Jimmy Kimmel Was Not Thrilled With the FCC Hearing About His Show

When Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air in September at the behest of FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was clearly following orders from above, the incident sparked concerns about freedom of speech from both sides of the aisles. Pundits of all stripes felt this administration had gone too far, and so, Carr was dragged in front of Congress on Wednesday where… not much was resolved.

During his Wednesday night monologue, Kimmel mocked the proceedings where Republicans mostly refused to rein in Carr. In fact, only Ted Cruz stepped up and chastised Carr by telling the FCC chair, “We cannot have the government arbitrating truth or opinion.” However, Cruz couldn’t resist taking a shot at Kimmel in the process as he called the late night host, “angry, overtly partisan and profoundly unfunny.” Your funeral, Ted.

Via The Wrap:

In response to Cruz’s dig, Kimmel hit back: “There’s my old ball of expired mayonnaise … I have to say, ‘profoundly unfunny,’ hurts my feelings. I would never say he isn’t funny. I think he’s very funny. It was funny when he jetted off to Cancun during that snowstorm. It was funny when he liked that stepmom p*rn on 9/11. It was a lot of funny stuff.”

Jokes aside, Kimmel was rightly dismayed at how absolutely nothing was resolved. “No one watched this. No one admitted to anything. Nothing was done to prevent it from happening again,” he said. “No one’s held accountable, and your freedom of speech is only guaranteed, depending upon what you have to say. It was not the bipartisan effort we might have expected.”

While Kimmel’s condemnation was scathing, the situation was actually much worse. Not only did Carr openly tell Congress that the FCC is no longer independent and serves at the whim of the president, but according to The A.V. Club, he had the word “independent” stripped from the FCC website immediately after the proceedings. That’ll teach those jerk Democrats and their stupid knowledge of how government works!