Jimmy Kimmel Live's Guillermo Says Being a Late Night Sidekick Is 'the American Dream'
sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, left, takes a picture with Andy Cantu at Fair Park before his remote for Tuesday night's episode.once called being a late night host's sidekick"a dying art," but Guillermo Rodriguez, the parking lot attendant turned sidekick for ABC's"The show, it's fun for me and it's great," Rodriguez says."Jimmy is a great guy. He's a great boss. I'm blessed to have a job working for him.
"I get to meet a lot of people, I get to eat different types of food and everybody is so nice to me," Rodriguez says."It's nice. It's great. I always gain weight on this trip." Kimmel usually sends Rodriguez to do the remote segments that he doesn't want to do himself, like playing a scary game of soccer on the roof of the show's El Capitan Theater with Brazilian superstar soccer player Neymar Jr.; climbing to the very top of the Empire State Building in New York City; or riding the SkySlide, a clear, plexiglass slide that projects from the 70th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles.
"I think my favorite thing I got to do was when I did the red carpet for the Oscars," Rodriguez says,"and I got to kiss Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansson."
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