• Jimmy Kimmel hosts the late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC. Kimmel had been dating comedian Sarah Silverman but the couple split for the second time in March of 2009.People: Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel Call It Quits (March 7, 2009)

  Kimmel and Eminem are flying 200 laid-off autoworkers to Los Angeles for the May 15, 2009 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!.Freep: Eminem to Take 200 Laid-off Autoworkers to L.A. (May 12, 2009)

• 1. Born: November 13, 1967
  2. Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
  3. Started his career in radio
  4. Hosts Jimmy Kimmel Live
  5. Hosted the show Win Ben Stein's Money
  6. Hosted The Man Show
  7. Created the puppet prank call series Crank Yankers
  8. Emmy Awards: 1
  9. Dated comedian Sarah Silverman
  10. Carson Daly was once his intern
  11. Has provided voices for animated series Family Guy and Robot Chicken

• Radio

  While attending high school, Kimmel hosted his own late-night show for the radio station of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, KUNV. Kimmel moved around to a variety of radio stations over the next several years, eventually landing at Los Angeles' KROQ in the early 1990s, where he appeared as "Jimmy the Sports Guy" on the Kevin and Bean morning show.

• Television

  In 1997, while still working at KROQ, Kimmel started hosted the game show Win Ben Stein's Money, starring actor and former Nixon speech writer Ben Stein. After leaving KROQ in 1999, he created The Man Show for Comedy Central with former Kevin and Bean co-host Adam Carolla. He would later produce more series for Comedy Central, including Crank Yankers, The Andy Milonakis Show and the prank movie Windy City Heat.

  In 2003, Kimmel retired from The Man Show to begin working on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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