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Then it did, and it became a signature bit for us.
Its not this big thing.
If it doesntwork …
Jessie Gaskell: …Im the only one to blame.
You hope that if something humiliating happened, hopefully people have at least forgotten about it the next day.
Danny Ricker:The most freeing thing is theres just another one tomorrow.
You cant be too big of an asshole if your bit goes great.
Danny Ricker:Yes, I think thats internal.
Jenny Yang:I dont perceive Matt to have any confidence issues.
Matt Gunn:I dont have a lot of confidence.
Its just that all my stuff is amazing.
Weve got to show some of that.
However, I think there are also a lot of great candidates.
The oxygen is getting completely gone by the time its time for them to talk about stuff.
Matt Gunn:It goes without saying that Trump is the best writer weve ever had.
The setups are the punchlines with Trump.
Then Trump just obliterates that.
Now I think theres definitely, for all of us, some fatigue thats setting in.
I cant even help myself, but cocked and loaded.
One of our writers looked it up, and its a gay porn film, of course.
Trumps ratings are down.
Its on E!Eexclamation point.
Our focus was weird internet ephemera but mostly pop culture.
She would editorialize about tougher issues.
If you blew the game, forget about it and get back to work.
I find it pretty satisfying.
I work for about the best guy on television for that because he doesnt care.
I should say, I agree with him most of the time.
I sometimes think of that because I wouldve quit.
Dennis Miller, I find him horrific, and so I couldnt have been able to do it.
Luckily, I found the right person to write for.
Jocelyn Richard:I personally feel very comfortable chameleoning myself to fit a hosts voice.
Jimmy was out when his son was born and the medical stuff was going on.
Obviously, we had nothing to do with that.
We asked him, Do you need anything from us?
Hes like, I got it.
He sat in his office all day, and he just went out and did it.
As if we didnt respect him already, but that was a not-easy thing to do.
He became part of the news cycle and got involved in it.
We got a lot of mileage out of that.
Some of it was jokes about ghost fucking.
Maybe thats what makes it late night?
Some of the conversations around what madeBusy Tonighta late-night versus a daytime show was very gendered.
Busy has an edge already, but she also is a woman.
I want the business model to completely change and to take down the patriarchy.
We got so much feedback from women saying, I cried watching this because you are so affirming.
You showed different colored and different shaped bodies.
Matt Gunn:Everybody has our job now.
One thing I like about the format of our show is its really old school.
Its live, the way television used to be when people had some longer attention spans.
Were part news and part comedy, and hopefully the comedy makes the news easier to take.
Now people grow up on YouTube, so everythings those bite-size bits.
Im finding myself increasingly attracted to long-form stuff, where you have to stick around and really penetrate.
Danny Ricker:Its this double-edged sword.
YouTube has greatly increased the spread of our shows.
The business hasnt totally caught up.
The ratings wars, thats this big topic.
Its nonsensical that were still talking about ratings in that way.
No, I like the commercials.
I like the commercials.
If people ask me where I work andI sayJimmy Kimmel Live,the No.
1 thing they say is, I watch it on YouTube.
TV has been displaced by Netflix and other streaming services, which are now actually just becoming TV.
Its all cycling around again.
My theory is just in ten years, were going to ingest our comedy through crackers.
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