--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Checks His 2017 Naughty or Nice List description: Jimmy Kimmel is continuing his annual tradition of helping Santa determine whether certain children belong on his nice or naughty list. canonical: https://time.com/5060410/jimmy-kimmel-naughty-or-nice-2017/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-12T15:50:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:14.613Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Christmas By Grilling a Child og:description: He's checking his list twice og:url: https://time.com/5060410/jimmy-kimmel-naughty-or-nice-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba499cd54c435b11/6988f4baab6d77ff026b0f90/screen-shot-2017-12-12-at-10-05-22-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Naughty-or-Nice og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Christmas By Grilling a Child twitter:description: He's checking his list twice twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba499cd54c435b11/6988f4baab6d77ff026b0f90/screen-shot-2017-12-12-at-10-05-22-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Christmas By Grilling a Child About Her 2017 Mistakes  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 12, 2017 3:50 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 12, 2017 3:50 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5059308/jimmy-kimmel-donates-roy-moore-opponent-doug-jones/) is continuing his annual tradition of helping [Santa Claus](http://time.com/4970671/santa-claus-dead/) determine whether certain children belong on his [naughty or nice list](http://time.com/5042937/prince-george-christmas/). After opening Monday’s episode of _Live!_ by [bringing out his baby son Billy](http://time.com/5060100/jimmy-kimmel-son-billy-live/) — who recently underwent a second heart surgery — the late night host pivoted to celebrating the most wonderful time of the year by dressing up as an elf to grill a little girl about her behavior in 2017. With the help of his longtime sidekick Guillermo, Kimmel worked to get to the bottom of 4-year-old Cadence’s misdeeds, which included coloring her white dog with a pink marker and telling her grandpa that he looked like he was having a baby. “You know who else has a big stomach? Santa. And sometimes he gets a little bit sensitive about fat jokes. Because one time he said that Santa you look like you’re having a baby,” Kimmel joked, pointing at Guillermo. “And Santa punched him right in the face really, really hard.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5060410/jimmy-kimmel-naughty-or-nice-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5060410/jimmy-kimmel-naughty-or-nice-2017/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Christmas By Grilling a Child About Her 2017 Mistakes","datePublished":"2017-12-12T15:50:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:14.613Z","description":"He's checking his list twice","url":"https://time.com/5060410/jimmy-kimmel-naughty-or-nice-2017/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","Holiday 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba499cd54c435b11/6988f4baab6d77ff026b0f90/screen-shot-2017-12-12-at-10-05-22-am.png?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/bltba499cd54c435b11/6988f4baab6d77ff026b0f90/screen-shot-2017-12-12-at-10-05-22-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Naughty-or-Nice","caption":"","creditText":"ABC","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/5060410/jimmy-kimmel-naughty-or-nice-2017/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Christmas By Grilling a Child About Her 2017 Mistakes"}}]}] ```