Jimmy Kimmel Gets Completely Cooked After His TDS Infected Oscars Comments [WATCH]

Commentator Benny Johnson and Rep. Brandon Gill criticized late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over his repeated political speeches at Hollywood award shows, arguing that the remarks have become predictable and increasingly disconnected from younger audiences.

Johnson raised the issue during a discussion about the entertainment industry’s ongoing fixation on anti-Trump messaging.

He said Kimmel keeps showing up at major award ceremonies and delivering the same kind of political speech.

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“You are young, and you are like, locked in, and obviously you have millions of followers on social media, and you see this kind of stuff,” Johnson said, before turning to Kimmel’s repeated appearances on Hollywood stages.

Johnson mocked the frequency with which Kimmel appears at entertainment events, saying, “I thought he had a restraining order from all of the award shows in Hollywood.” He followed that by joking, “I thought he had beeper on his leg.”

From there, Johnson argued that Kimmel still manages to get in front of a microphone at nearly every major ceremony.

“But, you know, sure enough, he’s able to claw his way in to every single award show,” Johnson said, adding that Kimmel ends up giving “some like, Trump hating speech, muling speech.”

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Johnson also pointed to Kimmel’s recent comments about free speech, saying the late-night host had tried to portray the United States as part of a broader attack on open expression.

“And last night, he was talking about how there’s an like, we live in a country with authoritarian attacks on free speech,” Johnson said.

He then described Kimmel’s comparison as absurd, saying, “He says this, and he cites CBS and North Korea and America as like, the things attacking free speech.” Johnson closed his setup by asking Gill directly, “I wonder your response perhaps, to Jimmy Kimmel.”

Gill responded by calling the complaint about free speech hollow coming from a man who spends so much time attacking conservatives on television.

“Oh yeah. It’s always rich to hear somebody talking about the attacks on free speech from ostensibly Republicans and conservatives,” Gill said.

He argued that Kimmel has built much of his public persona around attacking the president, conservatives, and Christians. Gill said, “Whenever you’re the one who is bashing the president and bashing conservatives and Christians on national TV and on whatever other platform you want to use every single day,” it is difficult to take those complaints seriously.

Gill also noted that Kimmel is plainly still able to say what he wants. “I mean, nobody’s stopping him from attacking the president,” he said.

While making clear that Kimmel has the right to speak, Gill added, “Nobody said he doesn’t have the right to say that as idiotic as most of what comes out of his mouth is.”

The Texas Republican then widened the criticism beyond Kimmel and toward the award-show culture itself, saying younger viewers have largely tuned out.

“But I mean, to your point earlier, young people don’t watch this stuff anymore,” Gill said.

According to Gill, the problem is not complicated. “I think for the main reason is that it’s just not funny or entertaining,” he said, arguing that the events no longer offer much value to ordinary viewers.

Gill described award ceremonies as self-congratulatory productions run by elites speaking mostly to one another.

“You know, it’s a bunch of self serving elitist, really contemptible, elitist people who are, you know, running an award ceremony so that they can congratulate themselves,” he said.

He argued that many Americans now look at the entertainment industry and see very little that reflects their own values or interests.

“And I think most people look at this and say, there is very little of value that you’ve created in your lifetime,” Gill said.

Gill concluded by saying audiences are making a simple decision in response to the speeches and the ceremonies that feature them.

“You’re not entertaining,” he said.

He added, “You don’t promote any kind of culture that I relate to in any way.”

For many viewers, Gill said, the reaction is straightforward: “So I’m just going to turn it off.”

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