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Article: ABC's late-night 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' more like 'Jimmy Kimmel Dead!'
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- Daily Breeze
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- January 30, 2003
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
It would be unconscionable to judge ABC's new late-night talk
show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after one week.
Two nights are plenty.
Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian best known for celebrating arrested male
development on Comedy Central's "The Man Show," can be quite funny.
But his suburban slacker humor works best outside the constraints of
a conventional network talk-show format. Naturally ABC has given him
a conventional network talk-show format.
Kimmel is trying to draw the kind of guests popular with his
young, mostly male fans _ rappers, athletes and the Rock, the
Smackdown! wrestler _ with an antiquated talk-show technique that is
not his forte: conversation.
Wisely, Kimmel did ...