This Is How Jimmy Kimmel Reacted to His Suspension, According to Adam Carolla
Jimmy Kimmel has yet to make any kind of official statement about his show’s "indefinite" suspension, but apparently the host has been in contact with his friend and former Man Show collaborator Adam Carolla. And, naturally, Carolla has now turned that private interaction into content.
On a new edition of The Adam Carolla Show, the Mr. Birchum star discussed the Kimmel situation, recalling that he first heard the news about his pal’s show over the radio, while driving to a stand-up gig.
Carolla’s initial response was to… try and prank conservative pundit and alleged sex pest Bill O’Reilly? “I talked to Bill O’Reilly last week. He goes, ‘Hey, tell your buddy Kimmel to put me on the show,’” Carolla said. So he briefly considered calling O’Reilly up and telling him that he’d finally been booked on the now nonexistent show (and would be bumping Stephen Colbert).
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Carolla mentioned that he’s in a group text with several of Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s employees, but had to shut his phone off during the show. Afterwards, he reached out to Kimmel directly. “I just sent him a text because you want to be on record as understanding or knowing or whatever,” Carolla explained. “It just said, you know, ‘Thinking about you. I hope you’re okay.’” He also added, “You don’t need to reply,” knowing that it was a difficult time.
“He wrote back 18 seconds later, which is how Jimmy does (it). He just writes back,” Carolla added. “He’s like ‘Wow, it’s strange times out here,’ whatever. And then I wrote — I told him I booked O’Reilly on the show.”
But Kimmel clearly didn’t have time for Carolla’s joke. “He just wrote back, ‘I’m being followed by a helicopter.’ And I was like, ‘Oh wow! These are strange times.’”
The famously conservative Carolla also shared his feelings about the show’s pseudo-cancelation: “My feeling is this — I don’t think he should have been fired. He was inaccurate about something. It wasn’t like he was necessarily attacking Charlie Kirk, he was trying to dump it on Trump and (was) inaccurate about it.”
Of course, Kimmel’s statement was basically just refuting claims that Kirk’s killer was part of the extreme left, suggesting that he was really a right winger — since nothing has been conclusively reported about the assassin’s political leanings, Kimmel was seemingly only as inaccurate as the MAGA Republicans he was criticizing for being inaccurate.
“I can’t turn on Jimmy because he made my career,” Carolla concluded.
All of which is a pretty tepid response from the “stand up to cancel culture” guy.
