NAZARETH GIRL ON JIMMY KIMMEL SHOW

"When in Rome" star Kate Micucci of Nazareth gave her "small town" a big shout out this morning on the late night talk show " Jimmy Kimmel Live."

Micucci was a guest on the show as part of a week-long string of appearances by actors from film. But, following Kimmel's lead, she didn't talk much about the film, a romantic comedy that opens Friday.

Instead, the 29-year-old 1998 Nazareth High grad talked alot about her hobby playing the kazoo and about Nazareth's annual kazoo parade on July 4. "It's just a hobby. I keep one in my car if I get stuck in traffic," Micucci said of her kazoo playing.. "I have bunch of different colors."

Micucci said today is National Kazoo Day. "Everybody get ready," she said.

About the annual Nazareth event, she explained that everybody meets at the high school and marches around town playing patriotic numbers. But she said because she now lives in Los Angeles and doesn't get home much -- she has gotten yelled at during the parade for not playing enough.

"Less socializing, more kazooing," she said the organizers insisted.

She said last year, after there were complaints that parade participants couldn't march and kazoo at the same time, the parade was actually more of a kazoo concert in a field. "I'm writing a letter to the mayor," she said.

Kimmel introduced Micuccui as a "ukelee and kazoo playing former clown and sand castle builder. Please welcome the multi-talented Kate Micucci," he said as she walked on the set in a pretty, 1950-style light red summery sleeveless dress, a big pearl necklace and a demure wave.

Micucci also talked about her two week job clowning under the name Silly Jilly. And Kimmel showed pictures of her sand creations -- a dog that was "as big as a couch" and a pig for Chinese New Year. He also showed a photograph of Micuccui "driving a sand ship." "It's funny because it looks more like a pile of sand, really," Micucci joked.

Micucci explained that she got the job through her brother, who was working at a hotel on the beach in Santa Monica. "They paid me alot of money to go to the beach," she said.

She said she stopped doing sand castle building because she "got busy."

"The stupid acting gets in the way of everything," responded Kimmel, segueing into a mention of the movie "When in Rome." In the film, Micucci plays Stacy, the best friend of the lead, played by Kristen Bell. Bell plays a woman unlucky in love and in Rome for a friend's wedding. She steals coins from a fountain and is pursued by a gaggle of suitors, including Danny DeVito and Bell's co-star Josh Duhamel. Micucci is featured prominently in new trailers for the film.

The film's Dax Shephard appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Monday. Bell appeared Tuesday. Will Arnett is scheduled to appear today and Josh Duhamel on Friday. Jimmy Kimmel is on at 12:05 a.m.

Kimmel also then mentioned Micucci's role in the Fox TV sitcom " 'Til Death," which stars Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher. When the show premieres for the season at 7 p.m. Sunday, Micucci will appear as the couple's daughter. But she says she also plays a waitress in the show. Without explaining clearly, it sounded like she may have been hired for a bit part then fell into the big role when the previous "daughter" left the job. Micucci is the fifth actress to play the role. "One week I played a waitress and the next week they called and said I'm playing their daughter," she said.

Micucci was the second guest last night, following Mel Gibson, who promoted his new film, an action thriller called "Edge of Darkness."

Asked if she met Gibson, Micucci said, "I saw him in passing. He was actually was the speaker at my college graduation -- we go way back."

She said she went to college at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

"Every five minutes or so somebody in the crowd would scream, 'Freedom.' It never got old, never."

Micucci is the daughter of Michael and Lynn Micucci, owners of Bushkill Electric.

You can follow her activies on her Facebook fan page at facebook.com.

Source: Jodi Duckett from the Morning Call