Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Johnny Mac. Let's get right to it. Jimmy
Speaker 2: Kimmel kicked off an eighteen minute monologue with this homage
Speaker 2: to Jack Parr, which I explained to you in a
Speaker 2: bonus episode yesterday.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Anyway, as I was saying before I was interrupted, if
Speaker 5: you're just joining us, we are preempting your regularly scheduled
Speaker 5: encore episode of Celebrity Family Feud to bring you this
Speaker 5: special report.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here tonight with you. Yet you
Speaker 4: say it.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure who had a weirder forty eight hours,
Speaker 5: me or the CEO of Thailand Hall.
Speaker 4: It's been overwhelming. I've heard from a lot.
Speaker 5: Of people over the last six days. I've heard from
Speaker 5: all the people in the world over the last six days.
Speaker 5: Everyone I have ever met has reached out ten or
Speaker 5: eleven times. Weird characters from my past are the guy
Speaker 5: who fired me from my first radio job in Seattle,
Speaker 5: where we are not airing tonight, by the way, sorry Seattle.
Speaker 4: His name is Larry.
Speaker 5: In nineteen eighty nine, Larry tried to force me to
Speaker 5: do a bit called Jokes for Donuts, where people would
Speaker 5: call in with a joke and I would give them donuts.
Speaker 5: I refused to do it, and I made a lot
Speaker 5: of fun of Larry for suggesting it, and eventually Larry
Speaker 5: fired me and I had to move back in with
Speaker 5: my parents. But even he wrote in to cheer me up.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Larry, and I want to thank everyone who
Speaker 5: checked in.
Speaker 4: I would say all he fill of them, but.
Speaker 5: Some that I do especially want to mention are my
Speaker 5: fellow late night talked show hosts.
Speaker 4: My friend Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 5: Here's himself in this predicament, my friend John Stewart, Seth Myers,
Speaker 5: Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Conan, O'Brien, James Corden, Our Sineo, Kathy, Janda, Chelsea,
Speaker 5: even Jay reached out. I heard from late night hosts
Speaker 5: in other countries, from Ireland and from Germany.
Speaker 4: The guy in Germany offered me a job.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine this country has become so authoritarian? The
Speaker 5: Germans are like, come here, come, who's my boyhood? Idols
Speaker 5: Howard Stern and David Letterman were.
Speaker 6: Very considered time and I feel.
Speaker 5: Honored to be part of a group of people that
Speaker 5: knows what goes into doing a show like this.
Speaker 4: And I also want to thank all of you for a.
Speaker 2: Lot of these clips. I'm scoping them down to cut
Speaker 2: down on audience applause. Jimmy then got more serious. He
Speaker 2: thanked his audience, but then thanked these folks.
Speaker 5: Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people
Speaker 5: who don't support my show and what I believe, but
Speaker 5: support I write to share those beliefs. Anyway, he's old,
Speaker 5: he's there, or I never would.
Speaker 4: I'll imagine.
Speaker 5: Like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candice Owens, Mitch McConnell, Ran Paul,
Speaker 5: even my old pal Ted Cruz, who believe it or not,
Speaker 5: said something.
Speaker 4: Very beautiful on my behalf.
Speaker 6: I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that
Speaker 6: he was fired.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, no, not that the other part.
Speaker 6: But let me tell you, if the government gets in
Speaker 6: the business of saying what you the media have said,
Speaker 6: we're going to ban you from the airwaves if you
Speaker 6: don't say what we like, that will end up bad
Speaker 6: for conservatives.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever said this before, but Ted
Speaker 4: Cruz is right. He's absolutely right.
Speaker 5: That's a fuss, all of us, including him.
Speaker 4: I mean, think about it.
Speaker 5: If Ted Cruz can't speak really, then he can't cast
Speaker 5: spells on the Smurfs. Even though I don't agree with
Speaker 5: many of those people on most subjects, some of the.
Speaker 4: Things they say even make me want to throw up.
Speaker 5: It takes courage for them to speak out against this administration,
Speaker 5: and they did, and they deserve credit for it.
Speaker 4: And then for telling your followers.
Speaker 5: That our government cannot be allowed to control what we
Speaker 5: do and do not say on television, and that we
Speaker 5: have to stand up to it.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel then spoke about the comments that kicked off
Speaker 2: this Kurf fluffle, and he gets pretty choked up here,
Speaker 2: and I got pretty choked up watching Jimmy Kimmel get
Speaker 2: choked up.
Speaker 5: I've been hearing a lot about what I need to
Speaker 5: say and do tonight, and the truth is, I don't
Speaker 5: think what I have to say is going to make
Speaker 5: much of a difference.
Speaker 4: If you like me, you like me. If you don't,
Speaker 4: you don't.
Speaker 5: I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind, but I
Speaker 5: do want to make something clear because it's important to
Speaker 5: me as a human, and that is you understand that
Speaker 5: it was never my intention to make the murder of
Speaker 5: a young man I don't.
Speaker 4: Think there's anything funny about it.
Speaker 5: I posted a message on Instagram on the daves killed,
Speaker 5: sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and
Speaker 5: I meant it.
Speaker 4: I still do.
Speaker 5: Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group
Speaker 5: for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply
Speaker 5: disturbed individual that was really the opposite of the.
Speaker 4: Point I was trying to make.
Speaker 5: But I understand that to some that felt either ill
Speaker 5: timed or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who
Speaker 5: think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset.
Speaker 5: If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd
Speaker 5: have felt the same way. I have many friends and
Speaker 5: family members on the other side who I love and
Speaker 5: remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics
Speaker 5: at all. I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie
Speaker 5: Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed
Speaker 5: violence was a solution and it isn't it.
Speaker 4: Ever, And also selfishly I am I am a person
Speaker 4: who gets a lot of threats.
Speaker 5: I get many ugly and scary threats against my life,
Speaker 5: my wife, my kids, my co workers because of what
Speaker 5: I choose to say, and I know those threats don't
Speaker 5: come from the kind of people on the right who
Speaker 5: I know and love.
Speaker 4: So that's what I wanted to say on that subject.
Speaker 5: But I don't want to make this about me because
Speaker 5: and I know this is what people say when they
Speaker 5: make things about them.
Speaker 4: But I really don't know this show. This show is
Speaker 4: not important.
Speaker 5: What is important is that we get to live in
Speaker 5: a country that allows us to have a show like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jimmy then got very serious about the FCC.
Speaker 5: Should the government be allowed to regulate which podcasts the
Speaker 5: cell phone companies and Wi Fi providers are allowed to
Speaker 5: let you download, to make sure they serve the public interest.
Speaker 5: You think that sounds crazy? Ten years ago this sounded crazy,
Speaker 5: Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, telling an American company,
Speaker 5: we can do this the easy way or the hard way,
Speaker 5: and that these companies can find ways to change conduct
Speaker 5: and take action on Kimmel or there's going to be additional.
Speaker 4: Work for the FCC ahead.
Speaker 5: In addition to being a direct violation of the First Amendment,
Speaker 5: is not a particularly intelligent threat to make in public.
Speaker 4: Ted Cruz said he sounded like a mafioso.
Speaker 2: Ahead of Jimmy Kimmel's return. The President of the United
Speaker 2: States went on social media and boasted, I can't believe ABC,
Speaker 2: fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel's job back. The White House
Speaker 2: was told by ABC that a show was canceled exclamation
Speaker 2: point something happened between then and now because his audience
Speaker 2: is gone all caps and his talent was never there.
Speaker 2: Why would they want someone back who does so poorly,
Speaker 2: who's not funny, and who puts the network in jeopardy
Speaker 2: by playing ninety nine percent positive Democrat garbage and all caps.
Speaker 2: He's yet another arm of the DNC into the best
Speaker 2: of my knowledge, that would be a major illegal campaign contribution.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to test ABC out on this.
Speaker 2: Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them,
Speaker 2: they gave me sixteen million dollars. This one sounds even
Speaker 2: more lucrative. A true bunch of losers. Let Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 2: rot in his bad ratings. I think we're going to
Speaker 2: test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do.
Speaker 2: Last time I went after them, they gave me sixteen
Speaker 2: million dollars. Is that a shakedown? Sounds like it could
Speaker 2: be possibly, maybe perhaps a shakedown. Stephen Colbert briefly addressed
Speaker 2: the return of Jimmy Kimmel. I have edited this for pacing.
Speaker 4: I's gonna start off.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm so grateful to have this show.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody in here and to everybody watching from home,
Speaker 1: who I think might just be my wife Evvy, because
Speaker 1: everybody else probably watching ABC because tonight Jimmy Kimmel returned
Speaker 1: to the airway.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad Tim's back. He is a wonderful fella.
Speaker 1: To know him well is to admire him immensely, and
Speaker 1: if he takes the whole summer off.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon even more briefly addressed the return of Jimmy
Speaker 2: Kimmel and if.
Speaker 5: You're tuning in to see what I'll say about my
Speaker 5: suspension the last couple of days, again, you're watching the
Speaker 5: wrong Jimmy Dad, the other Jimmy Dad.
Speaker 2: And Joe Rogan finally wait in on all this, Welcome
Speaker 2: to the party pal. On the Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: Joe Rogan said, I definitely don't think that the government
Speaker 2: should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can
Speaker 2: or cannot say. In a monologue, Rogan called Kimmel a
Speaker 2: good guy, a smart guy, and a funny guy. And
Speaker 2: Rogan said, these companies if they're being pressured by the government, So,
Speaker 2: if that's real, and if people on the right are
Speaker 2: like you, go get him. Oh my god, you're crazy.
Speaker 2: You're crazy for supporting this because this will be used
Speaker 2: on you. You don't think the bleeping globalist lizard people
Speaker 2: who are in the world are sitting here going great,
Speaker 2: what do we got three years? We'll wait this out,
Speaker 2: We'll wait this out. Yeah, yeah, let them say the
Speaker 2: government should be involved in censoring people's speech. Well, Joe Rogan, Uh,
Speaker 2: to answer your question, the companies, if they're being pressured
Speaker 2: by the government, if that's real. The President of the
Speaker 2: United States put out on social media. Last time I
Speaker 2: went after them, they gave me sixteen million dollars. This
Speaker 2: one sounds even more lucrative. You tell me, Joe. Jimmy Kimmel,
Speaker 2: in his eighteen minute monologue, addressed were there conditions on
Speaker 2: your return? Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 5: People have been asking me if there are conditions for
Speaker 5: my return to the air, and there is one. Disney
Speaker 5: has asked me to read the following statement, and I
Speaker 5: agreed to do it.
Speaker 4: Here we go to reactivate your Disney Plus.
Speaker 6: And Hudo account, open.
Speaker 5: Open the Disney Plus app on your Smart TV or
Speaker 5: TV connected device.
Speaker 2: Jimmy then thanked ABC.
Speaker 6: Fortunate to work.
Speaker 5: At a company that has allowed me to do the
Speaker 5: show the way we want to do it. For almost
Speaker 5: twenty three years, I've done almost four thousand shows on ABC,
Speaker 5: and over that time, the people who run this network
Speaker 5: have allowed me to evolve and to stretch the boundaries
Speaker 5: of what was once traditional for a late night talk show,
Speaker 5: even when it made them uncomfortable, which I do a
Speaker 5: lot every night. They've defended my right to poke fun
Speaker 5: at our leaders and to advocate for subjects that I
Speaker 5: think are important by allowing me to use their platform,
Speaker 5: and I am very grateful for that. With that said,
Speaker 5: I was not happy when they pulled me off the
Speaker 5: air on once. I did not agree with that decision,
Speaker 5: and I told them that and we had many conversations.
Speaker 5: I shared my point of view, they shared theirs. We
Speaker 5: talked it through and at the end, even though they
Speaker 5: didn't have to, they really.
Speaker 4: Didn't have to. This is a giant company.
Speaker 5: We have short attention spans and I am a tiny
Speaker 5: part of the Disney Corporation. They welcomed me back on
Speaker 5: the air, and I thank them for that.
Speaker 2: And in a really good bit, the new head of
Speaker 2: the FC see played by Robert de Niro in character,
Speaker 2: he explained how things are gonna work from now on
Speaker 2: to Jimmy Kimmel, I have made a few edits here
Speaker 2: for pacing.
Speaker 4: Pardon me for saying so.
Speaker 5: Maybe you're the wrong guy to talk to you, but
Speaker 5: it seems like the FCC is using mob tactics to
Speaker 5: suppress free speech.
Speaker 4: What did you just say to me? I didn't mean
Speaker 4: any offensive.
Speaker 5: You know, you can't curse or we'll get fined by
Speaker 5: the FCC.
Speaker 6: I am the FCC.
Speaker 3: I can say whatever I want.
Speaker 5: No, well, this does it sounds a little like threats
Speaker 5: and intimidation to me.
Speaker 3: Gairman, stop that's look, it's just me, Jimmy, the chairman
Speaker 3: of the FCC, gently suggesting that you gently shove the
Speaker 3: fuck up.
Speaker 5: But you can't say that that's a violation of free speech.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah about that speech.
Speaker 4: It ain't free no more, right, it's a free no more. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We charge you by the word.
Speaker 4: Now you're charging by the word. How much are you charging?
Speaker 3: It depends on what you want to say, Like you
Speaker 3: want to say something nice about the president's beautiful, thick
Speaker 3: yellow hair or how he can do his makeup better
Speaker 3: than any broad that's free.
Speaker 4: Right, all right, I feel very vulnerable.
Speaker 3: But if you want to do a joke like he's
Speaker 3: so fatty he needs two seats on the Epstein jet, that's.
Speaker 2: The far Welcome back to Jimmy Kimmel, all right on
Speaker 2: this feed at noon today, a really spirited conversation in
Speaker 2: a great way with Jason Zennaman from the New York Times.
Speaker 2: We discussed the re Odd Comedy Festival, which is the
Speaker 2: next big story that we'll be covering in a couple
Speaker 2: other comedy topics. It's actually my favorite hour of this
Speaker 2: podcast I've ever done. So come back into newon Eastern
Speaker 2: and catch my wonderful conversation with Jason Ziman for the
Speaker 2: New York Times, and I'll meet you back here then