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With 40 minutes to go before Jimmy Kimmel’s triumphant return to TV, Trump wrote this on TruthSocial:
“I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.”
LOL. He lost and can’t accept it. Now he will sit there and squirm at 11:35 eastern as Kimmel gets massive standing ovation from his audience. His ratings will soar. Trump has actually caused one of his biggest enemies to grow more powerful. It’s too delicious!
And no, your orange freak, Kimmel’s audience isn’t “gone.” It was so strong that it forced Disney to stare you down. Hundreds of celebrities signed a petition, posted angry messages, vowed never to watch ABC again, and canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions.
Now Kimmel will come back stronger than ever. All because of you!
Back in June 2015, Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign by going down an escalator at Trump Tower.
Today, Trump couldn’t get up an escalator at the UN because it was either broken or sabotaged.
Before and after. A sign from God? I think so. It’s a metaphor, and cosmic zetz. These two episodes are brackets.
And when Trump did get inside the UN General Assembly, his Teleprompter broke. Still he managed to say things so stupid and inane, not one world leader — even the ones who hate each other — will ever forget. He begged for a Nobel Peace Prize and insulted all the heads of state.
During an exchange between Fox News’s two laughing hyenas, Jesse Watters really said something dangerous.
It was more incendiary than anything Jimmy Kimmel said, by miles.
Watters told Greg Gutfeld: ““What we need to do is either leave the UN or bomb it.”
Yes he said it. Funny? No. Suggestive to some crazy person? Of course.
Watters was bemoaning Donald Trump’s appearance there today. The escalators weren’t working. The Telemprompter had glitches. So this was Watters’ solution.
The two Bozos did agree that because the UN was in New York, there might be problems. But they sloughed that off pretty fast.
Will Watters be yanked off the air? No. Fox News is a circus. The nighttime anchors are very bad animals.
The word is out: Adele is “considering” doing the Super Bowl half time show next year.
Jimmy Fallon announced this news on his show last and it’s not coincidence: the Super Bowl is on NBC. They know now she’s doing it. Fallon gave us a tease.
An Adele half time show won’t be a big dance marathon like Beyonce, but she will be center stage. A few guest stars might be added. Professional flipper Benson Boone does a great job on Adele’s “When We Were Young.” He’d be perfect. And, he could flip!
The ratings would also be through the roof, no matter who plays. If the Chiefs are back, Taylor Swift will be in the audience. She could also make an appearance since by then she’ll be up for Grammy Awards and so on.
Can she handle Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California? Absolutely. Adele just did 18 months in Vegas. She can handle a big space without trouble.
So bring on Adele! Just talent and no pornography is just what the doctor ordered at this point.
Jimmy Kimmel named the guests for his return to the air tonight.
Glen Powell, the hot star, will be promoting his “Chad Powers” TV series on Disney’s Hulu platform.
Sarah McLachlan will also appear and presumably perform. She’s launching her first album in nine years.
Mclachlan was affected by Kimmel’s suspension insofar as she canceled her performance at the premiere of her “Lilith Fair” documentary — also a Hulu project — last week in solidarity with the talk show host.
Jon Stewart made a funny joke last night on his show about subscribers rushing through four years of “Only Murders in the Building” before canceling Disney Plus.
It’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year’s day, the beginning of the High Holidays.
Jewish Americans should be aware that Donald Trump has no message for us whatsoever, not on his social media or the White House website. He may only be vaguely aware that he has Jewish grandchildren via his daughter Ivanka.
He doesn’t care about American Jews unless it’s to raise money by scaring them into thinking he could abandon support for Israel.
Instead, Trump is celebrating the High Holidays by issuing another meaningless screed, this one about Congressional Democrats. This includes another irrational attack on transgender people. He is really scared of the transgender world. It’s a psychosis.
The irony is, fans in his hometown of Las Vegas won’t be able to see his show. Kimmel’s parents moved there from Brooklyn when he was nine years old.
Fans there who were betting on seeing his triumphant return tonight have lost…for the time being.
Conservative broadcaster Sinclair owns the local station and won’t allow Kimmel to be seen for fear it will offend the viewers, most of whom are connected to the casino world. Sinclair thinks they’d be scandalized or offended.
Sinclair controls 38 ABC stations across the country, and Kimmel’s show is banned by them.
Same for Nexstar, which has 28 stations and is run by similar puritans who can’t take a joke.
I wish I could say these stations are just in redneck areas, but they are also in big cities like Washington, DC and Providence, Rhode Island.
Of course, fans can still watch Kimmel on Disney Plus, and in clips on You Tube on Twitter.
If you have DirectTV, it shouldn’t be an issue.
Viewers in areas that are blocked out by censorship should contact their stations and complain that small minds are controlling their viewing preferences.
Both Nexstar and Sinclair are bowing to pressure from Donald Trump, who hates Kimmel and controls FCC decisions about the companies’ corporate mergers.
Despite their differences, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham have found success again with their original album.
“Buckingham Nicks,” released in 1974, has been cleaned up and sent back in the world in all formats for the first time. On amazon and elsewhere, it’s selling like hotcakes. Top of the charts.
I had this record in 1974, but I’m pretty sure I sold it to Sounds on St. Marks Place. I mean, who knew?
Anyway, the former couple went on to fame with Fleetwood Mac, and then solo. They buried the hatchet long enough to get this reissue out, and it’s turning into a moneymaker. (Also it’s a very good album.)
So Stevie has published a letter she wrote her parents and brother when she and Buckingham were recording the album. You can see it below. She was 25. Now she’s 35 (or seems like it). “Rhiannon” and “Dreams” weren’t even a gleam in her eye yet.
When Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC on September 17th, he gloated.
He wrote on social media: “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT”
Trump had instigated the suspension, threatening to pull ABC’s broadcast license. He also pressured Nexstar, which owns 200 TV stations and needed Trump’s approval to buy more from another company, to drop the show.
Initially it worked. Trump didn’t hesitate to comment and declare victory.
But since Disney and ABC stared him down and reinstated Kimmel on Monday, the normally voluble Trump has been silent.
Crickets, really. Not a word.
This is completely unlike the unrestrained poster who started his own social media platform so he spend days and nights calling people names and declaring his own fictional victories.
But now, with Disney facing financial and corporate pressures, actors protesting them and all their good will going out the window, Trump has been shamed. Everyone knows what he and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tried to do to Kimmel.
Exposed, Trump is silent. Checkmate. Disney wins, Kimmel wins, Trump and Carr lose big time.
For once this year, it’s happy ending.
Will he ever mention what happened? And what will take place when a reporter questions him about Kimmel? In the last few days, Trump has been losing it with brave reporters, insulting them and saying nasty things totally inappropriate.
All the real comedy and drama are coming out of the Oval Office.
When I was living in Boston (in what seems like the 1920s) I came across a record album — vinyl — stacked up at Strawberries Records.
It was really 1977, and Garland Jeffreys’ “Ghost Writer” was the cult album of the year. His song, “Wild in the Streets,” was an FM staple. The other tracks all went into rotation. A&M Records did several more albums with Jeffreys and he became an East Coast favorite. He hit a new high in 1979 with a radio favorite called “Matador.”
By the time Jeffreys moved to Epic Records in the 1980s he had a big following but it was hard to get radio play. Was he R&B? Rock? Reggae? He defied categorization. Punk and new wave were way in by then, but Jeffreys — a small roundish brown man — didn’t have a mullet and wasn’t a teenager.
Nevertheless, great albums poured out of him including “Don’t Call Me Buckwheat,” “American Boy and Girl,” and “Wildlife Dictionary.”
And then for a while there was silence. When I produced a Phoebe Snow show at the original Cutting Room in 2001, there was Garland all of a sudden out of nowhere. (Phoebe had recorded a track with him in the 70s.)
Then well into the 2000s came of “The King of Inbetween.” A stunning collection, “King” was the first of three or four albums that solidified his place in rock and roll history. One of his best songs, “I’m Alive,” was thrilling declaration of survival. But what his category?
Along the way, he’d picked up admirers. Lou Reed went to college with Garland at Syracuse University and they were close til Lou left this world. Bruce Springsteen fell in love with him. Guys like Elvis Costello and Graham Parker, who’d also exploded in 1977, were ardent. None other than Petula Clark danced up the aisle at a High Line show. But they had radio niches. Garland didn’t, so he just kept gigging and building up massive loyal audiences.
A new documentary, directed and produced by his tenacious wife Claire, is now playing on Amazon and YouTube and other platforms after a nice indie film theatrical run. It’s called “The King of Inbetween” and it comes in the nick of time. About 5 years ago, Garland was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
WTF? This gregarious storyteller, with an incredible memory for details of his childhood and New York in a gritty time before Yuppies and Wall Street bros, gifted with gab and catchy melodies, was going to be silenced? Not so fast. He kept singing and gigging without telling anyone for as long as he could, eventually being swallowed by this pernicious disease.
“The King of Inbetween” is a love letter from Claire to Garland. But it’s also the story of an outsized artist who didn’t win Grammys or get on the cover of People magazine. It’s about a mixed race poet from Brooklyn with the musical chops of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Goffin and King, who couldn’t bend to any genre. He created his own. If you’re a new fan, songs like “New York Skyline” will make you cry, and “Coney Island Winter” will evoke a whole movie that has not been made.
Mostly, the movie will make you fall in love with Garland’s personal brand of rock, reggae, & R&B in ways you did not imagine possible. And what’s better than discovering great music long after you thought the ship had sailed? Stream “The King of Inbetween,” see it a film festival, get his records. He’s one of a kind, the best kind.
PS Garland is still alive. But Alzheimer’s has taken its toll. He doesn’t know how well the movie has done, and hasn’t read all the glowing reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience meter is at 100%. For a good reason.
