Jimmy Kimmel

sometimes getting good guests, sometimes getting terrible guests, sometimes feeling very bad about myself after the show and feeling like it was a mess and occasionally feeling like, well, that went okay, maybe I could do this.

I even went through a period where I secretly hoped ABC would cancel the show because I had a lot of people relying on me, and I still do, people that work on the show, and I couldn't really quit.

Not that I would have, but the thought was always in my head that it would sure be great if somebody would put an end to my misery here.

It was relentless.

It was relentless.

And I'd been acclimated to that doing morning radio five and a half hours a day every morning.

But just the...

The amount to which I had to rely on others was difficult for me because when you do a talk show, you do have to rely on guests.

You have to rely on people agreeing to be a part of it.

And you have to ask them to go along with things.

You have to ask them to participate.

Whereas in radio, you could do the show on your own.

endlessly and indefinitely.

If you have somebody, that's great, but you don't need to have somebody.

So that was hard for me.

And it was hard to convince people to be on the show, partly, I think, because there was some fear that I was some kind of a monster that they'd imagined based on The Man Show, which is a show I did on Comedy Central.

And people didn't understand that that show was...

It was kind of a character.

It was a specific show aimed at a specific audience, and it was tongue-in-cheek.

Weirdly, no, because the thing about doing the show is once the show starts...