You can't blame the man. The puppy Jimmy Fallon apologized very quickly when pressured by The Mob. After all, these are high profile guys who are easily recognized and thanks to the Internet, THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.
The last thing either Jimmy would want is his head smashed the way innocent truck driver Reginald Denny got it during one of those peaceful riots over somebody with a criminal record resisting arrest. Surely that footage is on YouTube or somewhere? You see, if you've been oppressed, it's ok to take it out on some innocent person stopped in traffic. Pull him out of his vehicle, stomp him a few times, and have your friends join in.
One of them has a cement block and smashes it down on the white guy's head, scrambling his brains forever. Well, you know how THIS story ends? It ends with the white guy forgiving them all.
But Kimmel? Fallon? They do need their brains if they're going to continue to ATTEMPT to make people laugh. So Kimmel caved, and his pal Adam Carrolla grumbled about it:
If you missed "THE MAN SHOW," I can't really tell you much about it. The few bits and pieces I saw were infantile, moronic, and unfunny. The show was intended for low-class beer-drinking GUYS who hate women and any successful men. At least that's what I got from what little I saw. So making fun of a successful basketball player or using the "n word" just to be bratty or outrageous or try to summon the ghost of Lenny Bruce...you know where it's coming from. Not racism. The show was obnoxious to everyone, sometimes Adam and Jimmy were even obnoxious to each other.
Kimmel basically admitted that he held off apologizing because he didn't want THE MOB to win. They'd see it as another bullying victory for their WOKE campaign (fueled by bird brains on Twitter) to declare R.I.P. and "CANCEL" and "Goodbye Party" to anyone successful that they can vomit their bile onto. Well, it IS a victory for that bunch.
Kimmel will enjoy his July-August vacation in peace, one assumes. One can't be sure, anymore than tourists at PENNY LANE in Liverpool can be sure they can take pictures of the signs there. They might STILL be defaced.
Kimmel's obviously hostile apology was to people who were offended. It's all you can do with people who could get violent. Same way you don't argue with some paranoid maniac on the street who accuses you of something. You just apologize and try to get away with your life.
That Jimmy NOW believes that some of the things he did on "The Man Show" were improper, or stupid, is very nice, but that means he'll be apologizing for some of the things he did on his current show...in five or ten years. This would include making fun of the way immigrants speak (be it an unfunny idiot who seeks autographs of celebrities he barely knows, or the hilarious "Guilermo" who is such a stereotype he could play the Frito Bandito in a movie). This would include his creepy crooked grinning at everything KANYE says. This would include his rather sadistic "I ate the candy" videos that he encouraged sadistic parents to make and post on YouTube.
As for Adam, he rightly makes the point that comedians lives matter. Since there are no more protest singers -- a style that pretty much died in the 60's with singles by Dylan, Barry McGuire, Phil Ochs and a few others -- it's been COMEDIANS who have ridiculed the status quo. Who pointed a finger at Richard Nixon? David Frye. What TV show grabbed the pulse of the nation's bigotry? "All in the Family." What comedian lit a fire under racial issues? Richard Pryor. Who pushed a variety of envelopes? George Carlin, Sam Kinison, and even Jay Leno with his monologues. Who has attacked political hacks for the past 30 years? "Saturday Night Live." Who is the "King of All Media?" Howard Stern. Who rocked the boat on late night for 30 years? David Letterman...who had to apologize to Sarah Palin of all people, and give a mea culpa to the world because he had an affair. Bob Goldthwait's publicist once called him the "canary in the coal mine," alerting everyone to what's poisonous. Indeed, that IS what a lot of comedians do. They turn tragedy into comedy. Can you name any singer of the past 30 years, or any songs that have been more relentlessly topical on world issues?
So, for once, Carrolla's got it right. Yes, comedians can be controversial, including "Dice" Clay and Don Rickles. It's possible that they do some kind of damage...whether it's Jimmie Walker's stereotype on "Good Times" (which is co-stars loathed) or Howard Stern's goofing around with "retards" or bullet sound effects after a Latina singer got shot. But mostly, from the late "Natinal Lampoon" and "MAD" magazines to the current jokes from Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert, comedians have been the ones to purge anxiety and bring just the right amount of derisive laughter onto "leaders" who deserve it. And that includes Kimmel's jokes on Trump and his memorable "mushroom display" interview with the porn star Trump used for unprotected sex. PS, Kimmel's humiliation probably pleased one person more than any -- Trump -- and that's not a good thing at all.
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