Kimmel’s rise was somewhat inauspicious.

“I look back at every show I’ve ever done and cringe.

“But yes, of course, and not necessarily for the reasons you think.

Jimmy Kimmel and Guillermo Rodriguez posing together

I just think, Oh, we could’ve done that better.

We also did a lot of stupid stuff.”

He opened the door, he goes, ‘What are you doing here?’

Guillermo Rodriguez smiles with a bottle of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Smirnoff vodka

I go, ‘I’m trying to sleep I’m so sorry!'”

In the years since, Rodriguez has come a long way.