David Bianculli

Also, I'll review the new Netflix drama series The House of Guinness, and Justin Chang reviews One Battle After Another, the new Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

I'm David Bianculli, and this is Fresh Air.

Let's continue with more of Terry's 2013 conversation with Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's recently suspended and even more recently reinstated late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live.

For most of the 20-plus years of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel has been relatively apolitical, or at least an equal-opportunity offender.

In the early years especially, he took a lighter approach, finding delight in certain silly guests and even in family members and co-workers whose everyday personalities genuinely amused him.

His current Jimmy Kimmel Live on-air sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez, was the show's parking lot security guard.

when Kimmel first brought him on camera in 2003, to do security guard comedy bits with Kimmel's Uncle Frank Potenza, who also had a background as a security guard in Las Vegas and as a police officer in New York.

When we left off, Terry and Jimmy Kimmel were talking about Uncle Frank.

Thank you.

Take care.

Jimmy Kimmel speaking to Terry Gross in 2013.

Here's one final taste from Wednesday night's show.

Kimmel plays a clip from Newsmax in which a correspondent presents a rather unusual explanation for Kimmel's reinstatement.

Jimmy Kimmel Live has been reinstated on most of these ABC stations.

Well, many of them anyway.

The show's next original telecast is scheduled for Monday.

Coming up, I review The House of Guinness, the new period TV series from Stephen Knight.

This is Fresh Air.

Stephen Knight, creator of the intense British period dramas Peaky Blinders and A Thousand Blows, is back with a third one, which premiered this week on Netflix.

It's an eight-part series called The House of Guinness and tells the story of the battle for control at the venerable Irish brewing company in the 1860s.