“These texts were said to be so offensive Fox didn’t know whether to fire Carlson or to give him another hour on primetime,” Kimmel cracked. “It’s easy to forget how much Tucker Carlson has accomplished over his career. He’s been fired by Fox, CNN, MSNBC and PBS. That’s like the EGOT of cable news.”
Earlier this week, Carlson released an odd video in which he complained about how “unbelievably stupid” TV debates are, saying “they mean nothing.”
“I agree,” Kimmel said. “Wait until you hear about this guy named Tucker Carlson. You are gonna hate him.”
Carlson said the “big topics” get no airtime on TV.
“Right, right, the big topics,” Kimmel shot back. “The important subjects ― like these.”
Kimmel played a supercut video of Carlson’s segments on leprechauns, manboobs, zombie raccoons and more.
He didn’t have much luck, because the network and its website barely mentioned it.
“What an oversight that is,” he said in mock surprise. “Man oh man, is Rupert Murdoch gonna be mad when he finds out about this.”
Kimmel said one big question remains now that Fox has settled.
“What happens to the MyPillow guy?” he said. “They’re suing Mike Lindell for basically the same thing.”
Lindell has already vowed he won’t settle.
“He’s much too delusional for that,” Kimmel said, then played a clip of Lindell claiming he wouldn’t take $1 billion to settle the suit.
“Hold on now: Why would they offer you a billion dollars?” Kimmel wondered. “Is it possible Mike thinks he’s the one suing Dominion? I’m not sure he understands how being sued works.”
And it only got weirder from there, which you can see in the Wednesday night monologue:
Kimmel couldn’t get over a Fox News statement insisting that the settlement “reflects Fox’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.”
“They’re already lying in their statement about lying,” he said. “It’s shameless!”
Kimmel also called out Dominion for settling, which means Fox can go right back at it.
“The liars who knowingly misled their oatmeal-brained viewers and seriously damaged our democracy don’t have to say anything about it at all ― no apologies, no testimony,” he lamented. “They can go right back to sodomizing the country while Dominion and their lawyers go shopping for yachts.”
“Trump now has more active cases in New York than COVID does,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel noted a new report that the special counsel investigating Trump is looking into claims the former president showed people a map with classified information that he took from the White House “like a big orange Dora the Explorer.”
That, Kimmel noted, would be a violation of espionage laws.
“I really think at this point the only crime Trump hasn’t been charged with is aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft,” he cracked.
Trump, he said, is also suing his former attorney, Michael Cohen, for $500 million, calling it a sign he needs money.
Kimmel shared a joke ad for a “weird side project” the former president has launched to help pick up some more quick cash:
“It was an embarrassing interview,” Kimmel said, pointing out a tangent Trump went on about the “two n-words,” with one of them being “nuclear.”
“Nobody talks about nuclear, the problem we have, the biggest problem we have in the whole world, it’s not global warming. It’s nuclear warming,” Trump said.
“What is this batty old man talking about?” Kimmel said, then described the search he did for more information on “nuclear warming” that came up empty. “The reason nobody’s talking about nuclear warming is because that’s not a thing.”
All this led Kimmel to one inescapable conclusion about the former president.
“It did make one thing very clear: The fact that Donald Trump is a profoundly stupid person,” Kimmel said. “I think it’s important to remember that. He does not have the best words, he’s not a stable genius, that mental competency test he’s always bragging that he passed? It’s something the average 7-year-old could pass.”
See his full takedown in his Wednesday night monologue:
Miraculously, Jeremy Renner is on his feet. In his first live television appearance since the devastating snowplow accident that left him with over 30 broken bones in his body, Renner appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, walking onstage with the help of a cane.
Renner seemed positively thrilled to be mobile again as he walked over to host Jimmy Kimmel, gave him a hug, danced around a bit, and eventually sat in his chair—but not before doing a few high kicks from his seat. “If there was any question as to who the toughest Avenger was, that’s settled now,” said Kimmel as the audience roared. “Yeah, it’s Scarlett Johansson,” the Marvel star quipped back.
Renner than shared the details of his New Year’s Day snow plow accident, when the two-time Oscar nominee was run over be a seven-ton Piston Sno-Bully after he tried to stop the machine from running over his 27-year-old nephew, Alexander Fries. “I got eaten up under the tracks,” said Renner. “That was a very bad way to start the year.”
According to Renner, he broke “35 or so” bones in the accident. “We kept discovering them as we were going along, because it went from critical order of, you know, priority of what I was going to die from or not,” he said. “And then, you know, six weeks later, finding another break and another break and another break.” Kimmel quipped that Renner was approaching “Evel Knievel territory” in terms of the amount of injuries he sustained.
“It’s a giant metal cookie roller, and it just missed every vertebrae, right?” said Renner, explaining his relative good fortune. “It didn’t hit any organs. My brain didn’t swell. My eye did pop out, so that’s weird. But I got very lucky that none of the organs got messed up.”
Renner than told stories from his multiple ICU stays, telling Kimmel that he “hated his outfit” while in the hospital. He shared that he didn’t really understand the severity of his injuries until some of his Avengers pals, like Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie, came to visit him. “They were terrible actors,” he said. “They couldn’t hind the fact that I looked awful.” Renner also shouted out Paul Rudd, who stopped by the hospital multiple times to visit him. Not only did Rudd visit Renner, but he also made Renner a fake Cameo, which Renner played on the show.
“Hey, Jerry. I hear you’re a little banged up. Got in a fight with a snow blower?” says Rudd in the video, nailing the medium’s impersonal nature. “Anyway, I just wanted to send this video. It’s really from the heart and hope you’re feeling better. Sounds like you are ― apparently you’re a pretty tough guy. Maybe I’ll get to meet you someday…Take is easy for awhile and next time maybe let the snow melt. Feel better, Jerry.”
Jimmy Kimmel mocked Donald Trump’s new lawyer on Thursday with a montage of his excuses for the former president.
Joe Tacopina is the latest legal adviser who the former president has drafted in amid multiple investigations.
Earlier this week, the attorney tried to snatch a piece of paper from MSNBC’s Ari Melber while defending Trump’s claim about not knowing hush money payments were paid to adult actor Stormy Daniels after their alleged affair.
Tacopina repeatedly claims Trump is a victim of extortion in the supercut.
Per Kimmel, the lawyer “seems to have been born in the ashtray of Rudy Giuliani’s Lincoln Continental.”
Jimmy Kimmel, fresh from hosting this year’s Oscars ceremony, on Tuesday returned to his late-night TV show with digs about former President Donald Trump.
Kimmel in particular said he couldn’t fathom Trump’s attempted spin on who was really to blame for the deadly U.S. Capitol riot he incited on Jan. 6, 2021.
Per Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence is actually responsible for the violence — because he refused to help Trump overturn the 2020 election result.
It’s the presidential equivalent of, “If the teller had just put the money in the bag, everyone would have made it home sage,” said Kimmel.
“Listen, Mike pence can be blamed for a lot of things … but he didn’t cause Jan. 6. They tried to hang him on Jan. 6,” he added.
Whenever I watch an awards ceremony for the “biggest names in Hollywood,” I regret tuning in about 30 minutes in. It sounds like a great idea to watch The Oscars in theory, but in practice, it’s more agonizing than a low-scoring football game. Last night’s 95th Annual Academy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel held us hostage and threatened to go on for almost four hours.
This year, we were faced with the cold, hard truth: every celeb we know and love is on Ozempic. And Nicole Kidman will forever give us a meme even if she doesn’t speak.
The Winners
The worst part about these award shows is that you know who’s going to win. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once was going for a sweep of their 11 Oscar nominations, so why do I have to watch everyone, everywhere, all at once make a five minute speech? Seems borderline criminal.
The first award of the night was given to Best Supporting Actress, with EEAO having two nominees in Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu, alongside a roster of talent in Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin). Controversially, or maybe not, Jamie Lee won.
A24’s multiverse EEAO became the most awarded filem of all time, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Leading Actress with Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Asian actress to win. I was on the edge of my seat for one of the closer races of the night, Best Leading Actor. With names like Austin Butler (Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale), Colin Farrell (Banshees), Paul Mescal (Aftersun), and Bill Nighy (Living), Fraser ended up taking home the Best Leading Actor award.
Believe me, between Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser’s speeches, not a dry eye was in the house.
The Drama
It wouldn’t be The Oscars without drama. So let’s dig in. Starting with the red carpet – which was actually champagne colored and very ugly this year – we had Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Graham doing interviews. There was a very clear opportunity for millions of TikTok clips if you would have let Baby V interview ex-boyfriend and permanent Elvis stand-in, Austin Butler, but no. Of course not.
Ashley Graham instead interviewed Hugh Grant for quite possibly the most awkward interview of all time. Hugh Grant all but refused to answer questions, even calling The Oscars “Vanity Fair,” to which Graham responds “Vanity Fair is where you’ll be letting loose later.” The whole thing made me sick to my stomach.
And does anyone else feel bad that we keep inviting Rihanna to perform “Lift Me Up” at these shows and then she doesn’t win the award? I think adding her and A$AP Rocky to the audience brings added style and attractiveness that would otherwise lack without them – so maybe give her an award to keep her coming back?
We also have Jamie Lee Curtis’s controversial win as one of the only white women nominated in her category. And while I agree Angela Bassett did the thing both in her performance in Black Panther and her outfit last night, it’s hard to get mad at an actress for winning an award the Academy designated for her. Blame The Academy, not the women.
This year’s major cringe wasn’t a slap, but rather Jimmy Kimmel asking activist Malala Yousafzai if she thought Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine. After she proceeds to say she only talks about peace, Kimmel nicknamed her Malala-land. Again, just gauge my eyes out at this point.
And for those wondering about hookups, Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner were seen together at Jay-Z and Beyonce’s afterparty. Also in attendance? Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio. Do with that information what you will.
The Style
Perhaps my favorite part of the night: the clothes. Some of my favorite looks of the night were as follows:
The Stranger at the Gate executive producer, Malala Yousafzai, who is 25 years old, attended the Oscars in support of her short film, which was up for Best Documentary Short Film.
Oscars Awards 2023, which were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, put educational activists in an uncomfortable position. But as Malala is known to make her way through, she did know how to respond to Jimmy Kimmel in a subtle way, which made fans call her out for her ‘classy’ and ‘elegant’ reply.
Here is what happened between Jimmy Kimmel and Malala Yousafzai.
Malala Yousafzai, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and an education activist, made an appearance with her husband at this year’s Oscars.
The 25-year-old attended the event as executive producer of The Stranger at the Gate in support of her short film that was up for Best Documentary Short Film. During which Malala had a strange experience with Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the 95th Academy Awards, who took the stage during the ceremony.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was questioned by Jimmy Kimmel, who claimed to take questions from the audience regarding the turmoil surrounding Harry Styles and Chris Pine’s spit-gate incident that surfaced last year.
‘As the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history,’ Kimmel commented while asking, ‘I was wondering, do you think Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine?’
‘I only talk about peace,’ Malala Yousafzai responded to Jimmy Kimmel’s question, which was addressed to her.
Fans slammed Jimmy Kimmel for the question and applauded Malala for her response. Find out
While some Twitter users praised the Nobel laureate for her “classy” response to the “unfunny and cringe” joke, others found the question addressed to her unimpressive.
“Editors do amazing things,” he said. “Editors can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful sightseeing tour of the Capitol. Their work is under-appreciated.”
In reality, the mob that assaulted the Capitol was seeking to stop the certification of the election, overturn the results and keep Donald Trump in power despite the fact that he lost.
Celebs gathered at the Dolby Theatre in California on Sunday night to celebrate the best of films at the 95th Academy Awards.
The Oscars, hosted by Jimmey Kimmel went (incident-less, as Kimmel highlighted at the end of the show) with strong punchlines, emotional performances, tear-jerking speeches by winners and foot-tapping dance performance.
Here are some top moments from the Oscars, this year:
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About The Will Smith Slap (Of Course)
Host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Will Smith’s actions last year in his opening monologue.
“We want you to have fun, we want you to feel safe, and most importantly, we want me to feel safe,” he began. “So we have strict policies in place. If anyone in this theatre commits an act of violence at any point in this show, you will be awarded the Oscar for Best Actor and permitted to give a 19-minute long speech.”
Pregnant Rihanna Stuns On The Red Carpet & Performs “Lift Me Up”
Rihanna turned heads and dropped jaws as she elegantly walked the red carpet in a stunning sheer black Alaïa gown while pregnant with her second child. She later performed “Lift Me Up” in the night during the ceremony as A$AP Rocky adorably lifted his glass in support.
Rihanna at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images)
— Photo: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images
Hugh Grant’s Awkward Moment
Grant’s excruciatingly awkward interview on the champagne carpet went viral as he seemed less than enthusiastic about attending this year’s awards show. When asked who he was most excited to see tonight the actor responded: “No one in particular.”
“Creed III” co-stars Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors were presenting the Best Cinematography award when they gave a brief shout-out to Angela Bassett. “Hey Auntie, we love you,” they said, paying respects to the Oscar-nominated actress.
Jimmy Kimmel & The Donkey
Jenny, who played the donkey in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” graced the Oscars stage wearing a bedazzled emotional support animal vest. “Not only is Jenny an actor, she’s a certified emotional support donkey,” host Jimmy Kimmel said. “At least that’s what we told the airline to get her on the plane from Ireland.”
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 12: Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. ()
Cocaine Bear’s Oscar Moment
Elizabeth Banks brought the titular creature from her “Cocaine Bear” to present — but unlike the movie, which featured an entirely CGI bear, this was clearly some guy in a suit.
Elizabeth Banks and Cocaine Bear speak onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards.
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Lady Gaga’s Last Minute Performance
After initially planning not to attend this year’s ceremony, Lady Gaga made a last-minute switch and decided to perform the Oscar-nominated “Take My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”. The performance was stripped back than what Lady Gaga typically sports, with the actress and musician wearing little to no makeup and a black T-shirt and jeans.
Lady Gaga
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“Naatu Naatu” Performance
Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone introduced the performance of Best Original Song nominee “Naatu Naatu” from the Telegu-language “RRR.” The performance was extremely high energy and featured dozens of dancers and vocals from Kaala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj.
Happy Birthday At Oscars
An impromptu performance of “Happy Birthday” was conducted on the Oscar stage on Sunday night to celebrate the 31st birthday of “Irish Goodbye” actor James Martin. Martin has Down syndrome, and his awe-inspiring story from Starbucks barista to the Oscars has warmed the hearts of many.
Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional Winning Best Actor
Brendon Fraser took home the big win in the Best Actor category for his riveting performance in “The Whale”. During his acceptance speech, the 54-year-old actor became notably teary-eyed as he thanked the studio A24 and the director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing him a creative lifeline.”
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 12: Brendan Fraser, winner of the Best Actor in a Leading Role award for “The Whale,” poses in the press room during the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
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Michelle Yeoh Becomes First Asian To Win Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh makes Oscar history as the first Asian to win in the Best Actress category. Yeoh said the award was for “all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight.” “This is the beacon of hope and possibility. Dreams do come true,” she added. “And ladies: don’t let anybody ever tell you, you are past your prime.”
Michelle Yeoh
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“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Wins Best Picture
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” took home a whopping 7 out of their 11 nominations, proclaiming the film as the big winner of the night. Ultimately the cast and crew took home the coveted Best Picture category at the end of Hollywood’s biggest night.
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ cast and directors. Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
— Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
“Listen—no time to explain, but in 2027, someone known as ‘Mr. Beast’ is nominated for Best Director for a film called Coincidentally Spearman. He must not win! If this happens, a timeline is created wherein billions will perish. I have to go—I’ve used all of my time credits on this final jump, and if I stay around any longer, the multiverse will implode.”
The opening of the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is going to be a “moment,” the show’s producers promise.
They won’t say what exactly it is – A montage? A Billy Crystal-inspired skit where Jimmy Kimmel pretends to be in all the best picture nominees? A secret performance? Tom Cruise landing a jet atop the Dolby Theatre? It will not, however, include Lady Gaga — the best original song nominee is currently in the midst of production on the “Joker” sequel.
But Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, this year’s executive producers and showrunners, are certain that it’s going to pull audiences in and keep them engaged for the duration.
Both Weiss and Kirshner are live television veterans. They’ve done the Grammys, Tonys, Emmys, the Super Bowl and even a presidential inauguration. But the Oscars is a first for Kirshner.
“There’s only a few shows on the bucket list,” Kirshner said. “I needed to go for the awards show EGOT.”
Still, it’s a job not everyone is cut out for. One might even wonder why Weiss, who was the director of the show when both Envelopegate and The Slap happened, would want to put himself through it again.
“I think part of what scares a lot of people away from what I love about live television is having to think on your feet and keep moving forward and changing despite what’s in the script,” Weiss said. “A lot of directors are all about what’s in the script. I think my energy comes from leaving that script and going forward. Any particular incident aside, I really love the thrill of live television.”
Their goal this year is to celebrate a great year of movies. And it doesn’t hurt that they have several billion-dollar blockbusters in the mix, with “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” both up for best picture. And though their involvement was decided much earlier than usual, it always ends up being a race to the finish: There’s only so much planning that can be done before they know who the nominees are.
“I really think that the nominations have put so much interesting material in front of us,” Weiss said. “We want to keep the audience who have seen these movies really wanting to see more and wanting to learn more about the creators. We’re here celebrating the movies. We’re celebrating the moviemakers both in front of and behind the camera.”
The show’s runtime is always an issue, with the goal being to stick to three hours. (“Three hours, yeah right,” Kimmel joked in his “Top Gun: Maverick” inspired promo for the show.) This year all the categories are being announced live on the show, which will also include performances of four of the best original song nominees. But they’re not sweating the runtime.
“All we really care about is that people have a great time,” Kirshner said. “There are things we can’t control. And if a speech is great, we’re not going to cut you off.”
And their plan should, say, an envelope gets mixed up, a streaker runs across the stage or a best actor nominee slaps a presenter? Well, frankly, that’s someone else’s job.
“When we do the inauguration, we don’t tell the Secret Service how to protect the president,” Weiss said. “We just make a show that entertains and keeps going. That’s our job here. We’re going to make sure it’s entertaining and keep it going.”
Academy President Bill Kramer has said there is a crisis team and security in place ready for any number of scenarios.
As for the host, Molly McNearney, who is the show’s executive producer and is married to Kimmel, she said he thrives on unexpected moments.
“When the ‘La La Land’/‘Moonlight’ thing happened I’ve never seen him so excited in my entire life,” McNearney said. “He loves moments like that. He loves to be in the moment.”
And the slap is fair game for Kimmel too.
“We’re going to acknowledge it and we’re going to move on. I think that’s what everyone wants. We don’t want to make this year about last year,” McNearney said. “It’s something we can and will address in a comedic fashion.”
Sunday’s ceremony comes one year after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the 2022 Academy Awards stage, creating the most infamous moment in Oscars history.
And that means a lot of pressure on Kimmel, especially when it comes to possible monologue jokes about the slap.
“Well, whatever I say about it, it’s going to have to be great, right?” Kimmel told The Hollywood Reporter. “Because so much has been said and there’s so much focus on it. I obviously don’t want to make the whole monologue about that, but it would be ridiculous not to mention it.”
Kimmel also has considered what to do if there is another slap ― especially if he’s the target.
“If I’m bigger than they are, I beat the shit out of them on television. And if it’s the Rock, I run,” Kimmel joked.
Kimmel is no stranger to Oscars drama. He hosted the 2017 ceremony, when “La La Land” was accidentally declared the Best Picture winner over “Moonlight.”
Kimmel said last year’s slap tops that moment in Oscars infamy.
“It’s disappointing in a lot of ways,” he said. “If you’re gonna be part of a fuckup, it might as well be the biggest fuckup ever. Being part of the second-biggest fuckup doesn’t carry as much cachet.”
For someone who complained a lot about snowflakes, Donald Trump seems pretty delicate. Per a Rolling Stone report, the former president was once so insecure about Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes that his administration tried to pressure Disney into censoring Jimmy Kimmel Live! On Monday night’s episode of his late-night talk show, Kimmel ripped into Trump, calling him “President Karen” and pointing out the ex-president’s hypocrisy.
According to Rolling Stone, Trump was so upset about Kimmel’s jokes in 2018 that Trump allegedly instructed his staffers at the White House to call Disney, ABC’s parent company, and told them to “rein in the…ABC host.” Per the report, at least two separate phone calls meant to “convey the severity of [Trump’s] fury with Kimmel to Disney” were made, and news of these phone calls apparently became the talk of Washington.
Naturally, Kimmel had an absolute field day with the news. “President Karen demanded to speak to my manager,” Kimmel quipped at the top of his Monday night monologue. “You’d think the guy who fathered Eric and Don Jr. would know how to handle jokes, but I guess not.”
Kimmel homed in on Trump’s narcissism, noting that the former president often relishes being the center of attention. “The first time Donald Trump ever tries to stop someone from talking about him on television, and it’s me,” said Kimmel. He then made an allusion to Trump paying off adult-film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 as part of a settlement about their alleged 2006 sexual encounter. (Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.) “Usually when he wants somebody to stop talking about him, he pays them $130,000,” Kimmel said, “but he wanted me to do it for nothing!”
Kimmel continued making fun of Trump for his “Trumper tantrum,” wondering aloud which joke of his pushed the former president’s buttons the most. “Maybe it was the time I had Stormy Daniels look at a plate of carrots and size them up, and she picked the little one,” he said. He then launched into a list of practically every nickname he has used for Trump on the show, including but not limited to “Tan’y Soprano,” “Mar a Lardo,” and “Pumpkin McPornhumper.”
“I only have 100 more,” Kimmel quipped to a round of applause, before launching into more nicknames for the former president.
“What a fragile little snowflake. What a blowhard. He’s a blowhard and a snowflake,” Kimmel joked. “He’s a blowflake.”
Kimmel went on to draw a parallel between Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two of the only people who have tried to censor him. “When you think of all the people who I’ve regularly made fun of, it’s a lot of people. The only two who’ve tried to stop me are Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene who actually called the cops on me,” he said. “I made fun of OJ [Simpson] one thousand times; he hasn’t tried to kill me once.”
Toward the end of his roast of Trump, Kimmel called out the former president’s well-documented history of insults. “He makes fun of disabled journalists. He calls our veterans prisoners of war, even losers,” said Kimmel. “He insults his opponents, his friends, his family. But if I point out that he’s so fat they renamed the plane Air Force Wonder Bread, I’m the bad guy?”
Kimmel even found a way to get in a dig at Trump’s reportedly crumbling relationship with his wife, Melania Trump. “Maybe this is why Donald and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms: She was laughing too hard at my monologue at night.”
Kimmel ended the segment by pointing out the hypocrisy of Trump and news channels like Fox News that claim to champion free speech. “Joking aside, this is a blatant abuse of power. I wonder if Fox News—you know, they’re always screaming about censoring comedians—will they defend me on this? I doubt it.” He then played a clip package featuring the ex-president regaling the virtues of free speech. “It’s almost like he’s a hypocrite.”
Jimmy Kimmel found a strange event for Donald Trump held by a Florida fan club on Monday where tickets included a discount for Tony Roma’s ribs.
“For real,” Kimmel insisted.
Indeed, the Club 45 website says that members enjoy a discount at the Tony Roma’s in the Hilton Palm Beach Airport hotel, where the group meets and where Trump spoke to them on Monday.
Kimmel noted that the event included a 5-year-old girl asking a question about inflation ― and that the girl was still there, watching, when Trump went on a tangent about rape, using the word over and over again when he warned about the supposed dangers of immigrants during a xenophobic rant.
Jimmy Kimmel is celebrating 20 years of his late-night show ― and the monologue began with a throwback roast by a onetime network colleague.
Back in 2003, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” made its debut in the coveted post-Super Bowl spot, where he was welcomed by ABC’s other late-night host at the time: Ted Koppel, the respected veteran newsman who was then anchor of “Nightline.”
“There will be no special post-Super Bowl edition of ‘Nightline’ tonight,” Koppel said at the top of the show, “so that ABC can bring you the following piece of garbage.”
On Thursday night, Koppel appeared again and delivered a very similar message to kick off the show.
Then Kimmel recounted two decades in the industry ― and got emotional a few times:
Jimmy Kimmel will be keeping a look out for potential slappers when he takes to the stage of the Dolby Theater in March to host the Oscars.
Kimmel, who has hosted twice before, addressed the 2023 nominations during Tuesday night’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
One thing that surprised him, he noted in his monologue, was that online gambling sites are now taking bets on which films and actors will be winning awards.
In addition, he pointed to one category referencing last year’s infamous Will Smith slap of Chris Rock: “Will any host or award presenter be slapped during the show?” reads the bet.
“If you put $100 on yes, you win $1,200 — which, I have to say, seems like they’re encouraging someone with a gambling problem to slap me,” Kimmel quipped.
Kimmel also pointed to the Best Oscar nominees, which included “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “Top Gun: Maverick”, “Elvis”, “Avatar: The Way of Water” and, he joked, “six movies that no one has seen — including a movie called ‘Triangle of Sadness’, which I always thought was a slice of Papa John’s pizza.”
Jimmy Kimmel spotted a few words from Mike Pence that are already coming back to haunt the former vice president.
Pence was asked in November about the classified documents scandal in which sensitive materials were found both at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and at private locations used by President Joe Biden.
“Did you take any classified documents with you from the White House?” ABC’s David Muir asked.
“I did not,” Pence replied at the time.
Kimmel even had a guess as to where they were found.
