Jimmy Kimmel

1 sketch, 16 claims, and 6 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Rewatchables: ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel (guest)

Grew up on the soundtrack and loves Travolta, the TV era and 70s TV icons (Good Times, Kotter). Defends comedians for awards and Woody Allen. Is a sucker for family anecdotes (his Italian Brooklyn-adjacent roots, Aunt Chippy) and cannot stand fake New York accents.

Stances

The film is a time capsule of Bay Ridge
Opening credits are the most rewatchable scene
Woody Allen should have won Best Actor
The film would not be made now

Humor: Rambling personal stories with a late sharp punchline; mocks himself and the people in his past.

In their words

“You know, we love John Travolta.” (0:08:28)
“I'm still partial to Good Times.” (1:26:16)
“I think comedians in general are, are, um, for whatever reason, you're you're at a disadvantage” (0:24:18)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Rewatchables

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Their claims

Showing 1–16 of 16 claims.

career (career): John Travolta → Welcome Back, Kotter. Before the movie Travolta was a TV star; Welcome Back Kotter was the show everybody watched.
“everybody wanted to be Vinnie Barbarino”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:15:07 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Stephen Bishop → The Goodbye Girl. Kimmel says he was thinking about The Goodbye Girl because he heard its Stephen Bishop song on yacht rock.
“I heard the song on, on yacht rock or something in the Stephen Bishop song.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:23:30 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): John Travolta → Annie Hall. Kimmel would have given the Oscar to Travolta; Kimmel says Woody Allen deserved it for Annie Hall.
“Woody Allen should have won”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:23:54 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): John Travolta → Channing Tatum. Magic Mike is the closest modern equivalent to the frenzy Travolta caused: an unknown whose dancing drove women crazy.
“the closest thing to it from like the current era is Magic Mike.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:31:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them)
unmapped (anecdote): Sanford and Son → Redd Foxx. Kimmel's radio fundraiser for Redd Foxx's IRS troubles, vetoed because the station was a classic rock station.
“maybe if it was like the Beatles or something, we'd do it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:34:21 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Airplane! → Saturday Night Fever. Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
“The airplane parody scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Saturday Night Fever → Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody. Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie.
“I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Saturday Night Fever → Dance Fever. Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence.
“I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Karen Lynn Gorney → Cher. Kimmel floats Cher as an older Stephanie.
“What about like Cher?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:03:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Olivia Newton-John → Saturday Night Fever. Imagining an Olivia Newton-John-caliber partner for Tony in this film, since she was Travolta's equal in Grease.
“Imagine if he had someone of the caliber of an Olivia Newton-John in Saturday night.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:10:28 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Welcome Back, Kotter. Old Brooklyn as a pop-culture location: Kimmel picks Welcome Back Kotter over this film and The Warriors.
“Well, I'm going to have to go with Welcome back Cotter”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:11:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Annie Hall. The Brooklyn Bridge is used by Woody Allen as well, but Simmons says this film is apex Brooklyn Bridge.
“Woody Allen's making his movies right at the same time as this”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:11:56 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Rocky. Kimmel notes the film never gives Tony a Rocky-style triumphant moment.
“there's no like, you know, there's no rocky moment.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:13:44 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them)
unmapped (anecdote): John Travolta → Good Times. Kimmel gave Travolta the other piece of original Good Times artwork on Travolta's first appearance on his show.
“I gave him the other piece of artwork.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:23:16 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): What's Happening!! → Good Times. Simmons offers What's Happening!! opening credits; Kimmel stays partial to Good Times.
“I'm still partial to Good Times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:26:16 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Saturday Night Fever → Good Times. Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention.
“Oh, since we're talking about good times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–6 of 6 fun items.

fun, about Jimmy Kimmel: Growing up in Las Vegas, Sammy Davis Jr. gave his friend Clito's dad a Betamax and projection TV, and Sammy left movies behind.
“Sammy Davis Jr. gave Clito's dad a beta”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:08:56 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Saturday Night Fever: Joke: the Puerto Rican couple got a second-place check as well, so Tony should have swapped checks.
“So they got a double dip.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:20:24 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about You Light Up My Life: Kimmel had the single, and the flip side was 'Asta Manana' by Debby Boone, which he says would have cost her the Oscar.
“They probably would have taken the Oscar away if they'd flipped that record over”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:26:20 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Saturday Night Fever: Opening credits: Tony walks the street with a paint can and stacks two pizza slices; Kimmel says his wife has seen just the first minute.
“I bet you've seen the 1st minute of it and that's it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:29:35 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Red Foxx: Kimmel's Seattle radio crew called Red Foxx's hotel 60 days running to organize a telethon fundraiser for his IRS debt; the program director refused.
“Red Fox's fundraiser for himself to pay off his IRS.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:34:10 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Saturday Night Fever: Kimmel and Clito named a body part Father Frank Jr. after the Father Frank scene.
“called our penis's Father Frank Jr.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:38:25 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)