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Speaker 2: All right, this is the Tuesday, September twenty third Jimmy
Speaker 2: Kimmel bonus episode. Jimmy's Show is back tonight. Just to
Speaker 2: clean up the feed. There was a normal episode this morning.
Speaker 2: Around noon, I dropped an hour long episode with Mark
Speaker 2: Malkoff from the Late Night Podcast. We talked about this
Speaker 2: stuff a little bit, mostly about Johnny Carson, and this
Speaker 2: is the bonus episode. If you are a new listener
Speaker 2: who has recently discovered the show. Normally I do one
Speaker 2: of these a day, seven days a week. It is
Speaker 2: called Daily Comedy News, and I am Johnny Mack. Deadline
Speaker 2: reports that tonight's return of Jimmy Kimmel to Late Night
Speaker 2: was the result of days of meetings and negotiations with
Speaker 2: top Disney executives. They only figured this out on Monday
Speaker 2: around three Eastern was when the news came out. The
Speaker 2: conversations were between Disney CEO Bob Iger, who many are
Speaker 2: saying has really tarnished his legacy with this Kimmel move.
Speaker 2: Disney entertained Mint chief Dana Walden, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy's team.
Speaker 2: An insider toil Deadline, there was always a desire to
Speaker 2: do the best dating for the company. Yeah, you think.
Speaker 2: There was apparently a last minute flurry of paperwork, techts
Speaker 2: and calls with team Jimmy Kimmel. What will Jimmy say tonight?
Speaker 2: A source says Jimmy will say what Jimmy wants to say.
Speaker 2: It is believed there are no restrictions on that. Personally,
Speaker 2: I'm expecting Jimmy to clarify what he meant by the
Speaker 2: controversial remarks, and I think he will give a very
Speaker 2: thoughtful response. I don't think you're going to get what
Speaker 2: you might have gotten out of say John Stewart here.
Speaker 2: I think he'll get a very thoughtful monologue tonight. We
Speaker 2: will see, and of course I will cover that on
Speaker 2: Wednesday in a bonus episode. Deadline reports people in Hollywood
Speaker 2: were not happy about this. One source called it a
Speaker 2: pseudo suspension. They also quote a Hollywood power player saying
Speaker 2: it became such a mess the only solution for all
Speaker 2: sides was to get this over with sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2: As I record this on Tuesday, I have not seen
Speaker 2: any sort of reaction yet from the President of the
Speaker 2: United Slime States. The show's staff found out around the
Speaker 2: same time we did. A staffer tells people, we received
Speaker 2: an email from the executive producer with the good news.
Speaker 2: It was shortened to the point just sharing the good
Speaker 2: news and telling us to come to work on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: That person said they were surprised that it happened all
Speaker 2: of a sudden. They thought this would drag out a
Speaker 2: little bit. The staffer says his coworkers had relief and
Speaker 2: joy across the board. Myself and my colleagues are overjoyed.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to see Tuesday's monologue on The Daily Show.
Speaker 2: Was John Stewart's time behind the desk? By the way,
Speaker 2: you guys gave him a free pass for jumping on
Speaker 2: the desk last week on Thursday. I know we all
Speaker 2: love John Stewart, but if Jay Leno stole the desk
Speaker 2: from Desi Lidick, you guys would have lost your mind.
Speaker 2: Fair's fair, guys. Anyway, John Stewart had this to say, No,
Speaker 2: Kim's coming back.
Speaker 3: That campaign and I you know what I'm joking around.
Speaker 3: I want to say this seriously. That campaign that you
Speaker 3: all launched pretending that you were going to cancel Hulu
Speaker 3: while secretly racing through four seasons of only in the
Speaker 3: building that really worked. Congratulations. It wasn't it interesting to
Speaker 3: try and figure out all the tentacles Disney has in
Speaker 3: your daily life. It's one thing to swear off cruises,
Speaker 3: but the Avengers. No, how is it possible that by
Speaker 3: getting rid of one company, I can't watch Winnie the
Speaker 3: Pooh or Monday Night Football or listen to early Hillary
Speaker 3: Duff So yesterday, I would sing more of it. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Disney is very litigious.
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert also commented this. He refers to in this
Speaker 2: clip is his Emmy.
Speaker 1: We do like one hundred and sixty of these a
Speaker 1: year or something, And you know, when I have the chance,
Speaker 1: it's always nice to start the show with some good news. Well,
Speaker 1: just a few hours before we tape this broadcast, we
Speaker 1: got word that our long national Late Nightmare is over
Speaker 1: because Disney announced that Jimmy kim Alive will return to Well,
Speaker 1: I just see tomorrow Thursday Night. Come on, what.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: As well, they said me, this is I just couldn't
Speaker 1: have just wonderful news for my dear friend Jimmy and
Speaker 1: his amazing stat they get into the show. That's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for them. Plus now that Jimmy's not
Speaker 1: being canceled. I get to enjoy this again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Discussed once more. I am the only martyr and late
Speaker 1: Nights great unless CBS you want to announce anything.
Speaker 2: In the course of my travels, didn't see anything from
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon. I have to check. Jimmy did do a
Speaker 2: Tonight show on Sunday night, so it's possibly Monday was
Speaker 2: a rerun seth Meyers said, we make jokes about politicians
Speaker 2: and people in the news, including Joe Biden. It was
Speaker 2: just harder with Joe Biden because he didn't say much.
Speaker 2: You Trump, on the other hand, talk all the time.
Speaker 2: You never stopped talking. You didn't stop talking when he
Speaker 2: was president. You talk more than all the other presidents combined. Ever,
Speaker 2: people say Johnny Carson didn't make this many jokes about politics,
Speaker 2: but he would have if every time he spoke Ronald
Speaker 2: Reagan did fifteen minutes on how toilets didn't flush well anymore.
Speaker 2: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said, Jimmy Kimmel is in the
Speaker 2: situation that he is because of his ratings, not because
Speaker 2: of anything that's happened at the federal government level. Sure,
Speaker 2: Jan Chairman Carr was at the twenty twenty five Concordia
Speaker 2: Annual Summit. Listen to this crap. I'm not gonna pull
Speaker 2: my bunch here. Listen to this crap. Carr said, what
Speaker 2: I spoke about last week is that when concerns are
Speaker 2: raised about news distortion, there's an easy way for parties
Speaker 2: to address that and work that out. In the main
Speaker 2: that takes place between local television stations that are licensed
Speaker 2: by the FCC and what we call national programmers like Disney.
Speaker 2: They work that out and there doesn't need to be
Speaker 2: any involvement of the FCC. He adds, then now if
Speaker 2: they don't, there's a way that's not as easy, which
Speaker 2: as someone can file a complaint at the FCC, and
Speaker 2: then the FCC, by law I set up by Congress,
Speaker 2: has to educate that complaint. And when I've been very
Speaker 2: clear in the context of the Kimmel episode is the
Speaker 2: FCC and myself in particular have expressed no view on
Speaker 2: the ultimate merits. Yeah, because Carl said, frankly, when you
Speaker 2: see stuff like this, I mean, we could do this
Speaker 2: the easy way or the hard way. These companies can
Speaker 2: find ways to change conduct, to take action. Frankly, on Kimmel,
Speaker 2: or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. Look,
Speaker 2: there's calls for Kimmel to be fired. You could certainly
Speaker 2: see a path forward for suspension over this. This is
Speaker 2: previously Again, the FCC is going to have remedies that
Speaker 2: we can look at. We may ultimately be called to
Speaker 2: be a judge on that right sure. By the way,
Speaker 2: a Google search of the phrase Joe Rogan Kimmel at
Speaker 2: eight fifty four Easter in This Morning turned up nothing.
Speaker 2: One of the comparisons with Jimmy Kiml returning tonight is
Speaker 2: when Jack Parr walked off the Tonight Show on February eleventh,
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty. Parr walked off because the night before they
Speaker 2: had cut one of his jokes. His joke was about WC. Now,
Speaker 2: younger people are like, huh, well, WC is water closet.
Speaker 2: Younger people are like, huh, what's that? A water closet
Speaker 2: is a bathroom. It's nineteen sixty. We're not joking about
Speaker 2: bathrooms on the air. We've come a long way. Everyone.
Speaker 2: Parr sat at his desk on the Tonight Show and said,
Speaker 2: if you read some of the newspapers, you think I
Speaker 2: had committed a terrible obscenity. The whole thing has gotten
Speaker 2: out of hand, but the damage has been done not
Speaker 2: only to the Tonight Show but to me personally. I've
Speaker 2: been wrestling with my conscience all day. I'm leaving the
Speaker 2: Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making
Speaker 2: a living than this. There's a way of entertaining people
Speaker 2: without being constantly involved in some form of controversy, which
Speaker 2: is on me all the time. It's rough on my
Speaker 2: wife and child, and I don't need it. I believe
Speaker 2: it was let down by this network at a time
Speaker 2: when I could have used their help. Parr got up,
Speaker 2: shook hands with announcer Hugh Down, and then Downs had
Speaker 2: to wing the show. Down said, I told Jack when
Speaker 2: he first mentioned to me he intended to do what
Speaker 2: he said. I wish he wouldn't do it. So my
Speaker 2: hope this isn't final. Jack does things hastily at times
Speaker 2: that he doesn't hold on too. I hope he can
Speaker 2: be putting his mind back to the show because he
Speaker 2: built it. Downs then hosted the show with guess orson Bean,
Speaker 2: Shelley Berman and Genevieve Downs hosted the show's next eight episodes,
Speaker 2: and then Arlene Francis hosted a week. Jack Parr returned
Speaker 2: to the Tonight Show on March seventh, strolled on stage,
Speaker 2: took a beat, and said, as I was saying before
Speaker 2: I was interrupted, which is one of the all time
Speaker 2: late night lines, it might you know what probably is
Speaker 2: the number one line. Par then continued, when I walked off,
Speaker 2: I said, there must be a better way of making
Speaker 2: a living. Well, I've looked, and there isn't. That is
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel. A bonus episode All eyes on Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 2: tonight all right in the morning, normal episode, and then
Speaker 2: I'll have a Kimmel for you, and I'll probably also
Speaker 2: have a bonus episode with Jason Zinnemann from The New
Speaker 2: York Times, who I was planning on recording with on
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. So keep checking that feed lot going on.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.