Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targets Jimmy Kimmel in ‘late-night comedy’ takedown
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- “Superb dissection of the shocking collapse of liberal comedy,” Kennedy wrote.
- The post Kennedy amplified was a satirical piece, written by Peter Girnus, who wrote the post as a fictional “Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS.”
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised a viral satirical X thread about Stephen Colbert, late-night TV, and the decline of liberal comedy, Saturday, using the post to aim at Jimmy Kimmel as “The Late Show” era comes to an end.
Kennedy framed the post as an explanation for why Kimmel has drawn backlash from conservatives over comments about his job as a comedian.
“Superb dissection of the shocking collapse of liberal comedy,” Kennedy wrote. “This is the best explanation of how we’ve reached the point where Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel can say, ‘It’s not my job to be funny.’ As this author shows, he was hired as a comedian, but he made himself a priest.”