Who is Jimmy Kimmel and why do we care? That's the question plaguing me these days. For reasons beyond my understanding, the so-called entertainer has made the pages of my daily newspaper. Stooping to a new low, the formerly staid Wall Street Journal presents an article about Kimmel in today's "Business & Finance Section." This blows my mind.
Admittedly, as someone basking in the glow of my golden years I turn in early. Usually I'm asleep by 10 pm, or maybe 11 if it's a weekend and I've gone out somewhere. But that's rare. So I'm clueless when it comes to late-night talk show hosts. Besides, after Johnny Carson left, that genre died a horrible death, with a string of lesser talents trying to fill his shoes. Still, I find the fact that someone who tries to be funny for living is now a mouthpiece for the loony left is depressing, disorienting and downright disturbing.
There are plenty of people alive on this planet, myself among them, who have never seen Jimmy Kimmel do whatever it is he supposedly does. But there is nobody above the age of about eight who couldn't pick Donald Trump out of a lineup. Kimmel's ongoing skewering of Trump, who is the President of the United States for the second time, is perhaps the best joke he has ever told. His recent putdown of First Lady Melania is his second best.
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