September 18, 2025
Bye Bye Jimmy
By Brian C. Joondeph
In 1965, the Four Seasons released “Bye Bye Baby.” Today, there is a new top hit called “Bye Bye Jimmy,” referring to the recently suspended Jimmy Kimmel.
A few years earlier, in 1962, NBC premiered “The Tonight Show” featuring Johnny Carson. It was ranked as one of the greatest T.V. shows of all time. Carson was funny and entertaining. Although he interviewed past presidents including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, he “refused to discuss his personal political views on the show out of concern it might alienate his audience.
Several decades later, ABC launched “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in 2003. Unlike the godfather of late-night talk shows, Kimmel had no hesitation in sharing his political views, not with humor, but with vitriol and spite. Given today’s political fragmentation and polarization, his ratings suffered under his hyper-partisan schtick.
In the first quarter of 2025, Stephen Colbert (also now canceled) averaged 2.4 million nightly viewers, edging out Kimmel’s 1.8 million and Jimmy Fallon’s 1.2 million. By comparison, Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld topped his competition with 3.3 million nightly viewers.
For perspective, Gutfeld’s high ratings only account for less than one percent of the U.S. population.
If politics sells, it’s not necessarily Democrat politics. Gutfield leans to the libertarian right, while the others lean to the left. As we often see with those on the left, they can’t help themselves when expressing a political view. They spew venom like a cobra, with zero self-awareness of how their words might be perceived outside of their echo chamber and how many Americans may be offended.
During his monologue last Monday, just days after Charlie Kirk was brutally assassinated, Kimmel spewed:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Nothing says “MAGA” like a young homosexual man in a romantic relationship with a transgender man trying to be a woman. He had engraved on his bullets messages such as “Hey fascist! Catch!” or “Bella ciao,” an Italian antifascist resistance song.
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