“Now I see myself more as a place to scream.”
Leftist comedy died a while ago. All that’s left is mockery and rage. The two poles of the humorless ideological id.
Jimmy Kimmel: A year ago, I would’ve said I’m hoping to show people who aren’t paying attention to the news what’s actually going on, and hoping to change things that way. Obviously, that didn’t have enough impact before the election, so now I see myself more as a place to scream.
No late night host has been more of a chameleon than Kimmel. In an industry of phonies, Kimmel deserves his own star having reinvented himself from the Man Show era to Mr. Woke. It’s all fake, but it also means Kimmel has a pretty good sense of what his audience wants and adapts to it. He went from the era of ironic, offensive and rough-and-tumble comedy to the Jon Stewart era in which hosts hold forth about how ridiculous conservatives are and how the existence of non-liberals hurts their precious feelings.
Kimmel was never funny, but he knows what the small stable of idiots watching him want. Right now they want to ‘scream’ like a View session.
Even the shell of comedy has cracked. Underneath the mockery and the contempt, there’s a great big primal scream.
And that scream was what was always under there.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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