You are right, Richard. It is the end of everything, but not because of Trump. Kimmel's ratings were in the toilet. As with Colbert. The public is turning away from the Left's monoculture. Remember that word? None of you did anything to shake it up as Hollywood was losing power. You all just kept silent out of fear. I get it. I do. Money is nice. But Kimmel didn't just say the shooter was "one of MAGA," which is a lie -- probably defamatory. But he also said that Trump did not care about Charlie's death and was golfing instead. This is a continuation of a ten-year smear campaign against half the country in increasingly disgusting and unacceptable ways.
They were getting calls from affiliates, calls of complaints, and yeah, they wanted the merger. That is on them. If it had been "fascism," Kimmel would have been shot on the spot or in jail.
I am not someone who believes people should lose their jobs because of things they said. I lost everything because I voted for Trump and made a joke on Twitter. I did not say anything so offensive as to deserve that, but Rebecca Keegan went around Hollywood asking advertisers, Academy members, others in the business if they knew about what I thought and if they agreed with it. That ended a 26-year business. Now, do you think that was right?
I was benched at Gold Derby. The Academy disinvited me to the ceremony. Publicists shunned me and stopped inviting me to screenings. THAT is what all of you think of the majority that just won in November. The empire is collapsing because no ruling aristocracy can survive when the majority rises up and says enough.
It's the Left that made this bed of cancel culture. Not you specifically, but the Left. When I tried to stand against it all these years, I was attacked viciously. The Biden administration was censoring social media, all exposed in the Twitter Files. We would never have known for sure until Elon Musk bought twitter -- he bought it because the Left was banning people for thought crimes.
You are right, this is the end, but it's not the fault of Trump or MAGA. It is the fault of people who closed themselves off from the rest of America, taking American culture with them.
You guys -- me for a time -- took everything from the working class and then demonized them for fighting back. The people with all of the power treated the majority in this country like they weren't good enough to be included. That is wrong. And it's why the empire is collapsing. It's also why Trump won. Yes, stand up to him. Preserve failing propaganda shows like Jimmy's. Do it. Fight for utopia. However, you can't stop the collapse until everyone realizes that our culture belongs to everyone.
Now I'm seeing all of the Oscar bloggers making political statements against Kimmel's firing because it is now safe to do so. None of them -- not one -- stood against it when hundreds were losing their jobs for saying one wrong word or making an accusation.
I hope that you all will be able to talk more reasonably about this, because if you don't, more people will be shot. Respectfully, your fan.
How about Kimmel sues Brendan Carr for "interference with contractual relations?" How about Kimmel sues Carr for a 1st Amendment violation and seeks injunctive relief. I love the idea of Sarandos or Jamie Erlicht offering Kimmel a home at Netflix or Apple+. We need to take a deep breath, wipe away the fear, follow the smart law firms that did not capitulate, and go on offense if we want to protect our beloved nation.
If the business does in fact turn into “a place none of us want to be a part of” it would be incredible. 80+% of showbiz folks who don’t work on set are a net negative (this includes writers). Let’s cut the desk jobs and grow the business
Kimmel averages 129,000 viewers right now. It’s pitiful. The studio wanted him gone because his audience is worth close to $0.
I actually know a few TikTok comedians who generate more ad revenue on TikTok than Kimmel does.
He’s outdated and the audience doesn’t like him. I don’t know anyone who likes him other than you self-nominating Emmy award types (that, again, the audience doesn’t care for).
I’m no MAGA supporter, either. Diehard first amendment libertarian.
But Kimmel is embarrassingly outdated. Oust him and all of his writes for not being funny.
Every day brings a new horror. We're used to it now. But what happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a five-alarm fire...coming on the heels of other five-alarm fires, to be sure, but even more Orwellian. Art is not safe. Satire is not safe. Literature, television, and film are not safe. Artists can no longer be certain that we will not be punished by the government itself for a book we wrote, a movie we made, a poem, a painting, a song.
Free speech is the last bulwark of democracy. Intimidating people into silence is the authoritarians' way of creating an alternate universe where the authoritarian appears to be popular, where they appear to be well-loved, where they can pretend to be doing the will of the people while exploiting the nation's wealth for their own gain and pummeling the citizenry into submission. When the corporations, who have the money, the lawyers, and the pulpit, capitulate to criminal authoritarianism, the speed of the downward spiral accelerates exponentially.
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist." – Salman Rushdie... This is Generation X's moment. Writers, performers, creators...if you've got "fuck you money," then say fuck you to the bad guys. Use your art, your platfom, your energy. Challenge the conglomerates. Defy the censors. Freedom of expression isn't a privilege to be traded away for comfort or profit. It's everything.
The industry has gone down without a fight before. In the 1930s before WW2 started Goebbels' propaganda department had an office in Hollywood and exercised approval rights on scripts Hollywood was considering putting into production. Germany was a very important market at the time. A 2013 book called THE COLLABORATION: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler was printed by the Harvard University Press and is a chilling read.
You are right, Richard. It is the end of everything, but not because of Trump. Kimmel's ratings were in the toilet. As with Colbert. The public is turning away from the Left's monoculture. Remember that word? None of you did anything to shake it up as Hollywood was losing power. You all just kept silent out of fear. I get it. I do. Money is nice. But Kimmel didn't just say the shooter was "one of MAGA," which is a lie -- probably defamatory. But he also said that Trump did not care about Charlie's death and was golfing instead. This is a continuation of a ten-year smear campaign against half the country in increasingly disgusting and unacceptable ways.
They were getting calls from affiliates, calls of complaints, and yeah, they wanted the merger. That is on them. If it had been "fascism," Kimmel would have been shot on the spot or in jail.
I am not someone who believes people should lose their jobs because of things they said. I lost everything because I voted for Trump and made a joke on Twitter. I did not say anything so offensive as to deserve that, but Rebecca Keegan went around Hollywood asking advertisers, Academy members, others in the business if they knew about what I thought and if they agreed with it. That ended a 26-year business. Now, do you think that was right?
I was benched at Gold Derby. The Academy disinvited me to the ceremony. Publicists shunned me and stopped inviting me to screenings. THAT is what all of you think of the majority that just won in November. The empire is collapsing because no ruling aristocracy can survive when the majority rises up and says enough.
It's the Left that made this bed of cancel culture. Not you specifically, but the Left. When I tried to stand against it all these years, I was attacked viciously. The Biden administration was censoring social media, all exposed in the Twitter Files. We would never have known for sure until Elon Musk bought twitter -- he bought it because the Left was banning people for thought crimes.
You are right, this is the end, but it's not the fault of Trump or MAGA. It is the fault of people who closed themselves off from the rest of America, taking American culture with them.
You guys -- me for a time -- took everything from the working class and then demonized them for fighting back. The people with all of the power treated the majority in this country like they weren't good enough to be included. That is wrong. And it's why the empire is collapsing. It's also why Trump won. Yes, stand up to him. Preserve failing propaganda shows like Jimmy's. Do it. Fight for utopia. However, you can't stop the collapse until everyone realizes that our culture belongs to everyone.
Now I'm seeing all of the Oscar bloggers making political statements against Kimmel's firing because it is now safe to do so. None of them -- not one -- stood against it when hundreds were losing their jobs for saying one wrong word or making an accusation.
I hope that you all will be able to talk more reasonably about this, because if you don't, more people will be shot. Respectfully, your fan.
If you read the book High Noon, it’s about the Hollywood blacklist back in the 1950s and how the studio hits capitulated back then.
I talked about it in my Substack this morning. After reading that book, none of this comes as a surprise.
Kimmel wanted me dead for not submitting to the vaccine. I’m fine with blacklists since I was on many for 27 months.
Hypocrites don’t get to decide how the sword they made strikes back against them.
How about Kimmel sues Brendan Carr for "interference with contractual relations?" How about Kimmel sues Carr for a 1st Amendment violation and seeks injunctive relief. I love the idea of Sarandos or Jamie Erlicht offering Kimmel a home at Netflix or Apple+. We need to take a deep breath, wipe away the fear, follow the smart law firms that did not capitulate, and go on offense if we want to protect our beloved nation.
If the business does in fact turn into “a place none of us want to be a part of” it would be incredible. 80+% of showbiz folks who don’t work on set are a net negative (this includes writers). Let’s cut the desk jobs and grow the business
Kimmel averages 129,000 viewers right now. It’s pitiful. The studio wanted him gone because his audience is worth close to $0.
I actually know a few TikTok comedians who generate more ad revenue on TikTok than Kimmel does.
He’s outdated and the audience doesn’t like him. I don’t know anyone who likes him other than you self-nominating Emmy award types (that, again, the audience doesn’t care for).
I’m no MAGA supporter, either. Diehard first amendment libertarian.
But Kimmel is embarrassingly outdated. Oust him and all of his writes for not being funny.
Every day brings a new horror. We're used to it now. But what happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a five-alarm fire...coming on the heels of other five-alarm fires, to be sure, but even more Orwellian. Art is not safe. Satire is not safe. Literature, television, and film are not safe. Artists can no longer be certain that we will not be punished by the government itself for a book we wrote, a movie we made, a poem, a painting, a song.
Free speech is the last bulwark of democracy. Intimidating people into silence is the authoritarians' way of creating an alternate universe where the authoritarian appears to be popular, where they appear to be well-loved, where they can pretend to be doing the will of the people while exploiting the nation's wealth for their own gain and pummeling the citizenry into submission. When the corporations, who have the money, the lawyers, and the pulpit, capitulate to criminal authoritarianism, the speed of the downward spiral accelerates exponentially.
Democracy is ugly and involves kissing the boot.
How about real freedom of the press that doesn’t involve forcing your neighbors to kiss the boot just because 50.1% blindly supported it?
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist." – Salman Rushdie... This is Generation X's moment. Writers, performers, creators...if you've got "fuck you money," then say fuck you to the bad guys. Use your art, your platfom, your energy. Challenge the conglomerates. Defy the censors. Freedom of expression isn't a privilege to be traded away for comfort or profit. It's everything.
The industry has gone down without a fight before. In the 1930s before WW2 started Goebbels' propaganda department had an office in Hollywood and exercised approval rights on scripts Hollywood was considering putting into production. Germany was a very important market at the time. A 2013 book called THE COLLABORATION: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler was printed by the Harvard University Press and is a chilling read.