Maher Mourns He and Kimmel 'May Never Talk Again'
HBO’s host of Real Time, Bill Maher, mourned on his Monday Club Random podcast that he and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel “may never talk again.” While Maher did not explicitly elaborate on why, it probably has to do with Maher’s reaction to Kimmel’s wife, writer, and producer Molly McNearny’s November comments about cutting off relationships with friends and family over President Trump…
Kimmel Tries To Taunt Trump With Contract Renewal
It was announced on Monday that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel signed a one-year contract extension to remain at the network until at least May 2027, and when he took to the air that night, Kimmel made it obvious that a big reason why was to continue going after President Trump.
Mrs. Kimmel Gives Wild Rant About 'Perimenopause Rage' Saving America
On Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! co-executive producer, co-head writer, and Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, gave a speech at a Women In Entertainment event for The Hollywood Reporter that was a bizarre combination of outrageous and deeply weird. On everything from Kimmel’s suspension to immigration to abortion to racism, McNearney painted a dire picture of life in Trump’s America, but…
Kimmel Claims He Told His Kids Trump Got Him Suspended
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, executive producer, and co-head writer Molly McNearney, stopped by the Thursday episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast to look back on Kimmel’s recent suspension. While the words “Charlie Kirk” were never mentioned once during the nearly 70-minute episode, Kimmel and McNearney claimed they told their children that President Trump was the one…
Kimmel Writer, Wife McNearney Claims Late Night Needed To Vent 'Anger'
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live’s co-head writer, executive producer, and wife of the eponymous host Molly McNearney recently gave an interview with the entertainment news website Gold Derby that was published on Thursday, where she defiantly claimed the late night comedy show format isn’t going anywhere because people (i.e., liberals) still need them to help them make sense of the world.
Gross: Kimmel Ponders Ingraham's 'Erection' If Biden Had Group Chat
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not content to merely criticize Trump Administration national security officials for discussing military operations on a civilian messaging app while unwittingly including The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in their conversations on his Monday show; he just had to bring Fox News’s Laura Ingraham into it as well. For unexplainable reasons, Kimmel mused about how…
Late Night Comedy Shows' Bottom 10 Moments of 2024
Being an election year, 2024 gave the late night comedians an extra incentive to pile on the liberal advocacy. However, there was more to 2024 than just the presidential election, so from the Supreme Court to foreign affairs to the election and everything in-between, here is a David Letterman-style top ten list of the worst moments from the past year from the late night comedy shows.
NewsBusters Podcast: Late-Night Comics Shy Away from Mocking Kamala
Our latest NewsBusters study of all the jokes on late-night "comedy" shows this fall found that 98 percent of the jokes about presidential candidates were about Donald Trump, and only 2 percent about Kamala Harris. Our late-night watcher Alex Christy explains just how this remarkable tilt by the "comedians" erupts night after night. Kamala is mostly off-limits to joke about.
Kimmel, Wife Rant At Trump, Claim 'Women Are Dying' Because Of Him
Co-head writer of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and wife of the eponymous host, Molly McNearney, ranted at Donald Trump on Tuesday that “women are dying” because of him and demanded he “shut up and go away” to Mar-a-Lago where he can spend his time “masturbating to Newsmax.”
Late Night Hosts Sound the Literal Alarm in Final Election Pitches
From literal alarms over abortion to satirical Christmas songs to the typical anti-Republican diatribe, the men of the late night comedy shows used their Monday programs to deliver one last pitch to voters on why they should vote Democrat.
Mrs. Jimmy Kimmel: I Said 'What The F?' to Stop Hillary Pantsuit Jokes
The August issue of the women's magazine Glamour is the Comedy Issue, so they rounded up female comedy writers for all the liberal late-night shows to address diversity in the writers' room and how feminism pervades the late-night scene. Molly McNearney, Jimmy Kimmel's wife and head writer, unleashed the "WTF" on the idea of Hillary pantsuit jokes during the campaign. But feminists are fine…
WashPost: Crying Jimmy Kimmel Is 'America's Conscience' and Also Funny
The Washington Post gushed all over ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on the morning before he hosts the Oscars, but reporter Geoff Edgers didn’t focus on the Oscars. It began by honoring his teary sermon about Health Care For All. The headline was "Late show of emotion: Jimmy Kimmel might be America’s conscience but he’ll still do anything for a laugh."
Jimmy Kimmel's ABC Crusade for Obamacare Aided by Chuck Schumer
The Daily Beast reports that ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's televised crusade for three nights against a Republican health-care bill was aided by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. The Democrat's team "provided technical guidance and info about the bill, as well as stats from various think tanks and experts on the effects of [the Graham-Cassidy bill]."