At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.

In August 2006 ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel would be the host of their new game show Set for Life. Early life
Kimmel was born in the Mill Basin neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn the eldest of three children of Joan (née Iacono) a homemaker and James Kimmel an IBM executive. " When Matt Damon did actually appear on the show to be interviewed he walked in and sat down only to be told just a few seconds later by Kimmel "Sorry but once again we are completely out of time.

Prior to that Kimmel was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. Kimmel is also a television producer having produced shows such as Crank Yankers Sports Show with Norm Macdonald and The Andy Milonakis Show. James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13 1967) is an American comedian actor voice artist television producer and television host.