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Kimmel Outsources His Jokes To An Indian Call Center (VIDEO)


First Posted: 9/10/10 Updated: 5/25/11

Right around Rosh Hashana, Jimmy Kimmel's writing staff becomes really religious all of a sudden. So naturally, last night the writing staff for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was pretty scarce. Kimmel's solution? Outsource the joke-writing to an Indian call center, of course! Only things didn't go exactly how Kimmel had planned. Let's just say a few of the jokes were lost in translation.

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Right around Rosh Hashana, Jimmy Kimmel's writing staff becomes really religious all of a sudden. So naturally, last night the writing staff for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was pretty scarce. Kimmel's solutio...
Right around Rosh Hashana, Jimmy Kimmel's writing staff becomes really religious all of a sudden. So naturally, last night the writing staff for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was pretty scarce. Kimmel's solutio...
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