Emily Jashinsky

He was the one who went on Fallon and had his hair ruffled.

Nobody is mad about jokes about Donald Trump.

People are mad that all Jimmy Kimmel has grown into, someone who I would say actually used to be funny when he was out there with Carolla doing the Man Show, he grew into this audience-captured Trump obsessive,

over the last 10 years who only talks about Donald Trump.

That's what people are annoyed with.

They want to tune into late night shows to see something that's genuinely going to make them laugh.

Now, some of that has shifted with the business models in that Colbert and Kimmel have developed these like really intensely political audiences because it's just a much smaller piece of the pie.

than Late Night was getting even 20 years ago.

And so you get the like resistance wine moms tuning in for their nightly dose of affirmation from these guys.

So part of it is that.

But nobody who's like protesting ABC or is mad at their local Sinclair station or Nexstar station, for example,

if they end up seeing Kimmel back on the air.

Those audiences in more conservative communities, they aren't mad at Kimmel for making jokes about Trump.

They're mad at Kimmel for only making jokes about Donald Trump, for finding much less humor in the very hilarious Democrats, and for there being this wildly disproportionate focus on Trump and MAGA, which exactly brings us back to the line that got him in trouble, pointing the finger at MAGA.

because he is blinded by his own ideological fixations in a way that makes him unfunny.

He can't genuinely see the humor across the board.

Not even both sides, all sides, everyone, which is what a comedian is supposed to do.

Thoughts on that one?

I mean, precisely, I think, what we would expect.

And the truth is, it's not worth the attention that it's getting in the mainstream.