Jimmy Kimmel flexed his free speech rights on Comedy Central’s “The Man Present.”
Did he ever.
The sequence let Kimmel and co-star Adam Carolla crack sensible from a decidedly male viewpoint. One notorious sketch? The present arrange a pretend stand asking passers-by to decry ladies’s suffrage.
Some didn’t notice the phrase meant a girl’s proper to vote. Kimmel additionally repeatedly donned “blackface” to imitate Oprah Winfrey and Karl Malone.
We get an evening filled with Jimmy Kimmel lecturing conservatives.
Sure, this Jimmy Kimmel of Karl Malone blackface fame pic.twitter.com/HRa8oN8IQh
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) March 5, 2018
Now, Kimmel walks in lockstep with the Left. Which means he’s ignored serial assaults on free speech over the previous decade.
Generally, the folks being silenced have been conservatives. In different circumstances, he seemed the opposite manner as his fellow Leftists canceled artists for “problematic” materials, censored traditional books or bullied creators into memory-holing their materials.
He didn’t care that fellow comics discovered their faraway from social media, or that the Biden administration teamed with Huge Tech platforms to crush dissent.
And let’s not neglect The Twitter Information.
He both didn’t know or didn’t care about the entire above. That’s unforgivable, particularly for somebody in his place. Oh, and we shouldn’t dismiss his silence throughout the Cancel Tradition period.
Cryin’ Jimmy Kimmel is attempting to distance himself from cancel tradition. @KatiePavlich: “Jimmy Kimmel was completely wonderful with folks getting canceled as long as they have been folks he didn’t like pic.twitter.com/OGjGydaYTE
— The 5 (@TheFive) April 19, 2025
However now … now he’s involved about free speech.
Why?
Fellow late-night Leftist Stephen Colbert misplaced his gig after costing his father or mother firm a literal fortune. Kimmel dismissed experiences that “The Late Present” was setting CBS again $40 million a yr, although nobody has credibly disputed the declare.
No, Kimmel is aware of the actual purpose Colbert obtained canned, ignoring the truth that CBS is canceling “The Late Present” in toto, not simply its host, beginning Could 2026.
It’s all President Donald Trump’s fault. After all. Word: It’s unclear if Kimmel wept throughout some or the entire interview.
I feel we have been all shocked and disillusioned that this sort of factor is going on in America, and in addition disillusioned that we don’t see extra folks on the appropriate stepping up and saying, “Hey, that is no good.” Silencing comedians, commentators, no matter you wish to name folks… I’ve to say, if Joe Biden had used his muscle to get Sean Hannity kicked off the air, chances are you’ll be stunned to study that I might not assist that. I might, actually, assist Sean Hannity in that state of affairs, as a result of I assumed one of many founding rules of this nation was free speech. However folks don’t appear to care about defending it except you agree with them.
(Folks like Jimmy Kimmel…)
Strive as they may, no media outlet has efficiently tied “The Late Present’s” cancellation to President Trump. It’s all hypothesis by media retailers determined to attach these dots.
They failed. And meaning Kimmel is spreading Pretend Information. Once more.
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To be truthful, Kimmel has loads of firm on free speech hypocrisy.
Websites like Selection stood down as free speech suffered physique blow upon physique blow, together with the resilience of the Hollywood Blacklist 2.0. That holds for different leisure media retailers.
Mentioned retailers have stated little about Jewish entertainers (Brett Gelman, Michael Rapaport, Matisyahu) getting canceled by pro-Palestinian bullies for being pro-Israel or just Jewish.
Kimmel ignores their plight as nicely, regardless of having a broadcast platform on a serious TV community.
Why? He can’t tie the free speech assaults to President Trump. That’s why.
Some free speech hero.
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