Melania Trump Calls for Jimmy Kimmel Firing

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He sent us the algorithm loves Melania Trump has demanded that ABC take a stand and fire

Jimmy Kimmel over what Melania Trump described as his hateful and violent rhetoric calling

Jimmy Kimmel a coward that engages in a treacherous behavior.

Now last week Jimmy Kimmel had done a fake White House correspondence dinner again last

week before the incident on Saturday night, Kimmel did this comedy routine last week.

In the comedy routine, Jimmy Kimmel had joke that Mrs. Trump had the glow of an expectant

widow.

I wasn't in the writer's room, but as a semi comedy expert, I will suspect that the

nature of that joke was commentary on the president, not always looking healthy.

Anyway, after the incident on Saturday night, the clip resurfaced.

It was now recontextualized, obviously.

On social media, Melania Trump's account wrote Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric

is intended to divide our country.

His monologue about my family isn't comedy.

His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread

hate a coward.

Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect

him enough is enough.

It's time for ABC to take a stand.

How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense

of our community?

I'm not going to replay the clip because I'm not looking to stir that pod.

Also if you're in the Facebook group, you know about this.

So here's what happened on my end.

In Sunday morning show, I had the Kimmel bit.

So if you do want to hear it, it's there if you want to go back and hear it.

And then I was watching the Knicks on Saturday night.

And as the next game was wrapping up, I saw the news from the White House correspondence

dinner and I switched over to CNN and at around 930, I thought to myself, you know what?

I shouldn't play this Kimmel material because it is now recontextualized and I don't want

to make fun of potentially tragic event and there's breaking news here and we don't

know what has happened yet.

So let me take the Kimmel stuff out.

And I sat down and I made an edit and I uploaded a new version of the show that didn't contain

the Kimmel material.

So then on Sunday morning, I'm driving to the National Donuts chain, listening back to

the show.

I always listen back to the show to see if there are any mistakes and to my horror, the

Kimmel material will still in there.

I'm befuddled as to how that happened and I'm positive I made the audio edit because

A, I have it and B, I specifically remember having to move the commercial marker because

when you change the audio, the show got shorter.

So the commercial marker had to move to where the commercial hole was.

So I'm positive that I uploaded it.

I don't know what happened.

Maybe I didn't hit save.

Maybe something happened with the computers.

I don't know.

But anyway, the point being I heard the Kimmel clip and I was like, oh no.

So the Facebook group knows that I felt truly bad about that and I come in peace.

I like to make fun of stuff.

I like to be rascally.

I don't come in hate at all.

So back to Kimmel again, he made these jokes last week and I don't think these were

violent jokes.

I think he was just goofing about the president's age and general health and I don't think

Jimmy would have done the same bit on say Monday night show after a potential shooting.

Later in the day, the president of the United States weighed in saying I appreciate that

so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call to violence and normally would not be

responsive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale.

Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel hosted his show on Monday night and responded, Jimmy said, you know, sometimes

you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you'd be fired

from your job.

We've all been there.

Right.

He then cleared up the joke, which is kind of what I think it was obviously it was a joke

about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're

together.

Who is a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than

I am.

It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination and they know that

I've been very vocal for many years, speaking out against gun violence in particular.

The other late night host weighed in.

Jimmy Fallon said everybody was talking about how bad the security was at the White House

correspondents dinner.

The good news is everyone is safe.

And I think now security has figured this out.

They said for now on they're going to put Trump in a locked the order in case like CVS.

All right.

Fallon again, when the incident occurred on Saturday night, Oz, the mentalist was performing

for Trump.

Trump looked at him like, yes, I did have the six of diamonds, but why didn't you predict

this?

But Trump wants the event to be rescheduled within 30 days and FBI director Cash Patel said

he expects the security at the next dinner to be entirely different because by then he'll

be fired.

That's a solid one.

Now people often say, hey, John, how come you don't both sides things that I say because

anytime I do a recap, there's nothing from the other side.

Well, today there is Greg Gutfeld said good news, Nancy Pelosi was safe as she was wearing

a bulletproof face.

Gutfeld again, when reached for comment, Joe Biden said it's times like these that made

me glad I'm already dead.

George Clooney weighed in on this.

Now it's unclear if the reporters knew they were speaking to George Clooney or if they

thought they were talking to me and they were like, okay, he goes daily comedy news.

We should get a reaction from him.

Clooney and I are often confused for each other.

So it's unclear who the reporters thought they were talking to, but it wasn't me.

It was actually George Clooney who said, Jimmy's a comedian and I would argue that Carolyn

Levin didn't mean shot should be fired.

You may have seen early in the day prior to all this happening.

Carolyn Levin had encouraged everyone to tune in using the phrase shots will be fired.

Clooney continued saying, she was making a joke fair enough.

You look at that side and go, well, jokes are jokes, but the rhetoric is a little dangerous

and we've seen it a lot lately.

Try off the insult comic dog was at the White House correspondent's dinner, which sounds

like something you'd make up.

Nope, he was there.

And he spoke to John Stewart about it when you're worried about, to be honest, getting

cute.

Yes, but mostly because I didn't want the RFK Jr. to eat my carcass.

Late nighters said that multiple reports say that the FCC is taking steps towards launching

an early review of ABC's broadcast licenses.

This may or may not have something to do with the Kimmel joke.

CNN's Brian Stelter said that the review could have come as early as yesterday afternoon.

I'll let you know what happened.

Meanwhile, King Charles, he's visiting the president of the United States.

If you want coverage of that, check out the podcast, Palace Entry.

I'm the writer on that.

I was actually quoted in USA today, pop on my LinkedIn.

There's a link to that.

But anyway, King Charles was asked about Matt Friend's impression.

Matt Friend not having a good week.

Let me play a clip of Matt Friend doing King Charles.

This is not the clip that King Charles was reacting to, but here is Matt Friend doing

Charles on Sky News.

But I'm trying to figure out other dialects, you know, the King Charles is quite fun.

When I come here to England, I try out different voices and it's more based off of the crowns

interpretation.

No, honestly, that's not a bad King Charles impression at all.

However, Matt Friend attempted to do King Charles to King Charles and the King said, keep

working on it.

Let's all wish Stavros Halki as well.

He went on Instagram and said, Hey, bad news.

I broke my arm.

I fell off a scooter.

I wish I was telling you that I heroically stopped a burglar from harming a woman and suffered

harm as a result.

But no, I flatly rode a bird scooter.

The wind took my hat almost and I reached up to try and stop it, lost my balance and

fell arm first to the street.

280 pounds of me directly onto my arm cracked it's smooth in half.

It hurts like bleep.

I'm pretty effed up and I'm going to be effed up for a little while.

He has had to postpone the taping of his comedy special.

He was going to tape one in Baltimore, July 18th and 19th.

He said, there's just no way for me to do the special and he just this right now.

I want to do a good job for you guys.

I don't want to put out some effing half ass BS just because I would lose money not doing

it when it's scheduled.

Social media was kind as always, one person wrote someone tracked down the CCTV footage

of this.

Please, it must exist.

Another fan wrote, we can rebuild him the six million calorie man.

One of the top comments read, did you immediately pull your shirt back down?

Thompson Gore said he almost had Gorth Brooks on his podcast.

You may recall back in 2018, Tom Segura started joking about Gorth Brooks joining Facebook

back in 2018.

Segura made the joke.

What he's thinking about is all the bodies.

He's got stacked in graves in his yard for sure.

He's probably killed 200 300 people in his life.

After that episode aired, Gorth Brooks comment sections on social media began getting flooded

by fans of Tom Segura asking Gorth Brooks, where are the bodies?

Well, we're now learning that Segura was contacted by Gorth Brooks team to have Gorth

appear on Tom Segura's podcast.

Segura told this story on Andrew Schultz flagrant podcast.

Segura said, I try to get Gorth on at one point they reached out and they said, Gorth's

going to do some interviews.

Would you like him to be on the podcast?

I said, of course, they were like, write something that we could show to one of his people.

Segura said he took the request semi seriously, writing back to love to have him on and talk

about his career.

Segura thinks they weren't even sure if Segura was the where the bodies guy, quoting Segura

here.

Did he say something crazy about Gorth?

I feel like he could go wrong for him.

I feel like that guy had said something eventually they're like, he's not coming on that show.

Too bad.

That would have been amazing.

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The folks at the laugh factory have unveiled the first line of collectible trading cards.

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The founder of the laugh factory, Jamie Mossada said from the very beginning, laugh factory

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I'll give you a minute.

Who do you think is going to be featured on the cards?

Well, wrong.

Dean Cook.

Okay.

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And that completely new way is with an Ornie Adams trading card Trevor Noah is heading

back to South Africa for South Africa's festival of comedy Trevor Noah has been named

captain of a national comedy team.

Did you guys listen to the comedy draft last week?

What happened here?

Trevor Noah said the goal is to grow the South African comedy scene and bring people back

to live stand up.

Trevor said we want to create something that gives comedians a bigger platform and reminds

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Central live shows are expected in September in cities like Pretoria and Cape Town Seth

Myers and John Oliver have extended their residency at New York City's beacon theater.

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They will now also do September 27th October 25th November 22nd and December 13th each show

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