Jill Leiderman

Jill Leiderman is a late night TV veteran who has produced alongside Jon Stewart, David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel over the past three decades. She most recently served as Executive Producer of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" for 14 years - from April 2006 until June of 2020. During her tenure, Leiderman and the team delivered over 2,500 episodes of late night and primetime content, received 8 Emmy® nominations and worked alongside Kimmel for his multiple Emmy and Oscar hostings. Leiderman learned late-night comedy during her 9-year tenure as the Senior Writers' Producer for CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and as Senior Researcher/ Segment Producer at the original, critically acclaimed "The Jon Stewart Show" for MTV and Paramount. But her true start came on the air at the age of 12 when she co-hosted the Emmy Award-winning kids' Saturday morning variety show "Kidding Around" for WMAQ-TV Chicago, interviewing such notables as Christopher Atkins plugging the "Blue Lagoon," teen musical sensation Menudo and prize-winning local goats from the Lincoln Park Zoo.