Question: if you lose Jelly Roll, have you lost a huge chunk of American voters? The country music singer-rapper, who collected three Grammy Awards earlier this year, completed his fourth and final appearance Thursday as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live. This is the second summer in a row he’s been tapped to work the
“Comedy is tragedy plus time.” Over the years, that famous quote has been attributed to several people: original Tonight Show host Steve Allen; Carol Burnett; Bob Newhart; even Woody Allen. All knew funny, that is for sure. The quote came back to me when I happened upon a YouTube video from the 82nd Annual Academy
Today, January 12, marks 60 years since the caped crusader hit the small screen. On that date in 1966, TV’s original Batman landed with a Bam! Pow! Splat! For me and other eight-year-olds in schoolyards across North America, it was a mind-blowing moment. I can still recall the excitement of watching the very first episode.
On Thursday the folks at CBC Syndication radio asked me to weigh in across their network about the news that, after about half a century on ABC, the Academy Awards will migrate to YouTube in 2029. The deal with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is for five years. I’m not sure how
Jimmy Kimmel has hosted some incredibly emotional hours of his late night series in 23 seasons, but none so devastatingly personal as the one he delivered last night. Kimmel was mourning the loss of his lifelong friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III. The saxophonist and leader of Cleto and the Cletones passed
One of the offshoots of covering television in Canada for so many years is that when big news breaks, I often get asked to weigh in on radio and TV coverage. This was certainly the case this past week as the Jimmy Kimmel saga went, in a matter of days, from shock to cause celeb
Here is a shocker: despite Donald Trump’s gleeful tweet last Wednesday, it appears that Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t fired by ABC after all. The Disney-owned broadcast network issued a statement Tuesday announcing that, after a suspension designed as a cooling off period, and conversations with Kimmel and others involved, the host on the hot seat was
Here’s my reaction Monday on CTV News Network to the news that Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC Tuesday night, This happened so fast I didn’t even have time to cancel my Disney+ subscription! A lot of other people did, however, including Howard Stern. Many others turned up the heat, including John Oliver and