How Jimmy Kimmel Went From The Man Show to Become Late Night's Woke Dad

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“I look back at every show I’ve ever done and cringe,” Jimmy Kimmel said in 2017 of The Man Show, the early-aughts Comedy Central mainstay that he and co-host Adam Carolla starred in for nearly five years. The Man Show reveled in over-the-top sexism, running segments featuring strangers signing petitions to “end women’s suffrage” and sketches about programming subservient women at “wife school” to a roaring audience, even going so far as to make women jumping on trampolines a centerpiece of its programming.\n

, making way for comedians Doug Stanhope and Joe Rogan, but the show ended in 2004 shortly after the new hosts took the stage.

In 2003, Kimmel landed at ABC for a new comedy show originally intended as a substitute for the recently canceledthat the hijackers who orchestrated the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers were not cowards). As he took his spot at ABC, immediately Kimmel was explaining to press that he wasn’t the crass, sexist jerk who occupied the leather recliner at. “The idea that I am this guy who runs around snapping people in the ass with a towel, that’s not really me,” Kimmelpiece.

captured by David Letterman and Jay Leno. And the show tried to infuse stuffy ABC with a little of Comedy Central’s raunch; the show, just asdid, had a bar for the audience, but after an audience member vomited too close to a Disney executive the barThe desperation to appeal to young male viewers can be seen in: Snoop Dogg, who repeatedly flipped the middle finger and had to be censored with ABC stickers on screen, The Rock, and musicians like Coldplay and 50 Cent.

 

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