Jon and Jimmy

Jimmy Kimmel is doing a live post-Oscar show tonight. Ordinarily, his show comes from the El Capitan Entertainment Center, which is across the street from the Kodak Theater where the Academy Awards are being distributed. Tonight, the traffic and security for blocks around will be insane so Kimmel's program is emanating from the El Portal Theater. That's in North Hollywood, something like eight miles away.

Some listings say that Jon Stewart will be among his guests but the website for Jimmy Kimmel Live makes no mention of Stewart. I'm guessing that if he's on, it'll be a brief remote. I can't imagine the Oscar host completing the most important performance of his career and then instead of going to the parties or being with his loved ones or collapsing, getting in a car and fighting the world's biggest traffic jam to get to North Hollywood in time for another live broadcast. But even as a short remote interview, it might be worth watching.

By the way: Is Jimmy Kimmel Live actually done live every night? All of it? I see by their ticket page that studio audiences have to be to the regular telecasts at 6:15 PM. The show airs on the East Coast at 12:06 AM Eastern time, which is 9:06 PM out here. If it's live, people have to get there almost three hours before the show and wait that long. The website refers to it as "the first live nightly talk show in over 40 years," which I don't think it is. The Joan Rivers program on Fox was live for its first few months, at least. But that page on how you can attend the Kimmel show also refers to attending a "taping."