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Jackhole Productions
Jackhole Productions is an American production company started by Jimmy Kimmel, Daniel Kellison and Adam Carolla. It has produced several comedy shows on television. Jackhole Productions has worked on several projects with production company DiGa. The company's name is an amalgam of Carolla and Kellison's company Jackhouse, and Kimmel's company Cashhole. It is also a made up swear word. The mascot is an animated donkey wearing a sombrero. In early 2020, Kimmel's new production company, Kimmelot, assumed production responsibilities for ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!''; it is not known if this is due to a merger between Jackhole and Kimmelot. Former shows produced by Jackhole Productions: * ''The Man Show'' (Comedy Central) (1999–2004, only used on seasons 1-5) * ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' (ABC) (2003–2020, now produced under Kimmelot banner) * ''Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust'' (Comedy Central) (2003) * '' Too Late with Adam Carolla'' (Comedy Central) (2005) * ''The Adam Carolla Project'' (TLC) (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California; and on April 1, 2019, at a secondary home, the Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018. Before hosting ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', Kimmel was the co-host of Comedy Central's '' The Man Show'' and '' Win Ben Stein's Money''. Kimmel has also produced such shows as '' Crank Yankers'', '' Sports Show with Norm Macdonald'', and '' The Andy Milonakis Show''. In 2018, '' Time'' named him as one of " The World's 100 Most Influential People". Kimmel is the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, following Conan O’Brien’s retirement from hosting a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Late With Adam Carolla
''Too Late with Adam Carolla'' was a late night talk show hosted by Adam Carolla and produced by Jackhole Industries, a team made up of old collaborators: Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, and Daniel Kellison. The show, which mixed celebrity interviews, chatty everyday observations, scripted sketches, and phone conversations with viewers (often canned), premiered on August 8, 2005 in the 11:30 p.m. time slot on Comedy Central. The show struggled to find an audience, averaging fewer than 700,000 viewers, a poor performance that Carolla jokingly acknowledged on air. On September 20, the show was moved to 12:00 and the live audience was dropped. The show got its highest ratings when Steve-O of '' Jackass'' and '' Wildboyz'' fame came onto the show intoxicated and tackled Adam while yelling obscenities. The last episode aired in November 2005. Recurring segments Who's on the Blower? When Carolla takes calls from the home audience, this title card is shown on the monitor and the annou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Show With Norm Macdonald
''Sports Show with Norm Macdonald'' was a sports comedy series that aired on Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET on Comedy Central from April 12, 2011 to June 7, 2011. The show lampooned the world of sports using Web videos and field segments. Comedian and former ''Saturday Night Live'' "Weekend Update" anchor Norm Macdonald hosted the show. As host of ''Sports Show'', Macdonald is described as a "gleeful, equal-opportunity offender who is back in his element making snarky asides at the absurd excesses of the sports biz," according to ''TVGuide's'' Matt Roush. History The show premiered on April 12, 2011, on the American cable network Comedy Central, and on April 13, 2011, on the Canadian cable television channel The Comedy Network. Comedy Central ordered nine episodes of the show, all taped on Monday nights in front of a live studio audience; however, Macdonald "wanted to (broadcast) live." In June 2011, it was announced that Comedy Central would not be renewing the show for a secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crank Yankers
''Crank Yankers'' is an American adult puppet television show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison. It features actual crank calls made by show regulars and celebrity guests, while re-enacted onscreen by puppets for a visual aid that shows the viewer what is happening in the call. The show premiered on June 2, 2002, on Comedy Central. It returned to MTV2 on February 9, 2007, running again until March 30, 2007. On February 11, 2019, Jimmy Kimmel announced on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' that the show would be revived on Comedy Central for a fifth 20-episode season and mark the first project on Kimmel's new ''Kimmelot'' production imprint. The new season includes pranks on social media and other platforms. Kimmel's brother Jonathan Kimmel serves as the showrunner and executive producer. The fifth season premiered on September 25, 2019. On March 5, 2020, Comedy Central announced ''Crank Yankers'' had been renewed for a 20-episode sixth season. The sixth season pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV2
MTV2 (formerly M2) is an American pay television channel owned by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. The channel launched initially as an all-music video service, once the original MTV had started to shift its programming. As with its parent network, MTV2's focus on music programming would gradually be downplayed during the 2000s. By 2011, MTV2 would primarily target young adult men with original and acquired lifestyle and reality programming, reruns of male-targeting shows from MTV, acquired sitcoms and movies, and a daily block of hip hop and rock genre videos in the early mornings. Due to Viacom's 2017 restructuring plan, MTV2's original programs were eventually moved over to the flagship MTV network, while the former network would drop its music video blocks in November of that year. In February 2015, approximately 79,416,000 American households (68.2% of households with television) received MTV2. History Early history MTV2 began broadcasting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Andy Milonakis Show
''The Andy Milonakis Show'' is an American sketch comedy television show starring Andy Milonakis, which aired on MTV2, the first season having aired on MTV. The program premiered on June 26, 2005 and ended with its three-season run when it was cancelled on May 1, 2007. Format The show features Milonakis and a supporting cast of his actual neighbors and people from the Lower East Side, Manhattan neighborhood. There is no plot, and the sketches tend to be absurdist and silly. The content is rated TV PG. There are often animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ... segments, and man-on-the-street segments. The final sketch usually involves a celebrity guest. In the third and final season, Milonakis moved to Los Angeles to be with his now famous pet turtle, Herbie. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TLC (TV Channel)
TLC is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. First established in 1980 as The Learning Channel, it initially focused on educational and instructional programming. By the late 1990s, after an acquisition by the owners of Discovery Channel earlier in the decade, the network began to pivot towards reality television programming—predominantly focusing on programming involving lifestyles and personal stories—to the point that the previous initialism of "The Learning Channel" was phased out. As of February 2015, TLC is available to watch in approximately 95 million American households (81.6% of households with cable television) in the United States. History 1972–1980: Early history as the Appalachian Educational Satellite Project TLC's history traces to the 1972 formation of the Appalachian Educational Satellite Project (AESP), a distance education project formed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), in participation with the Educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adam Carolla Project
''The Adam Carolla Project'' is an American reality television series featuring comedian Adam Carolla. The series aired on TLC from October to December 2005. Overview Before gaining celebrity on '' Loveline'' and '' The Man Show'', Carolla worked as a carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters tra ... for several years. In this series, he returns to the profession by purchasing his father's house on Hartsook Street in Valley Village, California for $739,500 and paying all expenses out of his own pocket to have it renovated. The show co-stars friends from his construction days, who do much of the renovation. The footage is a mix of celebreality television and real-life construction. Rebroadcast The DIY Network picked up the broadcast rights to ''The Adam Carolla Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust
''Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust'' is a mockumentary television comedy that was originally broadcast on the American basic cable channel Comedy Central in spring 2003. It stars writer-comedian Josh Gardner as Gerhard Reinke, a German backpacker with an idiosyncratic style, as he travels around the world on a small budget. List of episodes Characters Pepe Lucho is a minor secondary character featured in the Comedy Central Comedy Central is an American basic cable channel owned by Paramount Global through its network division's MTV Entertainment Group unit, based in Manhattan. The channel is geared towards young adults aged 18–34 and carries comedy program ... show ''Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust''. Gerhard Reinke is initially smitten with Lucho; however, slightly after the revelation of his name, Pepe Lucho begins attacking Gerhard and Amazonian villagers alike. Through its cinematography, it is made to seem as if the diminutive New World monkey is a savage beast. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Kellison
Daniel Kellison (born June 28, 1964) is an American television/ film producer and co-founder of Jackhole Productions, an entertainment group formed with partners Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla. Kellison was a producer for '' Late Night with David Letterman'' and '' Late Show with David Letterman'' for eight years. Kellison also executive produced and co-created ABC's ''David Blaine: The Magic Man'', Comedy Central's ''The Man Show'', ''Crank Yankers'' and was the original executive producer for ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show''. During his stint as a producer at the ''Late Show with David Letterman'', he persuaded Drew Barrymore to flash Letterman her breasts. In March 2013, Kellison launched the YouTube channel Jash with partners Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts as well as the Video Podcasting Network (featuring Video Podcasts from Adam Carolla, The Earwolf Network, Norm Macdonald and Doug Benson). He also served as Executive Producer on several awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an Television in the United States, American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the Disney General Entertainment Content#Current assets, ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when Cumulus Media Networks, ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broadcast on ABC. The nightly hour-long show debuted on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California, as part of ABC's lead-out programming for Super Bowl XXXVII. ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' is produced by Kimmelot in association with ABC Signature. It holds the title as the longest running late-night talk show on the network, having aired for more than three times as long as either '' The Dick Cavett Show'' (1969–1975) or ''Politically Incorrect'' (1997–2002). Overview For its first 10 years, the show aired at either the midnight or 12:05 a.m. timeslots before moving to 11:35 p.m. ET beginning on January 8, 2013, to more directly compete with '' The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' and ''Late Show with David Letterman'' while bumping the ABC nightly news program '' Nightline'' to 12:37 a.m. ET. Following the subsequent retirements of Leno in Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
