WEBVTT - Jimmy Kimmel Has Found His Calling. Maybe It’s Not Comedy. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:06.160 Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, September twenty fourth. Jimmy 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.360 Kimball is back and I don't know how he could 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.799 have nailed that any better. And with that, welcome to 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:14.720 this episode of Amy and TJ. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:15.600 Robes. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.920 You like them, you don't like them, you love them, 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.759 you hate them, you're indifferent. Yeah, you gotta kind of 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.560 give him credit for what he put together last night, which, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.319 to some degree, Robes made him a national leader and 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.000 a national voice in the midst of all this upheaval. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:40.000 Absolutely, he is the voice of the freedom of speech, 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.120 the one of the basic rights we have here in 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.400 America that makes us America. I can't imagine the pressure 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.200 that he must have felt to get it right, but man, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.920 did he get it right. I was blown away at 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.440 his ability to navigate all of the different emotions surrounding 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.760 first of all, what he's said last week, and then 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:06.280 what ABC decided to do, and how the Trump administration 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.160 has literally declared war against him, and he managed to 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.080 validate how the other side feels while at the same 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.920 time not apologizing for the joke he made. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.000 And again, everybody, you're up on this by now, you 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.559 know he got suspended. If you will last week after 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.000 he made comments that were deemed insensitive about the assassination 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.800 of Charlie Kirk, under pressure from Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.039 who went on a podcast and said, hey, maybe we 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.080 need to be looking into Kimmel and whatnot. Well, they 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.520 ended up suspending him. That was a threat. It seemed 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.720 of taking away the broadcast license of ABC. So they, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.800 in a lot of people's view, caved to pressure took 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.360 him off the air, had negotiations, had talked. He comes 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.960 back last night. Now. The monologue of the opening was 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.560 a little longer than normally, actually had a commercial break 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.080 in there as well. We'll tell you what happened after 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.320 that commercial break. Robert de Niro was involved. It was hilarious, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.440 but he started out. I wasn't sure Robes what necessarily 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:12.840 I was expecting, but I appreciated how he started it started. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:17.519 The show started by showing several video clips of news 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.240 outlets covering what happened and how serious it was. And 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.920 it's about freedom of speech and fights going on in 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.240 the country and politics, and Jimmy Kimmel is a very 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.080 important monologue. Everybody's gonna be wanting all these news clips 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.680 and then it cut to him and Guermo sitting in 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.000 a chair. He's wearing a banana suit and Jimmy Gimmel's 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.440 wearing a big bear costume. They look at each other 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:39.320 that maybe we should. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.480 Change it was a good start. We're not dressed for 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.800 this kind of like also, like, we're just doing comedy here, folks, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.240 you know. And he even said something to that effect 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.320 that the show is not important, but what it stands for. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.200 To be able to make fun of our leaders, to 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.440 be able to have parody and satire and not fear 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.400 any sort of retribution, that is what's important. So I mean, yes, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.320 in that sense, he was mocking the fact that this 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.280 is a show about comedy. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.600 Perious he was. I thought that was a nice tone, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.919 and I even wondered in that moment, Okay, maybe he's 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.280 going to be a little sillier and funnier and make 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.280 this lighter. And it actually wasn't. He did have a 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.600 couple of lines at the beginning. I thought this was 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.160 good ropes. He just opened with, as I was saying 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.920 before I was interrupted, that's just well done. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:30.480 It is well done. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.160 He starts that way. The other line, it was very timely. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.880 He said, I'm not sure if who had a weird 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.720 or twenty four hours me or the guy is the 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:39.680 CEO of Todenhall. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.800 Again, very timely, very funny, we talk very effective. That 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:44.960 was amazing, but. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.040 It wasn't it remarkable to hear he and he listed 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:53.240 them by name late night comedians, current past, oh geez. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.840 He even mentioned Arsenio Hall. He said all of them 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:56.920 have reached out to him. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.000 And that was really cool to hear because they banned 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.840 with him immediately. And he talked about the others who 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.040 came to support him from the other side of the aisle. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.680 He talked about conservatives who reached out to him who 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.960 don't necessarily agree with what he has to say or 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.880 how he says it, but absolutely unequivocally support his right 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.320 to say it period. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.760 The that mentioned. I wonder how that's received. There are 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.640 a lot of people who don't like his views and 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.800 conservatives and fine, but I wonder how that landed for 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.520 a conservative to say that, I thank you as well, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.599 because you were pissed about it as well. I just 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.839 wonder if if it felt like a bridge of any 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.480 kind between Jimmy Kimmel and any conservatives or not. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.480 Well, I would hope it would, because to me, this 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:48.400 isn't a Democrat or Republican ideology. To have the ability 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.560 to speak freely, to be able to make fun up, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.560 to satire the president. That has been a long standing 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.200 tradition and form of entertainment honestly in this country for 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.120 as long as I can remember. So how would you 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.240 be against that? And I also thought it was interesting 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.840 he showed President Trump clips of him talking about how 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.320 important the First Amendment was, how important the freedom of 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.760 speech is. So for any lawmaker who is a conservative 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.200 or a Republican, that is the stand I would think 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.000 you would want to be, or the side you would 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.360 want to be on the side of free speech. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.159 Oh, we heard it plenty on Sunday during Charlie Kirk's memorial. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.800 People outside, people inside, the freedom of speech. He was 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.800 shot because of something somebody didn't like that. He said, 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.040 this is the argument you're making on that side. It 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.880 applies to both sides. Yes, that was speech that re 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.320 bolted and that made some man go crazy and want 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.080 to shoot you. But we're talking about this idea that 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.400 you should not be persecuted, whether it's a bullet or 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.400 it's a broadcast license. You cannot be threatened like this 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.159 because of what you say. And the President has made 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.960 it plain as day. I don't like his jokes about 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.239 so I'm going to take his broadcast license. He says 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.520 that out loud. He's not necessarily trying to hide that fact. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.520 And it's interesting because Kimmel even spoke to that point 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.159 specifically talking about the SEC chairman. He's like the things 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.080 he said, you would think would have been said in 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.160 a van with a wire tap, with authorities trying to 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.520 get you on tape, saying something you know you shouldn't, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.920 versus saying it publicly and proudly on a podcast that 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.240 was that's kind of insane when you think about it. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.839 How can you have an administration who says, and I agree. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.560 We watched it and we were shaking our heads during 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.840 the Kirk Memorial to Charlie Kirk Memorial where they were 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.760 touting free speech and the importance of it. We agree 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.960 with that one hundred percent. And absolutely it is disgusting 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.279 to see people take violent action, or to even take 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.680 action where you are costing folks their paychecks. Either way, yes, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.720 they're both egregious, and to say the one is bad 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.840 and the other is okay, doesn't make any sense because 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.839 we're still talking about the same thing, the right to 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:06.800 speak freely. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.400 And this is when But Jimmy, I think this was 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.239 the crux. This was the line, I guess, the meat 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.040 of what he was saying. He got to it just 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.480 a couple of minutes in. It didn't take up too 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.200 long to get to it, but the entire buntal it 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.520 was almost half hour with the commercial break. But he 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.119 said that it was important to me as a human. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.200 He's talking about what he was about to say. It 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.160 was important for him to make this point. He said, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.480 it was never my intention to make a light of 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.360 the murder of a young man. At that point, Jimmy 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.200 did he got choked up, and I think a lot 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.880 of us have. I don't care who you are. I 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.800 think at some point in the past two weeks, every 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:50.280 single person watching covering or talking about that story is 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.520 probably shed a tear. And I don't know how you 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.040 could watch that memorial service and listen to Erica Kirk 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.960 and listen to some other folks and not shed a 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.000 tear or be upset or emotional about the death of Charlie. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.320 And you could see it in that moment. This wasn't performative. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.240 It wasn't anything else but a guy who was struggling 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.200 to keep speaking quite frankly in that moment. He continued. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.480 Then he said, I posted a message on Instagram the 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.679 day he was killed and sent love to his family, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.320 asking for compassion, and meant it and I still do. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.560 It was never my intention to blame a specific group. Obviously, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.640 it was a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.880 opposite of the point I was trying to make. But 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.319 I understand to some that that felt either ill timed 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.600 or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who think 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.520 I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.360 If the situation were reversed, there's a good chance I 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:46.240 would have felt the same way. That was that's better 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.320 than an I'm sorry, I apologize if I upset you. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:51.200 That's a nonce. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.640 That's no good and thank goodness, he didn't say. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.280 That I apologize, even if he said I apologize for 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.120 upsetting you. Instead, what he said, I get it. I 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.440 would be upset to if I were in your shoes. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.160 That was meaningful, yes. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.560 But it was important for him to explain that that 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.920 wasn't his intention and It didn't feel like some hollow defense. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.000 It felt authentic, and it felt you could tell. I mean, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.480 I just think you can tell when it comes from 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.560 the heart, and you could tell that he was deeply 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:22.440 moved by the killing of Charlie Kirk and then by 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.280 being blamed for something he didn't intend. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.200 I think that's good way. But he didn't come across defensive. No, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.160 I need to come up here with excuses or explain. Well, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.640 let me. He didn't feel like that at all. I 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:32.920 didn't think about that until this moment. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.520 No, And it didn't feel like he was patronizing or 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.600 he was being snarky in any of those moments. It 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.000 really did feel genuine and that's why it landed. It 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.679 really landed to listen to him. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.719 He spoke as well, and I know there were good 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.280 folks on both sides. He spoke about the close friends 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.360 he has that are conservatives, but he went through this, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.679 he said, I get threats, My family gets threat staff 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.439 gets threats, and he said, I know those don't come 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.679 from people like the ones I know who are conservatives Republicans. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.120 He used that as a way of saying, I know 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.480 it ain't all of you. And I thought that was 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.480 an interesting way and gave some insight. I mean, I 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.800 don't really think about it necessarily, but it makes sense 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:10.760 that he would get threats. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.160 I hadn't considered that at all, but obviously now you 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.680 can see where this happens. It seems to almost all 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.440 politicians and certainly outspoken ones, but yes, comedians, anyone who 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.679 shares a political belief. Now, at this point it feels 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.640 like the climate we're in in this country, you are 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.200 honestly or in some way putting your life on the line. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.000 It's a scary thing to get a threat like that, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.880 and to have real examples of people, certain individuals, carrying 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.680 out those threats, or at least attempting to. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.040 He continued spoke about I think we missed at the top, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.360 said he heard from yes comedians and thinks a lot. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:48.760 But he said he heard from a lot of comedians 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.679 and late night comedians all over the world about this. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.000 It was my favorite line, at least of the night 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.360 last night, when he talked about hearing from a comedian 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.520 of someone in Germany who actually offered him a job. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:06.040 Can imagine that somebody in Germany robes looking over at 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.840 us and saying, Wow, things have gotten really authoritarian over there. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.800 Why don't you come to Germany? He made that joke. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.480 That is a poignant, historical and hilarious Jokey. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:18.600 I agree, I agree. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:20.800 I love that. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.000 He talked about how comedians and other countries before this 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.440 happened would reach out to him and say, man, if 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.040 I said what you said, I would be behind bars, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.640 I would be jailed. And he said he took that 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.440 for granted until now. And here's what I love what 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.640 he said afterwards. It is un American to pull a 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:46.520 show off the air because you've upset the president. He 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.360 doesn't like what you said. It is un American, and 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.000 that is evident when you look at what happens to 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.400 other comedians around the world, and so for us to 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.560 start doing that same thing, that takes away who we 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:01.520 are as a country. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.400 He did. I mean, he made a good point about 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.680 the plan backfiring. You want to do silence Jimmy Kimmel 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.520 more people, we sweeart, we haven't. We love Jimmy, but 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:12.840 we don't stay up and watch Jimmy. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.120 Have we don't wake up and watch Jimmy. 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.600 No, we haven't watched the monologue of hisn't quite some time. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.360 We did watch this one, yes, And a lot of 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.800 people did. And so he made the argument, yeah, your 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.280 plan just backfire. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:23.520 Now. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.480 Some of his some of his best jokes and some 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.160 of his hardest hits were directed at Brendan Carr, of course, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.480 the FCC chairman, who really set a lot of this 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.839 in motion. Stay here, we'll tell you who. He had 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.800 come in and do a cameo as the FCC chair 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.400 that was absolutely hilarious and what I thought, there was 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.839 another line that was the funniest. But there's another line 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.640 we're going to share that I believe is possibly the 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.880 hardest hitting line and the one we need to be 0:12:54.920 --> 0:13:06.480 paying attention to most. We continue now here on this 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.880 episode of Amy and TJ. Jimmy is back, and Jimmy 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.679 is back in a big wage. Jimmy did his thing 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.920 last night, Jimmy Kimmel in his monologue that went about 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.320 almost a half hour. He split it into commercial breaks. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.760 But one of the he put a commercial break in 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.040 between us, you'd say, but one of the things he did, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.440 he had a lot. He had a lot directed at 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.079 Brendan Carr, the FCC chair who set this off. And 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.800 you're right, Brodie, you mentioned that line he had about 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.440 like you don't say this stuff out loud, No, do this, 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.480 And I think Ted Cruz is the one said this 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.440 is mafioso stuff. It's like you you walk into a 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.280 neighborhood bar and say, yo, be a shamed something happened 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:43.760 to this place. 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.280 Yeah, you make it. You can make We can do 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.079 this the easy way, we can do this the hard way. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.560 It's your choice. I mean literally, it was like a 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.200 mob boss or a Snoop. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.840 Dogg album, you remember that from Doggy Style. He said, 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.920 we can handleist like some gentlemen, and we can get 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.600 into some gangster shit that is a very mine from Snoop. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.960 That's what he sounded like. This is the yes, yes, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.280 take this out back. Oh you just want to what 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:11.200 the hell? 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.720 We can do things New York style if you'd like. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.240 So he went after Brendon Carry actually called what was 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:22.080 the line? He called him, uh, this idiot genius? Okay, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:23.840 sorry sorry sorry. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.080 Well yes, because it was a sarcastic genius. This genius 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.200 said it on a podcast. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.440 But he had someone come in so they had an 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.680 appearance by the FCC chairman last night on the show. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.560 Jemmy said, hey, joining us now, and sure enough, it 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.400 cuts and he's doing an interview with the new FCC chairman, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.240 who happens to be the guy Robes, who he might 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:50.640 be the most famous television or movie mobster. He's just 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.520 known for being this guy. I thought it was a 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:55.000 good Joe. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.400 It was amazing because at first you're like, wait, what 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.880 are we watching here? But yes, Robert Gennaro says, I 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.920 I am the new chairman of the FCC. Oh, and 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.720 he just goes on dropping all sorts of expletives F bombs, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.680 and Jimmy Kimmel's like you can't say this, Like, yes 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.000 I can. I'm the f ing FCC chairman. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.040 He went on and on, and they bleeped and bleeped, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.640 and I thought that obviously, uh, the Niro is great 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:25.560 at this, but the idea that the FCC having a 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.800 new slogan was my favorite part of this. He said, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.480 here at the FCC, the Niro is saying this, here 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.200 at the FCC, we have a new slogan is sticks 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.800 and stones may break my bones. And then you just stopped. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.800 Jimmy's like, what's the rest of it? That's just it 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.040 sticks and stones break bone. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.240 I thought that I thought that words can ever hurt you. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.680 He's like, that's not happening anymore. And then he went 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.080 in to give examples about what jokes would be acceptable 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.400 and what jokes would not be acceptable, which I thought 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.440 was very funny. He said, if you want to talk 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.360 about how the president's hair, you know, is thick and beautiful, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.000 If you want to talk about how no one can 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.320 do his makeup any better than him, yes, you free 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:04.800 to do that. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.920 He could do his makeup better than any broad. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.080 Yes, okay, fine, I didn't want to say broad, but 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.280 you're right, yes, he worse. And and then he said, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.760 but if you want to do a joke about how 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.520 he's so fat that he needs two seats on an 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.440 Epstein chet, well, then Kimmel said what would that cost me? 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.000 And did he say a couple of fingers and he 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.240 named some body parts, Yes he did. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.280 But de Niro did his thing still robes the the moment, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.840 I guess that's a special moment when he did acknowledge 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.600 Erica Kirk and that he had watched what she did 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.240 on Sunday really a remarkable speech and eulogy to her husband, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.760 and he said that's an example we should all follow. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.120 But he I think he was I think you couldn't 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.880 help but be stirred. But he talked about how that 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.800 really affected him deeply hearing her. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.440 Yes, he said that Erica Kirk is and showed herself 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.960 to be an example that we can all follow. He said, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.120 if you believe in the teachings of Jesus like I do, 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.280 then it was a selfless act of grace. And he 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.119 said it touched me deeply. And when he said it 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.960 touched me deeply, his voice cracked. He did begin to 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.040 start to cry. So he said, if there's anything we 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.640 can take away from this tragedy, I hope it's that, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.719 and that is we want. You know, you said yesterday 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.280 you were hoping he would find some way to bring 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.040 some sort of unity, to bring us together. He can 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.919 still have some fun, still have some laughs, he can 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.560 still be upset about what happened to him and Trump's 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.960 influence over ABC News, and yet at the same time, 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.560 can we find some common ground? And he did it. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.040 He did it with Erica Kirk. He did it by 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:42.200 sharing his his concern and his emotions surrounding the death 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.560 of Charlie Kirk. That's something we can all feel together 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.280 as humans. And he really brought it home with that. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.520 I think. I think the bringing home he did for 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:56.880 me with the line about the silver lining in all 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.760 this is that we find something we can all agree on. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.119 And that's rare that we do that here in this country. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.280 Oftentimes tragedy brings us together. It seems like the Kirk 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.240 tragedy tore us apart to a certain degree. But when 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.880 there are moments of national tragedy, we come together, Democrats 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.920 and Republicans. You see them on the steps of Capol 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.960 Hills saying kumba y'ah on those bs. But we found 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.959 something in this country, freedom of speech we all agree on. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.040 And then he said, maybe we can find the next thing, 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.960 And I think that is the way to go. There's 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.119 some stuff. If you are pro abortion rights, you're probably 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.439 never going to agree with somebody who is against abortion rights. Fine, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.760 what are the things though? YouTube do agree on? Freedom 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.119 of speech? Let's work make sure we protect that. Also, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:44.280 he mentioned just I think pediatric cancer right, pediatric cancer research. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.400 Don't we all agree on that. I like the idea 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.239 of him saying that we found something we agree on, 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.200 let's keep doing that thing instead of keep fighting over 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.120 things or finding things to argue about don't you if 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:01.160 you put on social media right now a beautiful Wednesday morning, 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.520 somebody's gonna respond it's not beautiful for some of us, 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.840 or somebody's gonna respond it's not beautiful for these people 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.200 who are struggling on that. Like people are always looking 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.439 for a way to argue. He made an argument for 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.120 finding things we agree on and work for those, uh right. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.439 And shouldn't that be the way forward? And you know, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.920 I do think he summed up though what happened here, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.800 and I do think he said it as plainly and 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.359 as perfectly as he could, and I God, I would 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.439 hope this would resonate with everyone as well. He said 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:33.040 that our president has celebrated people losing their livelihoods and 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.320 people on his staff. He's called for the firing of 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.960 pretty much all late night comedians, he said, because he 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.960 can't take a joke. And that is what this all 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.280 boils down to. This isn't about hate speech with what 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.240 Kimmel said, this is about being able to laugh at yourself, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.400 and clearly we've seen the president has a difficult time 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:54.760 doing that. 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.440 I think a lot of us might and that's okay, right, 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.040 you gotta have thick skin. If you're in politics, and. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.280 If you dish it out, you certainly should be able 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:07.639 to take it. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.840 Wee does I mean obviously go through the list of 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.359 nicknames he has for people, God newscom I mean you 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.200 should sleepy Joe, will you just keep going? 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.120 Or just his favorite loser whatever. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.840 He calls folks. I thought and again before we came, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.399 before we took that commercial here, that was the most 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.200 important line I think from last night because of perspective, 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.960 and if you stop and think for a second, I 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.560