As he did last year, Jimmy Kimmel is taking his late-night talk show on the road to Austin for a week of broadcasts from the South by Southwest Festival. And Brad Paisley is going along for the ride. Kimmel stormed SXSW last year with an arsenal of gags and skits. The most skewering was a music-based edition of his ongoing “Lie Witness News,” in which the onetime Man Show host asks passersby to comment on false stories. Should Kimmel need a comic foil, Paisley will fit right in.
