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\n Shortly before taping began at the BAM Opera House, October 2.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> has held a weeklong residency in Brooklyn seven times since 2012, but this was his first as Comrade Jimmy<\/a>. About a week after Kimmel\u2019s show was reinstated from a suspension by ABC after comments by FCC chair Brendan Carr, the shows were full of politics as well as hometown affection. (He\u2019s from Mill Basin.) On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of free-ticket-lottery winners lined up at BAM\u2019s Howard Gilman Opera House, infusing Ashland Place with midtown tourist energy. They shuffled through the lobby metal detectors, stopping to post at a giant photo-op scrim made to look sort of like street art. Outside, three middle-aged women held up signs: TRUMP MUST GO NOW! One old guy shouted back, \u201cI love your signs!\u201d<\/p>\n Inside, a DJ spun Motown oldies for VIPs eating Nathan\u2019s hot dogs and drinking negronis. Giant screens played clips: Jimmy in a Sia wig. Jimmy and Bill Murray in a canoe in Newtown Creek. Jimmy\u2019s head emerging from a toilet in a parody PSA for the Department of Environmental Protection. Eventually the in-studio warm-up comic, Don Barris, a jovial pro with a Taftian mustache, led a few applause drills. It turns out that the best way to get a Brooklyn Kimmel crowd to cheer is to treat the event like a miniature rally, bringing up \u201ca little thing now with the president.\u201d The only cannon at this revolution, though, was shooting T-shirts.<\/p>\n As Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen awaited their segments, Kimmel got into game mode, going over jokes and making notes. The crew fist-bumped him as he headed to the stage, where a minutelong standing ovation preceded his monologue (\u201cNot unlike the C train, the government is shut down \u2026\u201d). The crowd stood again when Jon Stewart rode an bike down the aisle, doing a bit as a Grubhub delivery guy. After a Mets gag went on for too long, he suggested Stewart get going, to Stewart\u2019s mock offense. \u201cSorry, Mister \u2018Free Speech!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Photo: Brian Finke\n <\/p>\n Photo: Brian Finke\n <\/p>\n Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism. Want more stories like this one? Subscribe now<\/a>![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5cc51f3b33f16f227f206338843a0cfd7a-251002-NYM-JimmyKimmel-73-Final.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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