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Jimmy Kimmel gets college football bowl game in Los Angeles named after him

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel told a new kind of joke on his show Wednesday night:

Which is the only college football postseason bowl game to be named after a person and not a weed eater, cheese snack or other corporate sponsor?

The answer is the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl to be played Dec. 18 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California

“That’s right,” Kimmel said on ABC. “That’s the name of the bowl game. This is history in the making. Never before has a bowl game been named after a human being, and Papa John’s doesn’t count. He’s barely human.