Kimmel at WHCD: Difference Between Maher and Limbaugh - 'People Who Watch Maher Know He’s An A--hole'
Jimmy Kimmel attacked conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner first calling him a slut and then jabbing him with a juvenile prescription drug joke.
The comedian also took a shot at HBO's Bill Maher while bashing Limbaugh and his "extreme" right-wing fans (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, mild vulgarity warning):
The bit began with Kimmel asking the crowd, “Hey, is that slut Rush Limbaugh here?”
This actually met with total silence from the audience. So Kimmel continued saying, “People are still upset with Rush for comments he made about Sandra Fluke. But you know what? There’s a reason Mr. Limbaugh said what he said, and that reason is Percocet."
Frankly, I’d expect more from Kimmel than a simple prescription drugs joke about the conservative talk radio host. Those are a dime a dozen on MSNBC.
But Kimmel eventually broadened his line of attack.
“And by the way, just to clear things up for the extreme right-wingers, here’s the difference between Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh: the people who watch Bill Maher know he’s an a--hole.”
Actually, if Kimmel's right, that's something Limbaugh and Maher fans have in common.
The people who listen to Rush ALSO know Maher’s "an a—hole."
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typical
Submitted by sngnsgt on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:27am.
Lousy joke about Rush. No laughs should tell you something.
Mohair wins
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:28am.
So now we can watch at a black-tie gala in Washington, with the President and First Lady in attendance, and the comedian begins with a joke with "asshole" in the punch line.
What happened to real humor, really clever and skillful—and funny—humor? Who the foxtrot cares? Just use a wordy durd (H/T: Bill Cosby).
Decorum? WTF! You're kidding, right? (Flashback to Biden's "This is f**king big" moment).
Yeah, I know they're grownups and all, and the NYT still persists in using Mr. and Ms. with names, but, come on, do us (you know, the U.S.) the honor of cleaning up your act (if for no other reason than to show us you can).
Decorum?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 11:52am.
Didn't you know it's cool to curse? Check out any playground.
Eating my words
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 1:05pm.
Kimmel was okay. He didn't lead with the "asshole" joke. That came about 2/3 into his routine. And he hit everyone, left and right. He zapped Carney for saying he knew three women named Hillary Rosen. He tweaked Obama a lot, and Michelle, too. He really ripped Olbermann, as we all know (and the "Channel One Million" was a great putdown of Algorithm). Keith the Sports Boy didn't take it soaking down. He has already tweeted back his umbrage, not at the jokes, but at Kimmel's "revenge factor."
Oh, shaddup.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/keith-olbermann-hits-back-at-jimmy-kimmel...
Another kind,loving,and compassionate progressive
Submitted by legacyrepublican on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:35am.
Ah, I so much enjoyed listening to another kind, loving, and compassionate progressive whose sensitivity to others makes me really want to be one too.
He even eats his own vomit so I won't be offended!
I just don't know why I am resisting so strongly.
I think Kimmel got some good zingers on the President
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:01am.
The old campaign promises being hilarious in retrospect. Not a two termer.
dog park as lobster tank.
he spread the insults pretty fairly
I saw that on Drudge, merly.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 11:10am.
Did you notice that when he slammed Da One, that the laughs were few, weak, and fairly muted; but when he slammed a conservative, it was soooooooo hilarious!!!
I think that the response to Kimmel's jokes says more about the audience than the "comic."
Great photo of Boy Baraka on
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 1:10pm.
Great photo of Boy Baraka on Drudge...................although not as good as the ones that catch him looking demonic and petulant at the same time - like some spoiled little kid who just had his favorite toy taken away.
Don't kid yourself, Jimmy!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:36am.
Maher's fans don't "know" he's an A-hole, and they don't think he's one.
They think he's a cutting-edge commentator who "sticks it to" Republicans and conservatives.
Maher fans not only don't
Submitted by tcm14 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 1:15pm.
Maher fans not only don't know that he is an a-hole, they don't know that they themselves are a-holes. I am speaking from personal experience.
Very well said, and very
Submitted by Semus on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 7:50pm.
Very well said, and very true.
Shall we look through a liberal newstalker's "prescription" day?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 11:10am.
10:30 - wake up, wash down 10 mg Ritalin, 200 mg Zoloft and 1 mg of Ativan with 1/2 bottle of Scotch, apply testosterone patch (only for Rachel Maddow) OR apply estrogen patch (only for Martin Bashir) OR apply tire patch (for Mika B - somebody told her her head was "leaking air")
12:00 - drink a pot of coffee, chain-smoke 2 packs of cheap cigarettes, take another 1 mg Ativan "just because"
2 PM - sit and stare into space, need 10 mg Ritalin more to "get going", another 1/2 bottle of Scotch, and what the hell another 1 mg Ativan
4 PM - keep large coffee-style cup full of cheap gin on set - make it look like drinking coffee - take some of that Ecstasy you got from that guy you talked to at the OWS rally - helps you deal with that conservative you had to interview - take 10 mg Compazine and 4 mg of Zofran afterwards - what the hell--another 1 mg Ativan too--chase with 15 mg Abilify
8 PM - four bottles of wine with dinner and propped up in taxi
10 PM - 40 mg of Ambien and lights out
Lather - rinse - repeat
Back in his hey-day, Keef
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 1:14pm.
Back in his hey-day, Keef Richards could do all of that in the first hour!!! And then expand exponentially on it, with harder drugs, more booze, more pot, three packs of cigarettes, and whatever else he could find...............and STILL write such classics as 'Gimme Shelter' or 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' or 'Wild Horses' or 'Sympathy For the Devil' or any number of other great songs.
Chump
Submitted by Chulio on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 11:37am.
Can you believe that Jimmy "The Asshole" Kimmel used to co-host "The Man Show" with Adam Carolla? In retrospect, it was inevitable that it would be a short lived partnership. Carolla has way too much brainpower for this very unfunny chump.
That
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 12:48pm.
dinner was a complet disgrace to America. A bunch of radical libs doing/saying what they condem Conservatives for. How does crap like this continue to take place? Jokes are funny but, this was nothing but pure crap!
People who listen to Rush
Submitted by mattm on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 1:20pm.
People who listen to Rush know Maher is an a$$hole.
One funny line
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 2:42pm.
I caught only bits and pieces of the WHCD through channel surfing but I did hear one pretty funny line from Kimmel. He said something about Obama "sticking to his guns" but if he didn't have any guns he could ask Eric Holder to get him some.
Did Bambi demand full script approval for everyone's routine? I don't know; is that pretty much standard procedure for these dinners for any president?
*Yawn*
Submitted by DrSnakepriest on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 3:43pm.
Is that all you got, Jimmy?
Weak. Sauce.
I remember when Kimmel was funny. It was when...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 3:49pm.
he was featured in NFL Sunday pregame shows as a prognosticator with Terry Bradshaw and Company. Of course he had good writers and a whole week to prepare back then.
The people in Jimmy Kimmel's
Submitted by TE on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 4:30pm.
The people in Jimmy Kimmel's studio audience are even more stupid than the freakshow freaks in Bill Maher's studio audience. Watch the first ten minutes of one Kimmel show, and you will see that audience as the most idiotic collection of leftist human debris on the planet. The violent "Occupy Wall Street" crime wave has greater intellect than Kimmel's dingbats.
I can't leave this one alone...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:45pm.
... and since the changes haven't been made yet, I'll take advantage. This is too juicy to let get by.
Earlier in his schtick, Kimmel noted that he couldn't understand how politicians can be against gay marriage.
Well Kimmel, let me 'splain it to ya...
Homosexuality has been around for all of about 6000 years of human history, yet previous generations opted not to celebrate the coupling as a marriage. "Why?" would you ask. Well, maybe in all of human history, there has NEVER been one occurance of a gay couple procreating naturally. NOT ONCE! We've even had a virgin birth during that time, but nope. no gay proginies at all. Sorry, guys. That's just the facts.
400 or so generations have defined a marriage a certain way, and it worked out pretty well, doncha think? Now the most recent generation (this one) decides that the previous 400 were absolutely wrong about marriage. Seems to me a little bit arrogant, doncha know?
Can you imagine what the state of humanity would be today if homosexual "marriage" was established, say for example at the time of Christ even? Imagine what humanity might be like 2000 years from now. Would we even exist? If so, what would the numbers be like?
But now for the chide humour discussed in this article.
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...
Are you implying that dittoheads are idiots because they don't know Rush is an A--hole? Well, you've acknowledged that people who watch and listen to Mahar KNOW he's an A--hole.... BUT THEY STILL LISTEN TO HIM ANYWAY! Please, please PLEASE... tell me who the idiots are again?
And maybe, just maybe we listen to Rush because we know that unlike Mahar, he is NOT an a--hole, you a--hole!
There! Now maybe NB can switch to their new commenting site so that I have an excuse not to rant on and on like this. It's just when I first heard Jimmy's schtick, I wanted to throw something at the TV.
Hopefully now, I've gotten it out of my system.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Yawn
Submitted by dliston on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:07pm.
Liberal comedians always do these predictable tired jokes aimed at Limbaugh since the Clinton years. Yawn
Questions
Submitted by Nonanon on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 8:45am.
Does anyone else find the sudden start of joking about or making fun of Obama curious? He has been essentially off-limits for over three years and now just six months before the election he is now being treated as 'one of the normal people'. Given their past, it wouldn't suprise me if this is yet another ploy to fool their followers again so as to get him re-elected.
As to the taste of hockey moms verses pit bull, how does he know what a hockey mom tastes like? Where is PETA on this? This just seems like more pre-planned dishonesty from the party that endorses such behavior.
No problem Jimmy
Submitted by chiefpayne on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:34am.
We ALSO know YOU are one too...so we disregard everything you have to say anyway as you are a non-entity.