By Editor,Joe Hutchison
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As his late-night gig comes to an abrupt end, the crude past of comedian Jimmy Kimmel looks to have finally caught up with him.
The 57-year-old was unceremoniously suspended from his namesake show on Wednesday night after making inflammatory comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.
ABC announced on Wednesday evening that ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ would be removed from the network ‘for the foreseeable future’ after 22 years on-air.
Yet Kimmel was able to dodge being canceled for years, despite being involved in several scandals including black face, using the ‘N’ word and making sexist comments towards Megan Fox.
He had also picked up a reputation for frequently bashing President Donald Trump, who celebrated his show being pulled, and his supporters.
His crass, and frequently offensive, behavior was on full display on ‘The Man Show’, which propelled Kimmel and co-host Adam Carolla into the limelight in the early 2000s.
The crux of the show, which Kimmel later said was largely satire, saw the two carry out overly chauvinistic and sexually charged sketches using women.
Episodes opened with a dance troupe referred to as the ‘juggy dance squad’, made up of woman with large breasts who would dance in revealing costumes.
The end segment would involve scantly clad woman, sometimes dressed up as schoolgirls or wearing only bikinis, dancing on trampolines as the two slurped beer.
In one clip of the two that has since reemerged, Kimmel is seen making lewd actions towards a woman using a tower viewer.
The woman is using the finder as Kimmel and Carolla stand around her as Kimmel pretends to grab her buttocks.
As the woman continues to be unaware of what is going on behind her, he kneels down and wags his tongue at her behind.
Kimmel continues to ask the woman to remain looking down the scope as he proceeds to dry hump her, much to the delight of Carolla.
Other segments would see Kimmel on the street asking random women to grab his crotch and guess what he had stuffed into his pants.
‘I’ve stuffed something in my pants, and you are allowed to feel around on the outside of my pants and you will have ten seconds to then guess what is in my pants’, Kimmel explains.
In one clip, he encourages one woman to using both of her hands, while telling another to ‘put her mouth on it’.
Kimmel asks another woman how old she is and after responding she is 18, he adds: ‘Are you sure of that? Cause Uncle Jimmy doesn’t need to do time.’
‘You’re going to make a fine wife’, he tells another as she rummages around his crotch area.
Speaking with Vulture in 2017, Kimmel said his behavior on-air was always a joke and that he was lampooning overtly loutish male behavior.
He said: ‘We always said The Man Show’s audience was divided between people who thought it was funny and understood we were joking and other people who really thought we had some kind of an agenda.
‘I look back at every show I’ve ever done and cringe. My vision of hell is a bunch of monitors with my old shows running on them.
‘It was a show people loved, and I got to work with Adam [Carolla], which was a dream at the time, and we did a lot of funny stuff. We also did a lot of stupid stuff.’
That similar style of comedy made its way onto his talk show, with Kimmel making sexual wisecracks in a 2009 interview with Megan Fox.
Fox had shared a story in which she said she starred in a Michael Bay film at the age of 15, with the director opting to have her dance under a waterfall in a bikini.
When the crowd laughed, she reiterated: ‘At 15. I was in tenth grade. So that’s a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works.’
Rather than sympathizing with her, Kimmel opted inside to say: ‘Well that’s really a microcosm of how all our minds work.’
Fox looked uncomfortable after the cheering from the crowd and the remark by Kimmel, running her hands down her leg and visibly cringing.
In 2020 she later defended Bay saying that he had never been ‘assaulted or preyed upon’ sexually by the blockbuster director.
It wasn’t just sexism that was on display, with Kimmel also blacking up on the show – which ran with Kimmel and Carolla presenting from 1999 until 2003.
A recurring segment saw Kimmel parodying NBA player Karl Malone while in blackface. He also appeared in blackface for a parody of Oprah Winfrey.
In 1996, Kimmel use the N-word while parodying Snoop Dogg in a Christmas song parody titled ‘A Family Christmas in Your A**’.
He rapped ‘fat [N-word] in a sleigh, giving s***s away’; and ‘me and my [N-word] down in LBC, we’ll smoke that m*********n’ Christmas tree.’
On the album, Kimmel was given co-producer credits as Jim Kimmel, and credited with writing comedy material on it.
In June of 2020 he was forced into apologizing after the clips of him blacked up and the audio of him impersonating the rap star resurfaced.
He said: ‘I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head.
‘Looking back, many of these sketches are embarrassing, and it is frustrating that these thoughtless moments have become a weapon used by some to diminish my criticisms of social and other injustices.’
Kimmel and President Trump have long locked horns, with Kimmel frequently poking fun at the commander-in-chief and his supporters.
This included him making political comments on air about gun control after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shooting that left 17 dead.
Kimmel also was emotional as he delivered a monologue against Trump’s overhaul of Obamacare in 2017 due to his son being born with a rare heart defect.
Rolling Stone reported in 2023 that the comments on Trump caused the White House to approach ABC parent company Disney and ask them to censure the remarks.
In 2018 Kimmel came under scrutiny after he mocked First Lady Melania Trump’s accent in a segment on his show.
Kimmel mocked the first lady’s reading of a children’s book at the White House Easter egg hunt, making fun of her Slovenian accent.
‘Dees and dat’, Kimmel repeated on the show – laughing as he did it. He later apologized for it after a war of words between him and Fox host Sean Hannity.
Hannity called Kimmel out on the segment, describing him as a ‘sick, creepy, perverted weirdo’.
Kimmel was reportedly set to address his remarks on Kirk on Wednesday night, before he received news that he had been axed, Deadline reported.
Staffers were seeing leaving the Los Angeles studio after the show was pulled with Kimmel yet to comment on it.