According to ”Jimmy Kimmel live! “Executive producer and main author Molly McNearneyto be one Late Night Writer Requires a really thick skin, “because 90 percent of what you write in the morning as you cry and read the news is rejected. So we are a bunch of losers,” she joked under a new panel.
Under the panel, which is held inside “Jimmy Kimmel live!“Studio in Hollywood, as it is seen in exclusive Video above, McNearney was united by colleague EP and the main author Danny Ricker, who added: “It’s your first rejection of the day, by the way. It’s only another 12 hours of it.” Gary Greenberg, co-author and supervisor producer at the show also appeared on the panel and said: “There are home and away rejections”, which makes it clear that all the jokes that may not have done in the morning are sent by the authors who work from home, before they come to the studio ready to share new ideas that may not make the section.
“Everyone puts their initials in their seats,” said Josh Holloway, also a chic writer and supervising producer at “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “It’s stressful, but it’s such a good control of your work ethics because you can’t call in something that will get your initials over it,” Ricker said. “There is an element of liability and efforts,” Holloway said.
Keep in mind, just from the morning pitch session, which starts at 7 and ends at 08:50, the authors generate 40 pages with ideas which are then sent to Kimmel, and usually testify down to two or three pages. “It’s really one of the most stressful parts of being a late night writer. One of the funniest parts as well, where you can come up with a sketch and you’re like,” Ok, I was half awake in my sweat pants when I came with this. “And then,” Oh, suddenly Jimmy wants to do it. “And you are starting to get calls from our production team,” Ricker said. “Ok, we found a house already to push in. We throw a pope and you said: You want two dogs? It’s a bit expensive. Can we make a dog?” You go, “Yes, that’s good.” And then you are in place that shoots a sketch which then comes back here and is edited and shown to Jimmy.
In fact, Holloway revealed that when they have a working monologues on Google Docs, complete with rock codes and everything, Kimmel goes “like a pacman and edit it and chases us. You have to be a little forward so he will not catch up with you. And he is very fast,” said the author. “He physically writes about the monologue and he obviously uses what the group does, but he makes it his own.”
Given the state of the world, there are more and more days where the team must then turn the script to keep that night’s section as current as possible. It helps that a small number of authors send in their jokes in the afternoon, but everyone tries to be adaptable, especially Kimmel. “It’s not good for your nervous system, but it is very exciting with this team.
“Jimmy always told us, our directive is to talk about the things people talk about. And so when it happens, we need pivot,” Ricker said. Greenberg is reminiscent of a special pitch that he was excited about, which did not come to lift to account for Dagens Nyheter: “We got a filled raccoon with the meth tube in an RC car that tried to go to the studio. Trump fucked it.”
Politics has changed the show in such a way to where Kimmel hardly ever makes jokes about TV Views like “American Idol”, but the silver lining has been the material that becomes more personal. “We are not journalists. He is a comedian. So there is always a nice balance between, can we be fun? Can’t we be fun? We need, what will happen? And these times are a little more dark stress,” McNearney said. “I actually feel so much closer to the people I work with because I feel we are all in this team for good, whether people listen or not, it feels good to at least have a place to put it.”
As summer approaches, “Jimmy Kimmel live!” Author prepares for the late evening comedian to take a vacation, with a lot of celebrity guest hosts who take their place – a challenge that is quite unique to their show. “It feels like a completely different job than what it is like with Jimmy,” Ricker said. “Many aspects of it are the same, and we are in the same studio and all that. But there are times where we sometimes get someone here and we go,” Oh, you have never read a teleprompter before? Okay, it’s time for teleprompts school. “And then they will stand here, and they will try it, and they will go ‘would I wait for the audience to stop laughing before I tell the next joke?’ And we go, “Yes, you should.
The main author added, “We have had to work with such a funny amount of people to the guest host show,” Even the couple of actors who led the most successful live -action movie in 2024. “Last year, our business supervisors were at Disney who,” Hello, Do you want Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman to be worth a show to a show man “We go,” We’ll do it safely. “And they go,” okay, they can get there at 12:30. “And we tied our show at 4:00,” Ricker said. “So we met them for the first time at 12:30. And we’re like,” You make a show of three and a half hours with us. Good, here we go. “And we sat at this desk and we wrote the entire monologue.
Holloway said: “We decided after the first summer that it would be better for the hosts and for the staff if we just made a mini version of our show. So we really write that day with those guest hosts. We don’t just write it in advance because it doesn’t feel we do our show, and it doesn’t feel like they are doing our show.”
Greenberg, who shared his experience of quickly educating these guest hosts, said: “We have had actors on, and in the rehearsal they would deliver a joke and they would kind of swallow punchline and we would say:” It’s punchline. “And they would say,” Well, I want the audience to think I really mean it. “And I’m like,” No, you just want him to laugh. “Don’t.”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Have had about 100 guest hosts, which means that the writing staff has become “capable of channeling it and working and writing in all these different people’s voices”, said an impressed Holloway. After his time at the show, the guest is worthy of “everyone leaves here too and they do not understand how Jimmy does this,” McNearney said. “They’re like,” How the hell are you doing this every night? “
For the whole conversation with “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Author McNearney, Ricker, Greenberg and Holloway, watch the video above.
