{"id":128215,"date":"2025-09-08T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128215\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:14:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-says-he-enjoys-giving-trump-a-little-poke-on-late-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128215\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Says He Enjoys Giving Trump ‘a Little Poke’ on Late-Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> is thrilled to be part of the movement against Donald Trump<\/a>. After winning the Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Game Show for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the late-night host was asked backstage how it feels to be defending democracy on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThose are heavy thoughts, and I have a tendency to reject them,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily feel like I\u2019m defending democracy, but I do feel like I\u2019m giving this guy a little poke and he deserves it and I enjoy it and I love that people enjoy it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel was also asked if he has been thinking about leaving late-night (his contract for Jimmy Kimmel Live expires in 2026). \u201cI\u2019m not prepared to answer their question, but it is something I think about a lot, and things have changed a lot over the last, what, nine years,\u201d he replied. \u201cEach day is a new adventure, and I take them as they come. Is that a good way of dodging the question?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel recalled being at the Daytime Emmys in 1999 when he and Ben Stein won the outstanding game show host award for Win Ben Stein\u2019s Money.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was very surprising,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cWhen we won that Emmy, we went on the air the same week South Park went on the air, and Comedy Central was not a channel that many people watched. And we were up against these titans, the same shows we\u2019re up against now, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. We didn\u2019t know anyone was watching the show. I think it was the first Emmy Comedy Central ever won. I specifically remember being at that ceremony and seeing Susan Lucci in the front row, and she had lost 15 years in a row. It was like the big story every year. So when we won, I said something to the effect of \u2018it seems ridiculous that we would win this in our first year.\u2019 And I handed the Emmy to her, and she later gave it back. She rejected it. At the airport the next day, the lady at the TSA goes, \u2018Are you the guy who gave Susan Lucci the Emmy?!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel has used Jimmy Kimmel Live as a platform to comment on Trump and his policies, both prior to the election last November and during the president\u2019s current second term. In April, the host dedicated his monologue to\u00a0mocking<\/a>\u00a0Trump\u2019s\u00a0first 100 days in office<\/a>, noting that it has been more \u201cprehistoric\u201d than historic. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to give Trump\u2019s first 100 days a grade, but if I had to I\u2019d say it falls somewhere between F and U,\u201d Kimmel said on the show. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, there have been some positives. Unfortunately they have all been pregnancy tests for women who slept with\u00a0Elon Musk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, Kimmel told Rolling Stone<\/a> of Trump, \u201cI like when he admits I\u2019m bothering him. Here at the show, where we put a lot of work into lampooning him, for him to acknowledge our work is one of the few things he does that I appreciate. If he ignored us, it wouldn\u2019t be as much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel is thrilled to be part of the movement against Donald Trump. After winning the Emmy for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,2490,40064,134,4625,59932,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-128215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmys-2025","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}