His brother Jonathan works on the show as a director. His cousin Sal Iacono performed Kimmel's former co-hosting duties during the last season of Win Ben Stein's Money and then became a writer and sketch performer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! His Aunt Chippy (Concetta Potenza) is also a featured part of the show. Kimmel's uncle, Frank Potenza ('Uncle Frank'), appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011. He received an honorary degree from UNLV in 2013. Clark High School, and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before transferring to Arizona State University. The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old. His family's surname was ' Kümmel' (' caraway' in German) several generations back. Two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German immigrants. Kimmel's mother is of Italian ancestry from Ischia, Naples her family was Albanian, migrated to the United States after the 1883 earthquake. He was raised Catholic and, as a child, was an altar server. Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin as the eldest of three children of Joan (Iacono) and James John Kimmel, who worked at American Express and was an IBM executive.
