Bill Simmons Wife Picture:For those of who have seen his popularity swell into the stratosphere the last few years, it wasn’t a surprise to see Bill Simmons atop the bestseller list. But it should have been.
Daulerio will never admit this, and I probably shouldn’t, but on January 23, 2003, we, along with fellow Black Table editor Eric Gillin, a Boston guy, stayed up to watch the debut of “The Jimmy Kimmel Show.” We did this solely because BillSimmons was a writer for the show. I’m not sure what we were expecting to see: Late-night talk shows aren’t in the habit of giving guest appearances to lower-tier writers in their first episodes. (The show was a mess: This is back when they were openly drinking on set, and it was chaos. I think at one point, Kimmel tried to deep fat fry a ventriloquist dummy while “guest” Adam Corolla plaintively attempted to remind a piss-drunk Kimmel that “YOU ARE ON TELEVISION RIGHT NOW.”) But it felt important somehow. A television show smart enough to hire BillSimmons to write for them, well, that was something we couldn’t miss. We felt like we knew him.
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