Late-night comedians had a subject day with Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon’s cable information ousters on Monday, together with Jimmy Kimmel, who took the chance to joke that he’d additionally been abruptly let go from his internet hosting job.
Simply as Kimmel was recapping Carlson and Lemon’s respective exits from Fox Information and CNN, Kimmel’s sidekick Guillermo minimize in with a mock announcement that “ABC TV has determined to half methods with host Jimmy Kimmel. This was a mutual resolution… And, on a private notice, I wish to say to Jimmy: Don’t let the door hit your ass on the best way out. Loser!”
Elsewhere in his monologue, Kimmel joked that “that is extra like an episode of Succession than final evening’s episode of Succession,” as Carlson’s departure was reportedly Fox Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch’s resolution.
“What a shock,” Kimmel added. “What a completely pleasant shock that is.” (You may watch his full monologue above.)
Elsewhere on late-night TV…
Late Evening host Seth Meyers gleefully recounted the information in an in depth “A Nearer Look” section, who requested: “Does this imply that Fox Information has gone… woke?” (That phrase was accompanied by a scary thunderclap and the chortle of an evil witch.) He then in contrast his response to a sequence of Tucker Carlson faces and prompt that maybe “the brand new inexperienced M&M” would possibly take over his outdated time slot. (The Tonight Present‘s Jimmy Fallon obtained in on the M&M jokes, too, quipping, “It’s simple to make jokes about Tucker being gone, however now who’s going to inform me which M&M is most woke, y’know?”)
Over on The Day by day Present, visitor host Desi Lydic couldn’t assist however discover a bit of irony in Carlson’s ouster: “I can’t consider a community that’s so against gender-affirming surgical procedure simply minimize off their very own d—okay,” she mentioned.
And Late Late Present host James Corden, who will probably be stepping down from his late-night submit on the finish of this week, had a special idea for why Carlson and Lemon left their networks so abruptly. “They’re getting out whereas the going’s good,” he prompt. “As a result of quickly, the one respected information supply in America will probably be gone on Thursday. It’s us. We break the information, they simply take the information.”
Fox Information parted methods with Carlson on Monday morning. Apparently, there was zero indication of Carlson’s exit the earlier Friday, when on the shut of what can be his ultimate episode he mentioned to viewers a typical, “We’ll be again on Monday.”
Phrase that CNN terminated Lemon got here lower than an hour later. On the time, Lemon mentioned he’d been informed he was let go by his agent, not by anybody at CNN. Shortly thereafter, the cable information community issued a terse response difficult its ex-employee’s interpretation of occasions.
“Don Lemon’s assertion about this morning’s occasions is inaccurate,” CNN Communications tweeted. “He was provided a possibility to fulfill with administration however as a substitute launched a press release on Twitter.”
Carlson’s termination comes within the wake of Fox Information Channel reaching a settlement in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Methods, simply as their much-publicized trial was about to get underway. Dominion claimed it was owed damages ensuing from Fox Information’ airing of false claims about its position within the 2020 election. Prior to now few months, emails and texts gathered for the trial from Fox executives and anchors — Carlson and Sean Hannity included — hinted that folks working on the firm knowingly put forth false details about the election and Dominion’s involvement in it.
Lemon’s firing, in the meantime, comes three weeks after our sister website Selection printed an exposé wherein greater than a dozen of his former and present colleagues outlined a sample of allegedly misogynistic, inappropriate and “diva-like” habits on the cable information community, and greater than two months after he acquired backlash for a sexist assertion he made on CNN This Morning in February.
