Adam Carolla on Jimmy Kimmel Joke
I’m on The Right … But Lighten Up, People!!!
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Jimmy Kimmel is in the middle of another political dustup after a joke he made about President Trump … but one person is in the talk show host’s corner — and it’s somewhat surprising.
Adam Carolla defended Kimmel on a recent episode of his self-titled podcast … saying Kimmel wasn’t out of line with the joke he’s being hammered for by the White House and MAGA after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Adam said of the now infamous first lady “widow” joke … “That’s a pretty typical roast joke. It is also a trope: Any younger, beautiful woman who’s married to an older guy, especially if the guy’s rumored to be sort of a douchey, you would make that joke at any roast.”
The pushback from Adam raised some eyebrows … because yes, he and Jimmy once co-hosted “The Man Show” on Comedy Central … but AC has also railed against woke culture and the Biden Administration, thereby becoming embraced by conservatives.
As for Jimmy’s reaction to the pearl-clutching … he opened his Monday monologue by joking sometimes you wake up and “the First Lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired” … adding, yeah, we’ve all been there.
He made it crystal clear he wasn’t calling for violence, insisting the bit was just a “pretend roast” … clearly a dig at the couple’s age gap, not anything darker. Kimmel doubled down that it was a “very light roast joke” about Trump nearing 80 and Melania being significantly younger.
While acknowledging Melania had a “stressful experience over the weekend” following the shooting, Kimmel still turned the tables, saying he agrees violent rhetoric should be toned down but suggested she might want to “have a conversation” with her husband about it first.
BTW, Kimmel on Tuesday’s show called out Trump for cracking a similar death joke about himself, too.