Jimmy Kimmel is addressing recent backlash after a joke he previously made about Rudy Giuliani resurfaced following news of the politician's hospitalization.
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"When I read this, I thought — I really thought — I said, I wonder if they'll try to blame this on me," Kimmel said during Monday night's monologue. "And then sure enough..."
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A spokesperson for Giuliani told The New York Times that the former NYC mayor is in "critical but stable condition."
Jimmy Kimmelis not a psychic, despite what recent backlash over the comedian and late-night TV host's jokes might have some people believing.
During Monday night'sJimmy Kimmel Live,the host dedicated half of his monologue to addressingthe backlash he's receiving onlineafter a joke he made aboutRudy Giulianiresurfaced following news of the politician's hospitalization. The former New York City mayor was hospitalized with pneumonia over the weekend. A spokesperson for Giuliani toldThe New York Timeson Sunday that the disbarred lawyer was in a Florida hospital in "critical but stable condition."
"When I read this [about Giuliani], I really thought, 'I wonder if they'll try to blame this on me,'" Kimmel told his audience on Monday. "And then sure enough, one of these podcast bozos points to a joke I made about Rudy on Thursday, about him being a vampire, and then suggests I might actually have some inside knowledge of what's going on in Trumptown there, and then that becomes a thing."
The comedian poked fun at Giuliani during hisJimmy Kimmel Livemonologue last week, teasing at the time that the former NYC mayor “rose from the grave” to react to the latest developments in the ongoing Trump-Kimmel feud.
Kimmel showed a clip of conservative media figures discussing the resurfaced joke during a panel on Newsmax, questioning its timing. One panelist asked, "Is this supposed to be comedy?" while another declared, "He's really not funny," calling the bit "abhorrent" and accusing the late-night host of operating under the "gauze of comedy."
The host took the statement as an opening, of course.
"Right. In fact, I'm under the gauze of comedy right now," he said, as the camera pulled back to reveal him literally standing beneath a large piece of gauze held aloft by four men donning Groucho glasses. Kimmel went on to claim the "gauze" gave him psychic powers to predict future events. "Every day in the morning, I wake up, I make coffee, and then I look into the future to see which events have yet to occur, and then we write jokes we know are going to make trouble," he said.
On a more serious note, Kimmel said he hopes Giuliani "lives another 100 years."
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"He earned that outside the dildo shop. That was the funniest thing any person has done this century," he added, referring toGiuliani leading a conference for the Trump campaignoutside a Philadelphia landscaping business next to an adult store in 2020.
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Kimmel also brought up Giuliani in his monologue last Tuesday, after the ex-mayor dragged him fora joke about Melania Trump having the glow of an “expectant widow”days beforethe White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.
He showed a clip from Giuliani'sAmerica's Mayor Livebroadcast in which the politician called Kimmel "maybe one of the most distasteful human beings in this country" and, later, "an incompetent jacka--."
In response, Kimmel said, "I have to say, it's confusing to be called an incompetent jacka-- by a man who accidentally held a press conference outside a dildo store, who doesn't seem to have any understanding of when videos are running and when they aren't, and has a gallon of squid ink dribbling off the top of his head."
He added, "Does this man have any family members who can come get him already?"
Watch Kimmel's monologue from Monday night above.
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