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 – ladies, boobs and beer – whereas mocking grown males for being such frat-boy louts.
It all the time ended with ladies 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 ‘honest 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 snort. And let’s be trustworthy, it largely 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 Dwell!,” 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 Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments (NIAID) and the face of COVID-19 coverage, about needing to make “robust decisions” about who will get healthcare and who doesn’t. Fauci stated/fear-mongered that since hospitals had been operating out of house in intensive care items, care would have to be rationed.
“That selection doesn’t appear so robust to me. Vaccinated particular person having a coronary heart assault? Sure, come proper in. We’ll handle 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 faculty shooters and murderers of all varieties, however select to not get vaccinated for COVID-19? No remedy for you!
Though it was totally clear at that time limit that the COVID vaccine didn’t cease an infection or transmission, Kimmel felt that should you refused it, it was an act of defiance so egregious you deserved to be refused medical remedy.
That is, briefly, the view of the Democratic Celebration nowadays – 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 12 months in the past, I might’ve stated I’m hoping to indicate individuals who aren’t listening to the information what’s truly happening, and hoping to alter issues that manner. Clearly, that didn’t have sufficient affect 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 in opposition to “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 will eat them.
Is that this the analogy Kimmel desires to make? Apparently, sure.
He additionally says that that Republicans beneath Trump’s management simply give attention to area of interest points that actually don’t have an effect on anybody.
“I simply don’t perceive how People can help 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’ll be able to say it impacts nobody however that isn’t the case. In keeping with hecheated.org:
“Males collaborating in ladies’s sports activities, together with male athletes who name themselves “ladies,” “transwomen,” “intersex ladies,” and “nonbinary,” have gained over 3,820 feminine athletic competitions (excluding non-tournament group victories.) Together with all group sport matches, they’ve gained over 7,952 “ladies’s” athletic occasions. This can be a extreme undercount as many athletes on the listing have but to be researched, info 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 girl competing in opposition to 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 informed to take a seat down, be quiet and simply settle for males dominating their sports activities, they be taught that the emotions 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 boys who act like drooling idiots on the sight of a scantily-clad girl is the other. However this motion to permit males to compete in ladies’s sports activities and invade their non-public areas is probably the most sexist motion possible.
It’s misogyny in a costume. And it’s nonetheless misogyny.
Kimmel may do properly to mock the boys who’re forcing themselves into ladies’s areas and stealing their alternatives. It will be edgier, and funnier and admittedly, the jokes form of write themselves. I imply, keep in mind Jim Carrey as Vero De Milo on “In Dwelling Shade,” 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 Eighties had been taking performance-enhancing medicine and steroids and so they 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 unhealthy as a result of its objective is to help a regime’s ideology and insurance policies, to not make us snort or suppose 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 not humorous. He may do properly to take a cue from these outdated Carrey skits. As a result of Will/Lia Thomas seems to be an entire lot like De Milo and the absurdity of Thomas competing within the ladies’s class is well mocked.
And whereas he’s at it, he may take into account jeering on the of us who’ve purchased into the “trans ladies are ladies” cult hook line and sinker. However that will be him, so it appears an unlikely path.
An earlier model of this text featured the unsuitable title for Dr. Fauci.
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 ladies’s sports activities. Her subsequent movie, “Era COVID,” examines the injury achieved to kids because of the prolonged pandemic lockdowns.