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Article: `Jimmy Kimmel Live' takes the fast track to the low road.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- February 3, 2003
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Byline: Ed Bark
Last week's evolution of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" can be distilled to a three-step program.
Sunday: Ted Koppel deftly gets the show off the ground by telling viewers: "There will be no special post-Super Bowl edition of `Nightline' tonight so that ABC can bring you the following piece of garbage." Then big-fish guest George Clooney shows up with a vodka bottle in hand. "So how are things on `ER'?" he's asked after drinks are poured.
Wednesday: Kimmel, guest Adam Corolla and guest host Snoop Dogg get trashed, consuming multiple shots of vodka from a carton labeled "Goat's Milk." It's Kimmel's "Animal House" response to Disney-owned ...