By Joal RyanJimmy Kimmel is cleaning up nicely for cleaning up nicely.
The formerly formality-eschewing late-night talk host has scored his best ratings of the year since adding a tie to his on-stage attire.
For the week of Nov. 21, the most recent late-night ratings period available, Kimmel's ABC show averaged 1.8 million viewers, its best showing since December 2004, per Nielsen Media Research.
According to ABC, Kimmel began wearing a tie on Oct. 10. Since then, his show's ratings, aside from one down week, have climbed. Overall, his numbers are up 15 percent since the top button was buttoned and the neckwear was knotted.
ABC isn't tying the tie to the ratings uptick. (It had to be prompted to research the debut date of the fashion noose.) Rather, the network has boasted of key guest appearances by the likes of Destiny's Child and Bobby Brown.
Prior to donning a tie, Kimmel modeled a modified Man Show look: Suit, long-sleeved dress shirt--unbuttoned, revealing a hint of white undershirt. His motives for dressing like a full-blown grownup at age 38 are unknown. "I don't know exactly why [he did it]," says ABC spokeswoman Jennifer De La Rosa. "I think he just started wearing a tie."
To catch the competition, Kimmel is going to need something fancier than a tie--perhaps a cummerbund and spats. Among the seven network late-night shows, Jimmy Kimmel Live (averaging 1.6 million for the season) ranks sixth, far behind NBC's Tonight Show (5.8 million) and just a notch above NBC's Last Call (1.5 million).
For cravat conspiracy theorists, it's worth noting that the least watched of the late-night trio, Last Call, starring the dress-casual Carson Daly, is also the only one not to feature a tie-wearing host. (Nightline's Cynthia McFadden, the only woman in the boys' club, doesn't wear a tie, either, but her cohosts Martin Bashir and Terry Moran do.)
Is that Liv Tyler with Jimmy Kimmel? Ew! I totally can't stand her....
ReplyDelete~Carrie =)
That pretty woman is Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel's girlfriend and a comedic powerhouse in her own right.
ReplyDeleteYeah, what he said. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love Sarah Silverman; just can't figure out what she sees in that dude.
I still can't figure out who she is, racking my brain notwithstanding.....
ReplyDeleteNice boobs, though. Are any of them actually in her dress??
You remember Sarah Silverman. We had a discussion about her a month or so ago, about the time "Jesus Is Magic" came out.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Jimmy Kimmel married at some point? I recall an episode of The Man Show where he dug through his wife's medicine cabinet and all the bathroom drawers analyzing all of her *unnecessary* beauty products. He then proceeded to throw out all the ones he was certain she did not use nor need on a daily basis. It was actually pretty funny (so she honestly believes this cream will make her look ten years younger??).
ReplyDeleteI think he ended up throwing out about $500 worth of feminine goops, applications, and preparations and he really pissed off his wife in the process.
Perhaps that whole thing was construed for entertainment value, but I was under the impression he was married (poor poor woman!)
~Carrie =)
I know he has teenage daughters, so I would guess he was married sometime in the past. That stunt may have been a result of them breaking up or could have led to a break-up.
ReplyDeleteI know how the women in my life would react if I did that. Then again, I've probaly had MORE goop than some of the women I'm around. :-) Just kidding.