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The Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> host appeared on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast Wednesday, where he recounted his pathway to securing the gig. He shared that ABC was \u201cabout to hire Jon Stewart\u201d when they made a sudden pivot.<\/p>\n \u201cThey wanted a traditional late night talk show in that slot, which nobody knew. They were almost about to hire Jon Stewart, and Jon and I have the same manager, James \u2018Baby Doll\u2019 Dixon<\/a>. And James was about to close this deal for Jon to host the show,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd Lloyd [Braun, an ABC chairman,] watched the tape, and he was like, \u2018I think this might be the guy.\u2019 And he brought the tape to Bob Iger<\/a>, and Iger said, \u2018Yeah, I think this might be the guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel admitted \u201cit was a very strange…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy Kimmel thinks Jon Stewart should\u2019ve been hired for his job hosting ABC\u2019s late night slot. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host appeared on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast Wednesday, where he recounted his pathway to securing the gig. He shared that ABC was \u201cabout to hire Jon Stewart\u201d when they made a sudden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2109617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Thinks-ABC-Shouldve-Hired-Jon-Stewart-for-His.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109619,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109617\/revisions\/2109619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}