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Jimmy Kimmel issues brutal take down of Trump attending Knicks game

Jimmy Kimmel issues brutal take down of Trump attending Knicks game

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jimmy Kimmel thinks he knows why Donald Trump wants to attend the NBA Finals in New York City. Trump, 79, announced his intention to attend Monday night’s NBA Finals game as the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks are up 2-0 in the series and are just two victories away from their first championship win since 1973. During his Friday night broadcast, Kimmel, 58, hit out at Trump’s planned attendance at the game. “The president wants to be there to support his hometown team, and, if necessary, to overturn the results of the game,” he quipped, referring to Trump’s repeated calls to overturn the 2020 election results after Joe Biden was declared winner. He then added: “You’d think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs. It’s what got him out of Vietnam.” …

Jimmy Kimmel says he regrets apologizing for joke ‘for the good of the Disney company’

Jimmy Kimmel says he regrets apologizing for joke ‘for the good of the Disney company’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jimmy Kimmel has reflected on the jokes he’s made during his tenure as a late night host that caused a headache for his network ABC and their parent company the Walt Disney Company — but says there’s one apology he regrets making. In a new interview with Vulture, Kimmel, 58, pointed to a segment from 2013 in which he asked small children to respond to stories in the news, and one suggested that a solution to the national debt would be to “kill everyone in China.” The moment drew protests and Kimmel subsequently issued an apology, but told the publication he did so under duress. “For the good of the Disney company, I took that bullet,” he said. Kimmel has apologized for many other moments during his late night run, including blackface impressions of Oprah Winfrey and NBA player Karl Malone …

Jimmy Kimmel Says Mocking Trump Shouldn’t Earn Prize

Jimmy Kimmel Says Mocking Trump Shouldn’t Earn Prize

After announcing its winners in the spring, the Peabody Awards celebrated the 34 honorees at a Beverly Hills event on Sunday. The awards span television, podcasts/radio and the web in categories for entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service and interactive/immersive programming and media. Winners are chosen by a unanimous jury vote and selected for their potential to change culture. Heated Rivalry, Pluribus, The Pitt, Andor, The Rehearsal, Adolescence and Jimmy Kimmel Live! were among the Hollywood winners, with Kimmel having a standout moment on stage after months of publicly battling Donald Trump. Ben Affleck was on hand to honor Kimmel, teasing that “for years he’s used his show to challenge authority on a nightly basis, and by authority I think we all know who that really means — one particularly credit-hogging narcissist named Matt Damon,” referencing Kimmel’s longtime on-screen beef with the star. Affleck continued, “when they pulled his show off the air, Jimmy refused to back down. What he said to me was it wasn’t for his own benefit, but because he knows …

Jimmy Kimmel gleefully roasts Trump over record low approval rating

Jimmy Kimmel gleefully roasts Trump over record low approval rating

The midterms are getting closer, and — according to some polls — Donald Trump’s approval rating is lower than ever before. “He is now down to 34 percent. He has the same approval rating as Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” says Jimmy Kimmel in the monologue above from Thursday night’s show. “Not only is Trump at his lowest point, he’s also two points behind JD Vance. I don’t have a joke for that, I just want to make sure he knows he’s two points behind JD Vance.” Kimmel goes on to bring up White House spokesman Davis Ingle’s official response, in which he pointed to Trump’s win in the 2024 election as “the ultimate poll.” “OK, yeah,” says Kimmel, “but now it’s May of 2026 and everybody hates him.” Want more of the best of late night? Sign up for Mashable’s Top Stories newsletter. Source link

Jimmy Kimmel Targets Spencer Pratt, Yet Admits “This City is a Mess”

Jimmy Kimmel Targets Spencer Pratt, Yet Admits “This City is a Mess”

Spencer Pratt will probably be thrilled: The would-be L.A. mayor has finally drawn the ire of Jimmy Kimmel. The ABC late-night host targeted the former reality TV star turned political candidate in his Wednesday night Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. Kimmel laid into Pratt for his lack of leadership experience amid his face-off against incumbent Karen Bass and City Council member Nithya Raman. Yet Kimmel started off, surprisingly enough, by fully agreeing with several of Pratt’s criticisms of Los Angeles and the city’s current leadership. “Let’s be honest, this city is a mess,” Kimmel said. “That became obvious during the [Pacific Palisades] fires. But the people running this city, when you say, ‘This city is a mess,’ they go, ‘No, actually, it isn’t and we’re doing a lot.’ And we look around and go, ‘I’m not seeing it.’ Then they go, ‘Oh, it’s there, things are looking up.’ And this makes people who live here upset, especially people whose homes and neighborhoods burned down, who are trying to run businesses with people who need help sleeping …

Watch Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument

Watch Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument

It can be frus­trat­ing for Led Zep­pelin fans to hear the band reduced to pla­gia­rism law­suits or the quin­tes­sence of sex­u­al­ly-aggres­sive rock-star enti­tle­ment (though much of that is deserved). For one thing, Zeppelin’s occult song­writ­ing ten­den­cies, cour­tesy of both Page and Plant, play just as promi­nent a role as their blues-rock come-ons (as sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions of fan­ta­sy met­al bands can attest). For anoth­er, their stu­dio pro­duc­tions and live shows are renowned for pio­neer­ing mash-ups of mod­ern rock, folk, and clas­si­cal instru­men­ta­tion, cour­tesy of both Page and Jones. And final­ly, the band’s record­ing tech­niques were—for the time—demonstrations of tech­ni­cal wiz­ardry. Thus it should come as no sur­prise that tech­ni­cal wiz­ard Jim­my Page would play the Theremin, though he does play on it the kind of scream­ing, feed­back-laden bends he unleashed from his Les Paul. Intro­duced to the world by Sovi­et inven­tor Leon Theremin in 1919, the ear­ly elec­tron­ic instru­ment emits high-pitched singing when a play­er’s hands come with­in range of its invis­i­ble elec­tri­cal fields. “It hasn’t got six strings,” Page says in his demon­stra­tion at the …

Wordle game to be turned into TV show with Jimmy Fallon’s company

Wordle game to be turned into TV show with Jimmy Fallon’s company

The New York Times’ hit game Wordle is set to become a television show, the American newspaper announced on Monday (May 11). Wordle gives players six chances to guess a random five-letter word, using green, yellow and gray tiles to help them solve the puzzle. The game show version, which will air on NBC next year, will see teams of players go head-to-head to win cash prizes. It will be hosted by NBC news anchor Savannah Guthrie, who has recently been through a very public family tragedy, following the abduction of her elderly mother at the end of January. Wordle was launched by software engineer Josh Wardle in 2021 and quickly grew in popularity. It was acquired by the Times in January 2022 and is now played daily by millions of people worldwide.   “Wordle is so beloved by so many that we thought it was an interesting, creative opportunity to think about how it might work in in a game show,” said Caitlin Roper, executive editorial director of film and TV at the Times. The …

Jimmy Kimmel calls on fans to cancel their Paramount+ subscriptions in support of Stephen Colbert

Jimmy Kimmel calls on fans to cancel their Paramount+ subscriptions in support of Stephen Colbert

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jimmy Kimmel has called for late night viewers to cancel their Paramount+ subscriptions to support Stephen Colbert after his CBS show was canceled. The late night host took shots at CBS’ parent company alongside other talk show personalities Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and John Oliver on Monday episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The group appeared together for the final time ahead of the show’s last episode airing May 21. Kimmel, 58, noted that his fans showed support for him by cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions when Jimmy Kimmel Live! was controversially pulled off the air in September over his comments after the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. “I will tell you, when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney+,” Kimmel said. “Why aren’t you people canceling Paramount+? Because you never had it …

Trump puts Taiwan arms sales, Jimmy Lai on agenda with Xi meeting

Trump puts Taiwan arms sales, Jimmy Lai on agenda with Xi meeting

US President Donald Trump speaks during a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, May 11, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the imprisonment of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai would be on his agenda for the Beijing summit later this week. Washington’s arms sales to Taiwan have been a flashpoint between the two countries, drawing a sharp response from Beijing that has accused the U.S. of violating the “one-China principle,” and warned that attempts to “contain China” via Taipei were set to fail. When asked about Washington’s longstanding support for Taiwan’s defense, Trump said Monday that, “I’m going to have that discussion with President Xi.” “President Xi would like us not to, and I’ll have that discussion. That’s one of the many things I’ll be talking about.” That comes after Beijing reportedly pressed the Trump administration to scale back its security commitments for the island. Trump is expected to …