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Kimmel: Closing Education Dept Is Trump's Plan To Make America Dumber

March 7th, 2025 12:07 PM

There is no correlation between the amount of money spent on education and education results, but according to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on his Thursday show, the reason why President Donald Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education is because it will make people too dumb to criticize him.

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Kimmel Hires Fired NPS Locksmith Who Flew Upside Down Flag For a Night

March 6th, 2025 1:20 PM

For the late night comedians, last year’s news that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife flew an upside-down flag on their private property to protest their neighbors’ unneighborly behavior was simply too much for them to handle. However, for ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, fired Yosemite National Park locksmith Nate Vince doing that on public property to protest President Donald Trump and DOGE was…

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Kimmel: Kicking Al Green Out Of Trump Speech Gave Johnson An Erection

March 5th, 2025 1:35 PM

Being on the West Coast, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel had the ability to react to President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on his Tuesday show. Naturally, Kimmel’s reaction included plenty of insults directed Trump’s way, but he also suggested Speaker Mike Johnson got an erection when he kicked Rep. Al Green out of the chamber for disruptive behavior.

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Trump 2025 Vs Biden 2021: Comedy Shows Focus On Trump 9 Times As Often

February 19th, 2025 10:15 AM

Through the first four weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the late night comedians have told 761 jokes about him. By contrast, in 2021, during President Joe Biden’s first four weeks in office, the late night comedians told a total of 88 jokes about the new chief executive, according to an MRC study.

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Kimmel Skit Tries To Portray Vance as a Freaky Sex-Confused Weirdo

February 12th, 2025 10:04 AM

Actor Haley Joel Osment reprised his role as Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday’s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, where he joined the eponymous host for an interview where he could not decide whether he was a sex-confused weirdo or sexual freak.

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Kimmel Tries and Fails To Dunk On Trump's Missile Defense Plan

January 29th, 2025 10:00 AM

During his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tried to mock President Trump’s recent executive order regarding the creation of an “Iron Dome”-like missile defense system by claiming Trump has no idea what he is talking about. However, it was Kimmel who showed his ignorance not just on missile defense but also in insisting that viewers take the scientists at the Doomsday Clock seriously when they…

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PolitiFact's Experts Help It Label Trump Jr. 'False' On Fires

January 23rd, 2025 1:18 PM

On Tuesday, PolitiFact showed why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right to end the company’s partnership with its fact-checking partners. Writer Caleb McCullough gave Donald Trump Jr. a “false” rating because he ran afoul of his preferred experts while ignoring experts who may have given him another perspective. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed during an attack on Speaker Mike…

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'Good For Her': Kimmel Cheers Lefty Bishop's Woke Plea To Trump

January 22nd, 2025 10:00 AM

During his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel cheered on the woke, progressive Episcopal bishop who admonished President Donald Trump to go soft on illegal immigration and liberal social issues at an interfaith prayer service at the National Cathedral. Kimmel found a new desire that leaders follow the Bible and said of Bishop Mariann Budde’s performance, “That is the best; good for her.”

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'Our Long National Nightmare': Comedians Freak Out At Trump's Return

January 21st, 2025 11:53 AM

When the late night comedy shows took to the air on Monday to lament Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, three main themes emerged. The first was that Trump is going to be a national nightmare. The second was that they have gone all in on embracing former President Joe Biden’s “oligarchy” warnings. Finally, it was deemed ironic that Inauguration Day happened to fall on Martin Luther King…

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In the Last 6 Months, 99% of Late Night Comedy Guests Were Liberals

January 8th, 2025 3:00 PM

From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study.

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Kimmel: Meta Dumping Fact-Checkers Is Like Ditching Health Inspections

January 8th, 2025 9:41 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel did not take kindly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Tuesday announcement that he is ditching the company’s relationship with its fact-checking partners. Naturally, Kimmel assumed that if a self-appointed fact-checker says something is true, it must be true, as he compared the move to a taco restaurant getting rid of health inspectors and declared the truth “as we know it” is…

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STUDY: 82 Percent Of Late Night Jokes Targeted Conservatives In 2024

January 7th, 2025 12:35 PM

After a strike-shortened 2023, 2024 was a busy year for the late night comedians. During the last year, the men of late night told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226, or 82 percent, were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political aisle, an MRC study has found.

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Late Night Tries To Hail The 'Irony' Of Trump's Election Certification

January 7th, 2025 10:05 AM

For people 35 and under, Monday was the first time in their lifetime that a Republican presidential election victory was certified by Congress with zero Democratic objections, but in their 2025 debuts, the late night comedians wanted to claim that Monday’s proceedings showed Republicans how the transfer of power is supposed to be done.

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How Late-Night Comics Covered Up Biden’s Decline

January 4th, 2025 1:30 PM

Now, it can be told. President Joe Biden wasn’t capable of discharging his duties as Commander in Chief for large swathes of his single-term presidency. New reporting from The Wall Street Journal shared some, but not all, of the shocking details.