Quick-witted, amusing and down to earth, Jimmy Kimmel is one of the wealthiest and most successful American talk show hosts. With an estimated net worth of $35 million, he earns an aggregate of $8 million a year for his talk-show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ alone. He started out as a radio jockey and appeared as the popular ‘Jimmy the Sports Guy’ in the Los Angles based radio show ‘The Kevin and Bean Show’. Soon after, he bagged the Daytime Emmy Award for his sharp-edged humour as the co-host of the game show ‘Win Ben Stein's Money’. He reached the highpoint of his career and achieved great success in the field of late-night talk shows with his hit show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ It soon became one of the longest running late night talk shows in the History of ABC network, breaking all records of other talk shows. This established his status as one of the most popular and favourite personalities on American television. He is currently riding a wave of popularity and his new show ‘shock-talk’ has tapped quite a few audiences.