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Emmy-winning funnyman Jimmy Kimmel serves up comedy bits and welcomes guests that include other comics, celebrities, athletes and musicians, as well as everyday people with unusual or compelling personal stories. Kimmel's family and friends take part in the festivities, including his Cousin Sal, Uncle Frank (until his death in 2011) and childhood friend Cleto Escobedo III, who leads the show's house band. Recurring segments include the FCC-pleasing This Week in Unnecessary Censorship in which they take TV clips and "bleep and blur things whether they need it or not," as Kimmel describes it. But it's too bad they consistently run out of time for Matt Damon's segment.
According to Jimmy Kimmel, his least-favorite guest was Vivica A. Fox, who threatened Kimmel for making jokes about her friend Star Jones.
The show was originally broadcast live. In 2004, due to increasing concerns about offending local affiliates, the show began taping an hour before airtime so network executives could vet it before it goes to air.
On August 21, 2012, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) would be moved from 12:00 a.m. to 11:35 p.m., putting the show up directly against "The Tonight Show" and "The Late Show", for the first time since its debut. "Nightline" would be moving to 12:35 a.m. after Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003). The change went into effect in January 2013.
Despite its name, the show had not actually aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from Thomas Jane.
The show's house band is Cleto and the Cletones, led by saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III, a childhood friend of Jimmy Kimmel.