jimmy kimmel show. classic, no?

anyway, i caught it by accident and was really, really pleasantly surprised. he's very funny, and he's been taking some real risks with the show.

i think adam corrolla is pretty much a comic genius. doesn't the etymology of 'genius' have to do with having a little 'spirit' inside of you? well, i think he's got that going on...he's got the very 'spirit' of humor inside him. he's one of those people who says something that makes you laugh almost everytime he opens his mouth. there's something very funny about his very attitude, his mere presence. the guy exudes funny. maybe some people don't like him because they just associate him with 'loveline' or 'the man show', and they think all of his humor is puerile and scatalogical...but, it's not at all; he makes very brilliant observations life and his mind is very quick and always going in unanticipated directions & making unexpected connections.

In conclusion, Jimmy is the modern day Chevy Chase of late night, minus the crippling fear. In its place, insert ingorant bliss.

However, I do like the intro to the show!

no

I like to imagine that Jimmy Kimmel is really Edward G. Robinson's good-for-nothing grandson. Maybe E.G. Robinson disinherited him and his ambitions are related to trying to make good with his life finally. Idk

Someone sent me some sketch he had on his show where they had kids act out the Kanye BBC interview and it was like the unfunniest thing ever. I mean they played the real clip first, which was actually fucking hilarious, and THEN they played the kids reading the SAME PART, and i couldn't even understand them. He intro'd it really badly too, maybe just bc he's not funny or maybe because he knew the sketch sucked.

his ratio of funny stuff to painful unfunny stuff is much higher than any other late night host imo. the "lie witness news" segments are great

I don't get Lie Witness News. "Look at these full of shit 21-year-olds, aren't they full of shit? haw haw fashion is STUPID" Kimmel is too smug to be funny

i dont think its so much "fasion is stupid" as it is watching people straight up make up shit on the spot because they think it'll help them get on TV

The thing that really annoyed me about his lead-in, and it was subtle but I feel like it says a lot about him, is that he felt this need to "explain" the bit. It was like he was trying to do a "zany, conan-style" bit, but doesn't really get zany. That's sort of the vibe I get from him generally, that he's this rigidly "regular guy" type who either doesn't completely understand things that are "weird" or doesn't have the guts to get close to them.

Both times I've watched Lie Witness News the lead-in was "look at these losers claiming to be big fans of something that doesn't exist," and both times it was a slap-chop editing job that amounted to "Q: are you a big fan of this not-existent thing? A: sure."

they say a lot more than "sure". but to each their own

either way Kanye's reaction to all this is really the funny bit

Recently discovered Mean Tweets -- funny bit

Guillermo Rodriguez > Larry "Bud" Melman

wow the early posts in this thread are something

One of my favorite sports columnists (Bill Simmons, ESPN online) works on this show now = classic
― luna (luna.c), Friday, April 25, 2003 2:16 AM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. 2003!

It was at least semi interesting to see the post Trump victory Lie Witness Newses, possibly in the vacuum of having watched it before that. Did wonder how spontaneous they were. But if that is the clued-in ness of the person in the street it does make you wonder if there is any hope.

luna bill simmons lol

this segment was pretty chilling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QY5pLQqIYM

feel like this sort of thing has been done in the past, where hardline right-wingers get confronted with "well do you think THIS person should be deported?" and they start walking stuff back and getting all sheepish. now in the age of Trump we have people willing to stare someone in the face and tell them directly that they ought to be deported to a place they have no memory of and have their family broken up. kinda puts those "hey lets just find some common ground" articles the NYT constantly churns out in perspective

THE LAW IS THE LAW

feel like this experiment did not go as planned

in the age of Trump we have people willing to stare someone in the face and tell them directly that they ought to be deported to a place they have no memory

and treated like heroes by a pretty powerful echo chamber for doing so. it's fucking gross. not sure how you counter it.

know this: within 6 months that 87% support for DACA will be whittled down to 50%, just like every single other issue in this shithole country

xp they're 'standing up for what they believe in'

people must feel inconceivably put upon to admire anyone who dares to do so

That's Why Poison is America's Band!

Those two red-hatted guys are just so incredibly mean, and the woman in the back right ("I lost my eye") actually seems intent on enacting Hammurabi's Code at that particular moment.

wow the first posts in this thread speak to a whole different brand of basic. bill simmons, lol

sorry for repeating myself. i just can’t believe that one half of the fucking man show is the smug face of the resistance

The Man Show was terrible, but Kimmel grew up and became a real live person while Adam Carolla never did. In fact, he may even be immeasurably worse now.

These mf'ing people in that video. It's heroic work to try to take the time to consider their viewpoints.

feel like this experiment did not go as planned

it pretty much went the same way all my dumb FB arguments on this go

"I'm not anti immigration, I just want immigrants who are educated, will pay taxes, and aren't criminals..."
"Okay, here is a set of immigrants who are all those things, plus ineligible for many government benefits"
"But they didn't do their paperwork correctly"

btw how unsurprising that "THE LAW IS THE LAW" only applies until some redhatter decides, apropos of nothing, that said law was actually "unconstitutional" and therefore shouldn't count

Those two red-hatted guys are just so incredibly mean, and the woman in the back right ("I lost my eye") actually seems intent on enacting Hammurabi's Code at that particular moment.

she's kind of the perfect Republican isn't she? where "I went without healthcare for 15 years and lost an eye" is not an argument for universal healthcare but rather another reason why we ought to dehumanize brown people

Kimmel did a hell of a lot more to fight ACA repeal than just about any other celebrity, or politician for that matter. certainly I doubt he would have been so outspoken if he hadn't dealt with a medical calamity in his own family so recently but I don't recall him coming across as smug at any point. then again, I don't actually watch his show.

It's interesting to see MAGA people backed into a corner. Instead of reflecting on the reason they believe they instead just get extremely stubborn because not backing down is all that matters. Their role model does not ever concede in any situation either. It's like arguing with a picket sign.

xp don't forget that Bill Cassidy paraded around on talk shows claiming that any GOP health plan would absolutely pass the "Jimmy Kimmel test", then wrote a bill that would hit these kids' lifetime caps by the time they were 2 years old. I don't really see Jimmy Kimmel as a guy who wants to get political on his show, but come on.

Th only way to believe a lot of the things the MAGA crew believe is to almost compartmentalize and just hold tight to asshole convictions. Shit like "the law is the law" gives them cover, like Trump himself saying "I promised to do this awful thing when I was running, so I have no choice but to keep my promise."

kinda makes you feel a little for bad faith, it's come in for so much more abuse in their hands than we thought possible

Not this, but still basically this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7s-_e8

I love that video so much. I wish I could make my dad say those things.

"the law is the law!" stuff always makes me think of Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning

reminds me of the term in moral philosophy, 'superstitious rule worship'

"The minute she came over the border, overstayed, whatever it was: illegal."

He's treating her as though, given that she's crossed into this other category, there's just nothing more to be said.

reiterating what maura said but the discrepancy between the beginning of this thread in 2003 and the bump today is so hilarious

oh man ive said a lot of embarrassing things on this board but calling corolla a genius is def the most embarrassing

yea but like I mentioned - when Jimmy points out that she *is* legally here the one red hatter's immediate reaction is to say "well that was unconstitutional!" so...the law is the law, which is whatever I say it is

what's the timestamp on that? i can't watch the whole segment it's too sickening

xxp yeah I used to love Carolla's show, but he turned into such a reactionary dick. Haven't listened in years...

i just can’t believe that one half of the fucking man show is the smug face of the resistance

I find his comedy kind of smarmy, too, but is his political material really that smug? From the segments I've seen, it's pretty down to earth and grounded in common values and basic decency. Seemed much more approachable that like Colbert/Oliver/Meyers, guys who sorta sneer at anybody who doesn't share their worldview and mostly choir preach

ny ppl hate la talk show hosts

how weird is it that Jimmy Kimmel wound up being the woke one while Ben Stein turned out to be dumb as hell

kimmel was a philosophy major, ben stein was an econ major, qed

i was a math major, qed

his monologue last night on the Nunes memo was pretty good. he's better than Colbert and Meyers at this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhNThHNmUCQ

This is a good public service but man that "little foreigner" sidekick thing is cheap and ugly

lol i mean that's the absurdity of late night talk shows now being half polemic and half... fucking dumb shit that's made to be played in empty greyhound stations at 3am

also like... little foreigner isn't how i see it. it's hollywood. there are mexicans. some are actually funny and should be on tv.

how weird is it that Jimmy Kimmel wound up being the woke one while Ben Stein turned out to be dumb as hell

― frogbs, Thursday, February 1, 2018 1:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ben Stein was a Nixon speechwriter!!!

xp is that guy funny, though? That line out of Andy Richter or Ed McMahon or whatever would have landed flat. Letterman used to run with this trope a lot, and more recently Chelsea Handler doubled down w/ a Mexican dwarf. I wouldn't find it so condescending if they gave these guys any good material, but basically they just nod and it brings the house down.

Guillermo is funny though

ok TBF I haven't seen it enough

Kimmels interview with stormy was super creepy

i guess this is as good a place as any to post but: looool Adam Corolla is on some NO SAFE SPACES TOUR DURRRR with Dennis fucking Prager. my god.