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Just call him Jimmy from the block: Mill Basin's own Jimmy Kimmel will return to the borough of his birth with a week of Brooklyn-set Jimmy Kimmel Live! episodes this fall.
Though the comic's ABC late-night show usually broadcasts from the iconic El Capitan Entertainment Centre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, Kimmel has made it somewhat of a tradition over the years to relocate to his native New York City for a special set of shows. This batch of live tapings—which will run from Monday, September 29 through Friday, October 3 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House—marks the seventh time that Jimmy Kimmel Live! has popped up in the 718. (Most recently, the show came to Brooklyn for a week-long stint in October 2022, and before that, 2019.)
On his repeat returns to the BK, Kimmel previously told Variety: “I was born here. A lot of my family is here. Probably more than anything, it’s fun for us all to be here together and to eat and to hang out and to go to great bars,” he admits. And while many late-night shows tape in New York City, he said, Brooklyn “has a little bit of a different feel than shows that are in the city.”
One such program that films in Manhattan is The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was controversially cancelled by CBS, reportedly due to "financial concerns," despite being the highest-rated late night show in the coveted 11:35pm timeslot, beating both The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Kimmel has publicly rallied behind Colbert in the wake of the cancellation and will welcome his fellow late-night host as a special guest during the Brooklyn Week shows.
Further guests and musical acts are still to be announced. Previous Brooklyn guests have included Cardi B, Eminem, Jason Bateman, Wu-Tang Clan, Jon Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael J. Fox, Alicia Keys, John Krasinski, Adam Sandler, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jay Z and David Letterman, among others.
To attend one of the Brooklyn Week tapings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, you can get free tickets by requesting online on 1iota. You must be 18 years and older to attend, and up to two tickets can be requested for each date. Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs on weeknights at 11:35pm on ABC.