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Jimmy Kimmel emerged from billows of smoke to reveal his gigantic Smokey Bear costume for the Halloween night edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! After receiving a hearty round of applause, and cracking some Halloween candy-related jokes, the late-night host dove into the Kanye West of it all.
“Even with all the revelations of forgotten children, secret abortions, this [Senate] race in Georgia—according to the polls, anyway—has tightened in the last few weeks,” he explained. “And this week, Herschel Walker picked up a major endorsement from Kanye West, who posted a photo of Herschel with the caption ‘PRO LIFE.’ A better caption would’ve been ‘PROZAC.’ I didn’t know Kanye had any endorsements left over to give! Kanye endorsing Herschel Walker is like crystal meth endorsing lead paint.”
The comedian, who has a bit of history with West, didn’t address West’s other posts to Instagram, including an antisemitic one addressing Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel that alluded to Jewish “business” interests controlling his destiny. But he did explore West’s disturbing recent interview where he compared himself losing business deals after spreading disgusting hate to the tragic death of George Floyd by a white police officer. (West had previously let the officer off the hook in Floyd’s death by blaming fentanyl for it, despite considerable evidence to the contrary. The comments prompted the mother of Floyd’s daughter, Roxie Washington, to threaten a $250 million lawsuit against West—which West responded to by calling her ugly and mocking her fashion sense.)