
One week after ringing in 22 years on the air, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is ringing in 20 million—YouTube subscribers, that is.
Jimmy Kimmel and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez celebrated the milestone in a video posted (oddly enough) to Instagram.
“Oh my god, I can’t believe it,” Kimmel says in the video, donning New Year’s Eve-style “20000000” number glasses. “I only wish we got paid for this.”
“Unbelievable,” Rodriguez adds.
“If you haven’t subscribed yet, what are you waiting for?” Kimmel pleads. “Help us get to 50 million! Please. It’s an emergency!”
The pair are shown with champagne glasses beside them, which they toasted in an accompanying press photo.
JKL’s channel first launched in September 2006—though its oldest videos right now date back to 2009, when the show uploaded the “F*@#ing Ben Affleck” and “F*@#ing Ben Affleck” sketches that aired on the show a year prior.
Compared to his 11:35pm competition, Kimmel’s YouTube presence falls squarely in the middle. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which also launched its channel in 2006 during Fallon’s Late Night era, leads the pack with 32.2 million subscribers. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a newer entry into the YouTube battle, is yet to pass the 10 million benchmark, netting 9.65 million subs since its 2015 launch.
Rounding out the network late-night lineup’s YouTube stats, Late Night with Seth Meyers boasts 4.87 million subscribes, while the still-young After Midnight has 253,000.