Jimmy Kimmel embroiled in N-word and underage sex joke controversies as he begins summer hiatus

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Kimmel went viral over the weekend after a 2009 Jimmy Kimmel Live! interview with Megan Fox resurfaced, in which he made a sexual joke about Michael Bay asking her to work in a bikini when she was an extra at age 15. On Monday evening, Fox News made Kimmel go viral again by resurfacing a 2013 interview on Adam Carolla's podcast admitting to using the N-word while imitating Snoop Dogg's voice for a track in a 1996 Christmas album. "In the podcast, Kimmel also changed his speech pattern in an attempt to adopt the voice of black comedian George Wallace, in what host Adam Carolla called Kimmel's 'crazy black voice,'" reports Fox News' Gregg Re. "Kimmel acknowledged imitating black people on other occasions as well...In the Christmas track, a singer mentioned a 'fat n---- in a sleigh giving sh--- away,' referring to Santa Claus. The song also referenced 'n----- in the manger,' including associates of King Herod....Liner notes from the cassette, obtained by Fox News, showed the album was co-produced by 'Jim Kimmel' and credited Kimmel for all 'comedy material' on the album, except for a handful of unrelated tracks. Kimmel also appeared on the album cover." Before they teamed up for The Man Show, Kimmel and Carolla worked on The Kevin and Bean Show on Los Angeles' KROQ in the mid- to late-90s. In the 2009 Kimmel interview, Megan Fox said Michael Bay was intent on having her dancing under a waterfall wearing a stars and stripes bikini before he was reminded that she was underage. “That’s sort of a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works,” she told Kimmel. To which Kimmel replied: “Well, that’s really a microcosm of how all our minds work. Some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don’t exist." This is Kimmel's latest resurfaced clip to make headlines since he announced he was taking a summer sabbatical last Thursday. On Friday, the New York Post called on him to apologize for his past use of blackface.