Kimmel's back!

[mamooth]

There is a market for conservative versions of these programs. And the networks know there is. That is the real issue.

No, there isn't. And networks know it. That's the issue. The network was worried about losing liberal money, and didn't give a hoot about conservative money. If they could make money pushing conservative "humor", they would. They can't, and they know it.

The basic problem? Conservatives all suck hard at comedy. They always faceplant hard when they try it.

Why? Several reasons.

First, in order to be funny, satire has to be be based on reality. You can't just make up insane stuff, and that's all conservatives do now. Conservatives attempts at satire always come across as raging butthurt.

Second, punching down and bullying isn't funny, and it's all conservatives know how to do now. Punching up is funny, self-deprecating humor is funny, and liberals know how to do that. Conservatives now only laugh if someone gets hurt or humiliated, and decent humans don't find that to be funny.

There are no funny conservatives now. Someone like Jeff Foxworthy wouldn't be allowed on the air by conservatives now. Because he wouldn't be spitting unhinged hatred, he'd be cast out and cancelled.

 

[Votto]

Jimmy Kimmel's show is returning to ABC on Tuesday, but not all stations will air it

The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's death.

www.nbcnews.com

Money overrules political expediency! ABC found that out the hard way!

As I said long, long ago, Jimmy was not fired, he was suspended.

There is no way that the DNC propaganda machine in Hollywood would ever have ended Jimmy, despite not comprehending the concept of humor.

They got their little tantrum and media talking points with the suspension, and will not carry them into the midterms and no doubt beyond.

 

[MarcATL]

If Kimmel were accidentally smushed by a run-away tanker truck, my first question would likely be, “is the truck driver ok?”

Then, I’d ask about the condition of the truck.

Yeah, we know.

 

[sealybobo]

the lefts labeling of Hitler , Nazi , racist ,ect .. has incited leftwing terrorist in the US !

No the rightwing acting like nazi/racists has incited us. Stop doing it.

Trump told the right to go hang Mike Pence.

Trump said maybe 2nd amendment supporters will take hillary out.

And Trump Jr. joked when Paul Pelosi was sitting in the ICU.

Trump started this in 2016 when he said maybe 2nd amendment people would take Hillary out.

Let me show you another example of how much Trump is a hypocrite. In 2008 he said "it was bullshit that people went after Bill Clinton because of Monica" but then who did he bring to his debate against Hillary?

So I loved watching him pissed off in court with E Gene Carol. Or when he was on trial for that felony he committed. Remember he chanted lock her up? Well he almost got locked up.

Republicans started all this when they went after Bill for Monica. If you ask me. It was the first low blow. They all had girlfriends and no one told on shit like that. Republicans had nothing on Bill because he was so ******* great so they went after him for Monica.

 

[debbiedowner]

Bloomberg reporting the same.

Most news stations are too. Will return tomorrow.

 

[yidnar]

No the rightwing acting like nazi/racists has incited us. Stop doing it.

Trump told the right to go hang Mike Pence.

Trump said maybe 2nd amendment supporters will take hillary out.

And Trump Jr. joked when Paul Pelosi was sitting in the ICU.

Trump started this in 2016 when he said maybe 2nd amendment people would take Hillary out.

Let me show you another example of how much Trump is a hypocrite. In 2008 he said "it was bullshit that people went after Bill Clinton because of Monica" but then who did he bring to his debate against Hillary?

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So I loved watching him pissed off in court with E Gene Carol. Or when he was on trial for that felony he committed. Remember he chanted lock her up? Well he almost got locked up.

Republicans started all this when they went after Bill for Monica. If you ask me. It was the first low blow. They all had girlfriends and no one told on shit like that. Republicans had nothing on Bill because he was so ******* great so they went after him for Monica.

the left needs to stop spouting terrorist propaganda labeling opponents Nazis and fascists ..

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I didn't watch him before so no change. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. They might be bringing him back as a last hurrah.

 

[sealybobo]

And his pal, Donald is just galled by all the bad jokes about him...so sad to be a man/child.

What do you mean bad jokes? They are hilarious! You know these guys are good because the right hates them so much.

I have a buddy. He never listens to Howard Stern. One day he's saying "howard is a sexist pig and I never liked him". Or the word was going around that he's old and boring now. BOY were Republicans trying to get him cancelled too.

Brendan Carr, the current chair of the FCC, once defended political satire and late-night comedians from government censorship, a position in direct contrast to his more recent actions regarding late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

• In February 2020, Carr, then an FCC commissioner, took to social media to defend political satire as an important form of free speech.
• Referencing internet memes, cartoons, and late-night comedians, he argued that satire helps hold those in power accountable by circumventing traditional gatekeepers.
• He explicitly stated that "shutting down this type of political speech... would represent a serious threat to our freedoms".

 

[White 6]

There is a market for conservative versions of these programs. And the networks know there is. That is the real issue.

I have not seen that market dynamic realized, anywhere but state run media on FOX NEWS, and you don't even see FOX trying to compete with Colbert and Kimmel.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Just like Biden pressuring social media to pull posts off they didn’t like. It is all wrong, none of it should be allowed, we all keep letting rights get trampled because the leaders know they can divide and conquer.

No....this is nothing like that.

What Trump did with Kimmel is unprecedented. **** that Nazi. And I'm glad that a corporation is finally showing some backbone and standing up to Trump.

 

[Robert W]

Sinclair, Nexstar Won’t Air Jimmy Kimmel’s Late-Night Return — The Wall Street Journal

Broadcasters will replace ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ with news programming, despite Disney saying the show will return on ABC

apple.news

That was more like a paid vacation.

Again, to me it doesn’t matter. I don’t watch his crappy show, anyway.

As for the posturing of ABC and the Mouse, very little confirms that it was just that, posturing, more than the almost immediate termination of the faux suspension

Kimmel lost me when Bush was president. He lacks humor.

 

[1srelluc]

I have not seen that market dynamic realized, anywhere but state run media on FOX NEWS, and you don't even see FOX trying to compete with Colbert and Kimmel.

Gutfeld rips them all in ratings.

 

[BackAgain]

Yeah, we know.

Good.

 

[mamooth]

the left needs to stop spouting terrorist propaganda labeling opponents Nazis and fascists ..

Why? It's accurate, and it's not our fault that the violent monster created by the right created turned on its own masters. Decades of violent right-wing propaganda caused that, so the right needs to cut it out.

If the Trump cult want to stop being correctly classified as fascists, they need to stop acting like fascists. The right's latest jihad of censorship and calls for more violence is confirming how correct we are to classify them as fascists.

 

[yidnar]

Why? It's accurate, and it's not our fault that the violent monster created by the right created turned on its own masters. Decades of violent right-wing propaganda caused that, so the right needs to cut it out.

If the Trump cult want to stop being correctly classified as fascists, they need to stop acting like fascists. The right's latest jihand of censorship and calls for more violence is confirming how correct we are to classify them as fascists.

the terrorist spouted leftwing propaganda .. the left is fomenting terrorism ..

 

[Papageorgio]

No....this is nothing like that.

What Trump did with Kimmel is unprecedented. **** that Nazi. And I'm glad that a corporation is finally showing some backbone and standing up to Trump.

It is exactly like that, Trump’s FCC had absolutely no business trying to pressure the media. The Biden administration had no business trying to pressure social media.

Government’s role is to butt the hell out of free speech.

 

[White 6]

Gutfeld rips them all in ratings.

Not late night. You comparing prime time to late night?

 

[MarcATL]

the terrorist spouted leftwing propaganda .. the left is fomenting terrorism ..

Thought police.

 

[schmidlap]

And his pal, Donald is just galled by all the bad jokes about him...so sad to be a man/child.

Free speech can be such a *****.

Totalitarian regimes will have none of it!

 

[schmidlap]

Its conservative talk shows on broadcast TV denied the opportunity that is the real issue. Then we can have conservative comediennes spouting their free speech. and we would see if you like it or not then. There is a market for it. Of course, progs control most of the media and TV programming.

The free market determines. Profit is the objective.