Fake news is no laughing matter.
It robs us of knowledge, forges false narratives and diminishes trust in journalism.
Sadly, many late-night comedians feast on fake news. They’re not willing to wait for fact checks or other journalistic staples. And they’ve been feasting on it for years, especially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-admits-he-lost-half-his-audience-for-bashing-trump-and-hes-fine-with-that" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stories tied to President Donald Trump</a>.
The comedians in question show no signs of stopping nor any remorse for their actions. They probably can’t wait for the next fake news cycle to commence. Being a late-night propagandist means never having to say you’re sorry.
It’s an unholy alliance. Journalists share wobbly news stories and comedians turn them into partisan punch lines. And, as a result, faulty narratives make their way into the public conscience.
The latest example shows how late-night comics and crooked reporters work hand-in-glove to creative narratives to attack the Right.
Last summer, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate seeking classified documents he allegedly took from his presidential days. News outlets breathlessly suggested the documents included nuclear secrets, the kind of information that could put American security at risk if Trump peddled them to the highest bidder.
The walls, at long last, were closing in on the real estate mogul.
Late night comics simultaneously pounced and seized, brimming with outrage over the incident. “The Late Show” found host Stephen Colbert blasting Trump as committing a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/colbert-trump-having-foreign-nuclear-144236974.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“menage a treason.”</a>
<blockquote>How do you explain this to our allies!? “Don’t worry, Prime Minister, your country’s nuclear secrets are perfectly safe, stored at the Mar-a-Lago waffle bar, between the syrup and the Nutella bucket.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/08/jimmy-kimmel-mar-a-lago-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel joined in, naturally</a>. 
<blockquote>The only people who are allowed to see them are the president of the United States and a few highly cleared members of his council … and anyone who goes into Trump’s closet looking for a broom, I guess.</blockquote>
Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” fame said Trump would have to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-show-destroys-trumps-greatest-excuse-for-taking-home-classified-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flee the country</a> to avoid prosecution over the nuclear details. 
<blockquote>I mean, he’s the guy who wanted to build the wall,” he explained, “and now he’s going to need to sneak into Mexico. Karma’s a b****!</blockquote>
Now, we’re learning the documents in question were <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/11/16/shocker-wapo-sheepishly-admits-the-fbi-found-no-nuclear-secrets-or-anything-else-in-mar-a-lago-raid-n1646445" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tied to Trump’s ego</a>, not nuclear details ready to be sold on the open market.
The investigation is ongoing, and the facts may later change, but as of now the breathless reporting (and endless late-night yuks) proved less than accurate.
It’s hardly the biggest example of the late night/fake news connection. Audiences suffered through several years of the Russian collusion story across media headlines. And, at the same time, the late-night comics tore into the narrative.
Monologue after monologue, skit after skit, attacked Trump for treasonously conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election.
None did so as aggressively as Colbert, who famously called the President Vladimir Putin’s “c*** holster” in one of late night’s most vulgar cracks … ever.
We now know it’s all a fraud, one which the correctly named Deep State had a hand in perpetrating. So where’s the late night mea culpas?
Team Late Night also jumped on Cassidy Hutchinson’s claims that Trump attempted to physically attack a Secret Service driver to swerve the vehicle toward the January 6 protests which later became violent.
The media had a feeding frenzy over the story, and Hutchinson’s testimony spoke to late night TV’s partisan biases. 
Once again, comedians didn’t wait for the facts. They wanted the “clapter,” the fawning response from liberals in the studio audience, and they couldn’t be bothered.
The basement-rated Trevor Noah offered <a href="https://theweek.com/jan-6-committee/1014745/stephen-colbert-and-trevor-noah-size-up-trumps-top-jan-6-tantrums-revealed">fake praise for Trump’s instincts</a> during the alleged fracas.
<blockquote>…fighting your own Secret Service agent is kind of genius on Trump’s part, because he’s hitting the one person who can’t hit back.</blockquote>
Colbert said the story would “make a great season premiere of Kleptocrats in Cars Seizing Power.”
The assembled comics didn’t wait to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/testimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hear the rest of the story.</a>
Notably, not one but two primary sources refuted her claims. The person who allegedly told her the story denies sharing it, and the Secret Service agent Trump allegedly man-handled offered to testify it never happened.
The matter eventually went away, with news outlets disinterested in following Hutchinson’s narrative.
Even smaller fake news stories get turned into late night wisecracks. In 2019, media outlets suggested President Trump had <a href="https://time.com/4705083/seth-meyers-trump-meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gutted the Meals on Wheels program</a>, a charitable effort designed to feed those who can’t get food on their own.
The host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” raged against Trump and the decision.
<blockquote>Old people voted for you. Your key demographics were old people and older people. They believed you when you said you cared about them. There’s nothing more low-life than lying to the elderly. You should know that. You’re 70.</blockquote>
Except less than 3% of the program’s funding comes from federal funding. So the media and Meyers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fake-news-did-trump-just-kill-meals-wheels-not-ben-shapiro?utm_content=031817-news&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grossly misrepresented the facts</a> to smite Trump.
Again.
News outlets should go back and update incorrect news stories. The corrections section is a venerable part of journalism, a necessary feature given how even the best reporters can make mistakes.
We’re seeing very little of that happening with the current wave of fake news. Has any major outlet offered a voluminous explanation for the collusion hoax?
And, of course, late-night comics won’t be held responsible for their false narratives.
It’s just a joke, they say. Too bad they’re punching down on the American experiment in the process.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Oscars announced Monday that comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel would host the 95th Academy Awards, returning to emcee the ceremony for the third time.
In a press release obtained by The Daily Wire from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">host</a> of &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; will helm the annual awards show in March.
&#8220;Jimmy is the perfect host to help us recognize the incredible artists and films of our 95th Oscars,&#8221; Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said. &#8220;His love of movies, live TV expertise, and ability to connect with our global audiences will create an unforgettable experience for our millions of viewers worldwide.&#8221;
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&#8220;Having Jimmy Kimmel return to host &#8216;The Oscars&#8217; is a dream come true,&#8221; said Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment, Hulu &amp; Disney Branded Television Streaming Originals. &#8220;As we see every night on his own show, Jimmy can handle anything with both heart and humor, and we know that he will deliver the laughs and celebratory moments that define the Oscars. We love being the home of Hollywood’s biggest night and can&#8217;t wait to toast the success of this year’s cinema and storytelling.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-apologizes-for-dumb-comedy-bit-that-marred-quinta-brunsons-emmys-speech">Kimmel</a> also joked that being invited back to host the big night is &#8220;either a great honor or a trap.&#8221;
&#8220;Either way, I am grateful to the Academy for asking me so quickly after everyone good said no,&#8221; the talk show host joked.
Kimmel previously hosted the Oscars in 2017 and once again the following year. In 2018, the annual awards show suffered, at the time, record low ratings, <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/11/oscar-host-jimmy-kimmel-2023-abc-1235165138/">Deadline</a> magazine noted. The next three years, the show went hostless, coming in with the lowest ratings ever amid the pandemic, the outlet reported.
The 95th Oscars will take place Sunday, March 12, 2023, and be broadcast live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. It will also be seen in more than 200 territories across the globe.
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Late-night comedian <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-am-wearing-childrens-underwear-for-you-mila-kunis-scolds-jimmy-kimmels-audience-for-booing-her/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel</a> admitted during a Wednesday podcast appearance that he may have lost half of his audience — possibly even more than that — when he made a conscious choice to bash former President Donald Trump.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/white-men-really-are-insufferable-jimmy-kimmel-blasted-for-playing-dead-during-black-creators-emmy-acceptance-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimmel</a> discussed the issue with the &#8220;Naked Lunch&#8221; podcast host and &#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; creator Phil Rosenthal, and he explained that he decided he could not in good conscience lay off the former president for the sake of his own show&#8217;s success.
&#8220;Does ABC ever say to you, &#8216;Hey, could you not just attack this side and lay off a little bit? Cause we are gonna lose those people?’” Rosenthal asked, noting that <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-kimmel-lost-half-fanbase-over-donald-trump-jokes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimmel&#8217;s animosity</a> extended to a number of Republicans other than just Trump.
&#8220;There was at one time, maybe, I don’t know, like right around the beginning of this whole like Trump thing where — &#8221; Kimmel began, but Rosenthal interrupted.
&#8220;This is now eight years ago?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Yeah. Something like that. Maybe not quite that long ago that that was like kind of hinted at. But I just said, &#8216;Listen, I get it. I mean, I don’t disagree. I mean, you’re right. I have lost half of my fans — maybe more than that,’” Kimmel replied.
Kimmel went on to say that, prior to that, research had suggested that he was pretty popular among Republicans — and he added that he had even been willing to give up the show if that was what ABC wanted from him.
&#8220;And I get it, if that’s what they want to do, I just said, &#8216;Listen, if that’s what you wanna do, I understand and I don’t begrudge you for it, but I’m not going to do that. So, you know, if you want somebody else to host the show, then that’s fine. That’s okay with me. I’m just not gonna do it like that,’” he explained, adding that ABC had ultimately allowed him the freedom to make that choice.
&#8220;They knew I was serious. I mean, you know … I couldn’t live with myself,&#8221; he said.
Rosenthal appeared to agree, telling Kimmel that what he and fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers were doing — with regard to attacking Republicans from their large platforms — amounted to a &#8220;public service.&#8221;
&#8220;You’re the guys who make us feel like we’re not alone,&#8221; Rosenthal said.
&#8220;You know, I love this country, too,&#8221; Kimmel said, arguing that he didn&#8217;t see it as a public service so much as just something he needed to do. &#8220;I mean, you know, that flag doesn’t belong to them. This is ours. And when I see somebody coming in and ruining it, I’m gonna say something about it. That’s it. That’s as simple as that.&#8221;
Fellow comedian <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-half-the-country-bill-maher-explains-why-he-cant-get-behind-hating-trump-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> took the opposite position, noting that while he was perfectly willing to attack Trump, he didn&#8217;t extend that animosity toward Trump&#8217;s voters. &#8220;It&#8217;s half the country,&#8221; he explained.
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Jimmy Kimmel Admits He Lost Half His Audience For Bashing Trump – And He’s Fine With That

Jimmy Kimmel Admits He Lost Half His Audience For Bashing Trump

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Left-leaning comedians are a dime a dozen.
It’s also true that some woke jokesters are more extreme than others. Stand-up stars may try to appeal to the widest audience, meaning they’ll dial it back on the partisan jokes. However, plenty of comedians have become activists, especially following the 2016 election.
Many comedians claim to have no explicit bias, saying they don’t belong to either party while technically espousing views that are way more liberal than conservative. Ahead, these are the most outspoken leftist comedians who currently think they’re hilarious.
<h3>Jon Stewart</h3>
Back in the late 90s, Stewart took over hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and quickly became one of the preeminent political comedy stars in the country. He was a satirist, but his young, liberal, male audience trusted him to tell the truth about what was going on in politics.
In a 2002 <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/is-it-funny-yet">interview</a> with The New Yorker, Stewart described himself as the voice of “the disenfranchised center.” But even then his politics leaned left. At one point the late night host called his beliefs more independent or socialist than Democrat.
Later, Stewart <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/show-tracker/story/2012-05-30/late-night-jon-stewart-clarifies-his-support-for-socialism">clarified</a> that while he doesn’t support “state control of industry or collectivizing farms,” he is in favor of the single-payer healthcare system and was a huge proponent of the Affordable Care Act.
Over the years, Stewart became more cynical and bitter and less funny. His new AppleTV+ show “The Problem With Jon Stewart” has mostly been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jon-stewarts-new-apple-tv-show-rumored-to-be-a-huge-flop-report">a ratings disaster</a> kept afloat solely because of nostalgic fans who miss “The Daily Show” and the ignorance of youth.
<h3>Jimmy Kimmel</h3>
Speaking of universal healthcare supporters, fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is yet another example of a leftist comedian. The 54-year-old “Jimmy Kimmel Live” star used the story of his son being born with a congenital heart condition to make the case for overhauling healthcare in the U.S.
“If your baby is going to die and it doesn’t have to, it shouldn’t matter how much money you make,” he <a href="https://youtu.be/MmWWoMcGmo0">said</a> in 2017. “I think that’s something that whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right?”
He’s also in favor of “common sense” gun laws, which he <a href="https://youtu.be/ruYeBXudsds">spoke</a> about following the Las Vegas shooting. 
“What I’m talking about tonight isn’t about gun control; it’s about common sense,” Kimmel said at the time. “Common sense says no good will ever come from allowing a person to have weapons that can take down 527 Americans at a concert. Common sense says you don’t let those who suffer from mental illness buy guns.”
<h3>John Oliver</h3>
Emmy Award winner John Oliver is British but has become a staple on American television thanks to stints on “The Daily Show” and the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”
Though he’s not originally from this country, Oliver endorsed Joe Biden for president and openly celebrated his and Kamala Harris&#8217;s win in the 2020 US presidential election. He described Donald Trump’s defeat as a “reverse 9/11” because of all the celebrating in the city of Manhattan.
&#8220;It was like that all day here in New York,&#8221; he said, per <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/john-oliver-political-views">Distractify</a>. &#8220;There was a mood here that can only be described as a reverse 9/11. Why? Because it combined complete euphoria, an abiding disgust for Rudy Giuliani, and this time people actually were dancing on the rooftops in New Jersey. It was a really good day. Never forget.&#8221;
In 2021, Oliver <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hbo-host-john-oliver-calls-parents-opposed-to-school-mask-mandates-idiots">called</a> parents who opposed school mask mandates “idiots,” and said “We are only fighting about masks in school right now because there are a bunch of foolish adults who have decided not to get the vaccine, and to all of them, I can only say, to quote a bunch of upsettingly loud idiots, ‘We know who you are, and you’re the f***ing problem.’”
<h3>Samantha Bee</h3>
It may be controversial to describe Samantha Bee as a comedian seeing as how very few people find her funny. But the far-left activist has certainly expressed her feelings on a wide range of topics such as gender theory and women’s rights.
“This year, we’re seeing a tidal wave of transphobic legislation targeting kids, largely in retaliation for President Biden’s executive order to protect trans rights,” she said, telling conservatives to “mind their own f***ing business” when it came to protecting female sports, per <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-samantha-bee-tells-republicans-to-stop-transphobic-bills-and-mind-their-own-fing-business">The Daily Wire</a>. 
“They falsely claim trans women automatically have more testosterone and therefore more muscle mass than cis women,” Bee continued. “But studies don’t show a consistent relationship between testosterone and athletic performance.”
The comedian accused Republicans of “fear-mongering” in regard to trans sports debates just like they did with bathroom bills.
<h3>Lewis Black</h3>
No one seems angrier than a screaming Lewis Black, who made his brand of “rage comedy” into a recognizable brand. He’s also a <a href="https://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/dp-xpm-20130920-2013-09-20-dp-fea-lewis-black-0920-20130920-story.html">self-described</a> socialist who has no love for either party but is pro-gun control and pro-healthcare reform. Basically, Black hates everyone – especially Republicans.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve done something with these two political parties that really is unbelievable. No other country has done it. No other country,” he <a href="https://www.wpr.org/comedian-lewis-blacks-conundrum-how-do-you-satirize-satirical">observed</a> during a standup act last year. “We used to have parties that argued ideas. Not anymore. Now we have two separate political parties that actually exist in two totally different realities.&#8221;
That’s one thing this left-leaning comedian gets absolutely right.
<h3>David Cross</h3>
Best known for his role on “Arrested Development,” David Cross is also a leftist who is happy to bring politics into his standup routine, even if it means people walking out of his shows all the time. During a 2016 <a href="https://www.avclub.com/david-cross-on-why-his-comedy-tour-pissed-off-people-ri-1798250771">interview</a> with The A.V. Club, the comedian described himself as, “more socialist Democrat” than a “centrist” like Hillary Clinton.
“I think regulation for banks and those platforms that Bernie Sanders had are good for the whole of America. I’m not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country,” he said.
<h3>Sarah Silverman</h3>
Like so many others, Sarah Silverman became especially political during the 2016 election, aggressively campaigning first for Bernie Sanders and then accepting Hillary Clinton as her next best option. She supported Sanders again in 2020.
Silverman is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, though she said she’s become increasingly fed up with both parties.
“I just, I don’t know that I want to be associated with any party. I really, I think I don’t want to be associated with any party anymore,” Silverman told <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/15/sarah-silverman-is-right-democrats-are-the-party-of-absolutism/">viewers</a> in 2021. “It just, it comes with too much baggage. Every party, it comes with so much f***ing baggage that no ideas can be taken at face value.”

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Actress <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/mila-kunis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mila Kunis</a> scolded the audience during a recent appearance on &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8221; — which was taping in Brooklyn instead of his usual Los Angeles studio — saying that they were mean when they booed her, apparently for not saying nice enough things about New York.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/mila-kunis-and-ashton-kutcher-raise-34-million-for-ukraine-get-personally-thanked-by-president-zelensky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kunis</a> has been doing a number of press events for her newest project — Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Luckiest Girl Alive&#8221; — and her visit with <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimmel</a> got off to a bumpy start as the audience booed her several times.
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Kunis began with an embarrassing anecdote, explaining that she had somehow made it backstage to change for the show before realizing that wardrobe had sent her nothing in the way of undergarments — not even socks.
&#8220;Why I wasn&#8217;t wearing those garments either is a whole other story which we can get into at a later time &#8230;&#8221; Kunis said, prompting laughter from both Kimmel and the audience. &#8220;But I looked around and I went, &#8216;I think we have a problem.'&#8221;
But because the dress she was supposed to wear was somewhat sheer, she had to improvise — and the end result, she explained: &#8220;So I&#8217;m currently wearing my publicist&#8217;s bra, my manager&#8217;s socks, and your costume department found children&#8217;s leggings from The Children&#8217;s Place that we have cut into underwear — so I am wearing children&#8217;s underwear, Cami Curtis&#8217; socks, and Melissa&#8217;s bra.&#8221;
&#8220;You seem like you could be a New Yorker, but you&#8217;re not a New Yorker, right?&#8221; Kimmel asked after the laughter died down.
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not,&#8221; Kunis said, and then she suddenly turned toward the audience. &#8220;What? Who booed?&#8221;
&#8220;Someone booed you,&#8221; Kimmel agreed.
&#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with your audience?&#8221; Kunis asked, before joking, &#8220;Very New York of you. Very New York. I&#8217;m sorry &#8230; Well, you won&#8217;t like the rest of this interview.&#8221;
Kunis went on to discuss her childhood and how she had passed through New York when she first arrived in the United States from Ukraine — only to get booed again when she admitted that she hadn&#8217;t tried her first slice of pizza in New York. &#8220;Boy, this audience is something,&#8221; she shook her head. &#8220;God, it&#8217;s fun.&#8221;
Instead, she explained that her father had worked delivering pizzas in Los Angeles — and for that reason, she had eaten a lot of pizza there.
&#8220;No, I did not have pizza in New York, okay, well, this won&#8217;t really make up for it but my dad delivered pizzas growing up &#8230; in L.A., so I ate a lot &#8230;&#8221; Kunis paused as they booed again. &#8220;That&#8217;s mean. L.A. has perfectly fine pizzas, guys &#8230; hold on, you know what? I am wearing children&#8217;s underwear for you!&#8221;
As everyone laughed, she added, &#8220;Just to get another boo, it was Domino&#8217;s pizza.&#8221;
&#8220;This is like a symphony of boos and ahhs,&#8221; she laughed when the audience obliged.
But the biggest reaction of the night came when the actress admitted that she didn&#8217;t even like pizza.

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Mila Kunis Scolds Jimmy Kimmel's Audience For Booing Her

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/howard-stern">Howard Stern</a> finally left home for the first time since the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> pandemic began, and he’s still stressed about the adventure.
The 68-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">shock jock</a> is also a self-professed germaphobe, which made him especially cautious when it came to COVID. He’s been hiding out in his “bunker” for the past two years but was finally spotted out at the restaurant Laser Wolf in Brooklyn&#8217;s Williamsburg neighborhood over the weekend with a bunch of other celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, Jon Hamm, Justin Theroux, and Jason Bateman, Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/10/03/germaphobe-howard-stern-goes-out-to-dinner-for-first-time-since-2020">reported</a>. He was reportedly mask free at the table.
Stern discussed the experience of going out for the first time in so long on the Monday episode of his radio show, which he’s been recording from home all along. 
“I really had an exhausting weekend, emotionally, physically,” he explained. “For the first time in two years I ventured out of the house.”
As for the overall experience, he said, “It was too much for me. It was too much. I haven’t been out in two years.”
Stern said it was Kimmel who’s been urging him to come out and socialize. He extended the dinner invitation to the radio host and his wife, Beth Ostrosky, who has been quarantining with him. She wanted to go but he did not.
“I said to my wife, ‘I don’t want to go, I’m in a panic, I don’t want to get COVID,&#8217;” Stern told the audience. He and Ostrosky are both vaccinated, he said, but that didn’t affect his decision. 
“I know our president has told us the pandemic is over and everyone is walking around without masks … I still just don’t want to get COVID.&#8221;
The so-called &#8220;King of All Media&#8221; joked in the past that anyone stopping by his house first had to get tested for COVID and either way had to wear hazmat suits. Kimmel said that when he stayed with Stern for a few days over the summer, he and his wife had to present two negative tests, the publication reported.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host said, “We’re worried that we’re going to lose you from society because the longer this goes on, the more comfortable you get in that little world. And then it’s harder and harder to get out of it … it’s unhealthy.”
“F*** it, I’m being a p****, I know,” Stern agreed, before saying dinner with friends was an option he’d consider.
“For me, [COVID] is still going on and I haven’t left my house. I can’t figure out how to integrate myself,” Stern said in November 2021. “I’ve been locked up so long and I haven’t gotten COVID. I’m afraid I’ll be the one a**hole who gets COVID and I’ll die. Even though people don’t seem to be dying that much [anymore].”

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Famed &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; host Johnny Carson once said he didn&#8217;t want to reveal his political views because he didn&#8217;t want to alienate viewers. And he famously took aim at both parties in his nightly monologue, realizing that politics is simply funny.
Very few comedians these days do that. Think of all the late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, Stephen Colbert. And some stand-up comedians, like Patton Oswalt, are vicious to anyone who doesn&#8217;t think exactly like them.
But Bill Maher is different. Maher, whose comedy career was flagging when he morphed into a political talk show host back in the mid-1990s, has become a rare specimen &#8212; a comedian who targets both sides.
The 66-year-old funnyman, who hosted &#8220;Politically Incorrect&#8221; from 1992 to 2002 and has headlined &#8220;Real Time&#8221; on HBO since 2003, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/business/bill-maher-still-secure-in-abc-slot-at-least-now.html">described</a> himself as a liberal and a libertarian.
But he also <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-to-piers-morgan-palin-can-absolutely-win-in-2012-but-hed-vote-for-bachmann/">calls</a> himself &#8220;practical.&#8221; That means he can see the humor that pours from turkeyneck Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just as well as the buffoonery of 147-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
So it was not unusual &#8212; although it drew headlines across the country &#8212; when Maher said President Joe Biden needs to get rid of Vice President Kamala Harris if he decides to run again in 2024.
“It’s very hard to take the nomination away from the president,” Maher said. “What I could see is replacing the vice president because she’s not very popular anywhere. And it didn’t seem to work out. And I don’t know. That’s been done before in a ticket.”
A guest on his HBO show, left-wing The Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan, agreed, saying Harris was not only an “off-putting person,” but that she also has “a lot of baggage that probably wouldn’t do well under a lot of scrutiny.”
But Maher went further. “I just think she’s a bad politician. And I don’t … I think she’s a very bright person. But I can see them doing that because a lot of the problem with Biden being old is, ‘Oh, if he dies then you know you’re gonna get this person.’&#8221;
&#8220;OK, so here’s the problem with the Democratic Party. They’re so boxed in by identity politics that you cannot conceive of a Democratic ticket that doesn’t have a woman and person of color on it. And pretty soon you’re gonna line up behind that gay Latino and you’re gonna have to have, you know, a deaf Eskimo be the [nominee].&#8221;
It didn&#8217;t take long for Harris to prove Maher right. The day after his weekly show, the vice president said federal relief for the victims of Hurricane Ian would be based on &#8220;equity&#8221; and prioritize people in &#8220;communities of color.&#8221;
&#8220;It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making,&#8221; Harris said.
Maher regularly targets young liberals for their “progressophobia,” which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-mocks-woke-liberals-for-their-belief-in-whiteness-as-a-malady">said</a> in 2021 has resulted in “a growing belief in whiteness as a malady and white people as irredeemable.”
“There is a recurrent theme on the far left that things have never been worse,” Maher said. &#8220;[Comedian] Kevin Hart expressed a view many hold when he told The New York Times, ‘You’re witnessing white power and white privilege at an all-time high.’&#8221;
&#8220;This is one of the big problems with wokeness — that what you say doesn’t have to make sense or jibe with the facts or ever be challenged, lest the challenge itself be conflated with racism. But saying white power and privilege is at an all-time high is just ridiculous,&#8221; he said.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Late-night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel</a> has officially apologized for remaining onstage during “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/emmys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emmys</a> acceptance speech.
The writer was a guest on Kimmel’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> Wednesday night, and they addressed the failed gag, which has become a topic of contention on the internet since it happened. Brunson interrupted the host’s monologue during her appearance to make a point.
&#8220;I have a little favor to ask,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So you know how when you win an Emmy you only have 45 seconds to do an acceptance speech, which is like not that much time. And then &#8230; you get less time because someone does a dumb comedy bit that goes on a bit too long?&#8221;
&#8220;I have heard of that happening in previous years,&#8221; Kimmel replied.
&#8220;Well, I was wondering, or no, more demanding if I could I have a couple of extra minutes to thank, you know, a couple of extra people,&#8221; Brunson continued. Kimmel stepped aside and let her speak.
Later on, the host made a more formal apology. 
&#8220;That was a dumb comedy bit that we thought it would be funny,&#8221; Kimmel explained, per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123106002/quinta-brunson-jimmy-kimmel-apology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>. &#8220;Then people got upset, they said I stole your moment. And maybe I did. I&#8217;m very sorry if I did do that. I did do that, actually. &#8230; The last thing I would ever want to do is upset you, because I think so much of you. I think you know that. I hope you know that.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s very kind of you to say that,&#8221; Brunson responded. &#8220;Honestly I had a great night. It was a good night and a good time.”
Kimmel mentioned how he’s been to the Emmys multiple times and never won, while Brunson noted how she’s only attended once and won. 
The late-night host said again, &#8220;I was dumb, and I&#8217;ve got news – It&#8217;s gonna happen again.&#8221;
Kimmel was apologizing for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-men-really-are-insufferable-jimmy-kimmel-blasted-for-playing-dead-during-black-creators-emmy-acceptance-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lying on the stage</a>, pretending to be passed out drunk, during Brunson’s entire acceptance speech after being dragged there by actor Will Arnett. The “Abbott Elementary” creator said right afterward that she wasn’t offended by the gag, but the internet was appalled on her behalf.
“I don’t know of a better example of invasive white male privilege than Jimmy Kimmel laying in the middle of Quinta Brunson’s #Emmys2022 speech. He had no business/right to take up space in the way that he did,” one person wrote.
“Jimmy Kimmel owes Quinta an apology but the messed up part is every image of her accepting her award has his ass in it,” a third person shared. “White men really are insufferable.”

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Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes For ‘Dumb Comedy Bit’ That Marred Quinta Brunson’s Emmys Speech

Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes For 'Dumb Comedy Bit' That Marred Quinta Brunson's Emmys Speech

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The 2022 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/emmys">Emmy Awards</a> went forward mostly without incident, except for a controversial bit by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, which involved him playing dead on stage while the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">Abbott Elementary</a>” series creator and writer was accepting her award. 
Kimmel got dragged out onto the stage by actor Will Arnett, who then announced the winner for best writing in a comedy series. Series creator and writer Quinta Brunson looked down at Kimmel playing dead on stage and said, &#8220;Jimmy, wake up. I won. Jimmy?&#8221; But Kimmel didn’t budge, instead committing to the bit for the entirety of her speech.
Brunson herself wasn’t mad about the comedy act, Yahoo Entertainment <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/emmys-2022-highs-lows-kimmel-faces-backlash-while-others-praised-for-powerful-acceptance-speeches-071032256.html">reported</a>. She later told the press backstage, &#8220;I don’t know. I know Jimmy Kimmel. The bit didn’t bother me that much. Honestly, Jimmy gave me my first big late night spot, he was one of the first people to see ‘Abbott Elementary.&#8217; He was the first person to message me on Instagram. &#8230; He was so excited it was going to be on ABC.”
“I was happy it was Jimmy,” she continued. “He’s one of the comedy godfathers. &#8230; Tomorrow maybe I’ll be mad at him.&#8221; Brunson also said she might “punch him in the face” when she goes on his late-night show Wednesday evening.
Kimmel kept up the gag when asked about it, jokingly telling Entertainment Tonight, “I had my eyes closed, I had no idea where I was. It was one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me.”
Meanwhile, fans who saw the spectacle weren’t nearly so forgiving. 
“I don’t know of a better example of invasive white male privilege than Jimmy Kimmel laying in the middle of Quinta Brunson’s #Emmys2022 speech. He had no business/right to take up space in the way that he did,” one person fumed. 
“I was going to make this into a meme about who Quinta and Jimmy represent in academia but I’m just tired,” another wrote. “It’s in every damn field, on every stage, in every venue. I’m tired of Black women having to exert grace, maneuver around roadblocks, and share their spotlight for no reason.”
“Jimmy Kimmel owes Quinta an apology but the messed up part is every image of her accepting her award has his ass in it,” a third person shared. “White men really are insufferable.”
Brunson was nominated for two other Emmys, making her the first black woman to be nominated three times in the comedy category, Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/09/13/quinta-brunson-addresses-jimmy-kimmels-emmys-2022-joke-amid-backlash/">noted</a>. Her only win of the night was for the ABC comedy series “Abbott Elementary.”

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‘White Men Really Are Insufferable’: Jimmy Kimmel Blasted For Playing Dead During Black Creator’s Emmys Acceptance Speech

Jimmy Kimmel Blasted For Playing Dead During Black Creator's Emmys Acceptance Speech

Dana Carvey did another brutal impersonation of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> while guest-hosting &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8221; in a preview of what the 2024 Presidential Debate would look like.
In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1pO-NPxd8">clip</a> posted Tuesday on YouTube, the 67-year-old &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comedy-legend-dana-carvey-steps-in-for-kimmel-roasts-biden-in-brutal-monologue">alum</a> drew a ton of cheers and applause during a bit in his opening monologue as he debated himself as both Biden and former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>, with Biden giving one rambling, incoherent answer after another. It starts at the 8:56 minute mark <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1pO-NPxd8">here</a>.
The debate host, Guillermo Rodriguez, asked the two men the first question, &#8220;What are presidential qualities?”
Carvey as Biden replied, &#8220;You gotta have a big smile, an honest hand shake, a couple of corn-fed Secret Service fellas who wave your arms and legs around like a &#8216;Weekend At Bernie’ style. C&#8217;mon. Where people know you&#8217;re still kicking.&#8221;
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&#8220;Gotta work together with Kamala Harris, Harrison Ford,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Pardon me, Henry Ford. Excuse me. Machine Gun Kelly. C&#8217;mon.&#8221;
The comedian as Trump replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be rude. Don&#8217;t be rude. You were nice, now you&#8217;re not so nice. I know nice. Everybody&#8217;s nicer than me. Nobody’s nicer than me, excuse me. Everybody&#8217;s saying it — even Kim Jong-un. Tiny Kim.&#8221;
Both where then asked: &#8220;What can be done about the high gas prices?&#8221; Carvey&#8217;s &#8220;Trump&#8221; responded with an answer about &#8220;many people&#8221; saying gasoline is &#8220;dead dinosaur poop&#8221; and &#8220;T-rex poop,” and that we used to have so much of it.
But when Carvey answered as Biden, he said, &#8220;Look here, amigo. You don&#8217;t need a gas station for gasoline. Gas stations are for selling, selling soda pops and nudie magazines. And reading in the woods.&#8221;
The following question was about what the next four years of each of their presidencies would look like.
The comedian as Biden gave a rambling answer with no information at all before saying something about, &#8220;it&#8217;s a sweet, sweet, sweet sorrow&#8221; and &#8220;Party in the U.S.A., Miley Cyper, cyper trees got to do climate change. C&#8217;mon, man.&#8221; This answer from &#8220;Biden&#8221; appeared to draw the loudest cheers and hollers from the audience.
For the final question, each candidate was asked: &#8220;What do you each want to tell America?&#8221; In his impersonation of Biden, Carvey said he gets re-elected and &#8220;every kid will get a yo-yo in a jar for keeping frogs. Also, Monkey Pox, it&#8217;s what’s for dinner.&#8221;
The &#8220;SNL&#8221; alum closed out the bit as the former president by announcing that his running mate is a &#8220;venomous cobra&#8221; he named &#8220;Hillary.&#8221;

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Dana Carvey Hits Biden Again On Kimmel In Preview Of 2024 Presidential Debate

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Comedy legend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-comedian-dana-carvey-unveils-spot-on-impression-of-biden">Dana Carvey</a> brutally roasted President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> in his monologue while guest-hosting &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel Live!</a>&#8221;
In the clip <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7AuoE61D5g">posted</a> on YouTube, the 67-year-old former &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; star drew cheers and laughter filling in on ABC&#8217;s late-night show Monday. Carvey performed hilarious impersonations of former President George H.W. Bush and resurrected some of his famous SNL characters, including &#8220;Garth&#8221; from the &#8220;Wayne&#8217;s World&#8221; sketch and the &#8220;Church Lady.&#8221;
Carvey first mocked the &#8220;fist bump heard round the world&#8221; between Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.
&#8220;A lot of people are mad with President Biden because of the way he greeted the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,&#8221; the comedian shared. &#8220;You know Biden called him a &#8216;Pariah&#8217; and as recently as last month said he wouldn&#8217;t even meet with him. But this weekend there they were broing it out.&#8221;
Carvey then started joking about Biden speaking to the crown prince, &#8220;&#8216;How&#8217;s it hanging? Oh, how&#8217;s it hanging under that robe?'&#8221;
&#8220;Joe got a lot of flak for this, but I think we&#8217;re looking at this the wrong way, because if you slow it down and watch it again I think Biden was actually trying to punch MBS,&#8221; the Hollywood legend said. &#8220;Look. He&#8217;s going in for the jab. &#8216;Yeah, how bout a knuckle sandwich. C&#8217;mon! Kadink!'&#8221;
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Later in the show, Carvey asked the audience if they had noticed that &#8220;Biden&#8217;s got a little feistier lately.&#8221;
&#8220;Cause when he first came out he was like a soothing grandpa offering you butterscotch from his coin purse,&#8221; Dana said. &#8220;And then so on edge, we were, because we wanted this grandpa president because we had four years of Shouty McFat Pants.&#8221;
&#8220;But Biden came out as a really sleepy sweet grandpa,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And he&#8217;s always repeating the story, &#8216;Yeah went to Scranton. Grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. My dad. My dad lost his job. No joke. I&#8217;m not kidding around here.'&#8221;
The audience continued to laugh through the monologue as he kept mocking Biden before Carvey noted, &#8220;No human being in the world thinks that&#8217;s a joke. Nobody.&#8221;
&#8220;And then he would do the number thing,&#8221; the comedian continued, returning to his Biden impersonation. &#8220;&#8216;Number one, the one part. Number two, what the guy said. Number three, you know the drill.&#8217; No, we don&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;Now what he does is he kind of whispers and then yells,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a wonderful move. When he&#8217;s like, &#8216;We know how to get natural gas&#8217; [whispering]. &#8216;Cause we can get it [shouting].'&#8221;
The &#8220;Wayne&#8217;s World&#8221; star went on mocking the president mumbling and making no sense before shouting, &#8220;The Pirates of the Caribbean,&#8221; for no reason, as the audience continued to crack up through the entire bit.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/demi-lovato">Demi Lovato</a> sported a head injury before a Thursday night appearance on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel Live</a>” and explained to fans that she got it from a run-in with a large, sharp crystal.
The 29-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">pop star</a> made a TikTok about the incident before going on the late night show. Lovato showed a photo of the gruesome forehead injury and its unlikely cause. 
&#8220;Guess who hit their head on a crystal and has to get stitches before Kimmel tomorrow???&#8221; Lovato wrote in the caption. The <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ddlovato/video/7120013806125731114">video</a> included the popular &#8220;They&#8217;re Gonna Know&#8221; audio clip — and featured Lovato mouthing “F***” at the end.
The “Cool for the Summer” singer went into more detail while <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3_lKmFy-58">speaking</a> with “Kimmel” guest host Mark Rober Thursday evening. 
“I was picking something up off the floor that I dropped,” Lovato explained. As a “huge fan of crystals,” Lovato went on to describe how a tall, sharp amethyst did the damage. 
The singer elaborated about having to get three stitches the previous night.
“I called my doctor and I was like, ‘Hey, I just hit my face, do I need stitches?’ and he was like, &#8216;FaceTime me.&#8217; So we FaceTimed and I was like, ‘I have Kimmel tomorrow. What do I do?’” Lovato continued.
“So I did what any sane person would do and made a TikTok,” the singer quipped.
Lovato has sung the praises of crystals used for their healing benefits before. 
In a 2021 Washington Post story, the “Heart Attack” singer showed off crystals that were at the bottom of a bottle of fragrance which Lovato had mixed by hand. The pop star allegedly uses crystals for their “healing properties,” an idea that’s been widely embraced in Hollywood. 
The singer was on the show promoting a new album, “HOLY FVCK,” which is set to be released on August 19.
“I’m pissing people off by living my truth,” Lovato shared in a TikTok post about the new album. “And I’m f***ing okay with it.”
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-pissing-people-off-and-im-fing-okay-with-it-demi-lovato-announces-new-album-holy-f-with-dark-themes">reported</a> how Lovato staged a pop career funeral to signify changing into a new kind of recording artist. 
“The process of making this album has been the most fulfilling yet, and I’m grateful to my fans and collaborators for being on this journey with me,” Lovato shared in a statement. 
“Never have I been more sure of myself and my music, and this record speaks that for itself. To my Lovatics who have been rocking out with me since the beginning and those who are just now coming along for the ride, thank you. This record is for you.”

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