Jimmy Kimmel Talks About Kanye West In His Talk Show; Kanye Laughed At The Skit He Ranted On

Jimmy Kimmel and Kanye West have made up. In public, right in his talk show and Kimmel talks about it.

Kimmel shares some funny anecdotes about Kanye's appearance. While he admits that he didn't exactly screen the original interview which they parodied, Kanye also admitted that he didn't finish the entire sketch before he ranted on Twitter!  And it was only one minute and twenty seconds (It probably took longer to tweet the rant).

Grantland caught up with Jimmy Kimmel, and his reflections on the entire episode are shared in his own (hilarious) words:

"I really enjoyed last night's episode of Kanye West Live! featuring Jimmy Kimmel. I don't know if I've ever seen you get run over like that.

Well, y'know - one thing I learned on the radio is the value of shutting up and listening. He had a lot to say and he seemed very passionate and I felt like I was absorbed by it, and I thought the audience was too. They told me afterward that in the green room you could hear a pin drop, which is rare. Usually no one in the green room is paying any attention to the show.

He was staring directly into your eyes the entire time.

I think, to me, the best guests do lock on and make eye contact. I think it's odd when the guest plays to the audience, unless they're demonstrating something. It doesn't seem like a conversation. I feel less involved when the guest is directing their story to the audience instead of the host.

Do you feel like you've learned anything from the reaction?

Yeah. The lesson is, if you get yourself in a situation like this you will get huge ratings on your television show.

He got a few zingers in last night.

Well, it was funny - what the home viewers didn't see is that when we played the clip of the kid, he was laughing through the whole thing!

You admitted to Kanye last night that when you first aired the sketch, you'd only seen a few snippets of the original interview you were parodying. Did you go back and look at the whole thing after all this stuff happened?

Yeah, I did. I really, really focused on it the night before Kanye was on the show. I watched it and I read the transcript, to follow along with it. I saw that he was very serious, and he felt like he'd made some good points - I'm sure that's debatable, depending on your point of view. He then felt like I'd diminished it by making a joke out of it.

Did you agree with that, once you saw it?

Well, I think that - it would have been helpful if we'd both had more context, on both sides. He said he didn't even watch the whole [reenactment sketch], which is a minute and 20 seconds. [Laughs.] That's not a lot of time to devote to something."

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