Jimmy Kimmel is on The Adam Ray Show Friday
One post, one guest, no other details.
Adam Ray says Jimmy Kimmel is the guest on Friday's episode of The Adam Ray Show. He posted it with a party emoji and tags for Netflix, Netflix Is A Joke and Kimmel himself. That is the whole announcement.
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No runtime, no teaser, no hint at what the two of them actually talk about. Ray did not say whether Kimmel sits down as himself or walks into whatever the show decides to do with him that day. The post does the bare minimum a booking post can do and then stops.
What we already know about the show
The Netflix connection is not new. The Adam Ray Show's Henry Winkler episode, with Max Winkler, went up on Netflix last week, and Ray promoted that one the same way, tagging Netflix and Netflix Is A Joke before it landed.
So the pattern is simple enough. Ray lines up a name, posts it with the Netflix tags, and the episode shows up. Winkler was the last one. Kimmel is the next one.
Why a Kimmel booking lands
Kimmel is the biggest name the show has been publicly attached to in this run, and he comes with his own late night history, which makes him an odd and interesting fit for a show that is itself built like a talk show. Whether Ray plays it straight or not is the part nobody watching the post can answer yet.
The real story is restraint. Comedians usually squeeze a guest announcement for every drop of attention, with a clip, a quote, a thumbnail of the two of them laughing. Ray put up four tags and a date and let the name carry it, which only works when the name is big enough to carry it.
Friday is the day. Everything else is guessing until the episode is up.
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