Jimmy Kimmel was once humorous when he hosted “The Man Present” with Adam Carolla.
The collection aired on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2004, and it concurrently celebrated issues males take pleasure in – girls, boobs and beer – whereas mocking grown males for being such frat-boy louts.
It at all times ended with girls in skimpy garments leaping on a trampoline. It showcased this factor males like, and on the identical time, how juvenile males are for liking it.
Jimmy Kimmel is aware of Trump supporters name him a hypocrite for the issues he did on ‘The Man Present,’ and he says that’s ‘truthful sport.’ https://t.co/katGgFPoYz
— Leisure Weekly (@EW) April 16, 2025
Whilst a self-avowed feminist, I watched the present. I can take a joke, and it made me snigger. And let’s be trustworthy, it principally mocked males, not the ladies they had been ogling.
Now, as a a lot extra well-known and richer late-night host, Kimmel ceases to be humorous in any respect. He appears to exist primarily as a mouthpiece for the Democratic Celebration.
Again in September 2021 he famously “joked” on his ABC late-night present, “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!,” that sufferers not vaccinated for COVID-19 who take Ivermectin as remedy must be turned away by hospitals.
In his opening monologue, Kimmel referenced an announcement from Dr. Anthony Fauci, then head of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and the face of COVID-19 coverage, about needing to make “powerful selections” about who will get healthcare and who doesn’t. Fauci mentioned/fear-mongered that since hospitals had been working out of area in intensive care models, care would should be rationed.
Kimmel mentioned, in response:
“That alternative doesn’t appear so powerful to me. Vaccinated particular person having a coronary heart assault? Sure, come proper in. We’ll care for you. Unvaccinated man who devoured horse goo? Relaxation in peace, wheezy.”
Hilarious!
Certain, hospitals deal with drunk drivers who kill harmless victims and financial institution robbers and college shooters and murderers of all varieties, however select to not get vaccinated for COVID-19? No remedy for you!
Despite the fact that it was fully clear at that cut-off date that the COVID vaccine didn’t cease an infection or transmission, Kimmel felt that when you refused it, it was an act of defiance so egregious you deserved to be refused medical remedy.
That is, in brief, the view of the Democratic Celebration today – veer one iota from its progressive platform, get canceled and ousted from well mannered society.
In Kimmel’s newest bout with un-funniness, he’s featured in a long-form Rolling Stone interview the place he describes his present as follows:
“A yr in the past, I’d’ve mentioned I’m hoping to indicate individuals who aren’t taking note of the information what’s really occurring, and hoping to alter issues that means. Clearly, that didn’t have sufficient impression earlier than the election, so now I see myself extra as a spot to scream.”
That doesn’t sound like a breeding floor for comedy. And it isn’t.
Whereas Kimmel says he’s towards “cancel tradition,” he proceeds to name Trump supporters “animals” which feels fairly cancel-y to me. It’s actually the definition of dehumanizing to name individuals animals. We increase animals in captivity and slaughter them in order that we are able to eat them.
Is that this the analogy Kimmel desires to make? Apparently, sure.
He additionally says that that Republicans beneath Trump’s management simply concentrate on area of interest points that basically don’t have an effect on anybody.
“I simply don’t perceive how People can assist what [Trump] is doing and the silly stuff that he will get hung up on, like transgender sports activities and the stuff that impacts virtually nobody.”
Okay Jimmy, let me clarify it to you.
As a former elite gymnast and present feminist, I’m invested in defending organic actuality and feminine athletes.
You may say it impacts nobody however that isn’t the case. In line with hecheated.org:
“Males taking part in girls’s sports activities, together with male athletes who name themselves “girls,” “transwomen,” “intersex girls,” and “nonbinary,” have received over 3,820 feminine athletic competitions (excluding non-tournament group victories.) Together with all group sport matches, they’ve received over 7,952 “girls’s” athletic occasions. This can be a extreme undercount as many athletes on the record have but to be researched, data for a lot of competitions and groups is lacking, and plenty of athletes stay but undiscovered.”
These male athletes have stolen greater than $2 million in prize cash from deserving feminine athletes.
Each lady competing towards a male of their class is impacted. For every particular person male athlete, tons of if not hundreds of feminine athletes are affected.
Moreover, when women and girls are instructed to take a seat down, be quiet and simply settle for males dominating their sports activities, they be taught that the sentiments of males matter greater than security and equity for themselves.
If that isn’t misogyny, I don’t know what’s.
The haters of Kimmel’s “The Man Present” claimed it was sexist – although I’d argue mocking the lads who act like drooling idiots on the sight of a scantily-clad lady is the alternative. However this motion to permit males to compete in girls’s sports activities and invade their personal areas is probably the most sexist motion conceivable.
It’s misogyny in a gown. And it’s nonetheless misogyny.
Kimmel would possibly do properly to mock the lads who’re forcing themselves into girls’s areas and stealing their alternatives. It might be edgier, and funnier and admittedly, the jokes type of write themselves. I imply, keep in mind Jim Carrey as Vero De Milo on “In Residing Coloration,” one other comedy sketch present that ran earlier than “The Man Present,” from 1990-1994.
It was humorous as a result of it was grounded in an absurd fact: feminine athletes within the Nineteen Eighties had been taking performance-enhancing medication and steroids they usually appeared, fairly clearly, enhanced. Carrey’s De Milo was a steroid-abusing feminine bodybuilder with a conspicuously flat chest and an unnaturally deep voice.
State-produced artwork is dangerous as a result of its aim is to assist a regime’s ideology and insurance policies, to not make us snigger or assume or really feel one thing. Look no additional than Russian-backed movies post-1917 revolution and Nazi-sponsored “artwork” within the Nineteen Thirties and Nineteen Forties.
Kimmel, as a frontman for the Democrats, is now not humorous. He would possibly do properly to take a cue from these previous Carrey skits. As a result of Will/Lia Thomas appears an entire lot like De Milo and the absurdity of Thomas competing within the girls’s class is definitely mocked.
And whereas he’s at it, he would possibly think about jeering on the of us who’ve purchased into the “trans girls are girls” cult hook line and sinker. However that will be him, so it appears an unlikely path.
Jennifer Sey is an creator, filmmaker, former Model President at Levi’s and founding father of XX-XY Athletics, the one athletic model that stands up for girls’s sports activities. Her subsequent movie, “Technology COVID,” examines the injury achieved to youngsters as a result of prolonged pandemic lockdowns.
