Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, produced by Michael Schneider, is your one-stop listen for lively conversations about the best in film and television. I would not be honest at all if I said that I have decided one way or the other. And eventually, I am going to have to stop doing this. And there are practical considerations, and there are family and friend considerations and co worker considerations. “I have moments where I go, ‘I cannot do this anymore.’ And I have moments where I go, ‘what am I gonna do with my life if I’m not doing this anymore?’ It’s a very complicated thing. “He immediately got how funny it was,” Kimmel says.Īs for the future of the show - Kimmel’s contract with ABC is up next year - he says he’s still thinking it all through. Kimmel also talks about “Live in Front of a Studio Audience,” and in particular, getting Kevin Hart to play Arnold on the show’s “Diff’rent Strokes” remake. I don’t know why we never thought of shelves, but it’s really been a major improvement in the show!” “And so I had to build me a couple of shelves under my desk. What did he learn from hosting “The Tonight Show”? “Jimmy had some really good shelves under his desk at the ‘Tonight Show,'” he says. And it was amazing that as many people who knew about it, it didn’t get out. This year, I was like, we have to do this because April Fool’s Day is falling on a weekend next year. But for whatever reason, COVID being two of the big reasons, it didn’t work out. “I think I pitched this like four or five years ago. “I thought it’d be funny to do with Jimmy Fallon because so many people confuse us,” he says. It’s a classic radio-style bit, something that he helped “Kevin & Bean” do one year with Power 106’s Baka Boys. Later, we talked about Kimmel’s recent April Fool’s prank, in which he swapped studios for a night with “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon. We talked about Kimmel’s monologue, and how he tried to appeal to the humanity that he hopes is still inside the elected officials who still let these things happen. It’s a burden, but Kimmel has risen to the occasion time and time again. So we had to talk about it, and Kimmel was gracious in walking through his process in having to address such a horrific event on what should be a fun, light-hearted talk show. When Kimmel agreed to talk to the Awards Circuit Podcast, it was before the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, and the murder of 19 children and two teachers via an assault rifle. But we also talk about his return to the studio after double bouts of COVID-19, as well as his April Fool’s Day stunt with Jimmy Fallon, his upcoming trip to Brooklyn and, of course, producing a third edition of “ Live in Front of a Studio Audience” with Norman Lear. On this edition of the Variety Awards Circuit podcast, we talk to Kimmel about how his voice has provided some conscience to a nation that’s in a really bad place right now. But I don’t feel like I have any choice.” It’s very difficult for me, it’s hard for me to get through it. You have to talk about what is on everyone’s mind. But what are you gonna do, give up? And what are you going to talk about, the NBA Playoffs? You can’t. In fact, we’re taking steps backwards in so many different areas, not just this one. And at a certain point, you feel like, what am I screaming into the void here? People agree, and yet we’re still not getting anything done. “And it happens when you’re on break, and you’re not even on television. Jimmy Kimmel's Uvalde Shooting Monologue Cut Short in Texas, Station Says It Wasn't Censoring 'Somebody Somewhere' Star Bridget Everett on Depicting a Tornado Right and Her Improvised Song About Pee Pee How Jessica Biel Found Empathy for Candy Montgomery in Hulu Series: 'You're Still Kind of With Her at the End' Maybe there’ll be a handful of Republican senators, Congresspeople who go hey, This is nuts. It’s pretty much what everyone else is thinking. “Because the first time you think, ‘what I’m saying seems to make sense. “There is a certain amount of pessimism that infects you, when you’ve talked about this multiple times,” he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast. In some ways, it only gets harder, particularly after another shooting massacre leaves 19 young children and two adults murdered in an elementary school. As he approaches his 20th anniversary in late night, the late night host has been at the helm of “ Jimmy Kimmel Live” long enough to address several national tragedies over the year.
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