Jimmy Kimmel: The Untold Story of Failure, Rejection & Fame (And the Rare, Unseen Side of Him as a Husband & Father!)

It feels selfish sometimes to be happy. It's hard to figure out to be happy. There's no logical reason why we shouldn't be happy. It doesn't make sense. Jimmy Kimball's been hosting his late night show for over 20 years.

Jimmy, you don't do a lot of interviews. What does it feel like to be on the other side? Putting yourself out there is hard. I started in radio. You're already halfway hidden.

Nobody sees you. You don't have an audience there to not laugh if you're not funny. When everyone's firing you, letting go of you, telling you this isn't a great idea, how do you hold on to an idea when everyone's telling you it's terrible? Pure delusion. Has talking about your emotions always been something that you found challenging?

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (50 minutes, 8,939 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.