Posted on 09/18/2025 10:03:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 1965, the Four Seasons released “Bye Bye Baby.” Today, there is a new top hit called “Bye Bye Jimmy,” referring to the recently suspended Jimmy Kimmel.
A few years earlier, in 1962, NBC premiered “The Tonight Show” featuring Johnny Carson. It was ranked as one of the greatest T.V. shows of all time. Carson was funny and entertaining. Although he interviewed past presidents including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, he “refused to discuss his personal political views on the show out of concern it might alienate his audience.
Several decades later, ABC launched “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in 2003. Unlike the godfather of late-night talk shows, Kimmel had no hesitation in sharing his political views, not with humor, but with vitriol and spite. Given today’s political fragmentation and polarization, his ratings suffered under his hyper-partisan schtick.
In the first quarter of 2025, Stephen Colbert (also now canceled) averaged 2.4 million nightly viewers, edging out Kimmel’s 1.8 million and Jimmy Fallon’s 1.2 million. By comparison, Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld topped his competition with 3.3 million nightly viewers.
For perspective, Gutfeld’s high ratings only account for less than one percent of the U.S. population.
If politics sells, it’s not necessarily Democrat politics. Gutfield leans to the libertarian right, while the others lean to the left. As we often see with those on the left, they can’t help themselves when expressing a political view. They spew venom like a cobra, with zero self-awareness of how their words might be perceived outside of their echo chamber and how many Americans may be offended.
During his monologue last Monday, just days after Charlie Kirk was brutally assassinated, Kimmel spewed:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie...”
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He’s done. The lying, public character assassination, incitful rhetoric. No one wants anything to do with it. Not even Disney or whoever runs the former show. The ex show.
The Tonight Show premiered in 1954, with Steve Allen. He was followed by Jack Paar. Johnny Carson was the third host.
Jimmy Fallon was the sixth, following Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien.
The executives took something that could have made them money forever and be used to push their new TV shows and movies into politics and killing the brand.
Just like the movie studios have done to TV shows, movies, and all forms of entertainment. Their quest to indoctrinate us at the expenses of profits has killed their bottom line across the board.
Now they struggle to get hit movies, TV shows, or other entertainment to half the level it was even 5 years ago.
It’s a dying format. NBC may cling to the Tonight Show like it clings to Today and Saturday Night Live, but late night talk shows are going away — at least for a while. Wait 5 or 10 or 20 years and maybe somebody with real talent will bring late night back and people will think it’s something new and edgy.
Nobody’s watching now, but the strange thing is that Colbert and Kimmel each had bigger audiences than Fallon, who stayed largely out of politics and ought to have been acceptable to more people.
My recollection is that Johnny Carson was the third host of the Tonight show.
Go on YouTube and watch the Jonny Carson shows. Much more entertaining and funny.
Sinclair Broadcasting has called on Kimmel to apologize and make “a meaningful personal donation” to Kirk’s family and his group Turning Point USA......that jackass hasn’t got the character to do all that.
Humility isn’t one of liberals strong points.
Yes, I find it crazy how hollywood has pushed the agenda of a small percentage of our population. 9.3% if the population is LGBTQ, and it’s like 100% of the shows have to have a character representing the group shoehorned in anywhere whether it makes sense to the story or not. It is tiresome.
The normals have checked out on current movies, music, etc. so a high percentage of the people who do consume it are gay. So they cater to them.
Perhaps we should postpone our rejoicing at Jimmy’s collapse.
This (making a sizable donation to Turning Point) may be how Jimmy gets back on the air.
He would then spend most of his show bellyaching about having been ‘forced to pay alms’ to MAGA World.
I’m hoping that doesn’t happen.
He’s no more than any other so called entertainer, to be given the boot after his act has become stale.
Kimmel has probably been bleeding money for years and ABC is using his remarks as an excuse to get rid of his sorry ass.
I think they were okay with losing money as long as Harris won. She didn't. So it's a bad investment.
Bkmk
The Four Seasons also released “Big Girls Don’t Cry” which was appropriate after his post-election weepfest.
I remember watching Steve Allen and his skits, hilarious. One time on the Tonight Show he was adorned with hundreds of tea bags and dipped into a vat of water, becoming a human tea bag. I preferred watching his shows more than the hosts that followed.
Never watched the show. So no lost there because he lost his job and show.
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