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Jimmy Kimmel questions value of laughing at 'terrible' people
The Hill ^ | 11/04/2021 | Judy Kurtz

Posted on 11/04/2021 9:49:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

He pokes fun at them on a nightly basis, but Jimmy Kimmel is questioning whether it's good for Americans to laugh at the country's "terrible" issues and political leaders.

"I don't know that laughing about these terrible problems that we have, and these terrible people that we have is good," the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host said in response to a question Thursday from CNN anchor Jake Tapper about whether late-night TV provides escapism for viewers.

"I could probably spend an hour answering this question because I don't know that escapism is a good thing," Kimmel said during the news network's virtual Citizen Conference.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: blackface; jaketapper; judykurtz; kimmel; laughing; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; people; terrible; thehill; theshill; whitesupremacy
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Laughing at yourself again?
1 posted on 11/04/2021 9:49:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wait a minute. What does Kimmel do for a living? Isn’t he a comedian? Or have I been mistaken about his role in live forever?


2 posted on 11/04/2021 9:50:58 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Laughing at yourself again?

Has to. Nobody else will.

3 posted on 11/04/2021 9:51:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
That's why I don't watch SNL, Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, Oliver, Colbert, Noah...

4 posted on 11/04/2021 9:51:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I watch none of them, when I can I watch reruns of Carson.


5 posted on 11/04/2021 9:52:13 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Laughing at leaders and problems and absurd situations IS the very definition of freedom. Laughter is inherently human, and I believe that nothing is out of bounds in that regard.
6 posted on 11/04/2021 9:52:43 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I question not beating the crap out of some terrible people.


7 posted on 11/04/2021 9:53:17 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I never laugh at Jimmy Kimmel.

Now — to solve his problem, how about his having a Two Minutes Hate for “terrible people”?


8 posted on 11/04/2021 9:53:29 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Never have...never will.


9 posted on 11/04/2021 9:53:51 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey clown, your jokes aren’t funny. I don’t think you need to worry your pinhead too much.


10 posted on 11/04/2021 9:54:43 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

11 posted on 11/04/2021 9:55:09 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now that Trump is no longer President, Brandon is out of bounds.


12 posted on 11/04/2021 9:55:14 AM PDT by AU72
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Jimmy Kimmel peaked on the man show, but that was only because of his proximity to Adam Corrola


13 posted on 11/04/2021 9:55:17 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imaginationd)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chapelle nicely articulates the value of “laughing about these terrible problems that we have, and these terrible people that we have”. in doing so, he can address what polite society dare not.


14 posted on 11/04/2021 9:56:28 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He was marginally humorous when he did “The Man Show” with Adam Carolla and the girls jumping on trampolines in slow-mo. Back before he sold his soul to become a paid hack and gaslighting liar for the cultural Derp State Stalinazis.


15 posted on 11/04/2021 9:56:57 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: dsrtsage; All

EGG-zactly!


16 posted on 11/04/2021 9:58:20 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kimmel’s a tool for bitter white liberal ‘elites’ (and their pet victim groups) groups that feel eternally entitled.

Nothing funny about his brand of fawning or his hatred toward the ‘little people’....


17 posted on 11/04/2021 10:00:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (If liberty means anything ...it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Orwell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Jimmy only practices fake laughter.


18 posted on 11/04/2021 10:06:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For the life of me, I can’t tell Kimmel and Fallon apart.


19 posted on 11/04/2021 10:08:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Libtards like Jimmy are so stupid and goofy they’re a walking joke 🤪

And they don’t even realize it


20 posted on 11/04/2021 10:08:42 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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