Jimmy Kimmel’s biting spoof of embattled late night veteran Jay Leno was so popular that ABC’s airing an encore presentation of it! On Kimmel’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday, the comedian donned a salt and pepper wig and prosthetic chin to parody Leno for an entire hour. Even guest Chevy Chase got in on the gag, appearing on stage in costume as Conan O’Brien.
In case you missed, a repeat airing of Jimmy taking the stage as Jay will air this Monday, Jan. 18 @ 12:05 AM on ABC.
In related news, last night’s edition of The Jay Leno Show was downright brutal! Jay invited Jimmy to appear on the program’s question-answer segment, Ten@Ten; presumably to reassure viewers that there were no hard feelings over Kimmel’s spoof…..Let’s just say things didn’t go quite as planned. Kimmel viciously ethered television’s strongest jaw — on his own show — in support of fellow late night presenter Conan, who will likely be replaced by Leno as host of The Tonight Show next month.
On last night’s Jay Leno Show, Strong Jaw went one-on-one with Jimmy Kimmel, who impersonated Leno beneath a grey wig and fake chin on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night. In a word, Leno got murked.
Leno doesn’t appear to be winning anyone over with his move to retake The Tonight Show, as Jimmy Kimmel and Rosie O’Donnell tell him to let Conan O’Brien keep the show.
“The best prank I ever pulled was I told a guy that—five years from now—I’m gonna give you my show. And then when the five years came, I gave it to him, and then I took it back almost instantly.”
Well, this might be awkward: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel will appear on The Jay Leno Show, NBC’s fleeting primetime variety hour, this Thursday, Jan. 14, the network said Wednesday evening. The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live will get in the hot seat for Jay’s “Ten @ Ten” – a popular question and answer segment that has featured guests like Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian, and Kate Gosselin.
Leave Jay Alone! ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at the drama going on at NBC by donning a salt and pepper wig and slapping on a prosthetic chin to impersonate former Tonight Show host Jay Leno! Jimmy took the stage dressed as Leno and stayed in character for the duration of his show –he even spoofed Jay’s trademark “Headlines” segment.
“My name is Jay Leno and let it be known that I am taking over all shows in late night,” Kimmel cracked in his opening monologue, adding that ABC stands for “Always Bump Conan.”
Oh look, it’s Christmas At The Jersey Shore. ABC’s Leading Man of Late-Night invited Snooki, The Situation, and Pauly D — stars of the controversial new MTV reality docu-soap Jersey Shore – to reenact the birth of Baby Jesus live on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week.
Is it a crime to find these irreverent and irrelevant drunkards delightfully-entertaining?
