A comfortably smug Jimmy Kimmel sent a personal message to UK television viewers saying “tyranny is booming over here” when he delivered a fireside chat across the pond on Christmas Day.
The left–wing, late-night host was chosen to give an “alternative Christmas message” on Channel 4 to counter the British monarch’s much-viewed annual televised address, as Breitbart News reported.
The channel began a tradition of airing an alternative Christmas message in 1993. Channel 4 said the message is often a thought-provoking and personal reflection pertinent to the events of the year.
Kimmel was chosen after the presenter’s ABC talk show was yanked off air in September after he made despicable comments about slain conservative icon and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk.
He also poked fun at President Donald Trump comments about White House ballroom renovations after being asked about Kirk’s murder.
“You may have read in your colorful newspapers my country’s president would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored,” he said, per the Los Angeles Times.
He attributed the return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to the “millions and millions of people” he claims fought to get him back on the air in the name of free speech.
Kimmel offered his UK audience no evidence to support the claim of “millions and millions of people” stood with him.
“And because so many people spoke out, we came back. Our show came back stronger than ever. We won, the president lost, and now I’m back on the air every night giving the most powerful politician on Earth a right, and richly deserved, bollocking,” he said in a nod to the British slang for scolding.
Elsewhere during his address, Kimmel called the president “King Donny the 8th.” “We don’t have a problem with your king, just the guy who thinks he’s our king,” he said, apologizing for the state of America and its democratic institutions.
“Don’t give up on us,” Kimmel said. “We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around.”
As Breitbart News reported, the late-night host had falsely suggested on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Kirk’s assassin may have been part of the “MAGA gang,” and mocked Trump’s response, which included ordering American flags flown at half-staff.
ABC, Disney, and affiliates responded by briefly pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! from all of their stations, with broadcast affiliate Nexstar citing Kimmel’s “offensive and insensitive” comments “at a critical time in our national political discourse,” and stressing the company’s desire to “move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.”
After returning to the air, Kimmel was slammed for his non-apology monologue addressing the matter, and was accused of spinning the narrative “in typical leftist fashion” to paint himself as a long-suffering victim.
