Jimmy Kimmel used his first night back in Brooklyn to set the record straight with Vice President JD Vance regarding his recent suspension.
The Emmy-winning late-night host, who’s broadcasting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” out of BAM‘s Howard Gilman Opera House this week, took aim at the Republican’s claims that he was temporarily pulled off the air due to poor ratings.
During Monday night’s opening monologue, Kimmel celebrated his long-running series being back on all stations across the country and ripped into comments Vance made on Fox News.
Kimmel showed a clip in which the “Hillbilly Eulogy” author downplayed the involvement of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. Kimmel’s show was abruptly removed from the airwaves after Carr threatened to “take action” against Disney and ABC if they didn’t punish Kimmel for remarks he made about the discourse surrounding the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“I’d like them to tell me exactly what Brendan Carr did to have Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air because number one, he is currently on the air,” Vance told Laura Ingraham. “To the extent that he isn’t in certain stations, it’s because he’s not funny and because his ratings aren’t very good.”
After the clip aired, Kimmel responded: “Vice President Maybelline was making the rounds, attempting to defend his boss and the chairman of the FCC with a new fairytale even a 5-year-old wouldn’t believe.”
The Brooklyn-born funnyman continued: “I have some good news for you, J Dog, we’re back on all the stations. At every home, every bar, every strip club, and every prison in America. But, sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt your bulls–t, go on.”
Kimmel played another clip in which Vance double-downed on the popular right-wing talking point that the suspension happened “because advertisers don’t like him because his ratings aren’t very good.”
That anecdote caught Kimmel by surprise.
“My ratings aren’t very good!?” he replied. “Last time I checked, your ratings are somewhere between a hair in your salad and chlamydia.”
“In three and a half years, I’m not the one who’s going to be doing mascara tutorials on YouTube,” Kimmel continued. “How did we wind up with a president and a vice president who wear more makeup than Kylie Jenner and Lady Gaga combined?”
Since President Trump chose him as a running mate, there’s been widespread speculation about Vance wearing “guyliner.” His wife, however, has said the dark eye lines are au naturel.
