—The politics of boycotting a company that makes slop (Disney) a TV network that offers slop (ABC) a studio that has ruined film (Marvel) and goofy sports journalism (ESPN) to defend a tepid host of a bad advertisement for all of the above feels too easy.
Kimmel isn’t clever or funny. His whole career is based on low hanging fruit. The joke that got him in trouble was just playing a press pool clip of Trump talking. He didn’t even have to write anything for it.
Kimmel’s job is being a hype man for the Disney megacorp. All the interviews are from the stars of film and tv that the company makes. It’s not some creative singular show that offered something to us to consider or moved our ways of thinking around.
The danger here is that people are so willing to rally around a corporate clown. This speaks to how little serious threats authoritarian or fascist leaders have in the U.S. The real depressing thing is how few political artists, poets, and humorists there are that have access to a national audience in a way that matters. The man who made millions drinking bad beer and showing us slow motion girls on trampolines is not worth anyone’s political thought. But it’s the only sticking point we have. Maybe the authoritarians won long ago and this is just their passion play.