Kimmel and McNearney’s first child together — Kimmel’s third — a daughter named Jane, was born on July 11, 2014. When Jane was a toddler, Jimmy revealed a hidden talent of his: pancake art. Although McNearney wasn’t as thrilled about him unleashing this creative energy on their toddler’s breakfasts — “His artistic ability has become my burden. When he isn’t home, our daughter sits at the kitchen table, glares at me and says, ‘I want a pancake. Peppa Pig.'” — there’s no denying that the man’s got talent.
After Jane’s fourth birthday, it was made pretty clear that Jane has her dad’s dry sense of humor. Kimmel shared her party details in his next show’s opening monologue, saying that everything went well until the kids started hitting a piñata. “My daughter loves ‘PAW Patrol.’ . . . For her birthday she asked for a ‘PAW Patrol’ piñata,” he said. “And we got her one, and it was a terrible piñata. It wasn’t even shaped like anything, just a rectangle with four dogs on it, one of which was Chase, that’s her favorite dog. . . . Finally, they cracked this thing open and the candy comes out and they all dive in and fight each other for it.”
The late-night show host said that McNearney then noticed Jane off in the distance staring at the remains of the ravaged piñata: “Jane looks at it and says to no one in particular, ‘I can’t believe we beat up Chase.’ And then she goes — and I don’t know where she got this — but she goes, ‘Look at these guys, they never saw it coming.'”