Jimmy Kimmel promised an “all-star, big-time lineup of guests” when he announced his show’s return to Brooklyn later this month. Now we know one of them: Howard Stern.
Stern revealed on his SiriusXM show Monday that he’ll sit down with Kimmel at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday, September 29.
The appearance will be Stern’s first visit to a late-night talk show in nearly seven years.
“How can I say no to Jimmy?” Stern said on his show, adding, “I love the guy, and I love [Kimmel’s wife and executive producer] Molly, and, you know, what am I gonna do?”
His last late-night appearance was also with Kimmel, on the October 9, 2019 edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Los Angeles.
The legendary radio broadcaster is returning to late night at a moment of transition in his own career. Beginning this week, The Howard Stern Show is scaling back to one new live SiriusXM broadcast weekly on Mondays, with an adapted video version of the show streaming Thursdays on HBO Max.
Stern’s history with the time period stretches back more than four decades, to his frequent appearances with David Letterman in the 1980s. As his own star grew, Stern became an event booking for late-night hosts, with his appearances often revealing as much about the person behind the desk as Stern himself. He has a habit of turning the tables on his interviewers, bringing the same probing style he employs on his own show.
Stern and Kimmel are good friends, and Stern revealed Monday that he and wife Beth spent two days with Kimmel this summer at the late-night host’s fishing lodge in Idaho.
Don’t be surprised if Kimmel returns the favor while he’s in New York. When JKL last welcomed Stern in 2019, Kimmel turned up on Stern’s show less than two weeks later.
Free ticket requests for Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s September 28–October 2 Brooklyn shows are available at KimmelInBrooklyn.com.
Another Boomer has-been who just won’t go away despite having no audience. Embarrassing relics costing their networks a fortune.