Monday evening marked the primary present of Jimmy Kimmel Reside! for 2024, and Kimmel opened the present by addressing his very actual points with Aaron Rodgers.
Final week Rodgers appeared on The Pat McAfee Present and insinuated that Kimmel would seem on the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs (which he didn’t), which led to Kimmel threatening to take Rodgers to courtroom for slander. Right here’s a bit from Kimmel’s monologue on Monday evening.
“[Rodgers] I suppose believes one in every of two issues: Both he truly believes my identify was going to be on Epstein’s checklist, which is insane — or, the extra seemingly state of affairs is he doesn’t truly imagine that, he simply stated it as a result of he’s mad at me for making enjoyable of his high knot and his lies about being vaccinated. He’s significantly mad, I feel, as a result of I made enjoyable of the actual fact he floated this wacko that the UFO sightings that had been within the information in February had been being reported to distract us from the Epstein checklist. That was Aaron’s principle that he shared, and I mocked.”
Kimmel went on to point out the clip from 2023 by which he made enjoyable of Rodgers, which he believes began this ball rolling. At this level Kimmel went on to mock Rodgers’ fake intelligence, earlier than returning to the true root of his subject with Rodgers’ declare on McAfee.
“I feel Aaron Rodgers has the appropriate to specific any opinion he needs to, however saying somebody is a pedophile just isn’t an opinion, neither is it ‘trash discuss,’ sorry Pat McAfee. And so far as the ‘nicely, you say issues about individuals on a regular basis’ argument goes: Sure I do. It’s not the identical. It’s not even near the identical. We are saying loads of issues on this present. We don’t make up lies. In truth, we now have a group of people that work very onerous to sift via details and respected sources earlier than I make a joke, and that’s an essential distinction. […] The reality nonetheless issues, and once I do get one thing fallacious, which occurs on uncommon events, you already know what I do? I apologize for it, which is what Aaron Rodgers ought to do, which is what an honest individual would do — however he gained’t, but when he does know what I’ll do? I’ll settle for his apology and transfer on.”
Rodgers is scheduled to seem on The Pat McAfee Present on Tuesday, the place he claims he’ll handle the problem with Kimmel. We’ll wait and see if he does, actually, apologize for making false claims in regards to the late evening host.
