Jimmy Kimmel wants to get “Into the Groove!”
The comedian’s late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has had no shortage of incredible celebrity guests over its 22-year span on air, but there’s still one person that Kimmel, 57, is waiting to interview on the program.
“I wouldn’t say I’m desperate to get anybody, but we’ve never had Madonna on the show, and I’d love to have her on,” he told PEOPLE exclusively while attending Keep Memory Alive’s The Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas on Feb. 22.
When asked why Madonna, 66, has not been on the show in the over two decades it has been on the air, Kimmel was at a loss, but he did highlight how his longtime friend and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez had a moment with the pop star when she invited him on stage during a Mexico City concert last year.
“She had Guillermo on stage with her,” Kimmel said, before jokingly adding: “Not me. Nothing for me.”
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While the Queen of Pop is on Kimmel’s wish list, he also wants another special guest to stop by the show, but he told PEOPLE he knows that appearance is less than likely.
“If there were some one person I’d like that on the show, it would be Banksy,” Kimmel said of the mysterious artist whose identity is still unknown.
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When prompted that he may have had Banksy on his show without even realizing it was him, the father of four admitted. “That’s true. Maybe Banksy was secretly Jason Alexander.”
But when asked if he could’ve potentially been Kimmel’s good buddy Jason Bateman, the star responded, “It’s possible,” before correcting himself, noting, “You know what, I’ve seen him draw. He’s not Banksy.”
Regardless of his wish list for guests to appear on his long-running series, Kimmel told PEOPLE he is still having as much fun hosting the show as ever.
“In some ways, it’s more fun,” he said. “In some ways, you get older, you get tired, but in a lot of ways, it’s more fun because I think that we are doing the best show we’ve ever done right now.”
“I think that when it starts to wane is when it will be less fun,” continued Kimmel. “Some nights, it’s absolutely great if the audience is great and everything goes well, and some nights it doesn’t go that great, and you just feel like it’s going to an island.”
“But right now I’m enjoying it,” added the Emmy Award winner.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. EST on ABC.
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