NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2015
/PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM announced today that Jimmy Kimmel will be the first guest on "The
Bill Carter Interview" airing exclusively on SiriusXM. The show
will debut on October 5th
at 6:00pm ET on SiriusXM's Insight
channel 121.
The one-hour weekly program will feature renowned media
commentator Bill Carter sitting down
for one hour interviews with major names in entertainment, current
events, and beyond. Promising to offer insightful conversations
with national newsmakers, the former New
York Times reporter will launch his show with two of the
biggest stars in late night: Jimmy
Kimmel, followed by Jimmy
Fallon in week two.
In the premiere, Kimmel shared that his wife Molly was actually
the one to create his popular celebrities reading "Mean Tweets"
segment; that his recent weight loss is the result of not eating
two days per week; and that despite his love of David Letterman, he never thought he'd end up a
talk show host. Highlights from his prerecorded interview are
below, as well as audio clips.
Kimmel's wife Molly came up with the idea for "Mean Tweets":
"Mean Tweets was my wife's idea. We were sitting at the dining room
table and our mutual friend Kelly
Oxford, who is very popular on Twitter, was there and she
was kind of going through her Twitter feed and reading some
horrible things people were saying about her and to her. And I was
like, 'That's nothing. Listen to this!' And I started going through
mine, and Molly said 'Oh, this needs to be on the show. We have to
have people read their own mean tweets out loud.' And that's really
how it happened."
AUDIO: http://bit.ly/1WyF2V6
Why Kimmel doesn't eat for two days per week to stay in
shape:
"It is true, I did it yesterday. Two days a week I eat nothing.
That's my diet plan. Yesterday was one of those days, and this
morning I had two breakfasts [laughter]….My parents do it. I
watched a documentary on the BBC about fasting and how it extends
your life and gives your brain cells a chance to heal, or
something, some bullshit, but I read it and it seemed to be
reasonable. And I tried it. Really, when you think about it, you're
really just cutting 5,000 calories out of your diet every week and
that's probably why it works."
AUDIO: http://bit.ly/1L4pUex
Being a teenage David Letterman
fan did not mean that Kimmel wanted to be a talk show host:
"No, I just loved the show. I was a fan. The same way that somebody
would have a poster of Andy Gibb,
it's not like they're like 'I'm going to be a singer.' Girls are
like 'No, I want to have sex with Andy
Gibb.' I just want to have sex with Dave. [laughter] I just
love Dave and I thought maybe one day it would be great if we could
hang out. I ran that idea by him the first time I was on the show
and he shot that right down. That's not going to happen."
AUDIO: http://bit.ly/1JD74pl
Carter, who expertly covered the television beat at the
New York Times for more than 25
years, is one of the most respected journalists in the media
industry and was recently named a CNN contributor. He is also the
author of four books, including The Late Shift, a cultural
smash that centered on the Letterman-Leno "late night war" to
succeed Johnny Carson as host of
"The Tonight Show." The book was later adapted into an Emmy
Award-nominated film by HBO, also written by Carter.
"The Bill Carter Interview" will air on SiriusXM Insight Ch.
121. For more information on SiriusXM, please visit
www.siriusxm.com.
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