ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was the only late night comedian to acknowledge the existence of Wednesday’s House hearing on how PBS and NPR have used taxpayer money to promote liberal causes while attacking conservatives. However, for Kimmel, the main takeaway was that subcommittee chair Marjorie Taylor Greene supposedly looks like one of the drag queens she was dismayed was aired on a PBS childhood education program.
Kimmel introduced a clip of Greene at the hearing after mocking Rep. James Comer for demanding answers on whether it was an NPR reporter that accidentally hit President Donald Trump in the face with a boom microphone, “You'd be shocked to know they did not get to the bottom of this, because the chair of the committee that called the hearing today had more important fish to fry.”
In the clip, Greene introduced a video of her own, “This show was aired on PBS on April 1, 2021.”
The clip within a clip showed a drag queen called Lil Miss Hot Mess singing a song to children to the tune of “Wheels on the Bus,” “The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish. The shoulder on the drag queen goes shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.”
Green then replied, “The hips go swish, swish, swish. The shoulders go shimmy, shimmy, shimmy. That's repulsive.”
As for Kimmel, he reacted, “Someone please make a song out of that, will you? Wait, which one was the drag queen? I'm confused.”
PBS denies the clip in question ever aired on PBS and was a project undertaken by its New York City affiliate in partnership with the city’s department of education for a YouTube series called Let's Learn. However, that is not much of an excuse. A local PBS affiliate is still federally funded via the national company. Meanwhile, Kimmel never did have a good explanation for why taxpayer money should be spent on such programming.
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Here is a transcript for the March 26 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
3/26/2025
11:47 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: You'd be shocked to know they did not get to the bottom of this, because the chair of the committee that called the hearing today had more important fish to fry.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: This show was aired on PBS on April 1, 2021.
LIL MISS HOT MESS: The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish. The shoulder on the drag queen goes shimmy, shimmy, shimmy shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.
GREENE: The hips go swish, swish, swish. The shoulders go shimmy, shimmy, shimmy. That's repulsive.
KIMMEL: Someone please make a song out of that, will you? Wait, which one was the drag queen? I'm confused.
