![]() "My sense of humor is kind of what it is, so a lot of this type of thing will work its way into the ABC show," he said. Will his new ABC show include prank phone calls? "We were going through the phone book looking for guys named Richard Small 'Is Dick Small there please?' I really think it's a rite of passage for kids," he said. Kimmel still remembers the first time he made prank phone calls as a small boy growing up in Las Vegas. "The guy would say, 'Yes, yes, OK,' and we'd give him the phone number of our house, and then he'd call back right away and we would pretend to be the dad," Kimmel recalled happily. Would the mark call the boy's father and tell him his son's in jail and needs to be picked up? On the other hand, he added, it's disappointing how uncreative kids today are compared to when Kimmel and his buddy Cledo called people pretending to be a boy who'd just been arrested and had used up his one phone call on a wrong number. It really brightens my day, I have to say." I've been crank called by little kids and I love it. it was one of the proudest moments of my life. ![]() "I found out from the babysitter and I was so proud. I wondered if his own children had made any crank calls yet. That's about all that's new otherwise it's the same crap."Ībout "Crank Yankers," though, he seems genuinely enthusiastic. We gained nothing in the comedy department, but we got two more good-looking girls on the show. "We auditioned a million girls, and ultimately we just wound up with the two hottest ones. "We decided we wanted to get some members of the Juggy Dance Squad that could really participate and pull off some comedy bits for us," he said in a phone interview a couple of weeks ago. Kimmel has said he's getting tired of his fratboy "Man Show" audience, and nothing's happened recently to make him change his mind. I also feel that more monkeys and midgets would add more humor." "They make me feel kind of funny, like when we used to climb the ropes in gym class. "There needs to be more shots of the Juggies on the show," opines another. "Make the Juggies naked!" suggests a message board posting on "The Man Show" Web site, about the Juggy Dance Squad girls. But the average "Man Show" fan probably couldn't care less. Kimmel and Carolla are rather young to make such an outdated joke even children and dogs can get credit cards now. "Men," Kimmel simpered in his "Woman Show" persona, "can't live with 'em, can't get a credit card without 'em." The problem was, they often seemed out of touch with reality. ![]() Still, much of Kimmel's sensibility is simply unintelligible to women, although I have to admit I laughed at Connie the Craft Lady's party hats for cats routine on "The Man Show." The last time I watched "The Man Show" was a couple of years ago, when they did a special called "The Woman Show," which imagined Kimmel and Carolla trying to get in touch with their feminine side. He's been married 14 years, for one thing, and has two children, unlike the eternal bachelor and model-escorter Maher. Unlike Bill Maher - whose slot he's taking over at ABC now that "Politically Incorrect" has been cancelled - Kimmel is probably not a misogynist in real life. But a little of Kimmel and his antics goes a long way. I've also been known to smile, however slightly, at Curly. "Watch a Jerry Lewis movie on TV," a (male) director friend instructed me once, "and I defy you not to laugh." And I admit I did the other day, happening upon Jerry screaming "L-a-a-a-d-y!" in "Who's Minding the Store?" ![]() Now a taste for Jimmy Kimmel and his humor might be one of those mysterious gender divides, like an appreciation for fake dog poop or the Three Stooges or Jerry Lewis. I don't see the point of "Special Ed," a mentally retarded character who calls tech support to yell "I've got mail!" or a travel agency to scream "I wanna go to Hawaii!" And Kimmel as an old man calling KFC to complain about a bunch of chicken beaks he found in his bucket is sort of amusing, in a surreal sort of way, for about 30 seconds. ![]()
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