Apparently, this is what counts for comedy in 2022 and on network television. During Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous ABC host played a sketch with young girls playing with what were referred to as “Anti-Vaxx Barbie” in a cheap shot at unvaccinated Americans, portraying them as anti-Semitic, deranged, misinformed, and even violent.
“You know, there's so much stuff to sell to these anti-vaxxers and the folks at Mattel are no dummies. They made a mint over Christmas with a twist on what is probably America's all-time favorite doll,” Kimmel began, tossing to a female announcer touting “a new doll in town and the fun is contagious.”
The announcer proclaimed she’s talking about “Anti-Vaxx Barbie.” Accompanying this Faux Barbie, ABC had her wearing shirts that say things like, “I call my own shots,” “I’m not your lab rat,” “Hoax,” and “Johnson & Johnson or Satan & Satan.”
Adding she’s “independent,” “strong,” and “doesn’t trust science,” Barbie was then heard saying (via a girl playing with her) that “Bill Gates is the anti-Christ” while a brunette Barbie replied back that “vaccines are Satan’s blood.”
Mocking Americans who distrust the vaccines based on things they’ve read online, Barbie could be heard reacting to something she read on her computer: “It says here Moderna turns your teeth Jewish.”
For some reason, the far-left audience laughed at that.
The ad continued with a scene inside a store in which the Barbie mocked those unable to get vaccinated because of medical conditions:
ANNOUNCER #1: Take your Barbie everywhere. Shopping –
STOREKEEPER BARBIE: I'm sorry, you can't come in here without a mask.
BARBIE [wearing “Hoax” sweater]: I have a medical condition! [HAS SEIZURES, HITS STOREKEEPER] Uh! Uh!
BRUNETTE BARBIE [wearing “Pfizer Tells Liezers!” t-shirt]: I’m recording this bitch and you're going to jail.
The ad whipped through two more examples to show unvaccinated Americans are clueless and violent rubes with Barbie thanking her horse Dancer for “sharing” ivermectin and then screaming after having been duct-taped to her seat on an airplane.
Bringing in a Ken Doll with a t-shirt that says “Let’s Go Brandon,” Barbie upped the ante and illustrated the unvaccinated as violent people as she asked Ken if he wanted to “go throw eggs at nurses” with her.
Ah, yes. So, the unvaccinated are some sort of violent hyenas looking to attack nurses?
Even though the announcer said loving Ken was “the only mandate this Barbie cares about,” Ken replied he couldn’t because “Alex Jones is talking about monoclonal anti-blotters.”
Of course, that was a cheap shot at monoclonal antibodies which, after having long been maligned and/or downplayed by liberals, the Biden administration has been supporting as an effective COVID-19 treatment.
This intellectually braindead ad ended with the announcer boasting that “Anti-Vaxx Barbie” is “exclusively available in Florida and Kentucky” as a way of attacking two red states with the former being helmed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL).
As the stinger, the ad played a clip of Barbie hooked up to a ventilator in a hospital and struggling to breathe. With the audience’s cheering and applause, a second announcer said they’re “available at Walgreens” while the first quipped: “Barbie Dream Ventilator sold separately.”
This divisive sketch masquerading as comedy against the unvaccinated was made possible thanks to the endorsement of advertisers such as Allstate and Wendy’s. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.
To see the relevant ABC transcript from January 10, click “expand.”
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
January 10, 2022
11:54 p.m. EasternJIMMY KIMMEL: You know, there's so much stuff to sell to these anti-vaxxers and the folks at Mattel are no dummies. They made a mint over Christmas with a twist on what is probably America's all-time favorite doll.
ANNOUNCER #1: There's a new doll in town and the fun is contagious. It's Anti-Vaxx Barbie. [BARBIE WITH T-SHIRT, “I CALL MY OWN SHOTS”] She's strong. She's independent. She doesn't trust science.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
BARBIE: Bill Gates is the antichrist.
BARBIE’S FRIEND: Vaccines are Satan's blood. [GIRLS LAUGH]
ANNOUNCER #1: Barbie stands at the computer so she can do her own research.
BARBIE [wearing “I’m Not Your Lab Rat” t-shirt]: It says here Moderna turns your teeth Jewish.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
ANNOUNCER #1: Take your Barbie everywhere. Shopping –
STOREKEEPER BARBIE: I'm sorry, you can't come in here without a mask.
BARBIE [wearing “Hoax” sweater]: I have a medical condition! [HAS SEIZURES, HITS STOREKEEPER] Uh! Uh!
BRUNETTE BARBIE [wearing “Pfizer Tells Liezers!” t-shirt]: I’m recording this bitch and you're going to jail.
ANNOUNCER #1: – to the stables –
BARBIE: Thank you for sharing your medicine, dancer. [NEIGHS WHILE TAKING IVERMECTIN]
ANNOUNCER #1: – and on the plane. [SCREAMS WHILE DUCT-TAPED TO CHAIR] And the only mandate this Barbie cares about is with her proud boyfriend Ken.
BARBIE [wearing “Johnson & Johnson or Satan & Satan” t-shirt]: Hi, Ken. Want to go throw eggs at nurses?
KEN DOLL [wearing “Let’s Go Brandon!” t-shirt]: Sorry, babe, can't hear you. Alex Jones is talking about monoclonal anti-blotters.
[BARBIE AND KEN KISS]
ANNOUNCER #1: Anti-vaxx Barbie, exclusively available in Florida and Kentucky. [BARBIE ON VENTILATOR] [AUDIENCE LAUGHS] Barbie Dream Ventilator sold separately.
ANNOUNCER #2: Available at Walgreen's.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS]
KIMMEL: Alright.
