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Posted on 04/27/2026 10:41:49 PM PDT by hole_n_one
Jimmy Kimmel pushed back on the backlash against his “expectant widow” joke, declining to apologize for the joke itself and instead mocking the Trumps’ calls to cancel his show.
During his Monday night monologue, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host took the stage in a pitch-black suit and told ABC viewers, “You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job? We’ve all been there, right?”
“There was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm and a call to fire me from our first lady,” Kimmel said. “Obviously, it was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not — by any stretch of the definition — a call to assassination.”
“But I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house,” he continued. “And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it. Donald Trump is allowed to say whatever he wants to say, as are you and as am I. Because under the First Amendment, we have, as Americans, a right to free speech.”
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Why would he apologize? It’s not as if any of us would accept it, anyway.
Fire him.
I don’t drink, but I’m going to enjoy a sparkling red wine if anytime soon I hear that this world is rid of Jimmy Kimmel.
Roseanne Barr was canceled for calling the spawn of Planet of the Apes the spawn of Planet of the Apes, and she didn’t wish the spawn’s spouse to be a widower.
Jimmy has the backing of his network bosses who, agree with his extreme political views for ratings. Where is Johnny Carson when you need him?
The quick descent into raw, dramatic and savage political humor is the same for Stewart, Fallon and Colbert. They are all “greater than thou” Elitists who have free reign to insult and tear down American culture.
In other societies they would have been lined up against the wall and shot.
Kimmel needs to be dragged behind a car, ending up being dragged through a hog pen. He is pure trash, filthier than the pig waste.
What ratings?
Kimmel has none.
The brass at ABC do not back Kimmel for any value he brings to them monetarily via ratings but rather simply because they agree with what he spews.
From day one on....he’s lost audience numbers.
If he’s not gone both ABC and Disney approve of this kind of “comedy” and perhaps encourage it.
Following the controversy, Kimmel’s ratings saw a substantial increase, continuing a pattern observed during previous political clashes. According to Nielsen Live+3 data, his show experienced a 56% week-over-week increase in total viewers, drawing 3.056 million viewers on April 28, 2026 — a figure that surpassed both The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon combined. This surge mirrors the viewership spike Kimmel experienced in September 2025 after being temporarily suspended for comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
In other societies they would have been lined up against the wall and shot.
CUT ALL WHITE HOUSE ACESS TO ABC NEWS...
You can defend the indefensible.
Yes!
Proverbs 29:11
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
John Oliver is the worst.
I cannot post what I think about Kimmel because I don’t want to be banned.
“Obviously, it was a joke about their age difference”
That makes no sense if that was supposed to be the “joke.”
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