Jimmy Kimmel

And it was something really that had to come from inside me.

It had to be truthful and I had to lay it all out there and just be honest about what I was feeling and what I'd experienced.

And I think I did.

And I think that it probably went about as well as it could go.

I knew that it wasn't going to be perfect, and there were always going to be people that didn't like it and didn't accept it.

But the important thing to me was that I was able to explain what I was saying, what I was trying to say.

Because you felt like your initial comments had been mischaracterized.

I didn't feel like it was.

They were.

It was intentionally and, I think, maliciously mischaracterized, yes.

Did you, I mean...

Do you feel like you have become more political in your commentary on the show over the course of hosting it?

What do you think?

I think yes.

I think if you talk to me, when my first interaction with Jimmy Kimmel was The Man Show, which is you and Carolla, who at this point, as best I can tell, are on complete opposite ends of the political spectrum, but still friends.

Yeah, very good friends, yeah.

And it feels like you...

became far more comfortable and insistent on talking, not just about politics, but about personal things.

Maybe because you got older, maybe because you got more comfortable in the role, maybe because the world around us changed, all of those things.

Yeah, all of those things for sure.