I’m no fan of late night comedy or even comedians for that matter, although years ago I found myself admiring Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Carlin, though born into an Irish Catholic family, mocked religious belief as a stand-up comedian and claimed he didn’t believe in God.
Despite this personal glitch, Carlin, who died in 2008 — way before woke comedians became afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome — was never predictable as a comedian. He never talked or joked about the same politician over and over and over again until it became his main schlock.
He never had much to say about Donald Trump, either, aside from his 1998 comment that he thought the man was a “rat” (he compared him to hotel mogul Leona Helmsley) yet at the same time Carlin insisted that Trump made “his life more interesting.”
I’m reminded of political satirist Mort Sahl, who was contracted by Joseph P. Kennedy to write jokes for JFK’s 1960 presidential campaign, and who later turned on JFK after the election when he made jokes about his administration. That ended quickly when Joseph P. Kennedy sent out an order to Sahl to cease and desist – or else.
Hilariously funny comedians are now a rare breed, thanks to the spread of woke comedy. In comedy clubs you can no longer make jokes about gay people, trans people, feminists, the Asian predilection for gambling and casinos, black people or handicapped people without that coming across as hate speech — this despite the fact that a talented comedian should be able to find something funny in all the aforementioned groups (and their behaviors) without that coming across as an “incentive” to organize a lynch mob or burn a KKK cross.
One notable exception to this long-term trend is the outrageous comedy of Ben Bankas, an active Toronto-born conservative comedian who travels the world with his hilarious take-downs of No Kings Day, BLM, transphobia, and illegal migrants. Bankas continues to attract wide audiences, and recently hosted a show in King of Prussia. Liberals repeatedly try to get Bankas banned from their towns. In a sense, you could call him the new Lenny Bruce.
Late night talk show “comedians” like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are not funny in the way that Bankas is funny, but tend to bank their entire careers on demonizing Republicans and especially Donald Trump. If Trump wasn’t president, they’d have nothing to talk about.
Kimmel is far worse than Colbert, but Colbert is no prize either. Both men attract audiences that are obnoxiously woke. Recently, when NPR’s Terry Gross appeared on Colbert in an all-black leather outfit – Terry just loves Stephen – the Philly commentary on WHYY social media posts went wild with admiration. Anyone who dared comment on Gross’s odd black leather outfit was immediately called out by other WHYY employees. “Terry Gross is sacred!” they chimed. (That may be true, but black leather rarely looks good on anybody.)
Kimmel, a 56-year old Irish Catholic from Brooklyn, New York — his Catholicism is highly suspect, as it’s said he hasn’t gone to church in years besides being pro-abortion and gender ideology — has climbed the ranks of popularity in Hollywood to achieve a kind of idol-hood among socialist-leaning audiences. Colbert, who is also Roman Catholic, subscribes to all the pagan policies of the Democratic Party. Yet Kimmel outdoes Colbert in partisan venal-lipped insults, while making no secret of his struggles with narcolepsy even though he’s never fallen asleep while slamming Trump. Trump is Kimmel’s life.
Kimmel’s “thing” with politics and distaste for Republicans goes way back to 2011 when Huff Post published a video of him talking with kids about politics. We see Kimmel asking a small group of underage 10 kids, “What’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans?”
These being Los Angeles kids, it’s easy to guess what’s coming.
An obviously coached young boy raises his hand and declares, “A Democrat is someone who wants a government to help people. A Republican is somebody who doesn’t want to.”
Huff Post in fact has detailed nearly every single Jimmy Kimmel anti-Republican rant and framed it into a series of articles. These pieces often come with accompanying videos.
But scroll to 2018 and you’ll see Huff Post articles on how Kimmel offended liberals.
This occurred during a public feud with Sean Hannity because of Hannity’s support for Trump.
Hannity called Kimmel a “despicable disgrace” because of jokes he made about Melania Trump’s accent and her grasp of the English language.
Kimmel then went on to talk about erections.
“When your clown makeup rubs off on Trump’s ass, does it make his butt look like a Creamsicle,” Kimmel tweeted on April 6, 2018.
When Hannity tweeted back a defense, Kimmel responded:
“Don't worry – just keep tweeting – you'll get back on top! (or does Trump prefer you on bottom?) Either way, keep your chin up big fella.”
This is sophomoric humor at its worst, yet liberals pointed out — and rightly so — that the progressive causes that people like Kimmel pretend to support (LGBT) go out the window when it comes time to tweet quips using gay sex to “tarnish” an opponent’s sense of honor if the opponent happens to be a conservative. Woke liberals do this all the time.
This is a magnificent illustration of the hypocrisy of liberals who vote “yes” on equity issues involving gender, trans, and gay issues but who then react like bullies when “the gay becomes personal.”
In another instance, Hannity revamped a skit from Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” where Kimmel asks different women to touch his privates, and titled it “Harvey Weinstein Jr.”
So here we have Kimmel thinking it's cool to do a comedy sketch about touching all the women he can while getting on Trump’s case about his infamous “grab them” statement.
Kimmel later apologized for these slurs, but he did so only because the mood of the culture is decidedly pro-LGBT. What other choice did he have? Imagine losing your vast Hollywood audience if the true (homophobic) Kimmel were revealed.
When Kimmel was taken off the air for a few days in 2025 because of his crude Charlie Kirk comments, I had high hopes this would be the end of him. It was not, sadly.
The square-faced bearded shanty Irishman was right back in front of the television cameras with his anti-Trump rants before sane people had time to properly celebrate.
