Jimmy Kimmel

Facebook Police: Timeline Violations Will Not Be Tolerated! (Video)

Kara Swisher in Social on January 27 at 7:00 am PT

And friend your momma, or else!

Viral Video: Kimmel’s “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye (to Oprah Winfrey)”

Kara Swisher in Media on May 26, 2011 at 1:54 am PT

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel bids farewell to daytime talk show queen Oprah.

Viral Video: Christoph Waltz Slays on "American Idol" (No, Really Slays!)

Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 12:58 am PT

BoomTown loves the spoof videos that late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel does–Hello, Humpilates!–and this one featuring actor Christoph Waltz is another great one. Waltz always plays scary dudes–usually, some version of a Nazi, if not one, in fact–in movies, and so making him a homicidal judge on the talent show “American Idol” is perfection.

Viral Video: Humpilates Hysterical

Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2011 at 8:46 am PT

This mock fitness video by late-night television talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is so funny that it made BoomTown do several spit-takes watching it. It is for a product called “Hottie Body Humpilates,” and includes a bevy of glam Hollywood actresses doing bad things to an exercise ball. Enough said.

Voices

Jimmy Kimmel's "Unfriend Day" Is A Hot Start-up Idea

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 18, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel may just be trying to make a funny late night TV bit by dubbing today Facebook “Unfriend Day.” But he’s also hit on one of the hottest tech start-up ideas. The idea behind the day is to encourage people to take stock of their ballooning Facebook friend lists and to cull the marginal folks.

No Facebook User Emails for Google–But Yahoo and Microsoft Already Have Access

Liz Gannes in Social on November 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm PT

Facebook and Google are hardly friends these days, and they’re having more and more trouble containing their dislike.

What Will Be the Big Tweet from Twitter Event Today? A New Search Offering Would Be Nice….

Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2010 at 5:08 am PT

Yesterday–presumably so as not to be left out of the dueling press gatherings that Apple, Google and Facebook have all had in recent weeks to show off fancy new stuff–Twitter lobbed out an an invite for an event this afternoon: So, what, oh, what are those little elves at the microblogging service going to show off? BoomTown’s hope: A new and improved tweet search.