The Kardashians bring camera crews to their Ob-Gyn appointments. Jimmy Kimmel upped the ante and invited viewers to watch him undergo his first colonoscopy. His chaperone: Katie Couric, whose first husband Jay Monahan died of colon cancer at 42 in 1998.
When Couric, who co-founded Stand Up to Cancer, asked Dr. Christina Ha why more men aren’t getting screened, Kimmel quickly offered up his take, shouting, “Because they go up your ass!”
Approximately 140,000 are diagnosed with colon cancer in the U.S and more than 50,000 people die from it annually, according to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. “People say this isn’t fun, but I say it’s a lot more fun than being diagnosed with colorectal cancer,” declared Couric.
Kimmel shared the experience of being Couric's "colonoscopy date" with his late-night audience Tuesday, jokingly putting on a real gown instead of a hospital gown. All jokes aside, however, the segment sheds light on an important health issue that Couric cares deeply about.
Jimmy Kimmel gets a colonoscopy with help from Katie Couric. Jimmy Kimmel's audience got to see more of the host than usual when he had his first colonoscopy.The
talk show host brought Katie Couric along for the test, which aired on
Tuesday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live." She was with him before and after the
examination.
Jimmy Kimmel
turned 50 a few months back and good friend Katie Couric knew just how
he should celebrate the middle-age milestone ... with his very first colonoscopy.
In
fact, the former TODAY anchor didn't just recommend it; She walked him
through the process from preparing for the procedure to going over the
results. There was, of course, hilarious bedside banter.
"Great," Kimmel said before joking, "I always wanted to be associated with a polyp and/or the human colon."
“You’re about to watch a camera go where no camera has gone before,”
Kimmel joked to Couric en route to Cedar Sinai Medical Center. Later,
the father of three quips, “I’ve met some real perverts in my life, but
you take the cake.”
When Couric, who co-founded Stand Up to Cancer, asked Dr. Christina Ha why more men aren’t getting screened, Kimmel quickly offered up his take, shouting, “Because they go up your ass!”
Approximately 140,000 are diagnosed with colon cancer in the U.S and more than 50,000 people die from it annually, according to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. “People say this isn’t fun, but I say it’s a lot more fun than being diagnosed with colorectal cancer,” declared Couric.
Kimmel shared the experience of being Couric's "colonoscopy date" with his late-night audience Tuesday, jokingly putting on a real gown instead of a hospital gown. All jokes aside, however, the segment sheds light on an important health issue that Couric cares deeply about.