The talkshow host has found himself targeted by the president once again but his jokes fail to have the influence or tastelessness that the right like to claim<\/p>\n
In an episode of the classic sitcom Arrested Development, dutiful son Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) corrects his wily but not always culture-savvy mother Lucille (Jessica Walter) that she has not actually been confronted and embarrassed by Michael Moore: \u201cThat was a Michael Moore impersonator for a bit on Jimmy Kimmel Live.\u201d Lucille, as always, is undeterred: \u201cI don\u2019t know who that is and I don\u2019t care to find out.\u201d It\u2019s a hilariously haughty response, withering in its blithe lack of interest. It also accidentally attains a kind of dignity through ignorance that Donald Trump \u2013 who is, like Lucille Bluth, wealthy, elderly and frequently cruel \u2013 could only dream of stumbling into.<\/p>\n
Or maybe that\u2019s actually our dream. Just imagine a world where Trump and his family (both blood and Maga) don\u2019t know or care what\u2019s going on with Jimmy Kimmel. Alas, we live in a world where Kimmel is directly and repeatedly lambasted by the White House for making a joke that seemed in poorer taste after an assassination attempt on Trump. This is despite the joke itself being written and delivered well before the event in question \u2013 the talkshow monologue version of pre-crime, if you can conceive of something that embarrassing.<\/p>\n
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