Jimmy Kimmel Again Pleads With LA Not To Vote For Spencer Pratt

Alex Christy
June 2nd, 2026 9:25 AM

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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s sense of dread that former reality TV personality and current GOP candidate to be mayor of Los Angeles may advance to the general election heightened on Monday as Kimmel once again pleaded with people to vote for literally anybody else.

Kimmel began, “And then we have a guy named Spencer Pratt running for mayor, unfortunately the Spencer Pratt from the reality shows. After tomorrow, Spencer Pratt will either be one of two candidates for mayor or a carrot on the next season of The Masked Singer. We’ll see. Right now the polling shows that he's in a very tight race with Karen Bass and Nithya Raman. How that's possible, no idea. I get why people are mad, but has anyone ever made a good decision when they're mad?”

 

 

Perhaps it's possible because Bass is the incompetent incumbent people are mad at and Raman is the radical DSA type who people would reasonably assume would be even worse than Bass.

As it was, Kimmel proceeded to answer his own question, “Ask any divorce lawyer, mad is the difference between an amicable separation and your Rivian ending up in the pool, okay? Any CEO will tell you how they became successful. Not one of them says, ‘Well, it all started when I keyed my boss's car.’ Getting that—all getting mad gets you is duct taped to an airplane seat.

Kimmel then reduced the desire to vote for Pratt to the desire to vote for a celebrity, “If you want to mix it up by voting for a celebrity, so many live here, all of whom would be better choices for mayor than Spencer Pratt. Steve Guttenberg would be a better mayor than Spencer Pratt, Weird Al would be a mayor. Magic Johnson would be a great mayor. The Accidentes billboard guy. The dog next to the lady on the insurance billboard. Literally anyone from the cast of The Hills would be a better mayor than Spencer Pratt. This is a ridiculous choice for mayor of Los Angeles.”

While Kimmel keeps claiming that he understands why people are angry, he hasn’t given them a realistic alternative. The guy from the billboard ads is not running, the “normal” Democratic incumbent is viewed as incompetent, and the alternative Democrat is a radical socialist. Perhaps if Kimmel hadn’t waited until Pratt became competitive to use his platform to highlight the LA government’s incompetence, a more mainstream alternative could have emerged, but he was too focused on President Trump to do that.

Here is a transcript for the June 1 show:

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!

6/1/2026

11:45 PM ET

JIMMY KIMMEL: And then we have a guy named Spencer Pratt running for mayor, unfortunately the Spencer Pratt from the reality shows. After tomorrow, Spencer Pratt will either be one of two candidates for mayor or a carrot on the next season of The Masked Singer. We’ll see. Right now the polling shows that he's in a very tight race with Karen Bass and Nithya Raman. How that's possible, no idea. I get why people are mad, but has anyone ever made a good decision when they're mad?

Ask any divorce lawyer, mad is the difference between an amicable separation and your Rivian ending up in the pool, okay? Any CEO will tell you how they became successful. Not one of them says, “Well, it all started when I keyed my boss's car.” Getting that—all getting mad gets you is duct taped to an airplane seat.

If you want to mix it up by voting for a celebrity, so many live here, all of whom would be better choices for mayor than Spencer Pratt. Steve Guttenberg would be a better mayor than Spencer Pratt, Weird Al would be a mayor. Magic Johnson would be a great mayor. The Accidentes billboard guy. The dog next to the lady on the insurance billboard. Literally anyone from the cast of The Hills would be a better mayor than Spencer Pratt. This is a ridiculous choice for mayor of Los Angeles. 

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