ABC closes the bar on Kimmel show

? ABC ushered in its new late-night franchise, “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” on Sunday night, and already the network is making a tweak: It’s evidently doing away with the show’s liquor license, after an audience member vomited on her chair, apparently in close proximity to a high-ranking Disney executive.

“They thought it was out of control,” Daniel Kellison, the show’s executive producer, said Monday of the network’s decision to eliminate a bar for audience members.

Kimmel’s first show pushed the boundaries of talk-show taste. His co-host for the week, rapper Snoop Dogg, flipped off the camera numerous times, in a bit designed to draw attention to the headaches the show will give censors. George Clooney passed around a bottle of vodka.

Somewhere in all of this is a talk show — the one ABC hopes will give it leverage in late night among coveted 18-to-34-year-old viewers.