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If you watched Season 4 of\u00a0HBO Max’s “Hacks,”<\/a> you probably remember real late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s uproarious cameo. As it turns out, Kimmel, who appears in the season’s fifth episode, “Clickable Face,” came up with one of his best on-screen jokes.<\/p>\n Speaking to USA Today<\/a>, “Hacks” star Jean Smart said, “My hat is off to [Kimmel], because he kept saying, ‘I’m not an actor, you guys. Don’t expect much.’ He was kind of nervous, and then he was just a riot.” So which joke did Kimmel come up with on the spot? First, some important context: Desperate to keep her ailing new late-night show afloat, Smart’s Deborah Vance basically stalks Kristen Bell (who also hilariously plays herself) and begs her to appear on her show. The problem? Bell is previously committed to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” This all leads to a confrontation in a Hollywood parking lot between the imperious Deborah and Kimmel, who plays a particularly cutthroat and funny version of himself.<\/p>\n “K.B.’s not doing your show,” Kimmel tells Deborah of Bell. “Don’t play dumb. Kristen Bell. Everyone knows that when she has a new project, she does my show first. I got full custody when Conan (O’Brien) died.” Showrunner Paul W. Downs, who also plays Deborah and Ava’s (Hannah Einbinder) shared and beleaguered manager Jimmy LuSaque Jr., told USA Today the quip was a Kimmel original. Kimmel apparently\u00a0also came up with a pretty vulgar joke about his fellow late-night Jimmy \u2014 Fallon, that is \u2014 and Downs won’t take credit for that. “We would never,”\u00a0he said, laughing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n As the reigning late-night monarch of Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel was the perfect choice for a cameo on Hacks<\/p>\n
Jake Giles Netter\/HBO Max<\/p>\n The entire spiel from this fictionalized “Jimmy Kimmel” about the lengths he’ll go to to secure a booking also is extraordinarily funny.\u00a0He says he switched over to an Android phone so Kristen Bell wouldn’t feel less alone texting with “green bubbles,” and invested a considerable amount of money in “her gluten-free energy bars for Africa or something.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Kimmel later tells Deborah Vance that “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” which ended in real life in 2023, ended within the “Hacks” universe because Corden “got a little too friendly with Jennifer Aniston” and “had to move back to England” after some disturbing and illicit materials apparently appeared on his computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n During an appearance from Jean Smart on the real “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Kimmel admitted that he was incredibly nervous and “didn’t memorize any of [his] lines beforehand, which you’re supposed to do, it turns out.” Smart generously said he was “ad-libbing,”\u00a0while Kimmel said that he was “forgetting the lines.”\u00a0Weirdly, though, “Hacks” made an accidental prediction about Kimmel’s late-night career.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n A storyline during Season 4 of Hacks accidentally predicted Jimmy Kimmel’s future … sort of<\/p>\n
Jake Giles Netter\/HBO Max<\/p>\n In the penultimate Season 4 episode of “Hacks,”\u00a0Deborah is told that she has to fire Ava as the head writer of her late-night show. The network wants Ethan Sommers (Eric Balfour), a fictional movie star with a nasty reputation, to appear on Deborah’s show, and Ava complains about it to a former colleague who works at a political talk show. After the network’s head, Bob Lipka (Tony Goldwyn), rages at Deborah about her head writer airing the show’s dirty laundry to a journalist, which Ava admits to doing, Deborah has to make a choice: Does she stand by Ava and give up the show, or forsake Ava and keep the late-night gig she’s wanted for her entire career as a comedian?<\/p>\n
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