Somewhere in an alternate universe there was a TV series titled The Woman Show hosted by a comedian and her wisecracking sidekick that featured a beer-chugging announcer and a recurring segment called "Dudes on Trampolines." She went on to host a talk show and open a comedy club. This allowed her to hook her equally funny brother up with gigs to fulfill a pact they had made years earlier: Whoever made it would help the other one out.
That's complete fiction, of course, but Jill Kimmel is effortlessly funny and in this patriarchal universe The Man Show was hiring Jimmies, not Jills. Kimmel, on the other hand, isn't tethered to a ratings-driven entity and can say whatever she pleases. She can find humor in divorce and putting her dog to sleep, and, like her older brother, grew up in Las Vegas. Kimmel, who got her start in comedy in the mid-'00s, produced a two-date comedy festival in Downtown Las Vegas in April for which she picked the comedians. Now she just has to choose from her own material.
The Linq Promenade, 10 p.m. Dec. 26, starting at $25 plus tax and fee. 800.745.3000 Ticketmaster
