Jimmy Kimmel is not funny. Um, and here he was least funny of all. What he said about Melania Trump now is making major news.
You would think he would have learned after making light of the Charlie Kirk assassination, suggesting that the guy who did it, Tyler Robinson, who's been accused of doing it, is MAGA. remember that led to his show getting pulled off the air for 5 days and then they turned him into Rosa Parks on the left. But listen to the But you look at the lineup for these shows, his and Co Bears.
It's all Democrat politicians now, Paul. It's all Democrat politicians. They they want us to get excited about booking Adam Schiff or Democrat journalists like Jake Tapper.
Like, who wants to watch these people? Megan Kelly didn't need a studio audience, a comedy routine, or one of Jimmy Kimmel's perfectly timed punchlines to turn this into a spectacle. What began as another Hollywood style political jab quickly became something much bigger when Kelly stepped in, broke down the details, and highlighted the part of the story that nobody expected to become the main headline.
And once she did that, Kimmel's joke suddenly didn't seem quite as funny. Jimmy Kimmel is not funny. Um, and here he was, least funny of all.
What he said about Melania Trump now is making major news. You would think he would have learned after making light of the Charlie Kirk assassination, suggesting that the guy who did it, Tyler Robinson, who's been accused of doing it, is MAGA. Remember that led to his show getting pulled off the air for 5 days and then they turned him into Rosa Parks on the left.
But listen to the terrible quote joke he made about Melania Trump during this. Megan Kelly didn't need to confront Jimmy Kimmel in a studio or turn the whole thing into a shouting match to make her point. Instead, she went straight after the argument he was making.
And what happened next grabbed attention for a completely different reason. Megan started connecting details that seemed unrelated at first, but when you put them together, they created a bigger picture. Kimmel probably didn't want people examining too closely.
And once those pieces came together, the story suddenly took a very different direction. to see fired Chris Harrison from The Bachelor because a bachelorette on that show went to an antibbellum party years earlier when she'd been a, you know, young college student and they thought that was racially insensitive. And all Chris Harrison said was, "Are we judging her by the standards of today or by the standards of when she did it?
" That's all he said. and ABC ruined him. He's never been heard from again.
Have you seen Chris Harrison hosting some network show? Um, no. His life was ruined.
His career was ruined. But you can say this. Instead, Megan looked closely at the comments, pointed out the contradictions, and went after something much bigger than a single late night joke.
Her focus was Jimmy Kimmel's shift from comedian to one of television's most outspoken political voices. And that raised a bigger question. Do Hollywood standards suddenly change when the person crossing the line happens to be on the politically favored side?
Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at so beautiful. Mr.
Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. Who would make a joke like that knowing that Trump had almost been relatively recently? This is obviously before Saturday night, but I mean it is not an exaggeration to say that Trump was almost in July of 2024.
That that's recent. And for this guy to get up there and say she's got the glow of an expectant widow, like that's where this whole clash became much more interesting than just another celebrity feud. Jimmy Kimmel has spent years making Donald Trump and conservative politics a major part of his comedy.
And he has also made it clear that in his view, politics and his work on television can't simply be separated. Honestly, like Trump, he's got children, he's got grandchildren, he does have a wife, he has millions of people who love him and the glow of an expectant widow. How sick are you?
that I mean truly the left and the desensitivity that they're trying to create, you know, in people to the thought of political violence is truly pernitious. It's a it's a force for evil in this country and he doubles and triples and quadruples down on it. Megan Kelly looked at that explanation and saw a comedian trying to justify why he had become the person delivering the political lecture.
And once she started challenging that argument, things became much more uncomfortable for Kimmel. Kimmel believes the political climate is too important to ignore and staying silent would feel dishonest. That may sound reasonable at first, but Megan saw a problem with it.
Kimmel isn't running for office or covering the White House. He's a late night comedian, and that's where Megan believed his argument started to fall apart. In her view, Kimmel had moved beyond simply making jokes and was increasingly using his platform to push his political views.
When the same political targets keep showing up night after night, she argued the show can start feeling less like satire and more like a political advertisement with a desk, a band, and an audience that already knows when to applaud. Jimmy Kimmel went on the Michelle Obama podcast, which still has about four viewers, and had thoughts on why him no longer being funny is just fine, and he stands by it. Uh, this is him in S 13, I think it is.
And you have so bravely and boldly used your platform um to speak truth to power, as they would say. Well, thank you. I don't think of it as bravely.
Boldly maybe. It just seems obvious and unavoidable and I um I I don't see that. I just can't imagine.
That's where Megan believed Kimmel had crossed an important line. But the controversy became even bigger when ABC itself entered the conversation. Suddenly, the issue wasn't just Kimmel's political comedy.
It was whether the network applied the same standards to everyone. Megan pointed to ABC's past treatment of Chris Harrison, the former host of The Bachelor. Harrison faced major backlash over comments about contestant Rachel Kirk Connell and photos from an antibbellum themed party eventually leaving the franchise.
To Megan, the contrast raised an uncomfortable question. Were ABC standards really consistent? Because when Kimmel faced controversy, she believed the network's response looked very different, as if the rules had suddenly changed.
So, he's got to slam the first lady. Nice. By the way, her documentary has done very, very well.
It's pulled in tens of millions of dollars, way more than any documentary of its kind. And u he's incapable of even complimenting the first lady or just staying away from her. He can't he cannot help himself and got a got a big laugh from the audience who cannot stand the president or the first lady.
That comparison let Kelly make a much bigger argument than simply criticizing one comedian. She was questioning whether Hollywood really applies its standards equally. The entertainment industry often says that words and jokes have consequences, especially when old comments resurface.
When the wrong person says something controversial, sponsors panic, networks respond, and executives suddenly become very serious about accountability. But Kelly argued that the reaction can look very different when the person involved shares the politics of those making the decisions. Suddenly, there's more context, more nuance, and more explanations.
At that point, it can feel like everyone needs to study the joke from every possible angle before deciding whether it was actually a problem by what's going on. I think you're wrong, Jimmy. Here's Stop 14, 1979.
He gets sensitive about the fact that people say he'll never take a serious controversy. Well, I have an answer to that. I said, "Now tell me the last time that Jack Benny, Red Skeleton, uh, Benny comedian, used his show to do serious issues, could sway people, and I don't think you should as an entertainer.
" Look at that. The difference between humility, that was the hypocrisy Kelly believed she was exposing. Kimmel became an easy target because his career had increasingly moved toward political commentary.
And while the entertainment industry has criticized others for controversial speech, Kimmel eventually found himself at the center of the same debate over political pressure and free expression. In 2025, Jimmy Kimmel Live was temporarily suspended following controversy over remarks he made after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Killy's point was that the industry had not always shown the same patience toward people outside its political comfort zone.
And in her view, Kimmel couldn't simply present himself as a victim of a system he had benefited from for years. Courts broke last night mostly that there were multiple reasons why Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air. But chief among them was not only was he not planning on apologizing when he was going to go back out on his show Wednesday evening, he was planning on attacking MAGA.
Attacking words. My words are being purposefully twisted, he was planning on saying per a report in the Wall Street Journal. See, it's our fault that we didn't.
That's when Kelly's criticism became especially sharp. Her complaint wasn't simply that Jimmy Kimmel had become political. She argued that he seemed to view his own political involvement as necessary while treating opposing views as easy targets for ridicule.
For a comedian, that can be a risky position. Great comedy can make people laugh even when they disagree with the performer. Political comedy, however, can become predictable when the audience already agrees with everything being said.
Kimmel would likely reject that criticism. He has argued that politics affects real life, and ignoring major events simply because he hosts an entertainment show would be dishonest. That approach has also made him one of Donald Trump's most frequent late night critics.
Their feud has become almost routine. Trump attacks Kimmel. Kimmel responds and the latest clash becomes another segment for the show.
Question Jimmy Kimmel. I'm glad you raised that because I've been trying to get to this all week. His show won the Critics's Choice Awards and he had the nerve to say this backstage.
Saut 17. It's interesting. It was almost a near-death experience for me.
And you know, of course, not literally, but I did feel a little bit like uh Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn watching their own funeral. um all this stuff happened and and to be here and to um see that people reacted to it in a not just a positive way but in a almost a desperate way. We're like oh boy when they come after the comedians this is when we draw the line and uh you know we're very grateful that they drew the line at us.
Uh Link a near-death experience. I mean how dare he use that term? How dare he?
The cycle has gone on so long that someone could probably turn it into a touring stage show and call it experimental theater. But while Kimmel sees political commentary as part of his job, Kelly sees something very different. She argues that he has turned his comedy platform into a political weapon while benefiting from an industry that doesn't always treat everyone the same.
Her bigger questions were simple. Why are some controversial figures punished while others get defended? Why does accountability seem to depend on who made the comment and what side of politics they represent?
And if a network stands behind one person but abandons another, can it really claim the rules are being applied equally? That was the real point behind Kelly's argument. Kimmel, he showed up at a no no kings rally out in California where he ran into my adopted home states uh one of the US senators, Chris Murphy.
What is Chris Murphy doing at a no kings protest in California? Get back to Connecticut and do your job. We have our own problems.
You shouldn't be out in California marching with the losers out there. We got plenty of losers of our own right here who need your help. All right.
Um but there they are together. Jimmy Kimmel went he brought his whole family, his his dad, too. They were holding signs.
I mean, I just like, okay, so he's got his kids at a an anti-ICE and No Kings protest. Great. Um the controversy wasn't about a screaming match or some dramatic celebrity showdown.
Kelly's argument was built on comparison, raising a bigger question about whether entertainment companies really apply their standards consistently or whether those standards change dependent on who is being criticized. That's what made the story uncomfortable. Jimmy Kimmel has every right to use his platform for political commentary just as audiences have every right to decide whether they want politics mixed with comedy.
But once a comedian repeatedly takes political sides and attacks opponents, Kelly argues he can't expect to remain outside the political fight, the scrutiny eventually goes both ways. Multi-millionaire privileged sitting out there in Beverly Hills because his show was off the air for 5 days. 5 days, that's it.
And he wants to use that term. And also just one other point to talk about how oh you know when they come for the comedians. Where was he when comedians were being cancelled left and right in 2020 because of woke excesses?
I'll just play you one just one. Um Ryan Long came on our show in May of 2021. We didn't even have video.
We were just an audio podcast. Jimmy Kimmel can criticize presidents, politicians, and media figures. But Megan Kelly could examine Kimmel, question the network supporting him, and compare his treatment with other controversial personalities.
That's what made this clash so interesting. Beneath the insult and political arguments was a bigger question. Who decides what counts as offensive?
Who gets forgiven and who gets punished? Kelly didn't need to sit across from Kimmel to make her point. She simply highlighted the contradictions and let the comparisons speak for themselves.
For Kimmel, it may be another chapter in his political career. But for Kelly, it became part of a much larger argument about double standards in entertainment. Jimmy Kimmel is not funny.
Um, and here he was least funny of all. What he said about Melania Trump now is making major news. You would think he would have learned after making light of the Charlie Kirk assassination, suggesting that the guy who did it, Tyler Robinson, who's been accused of doing it, is MAGA.
remember that led to his show getting pulled off the air for 5 days and then they turned him into Rosa Parks on the left. But listen to the But you look at the lineup for these shows, his and Co Bears. It's all Democrat politicians now, Paul.
It's all Democrat politicians. They they want us to get excited about booking Adam Schiff or Democrat journalists like Jake Tapper. Like, who wants to watch these people?
Megan Kelly didn't need a studio audience, a comedy routine, or one of Jimmy Kimmel's perfectly timed punchlines to turn this into a spectacle. What began as another Hollywood style political jab quickly became something much bigger when Kelly stepped in, broke down the details, and highlighted the part of the story that nobody expected to become the main headline. And once she did that, Kimmel's joke suddenly didn't seem quite as funny.
Jimmy Kimmel is not funny. Um, and here he was, least funny of all. What he said about Melania Trump now is making major news.
You would think he would have learned after making light of the Charlie Kirk assassination, suggesting that the guy who did it, Tyler Robinson, who's been accused of doing it, is MAGA. Remember that led to his show getting pulled off the air for 5 days and then they turned him into Rosa Parks on the left. But listen to the terrible quote joke he made about Melania Trump during this.
Megan Kelly didn't need to confront Jimmy Kimmel in a studio or turn the whole thing into a shouting match to make her point. Instead, she went straight after the argument he was making. And what happened next grabbed attention for a completely different reason.
Megan started connecting details that seemed unrelated at first, but when you put them together, they created a bigger picture. Kimmel probably didn't want people examining too closely. And once those pieces came together, the story suddenly took a very different direction.
to see fired Chris Harrison from The Bachelor because a bachelorette on that show went to an antibbellum party years earlier when she'd been a, you know, young college student and they thought that was racially insensitive. And all Chris Harrison said was, "Are we judging her by the standards of today or by the standards of when she did it? " That's all he said.
and ABC ruined him. He's never been heard from again. Have you seen Chris Harrison hosting some network show?
Um, no. His life was ruined. His career was ruined.
But you can say this. Instead, Megan looked closely at the comments, pointed out the contradictions, and went after something much bigger than a single late night joke. Her focus was Jimmy Kimmel's shift from comedian to one of television's most outspoken political voices.
And that raised a bigger question. Do Hollywood standards suddenly change when the person crossing the line happens to be on the politically favored side? Our first lady, Melania, is here.
Look at so beautiful. Mr. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
Who would make a joke like that knowing that Trump had almost been relatively recently? This is obviously before Saturday night, but I mean it is not an exaggeration to say that Trump was almost in July of 2024. That that's recent.
And for this guy to get up there and say she's got the glow of an expectant widow, like that's where this whole clash became much more interesting than just another celebrity feud. Jimmy Kimmel has spent years making Donald Trump and conservative politics a major part of his comedy. And he has also made it clear that in his view, politics and his work on television can't simply be separated.
Honestly, like Trump, he's got children, he's got grandchildren, he does have a wife, he has millions of people who love him and the glow of an expectant widow. How sick are you? that I mean truly the left and the desensitivity that they're trying to create, you know, in people to the thought of political violence is truly pernitious.
It's a it's a force for evil in this country and he doubles and triples and quadruples down on it. Megan Kelly looked at that explanation and saw a comedian trying to justify why he had become the person delivering the political lecture. And once she started challenging that argument, things became much more uncomfortable for Kimmel.
Kimmel believes the political climate is too important to ignore and staying silent would feel dishonest. That may sound reasonable at first, but Megan saw a problem with it. Kimmel isn't running for office or covering the White House.
He's a late night comedian, and that's where Megan believed his argument started to fall apart. In her view, Kimmel had moved beyond simply making jokes and was increasingly using his platform to push his political views. When the same political targets keep showing up night after night, she argued the show can start feeling less like satire and more like a political advertisement with a desk, a band, and an audience that already knows when to applaud.
Jimmy Kimmel went on the Michelle Obama podcast, which still has about four viewers, and had thoughts on why him no longer being funny is just fine, and he stands by it. Uh, this is him in S 13, I think it is. And you have so bravely and boldly used your platform um to speak truth to power, as they would say.
Well, thank you. I don't think of it as bravely. Boldly maybe.
It just seems obvious and unavoidable and I um I I don't see that. I just can't imagine. That's where Megan believed Kimmel had crossed an important line.
But the controversy became even bigger when ABC itself entered the conversation. Suddenly, the issue wasn't just Kimmel's political comedy. It was whether the network applied the same standards to everyone.
Megan pointed to ABC's past treatment of Chris Harrison, the former host of The Bachelor. Harrison faced major backlash over comments about contestant Rachel Kirk Connell and photos from an antibbellum themed party eventually leaving the franchise. To Megan, the contrast raised an uncomfortable question.
Were ABC standards really consistent? Because when Kimmel faced controversy, she believed the network's response looked very different, as if the rules had suddenly changed. So, he's got to slam the first lady.
Nice. By the way, her documentary has done very, very well. It's pulled in tens of millions of dollars, way more than any documentary of its kind.
And u he's incapable of even complimenting the first lady or just staying away from her. He can't he cannot help himself and got a got a big laugh from the audience who cannot stand the president or the first lady. That comparison let Kelly make a much bigger argument than simply criticizing one comedian.
She was questioning whether Hollywood really applies its standards equally. The entertainment industry often says that words and jokes have consequences, especially when old comments resurface. When the wrong person says something controversial, sponsors panic, networks respond, and executives suddenly become very serious about accountability.
But Kelly argued that the reaction can look very different when the person involved shares the politics of those making the decisions. Suddenly, there's more context, more nuance, and more explanations. At that point, it can feel like everyone needs to study the joke from every possible angle before deciding whether it was actually a problem by what's going on.
I think you're wrong, Jimmy. Here's Stop 14, 1979. He gets sensitive about the fact that people say he'll never take a serious controversy.
Well, I have an answer to that. I said, "Now tell me the last time that Jack Benny, Red Skeleton, uh, Benny comedian, used his show to do serious issues, could sway people, and I don't think you should as an entertainer. " Look at that.
The difference between humility, that was the hypocrisy Kelly believed she was exposing. Kimmel became an easy target because his career had increasingly moved toward political commentary. And while the entertainment industry has criticized others for controversial speech, Kimmel eventually found himself at the center of the same debate over political pressure and free expression.
In 2025, Jimmy Kimmel Live was temporarily suspended following controversy over remarks he made after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Killy's point was that the industry had not always shown the same patience toward people outside its political comfort zone. And in her view, Kimmel couldn't simply present himself as a victim of a system he had benefited from for years.
Courts broke last night mostly that there were multiple reasons why Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air. But chief among them was not only was he not planning on apologizing when he was going to go back out on his show Wednesday evening, he was planning on attacking MAGA. Attacking words.
My words are being purposefully twisted, he was planning on saying per a report in the Wall Street Journal. See, it's our fault that we didn't. That's when Kelly's criticism became especially sharp.
Her complaint wasn't simply that Jimmy Kimmel had become political. She argued that he seemed to view his own political involvement as necessary while treating opposing views as easy targets for ridicule. For a comedian, that can be a risky position.
Great comedy can make people laugh even when they disagree with the performer. Political comedy, however, can become predictable when the audience already agrees with everything being said. Kimmel would likely reject that criticism.
He has argued that politics affects real life, and ignoring major events simply because he hosts an entertainment show would be dishonest. That approach has also made him one of Donald Trump's most frequent late night critics. Their feud has become almost routine.
Trump attacks Kimmel. Kimmel responds and the latest clash becomes another segment for the show. Question Jimmy Kimmel.
I'm glad you raised that because I've been trying to get to this all week. His show won the Critics's Choice Awards and he had the nerve to say this backstage. Saut 17.
It's interesting. It was almost a near-death experience for me. And you know, of course, not literally, but I did feel a little bit like uh Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn watching their own funeral.
um all this stuff happened and and to be here and to um see that people reacted to it in a not just a positive way but in a almost a desperate way. We're like oh boy when they come after the comedians this is when we draw the line and uh you know we're very grateful that they drew the line at us. Uh Link a near-death experience.
I mean how dare he use that term? How dare he? The cycle has gone on so long that someone could probably turn it into a touring stage show and call it experimental theater.
But while Kimmel sees political commentary as part of his job, Kelly sees something very different. She argues that he has turned his comedy platform into a political weapon while benefiting from an industry that doesn't always treat everyone the same. Her bigger questions were simple.
Why are some controversial figures punished while others get defended? Why does accountability seem to depend on who made the comment and what side of politics they represent? And if a network stands behind one person but abandons another, can it really claim the rules are being applied equally?
That was the real point behind Kelly's argument. Kimmel, he showed up at a no no kings rally out in California where he ran into my adopted home states uh one of the US senators, Chris Murphy. What is Chris Murphy doing at a no kings protest in California?
Get back to Connecticut and do your job. We have our own problems. You shouldn't be out in California marching with the losers out there.
We got plenty of losers of our own right here who need your help. All right. Um but there they are together.
Jimmy Kimmel went he brought his whole family, his his dad, too. They were holding signs. I mean, I just like, okay, so he's got his kids at a an anti-ICE and No Kings protest.
Great. Um the controversy wasn't about a screaming match or some dramatic celebrity showdown. Kelly's argument was built on comparison, raising a bigger question about whether entertainment companies really apply their standards consistently or whether those standards change dependent on who is being criticized.
That's what made the story uncomfortable. Jimmy Kimmel has every right to use his platform for political commentary just as audiences have every right to decide whether they want politics mixed with comedy. But once a comedian repeatedly takes political sides and attacks opponents, Kelly argues he can't expect to remain outside the political fight, the scrutiny eventually goes both ways.
Multi-millionaire privileged sitting out there in Beverly Hills because his show was off the air for 5 days. 5 days, that's it. And he wants to use that term.
And also just one other point to talk about how oh you know when they come for the comedians. Where was he when comedians were being cancelled left and right in 2020 because of woke excesses? I'll just play you one just one.
Um Ryan Long came on our show in May of 2021. We didn't even have video. We were just an audio podcast.
Jimmy Kimmel can criticize presidents, politicians, and media figures. But Megan Kelly could examine Kimmel, question the network supporting him, and compare his treatment with other controversial personalities. That's what made this clash so interesting.
Beneath the insult and political arguments was a bigger question. Who decides what counts as offensive? Who gets forgiven and who gets punished?
Kelly didn't need to sit across from Kimmel to make her point. She simply highlighted the contradictions and let the comparisons speak for themselves. For Kimmel, it may be another chapter in his political career.
But for Kelly, it became part of a much larger argument about double standards in entertainment.
