ABC’s late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been on the air for 23 years, providing a regular diet of entertainment talk with guests, goofy schticks and video vignettes, and comedic monologues that roast the political and cultural figures and events of the day. For reminding us that comedy and satire are vital—yet also threatening—forms of democratic speech, Jimmy Kimmel Live! wins a Peabody.
In this exclusive Peabody Conversation, recorded backstage at the 86th Annual Peabody Awards, Jimmy Kimmel and Guillermo Rodriguez detail what it was like being center of an unprecedented moment in American television history, the coping nature of comedy, and teaching the younger generation the significance behind winning Peabody Awards.
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