Did you ever notice the Hollywood Left is never guilty of hate speech? Unleashing your hatred on Donald Trump and his supporters is never subjected to “fact checking” and it’s never a reason to doubt the future of late-night “comedy.” Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com reviews the cultural landscape, along with our Nick Kangadis of MRCTV.
Jimmy Kimmel made our Christmas more annoying with his "Alternative Christmas Message" for England's Channel 4, in which he glamorized himself as a free-speech hero. Kimmel began by suggesting "I can tell you that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming over here." He didn't seem to notice that England is not exactly a free-speech haven these days, with people going to jail over things they posted on social media.
Kimmel never mentioned his lies about Charlie Kirk's killer being pro-Trump: "You may have read in your colorful newspapers that my country’s president would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored." The notion that America isn't chock-full of Trump-loathing commentary is fanciful.
After Kimmel's show was suspended for an entire four programs, ABC extended his contract for 12 more months. At the time, Toto wrote that "ABC would have taken a massive PR hit had it cut ties with Kimmel now. The one-year extension allows both parties to save face and draw positive headlines."
Meanwhile, our Alex Christy found the percentage of political jokes that hit conservatives went UP, 92 percent from the 82 percent number in 2024. Jimmy Kimmel led with 97 percent of his jokes lashing the right.
We've found the same tilt on NBC's Saturday Night Live on their "Weekend Update" fake newscast. Then there's the constant anti-Trump skits to open the show.
A December live-open skit suggested Trump is on drugs. James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character was simultaneously drugged up on Adderall and Ambien in December. The problem is when the jokes somehow transform into factoids, like the idea that Sarah Palin (instead of Tina Fey) actually said "I can see Russia from my house."
Finally, after President Trump trashed Rob Reiner after he was violently murdered, the media coverage seemed to skip over Reiner's sometimes ranty leftist politics. Even hour-long specials on CBS and CNN never mentioned Reiner's war on Trump. It remains fascinating that Reiner never got a Best Director Oscar nomination. His work wasn't arty enough. This again underlines that Oscar hates commercially successful films, especially comedies and rom-coms. It's little shocking he didn't get one for A Few Good Men, which matched Hollywood's political bias.
Enjoy the video below. The audio is here.
