 |
Jonathan Kimmel (born November 4, 1976) is an American television and film director, writer, producer, actor, and composer. [1]
|
Jonathan Kimmel (born November 4, 1976) is an American television and film director, writer, producer, actor, and composer. [1]
Kimmel's writing credits include six seasons of South Park , during which the show won three Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. He has also contributed several voice-overs for South Park, including the voice of Peter the Family Guy, Gandalf, John Travolta, the Israeli Egg Assassin, and his brother Jimmy in the "Fishsticks" episode. After that, he served as co-executive producer and head writer for MTV's The Andy Milonakis Show . Additionally, he assisted on Crank Yankers , where he was also a composer and voice-over performer. Other writing credits include: That's My Bush! , Drawn Together , and The Bonnie Hunt Show .
Kimmel's performing credits include: SXSW feature The Prank starring Rita Moreno, ABC's Trophy Wife ABC's Life with Bonnie ; the character Xavier on the ABC pilot "Let Go"; the voice of Scab in Disney's The Wild ; the Singing Ass in Sarah Silverman's Jesus Is Magic ; the voice of the King on Drawn Together ; the Boneologist and as The Fog on Minoriteam , as well as dozens of voices and characters on Jimmy Kimmel Live! . Kimmel has also guest-starred in several roles on The Sarah Silverman Program . He directed the music video for The Killers' ninth charity Christmas single, "Joel the Lump of Coal", which features his brother Jimmy (who also co-wrote the song).
Kimmel is executive producer, director and showrunner on the reboot of Crank Yankers , for Comedy Central.
Kimmel is executive producer and co-showrunner of the Kelly Ripa hosted Generation Gap , for ABC.
Kimmel married his wife Carly Hirsch on August 12, 2006. [2] [3] Together they have two children, a son, Wesley Kimmel (b. 2009) [4] who is also an actor and a daughter, Beatrix (b. 2012). [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The Wild | Scab (voice) | |
| 2008 | Imaginationland: The Movie | Additional voices (voice) | Direct-to-video |
| 2022 | The Prank | Joe |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | That's My Bush! | The Gut Busters! | Episode: "A Poorly Executed Plan" |
| 2003–2007 | Crank Yankers | Sonny; Jon the Businessman (voices) | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | Life with Bonnie | Xavier | Episode: "Nightshift" |
| 2004–2005 | Drawn Together | The King (voice) | Credited as Jon Kimmel Episodes: "Dirty Pranking Number 2" & "Ghosteses in the Slot Machine" |
| 2005–2009, 2023–present | South Park | Peter Griffin; Jimmy Kimmel; various (voices) | 13 episodes Credited as Juan Kimmelini |
| 2006 | Minoriteam | Boneologist; various (voices) | Episodes: "Tribe & Prejudice" & "FOG" |
| 2006 | Let Go | Xavier | Television movie |
| 2007 | Saul of the Mole Men | Dr. Lawrence "Brad" Perkins; Molemen (voices) | 9 episodes |
| 2007–2008 | The Sarah Silverman Program | Pageant host; Bob; Homeless Blind Willy Joe | 3 episodes |
| 2008–2018 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Writer; segment director | |
| 2014 | Trophy Wife | Farmer Rick | Episode: "Mother's Day" |
| 2019–2021 | Crank Yankers | Executive producer; director; showrunner | 40 episodes |
| 2022 | Generation Gap | Executive producer; co-showrunner | 10 episodes |
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, sometimes shortened to JKL, is an American late-night political satire talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and broadcast on ABC. The nightly hour-long show tapes and is based out of the Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California. It debuted on January 26, 2003 as part of ABC's lead-out programming for Super Bowl XXXVII. For its first ten years, Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired at either the midnight or 12:05 a.m. ET/PT before moving to 11:35 p.m. on January 8, 2013. Despite its name, the show has not regularly aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane.
James Christian Kimmel is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He has been the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show, since 2003. Kimmel has hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards three times, in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards four times, in 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024.
Crank Yankers is an American television sketch comedy show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison. It features actual crank calls made by show regulars and celebrity guests, with on-screen re-enactments by puppets. The show premiered on June 2, 2002, on Comedy Central. It returned to MTV2 on February 9, 2007, running again until March 30.
Zachary Knight Galifianakis is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role as Alan in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013). On television, he starred in the FX series Baskets (2016–2019), which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2017. He also hosted the Funny or Die talk show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (2008–2018).
Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait is an American comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter. He is known for his black comedy stand-up act, delivered through an energetic stage persona with an unusual raspy and high-pitched voice. He came to prominence with his stand-up specials An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait—Share the Warmth and Bob Goldthwait—Is He Like That All the Time? and his acting roles, including Zed in the Police Academy franchise and Eliot Loudermilk in Scrooged. Since 2012, he has been a regular panelist on the radio-quiz show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.
Drew Massey is an American voice actor, puppeteer and director for Nickelodeon and the Jim Henson Company. He has worked extensively with the Muppets and has performed in many films, television series, and commercials. He has also lent his voice to many commercials and video games.
Alfred Ernest Jean III is an American screenwriter and producer. Jean is well known for his work on The Simpsons. He was raised near Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Harvard University in 1981. Jean began his writing career in the 1980s with fellow Harvard alum Mike Reiss. Together, they worked as writers and producers on television shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ALF and It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She first rose to prominence for her brief stint as a writer and cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live during its 19th season between 1993 and 1994. She then starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central. For her work on the program, Silverman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Robby Christopher Schrab is an American comic book creator, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the creator of the comic book Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, co-creator of the competitive film festival Channel 101, and the co-creator of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program. He has directed three seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program and episodes of Childrens Hospital, Blue Mountain State, Community, Parks and Recreation, The Mindy Project, Workaholics, Creepshow, and the second revival season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Anthony J. Barbieri is an American comedic writer and performer. He is known for his appearances as the Jimmy Kimmel Live! character "Jake Byrd", and as "Walter "Mole" Molinsky" in the Comedy Central tv movie, Windy City Heat.
Adam de la Peña is an American actor, comedy writer, producer, and director.
Daniel Kellison is an American television/film producer and co-founder of Jackhole Productions, an entertainment group formed with partners Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla.
James Bernard Florentine is an American comedian, actor, author, and television personality. He is best known for co-hosting That Metal Show on VH1 Classic and voicing several characters on Crank Yankers, including Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. He hosts The Jim Florentine Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and a podcast called Everybody Is Awful . He has released six albums of stand-up comedy, two comedy specials, seven installments in the Terrorizing Telemarketers prank call compilation, and three installments of the Meet the Creeps hidden camera show. His 2018 book Everybody is Awful reached No. 1 on the Book Soup nonfiction chart.
Tom Stern is an American actor, director, writer, and producer.
Comedy Central Records is a record label based in New York and owned by Paramount Global. The label specializes in stand-up comedy albums and is distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Sal Iacono, also known as Cousin Sal, is an American comedian, writer, podcaster, and game show host. He is known for his roles on The Man Show and the late night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He is Jimmy Kimmel's cousin, hence his nickname Cousin Sal.
Alexander Matthew Sulkin is an American screenwriter, producer, and voice actor known for his work on Family Guy and The Cleveland Show.
Rory Scot Albanese is an American comedian, comedy writer and television producer. He was a showrunner, executive producer and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which he joined in 1999 and was with until October 2013. He was an executive producer and showrunner of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
Dime Trap is the tenth studio album by American rapper T.I. It was released on October 5, 2018, by Grand Hustle Records and Epic Records. The album was initially announced in 2014 and underwent several working titles, namely The Return and Trap's Open. It serves as the second installment in a trilogy that was preceded by his ninth album Paperwork, and was later followed by his eleventh The L.I.B.R.A. Throughout the album's production, T.I. worked on several other projects as well, including Da' Nic (2015), Bankroll Mafia (2016), Us or Else: Letter to the System (2016) and We Want Smoke (2017).
The Damon–Kimmel feud is a satirical public feud between actor Matt Damon and television host Jimmy Kimmel. The feud has garnered nationwide coverage since 2005, when Kimmel ended a season 3 episode of his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, by jokingly saying "Apologies to Matt Damon, but we ran out of time" when Damon was not scheduled to be on the show at all. In the years since, Damon and Kimmel have treated the feud as a running gag, often enlisting the help of other celebrities to prank each other publicly, many of which take place on Kimmel's show.