For the first time in 22 years, ABC’s late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live! has given Americans something to laugh about. It’s been cancelled! LOL! LMAO! ROFL! We haven’t had a good belly laugh over anything involving Jimmy Kimmel since… well, actually, we’ve never laughed at anything he’s ever done.
Following his repugnant lies about Charlie Kirk earlier this week, ABC/Disney executives had finally had enough. Kimmel’s obnoxious, partisan show that has never been funny has been indefinitely suspended, which will likely lead to a full cancellation.
Using publicly owned airwaves last Monday night, Kimmel started his opening monologue by repeating this vicious blood libel against Donald Trump supporters:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
That was such an absurd lie and such incredible disinformation that FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr threatened to take away ABC/Disney’s broadcast license. If ABC wouldn’t discipline or fire their host for such monstrous behavior, then the FCC would hold them directly accountable.
ABC has been losing millions of dollars every year because of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Kimmel’s bloated salary has been a money pit for the company. They didn’t care, however. They loved the fact that Jimmy Kimmel was obnoxious and mean to conservative Americans. Kimmel was advancing the communist revolution that ABC executives supported, so it was worth throwing shareholder money in a deep hole even though the show’s ratings were in the toilet.
But the thought of losing their broadcast license was too much, so they suspended the show.
CNN’s Brian Stelter, who resembles a potato, is apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air. It’s proof of Trump’s looming fascism! Stelter asked for a response from FCC Commissioner Carr after Kimmel was cancelled.
Carr’s response to “Tater” Stelter was funnier than anything that has ever happened on Jimmy Kimmel’s show:
It’s sad that the television networks have allowed late-night shows to degrade into unwatchable partisan hackery. Johnny Carson entertained three generations of Americans during the 30 years that he hosted The Tonight Show. No one ever knew Carson’s political leanings. He was respectful to guests from both political parties and he was funny. Carson never said anything obnoxious or rude to anyone because of their politics.
The next generation of late-night hosts, which included Jay Leno and David Letterman, was still watchable. Leno was still funny, and he poked fun at both sides. Letterman was still quirky and funny for a while, before he turned into a bitter old liberal communist with an Osama bin Laden beard and a terrible case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Everything started to go downhill in 2003, when ABC decided it would put on a late-night show to compete with CBS and NBC. That was the creation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! It always sucked. It was like the Dollar Tree version of a late-night show. Kimmel remained squarely in third place in the ratings for 22 years.
When Leno and Letterman moved on from NBC and CBS, executives at those stations made a bizarre decision. They decided, “Let’s copy what those failing losers at ABC did, by hiring untalented partisan liberal hacks who are not funny at all!”
Great plan, morons.
Late-night television has been a disaster ever since. Gutfeld! is rightly the current late-night king and he crushes the other shows in the ratings (including Kimmel). But that’s always a rehash of the same news we’ve been watching all day in the background. Can we get just a fun, late-night comedy/variety show again like Johnny Carson and Jay Leno used to do? Is that too much to ask for? (And don’t get us started on Saturday Night Live.)
This might sound like a crazy business model, but we hope that ABC, NBC, and CBS will at least hear us out.
What if you guys put on comedy shows that didn’t insult a majority of Americans every night?
Unless you’re allergic to making money, that’s a plan that could actually work.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel is canceled. That’s hilarious.
Here is a tweet that someone sent in 2017 that has aged very well: