opened up once more with some of the comic and actor’s signature Hollywood encounter tales on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. Telling Kimmel that none of her new movie star pals has anything to truly worry about when she hosts the MTV Movie Awards on Monday…
While Elizabeth and Philip Jennings (a.k.a. Nadezhda and Mischa) have exhibited mounting individual dissatisfaction with their roles as deep cover Soviet spies on The Americans, fans of the enduringly stellar series aren’t so eager to let the Cold War drama go. On Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Keri Russell admitted…
It was a mini-summit of people who professionally do not like Donald Trump on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as Kimmel welcomed Full Frontal host Samantha Bee. While Kimmel took the traditional nightly late-night host shots at Bee’s but once-a-week round of Trump-bashing, they both commiserated over how the current…
On his show, Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, the comedian and former Daily Show correspondent has dedicated himself to an entire season of trying to truly understand policing in America. Like Cenac himself, the series is wry, thoughtful, and rational, as well as deeply pissed off, with Friday’s installment looking at the…
On the same day of his series Atlanta’s season finale and the Hollywood premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover was Lando-cool on Jimmy Kimmel Live! All the more impressive since Glover’s also coming off a fine hosting turn at Saturday Night Live, has the most buzzed-about song and music video in the world,…
While Scandal may have passed its peak and headed down the steep side of silly mountain a while ago, there’s no denying how influential—and fun—all the show’s backstabbing, wine-quaffing, bed-hopping, Machiavellian Washington intrigue has been. After the series finale aired on Thursday, the entire current cast and…
Back on Friday, we lowered ourselves into a pit of annoyingness to break down the ongoing feud between Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity, with the latter suddenly deciding that it’s not alright to criticize Melania Trump even though he spent years saying awful stuff about the entire Obama family with his other Fox News…
In one of those stories that makes you simultaneously grateful to be writing about something dumb and not nuclear war, and also feel a little twinge of longing in the darkest recesses of your mind for something—could be nuclear war, could be aliens, doesn’t really matter—to come and end all of this forever, it is our…
Seth Rogen, current cinema’s endearingly stoned labrador retriever, stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday to promote a couple of projects and drop another anecdote about getting high in front of famous people. (In this case, a disapproving Steven Spielberg, who—to be fair—walked up to chat with Rogen at an Oscar…
Before breaking her non-disclosure agreement and publicly sharing the details of her affair with President Donald Trump on 60 Minutes last month, adult film star Stormy Daniels appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! for a game of charades that said everything without her saying much of anything at all. Now, Kimmel is…
It’s always nice when the carefully stage-managed, anodyne routines of late-night television break down. These moments can reveal, if only for a second, something altogether more personal about the celebrities on-hand than the publicist-manicured talking-points and safe comedy routines that were scheduled. This was…
Walking a fine line between public health awareness and butt-based prurience, Jimmy Kimmel got away with broadcasting the pink, supple interior of his colon to millions of people tonight. Specifically, Kimmel—working with Katie Couric, who did something similar on Today many years ago, in order to promote women’s…
Turns out Toys R Us kids had a good reason not to grow up, as a blend of big box proliferation and e-commerce would render the sky-high racks of tangible magic they knew as children unsustainable. Having declared bankruptcy six months ago, and with as much as $8 billion in debt, the toy chain will close the entirety…
Lena Waithe was no doubt booked on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to plug Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One (she plays Aech). But the conversation between Waithe and Kimmel quickly revealed how much more the Chicago native has going on right now. Sure, a meaty role in a likely Spielberg blockbuster is nothing…
