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But starting January 11, comedian Lou Wilson made the jump from the Kimmelwriters room to announcers booth.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our new announcer Lou!!!
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Wilson is the shows third regular announcer, after Barrett and Andy Milonakis (20032004).
So is this the first time youve replaced a Mighty Mighty Bosstone?[Laughs.]
I can say it is my first time replacing a ska legend.
I do play the tenor sax, so maybe one day I could replace him in the literal Bosstones.
But this is where Ill start.
How did you come to be a tenor sax player?
I wish it was ska.
No shade to marching band.
How did you get this gig?Thats a great question, Bethy.
Im still kind of iffy.
I did my best and honestly felt like I kind of screamed through it.
I was trying to match Dickies natural bravado; I had a lot to compensate for.
I assumed they listened to my audition and went, No, thank you.
It was very nice of them to ask me to try.
Then I got a call in December to go up to Jimmys office another first for me.
They were like, We like what you did, and wed like to try out the position.
Through the end of December, I was just doing the VO.
And then in January, second show back, thats when I became the on-air announcer.
I hope it was hundreds.
Thats a big part of my performance background and my comedy background.
And the voice aint half bad either.
Lets invest in this and give this young man a shot!
Whats it like being on a show that has been on for so long?
Of all the late-night hosts, Jimmy has had his show the longest.Its wild.
So much of my background is on these shows where youre there from the beginning to the end.
I worked on day one ofAmerican Vandalseason one, and I worked on the last day ofAmerican Vandalseason one.
Its fun to work somewhere thats so efficient and confident and knowledgeable.
The people around me have been doing comedy for as long as Ive been alive.
When I started doing comedy, they were already taking their first jobs in this industry.
And that is really special and something Im really honored to get to experience.
Jimmy had the funny videos I was posting on Facebook the next day.
But I honestly didnt watch a lot of late night until I started working in it.
Kimmel was one of the first to use YouTube the way that all the shows do now.
I dont have the answer; nobody does.
It knows itself; it knows how to be funny.
Thats going to remain.
You have a foot in an extremely new media thing, actual-play D&D streaming.
And then at your other job, there are literal bandshells.
The oldest way to do this job, and the newest way to do this job.Yes.
People like me grew up admiring this traditional means of comedy.
His Instagram handle is@supremedreams_1.
I want to make it clear I do not want that one to get a late-night show.
He does these incredible comedy videos that have been really popular online.
He impersonates LeBron James reacting to stuff.
I also think hes just an incredibly talented comedian.
Do you look back at any announcers of yore?
And youre still writing on the show as well, right?Yes I am.
Thats gotta be nice to have a presence on both sides of making the show.Definitely.
Its fun to have my hands deeper in the soil.
Last question: Whats it like working on Hollywood Boulevard?
[Exhausted sigh.]
Ill tell ya, every day is exciting.
You never know what youre gonna get walking to work.
You might get to see someones bare ass.
You might have a Swedish couple ask to take a picture for them.
You might have to step over hundreds of thousands of lottery tickets that maybe were stolen and then dropped?
Youll never know its Hollywood Boulevard!
Its really been fun, in the worst way.
Sometimes youre likeId love to just walk home.And Hollywood Boulevard is like,Lets have a story.
Lets have something you might text about.
And youre like,Do we have to?And its like,Yes we do.
Its a lot of fun, even when you dont want it to be.
