No respect, I tell ya

Ran across a gossipy article on Jimmy Kimmel. Saw a few things I knew and a few things I didn't know.

Jimmy's politics are leftish, which I vaguely knew but didn't care about. He had an affair with Sarah Silverman that broke up his first marriage, which I didn't know and really don't care about. He idolized Letterman and feuded with Leno, which is beneath knowing or caring about for anybody.

And, oh yeah, the article mentions in passing that he used to be on Win Ben Stein's Money. It's a throwaway reference in a single paragraph, as if the writer knows nobody could possibly be interested in some dumb little game show.

Of course, that game show is the only thing in Jimmy Kimmel's entire life and career that I do care about. I gave it a place on my top 50 list, and it still hurts a little that the show flopped so badly when GSN tried reruns. (Ben and Jimmy were a little too offbeat for the network's grandmotherly audience.)

So the linked article's condescension toward the terrific WBSM is just another depressing reminder that our little genre gets no respect. Rodney Dangerfield, I feel your pain.

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