--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Asks People to Identify Republican Candidates description: Jimmy Kimmel proves that people have no idea who the Republican presidential candidates are canonical: https://time.com/4038509/jimmy-kimmel-republican-candidates/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-17T16:16:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:51.366Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Shows There Are Too Many Republican Candidates og:description: "Is one of them Hillary Clinton?" og:url: https://time.com/4038509/jimmy-kimmel-republican-candidates/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt943025fd8001c6f8/6988640ef887dc7ef3e9267e/jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jimmy Kimmel og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Shows There Are Too Many Republican Candidates twitter:description: "Is one of them Hillary Clinton?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt943025fd8001c6f8/6988640ef887dc7ef3e9267e/jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Proves That There Are Too Many Republican Candidates Right Now  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 17, 2015 4:16 PM UTC  JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE - Emmy Award-nominated "Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs every weeknight (11:35 p.m. - 12:41 a.m., ET), packed with hilarious comedy bits and features a diverse lineup of guests including celebrities, athletes, musicians, comedians and humorous human interest subjects. The guests for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 included actor Johnny Depp ("Black Mass"), actress Kathryn Hahn ("The Visit") and musical Guest Mutemath. (Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images) JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE - Emmy Award-nominated "Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs every weeknight (11:35 p.m. - 12:41 a.m., ET), packed with hilarious comedy bits and features a diverse lineup of guests including celebrities, athletes, musicians, comedians and humorous human interest subjects. The guests for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 included actor Johnny Depp ("Black Mass"), actress Kathryn Hahn ("The Visit") and musical Guest Mutemath. (Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images)Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 17, 2015 4:16 PM UTC With so many Republican candidates vying for a 2016 nod, it’s hard to keep track of everyone who has the potential to become the next president of the United States. Wednesday’s GOP debate even had to be split into two different sections to accommodate all the contenders. On the episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ that aired following the debates, Kimmel sent his team to the streets to prove that point. In the clip, regular people play a game called “Which of These People Is Running for President?” in which they are shown photos of three different people and asked to identify which one is a presidential hopeful. Spoiler alert: they can’t. Every participant shown gets the question wrong, incorrectly choosing TV personalities such as Jorge Ramos, Tony Goldwyn and Robert Guillaume. One contestant thinks that it’s a trick question. “It’s none of them,” he says, before the host of the game points candidate Marco Rubio out. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4038509/jimmy-kimmel-republican-candidates/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4038509/jimmy-kimmel-republican-candidates/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Proves That There Are Too Many Republican Candidates Right Now","datePublished":"2015-09-17T16:16:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:51.366Z","description":"People can't keep 'em straight","url":"https://time.com/4038509/jimmy-kimmel-republican-candidates/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","entertainment","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","2016 presidential campaign","2016 Republicans","GOP Debate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt943025fd8001c6f8/6988640ef887dc7ef3e9267e/jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt943025fd8001c6f8/6988640ef887dc7ef3e9267e/jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel","caption":"Jimmy Kimmel","creditText":"Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4038509/jimmy-kimmel-republican-candidates/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Proves That There Are Too Many Republican Candidates Right Now"}}]}] ```