Jimmy Kimmel lists bachelor-era party pad with dessert case, beer tap
Comedian and late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel is renowned for his Super Bowl parties and his love of cooking. Molly McNearney, whom he wed last year, says "I really am married to Martha Stewart" and refers to him as "the wife in the marriage."
Now we're getting a peek into the Los Angeles house that he's owned since divorcing his first wife in 2002, and we can see what they mean. He just listed it for $2.3 million, as the Wall Street Journal reported he would.
Kimmel lived in the house until 2009 (reportedly with comedian Sarah Silverman, his on-and-off girlfriend for years, during some of that time). He's been renting it out since.
But the party-friendly features he installed -- which prompted fellow funnyman Adam Carolla, his buddy, to say in 2005 that Kimmel had done up his house like a backward billionaire with no family -- are still prominent.
"It's quite a home," Kimmel acknowledged modestly to Carolla. It has:
• Somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 televisions (18 when he counted in 2005), including a wall of TVs outside the kitchen.
• A rotating refrigerated dessert case -- when friends visited, they'd "want to go for rides in the pie-go-round," Carolla said.
• A mechanized dining table that lowers to become a coffee table.
• An outdoor beer tap.
• Outdoor cooking facilities -- pizza oven, smoker, a huge barbecue that Kimmel professed was big enough "to cook six babies."
• The "Recycl-A-Rolla" chute for empty beer bottles and such, which Carolla put in for him. (You can see it in action in a YouTube clip from "The Adam Carolla Project.")
• A recording studio.
