Jimmy Kimmel Returns, With Mob Boss!

Plus Colbert, Trump rants, our usual cartoons and music from Sarah McLachlan and Blondie.

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For my local peeps, reminder of event tonight from Rivertown Films at the Nyack Center, 8 p.m., screening of excerpts from all four of my recent PBS film and my chat with radio great Elliott Forrest.

You may have heard…Jimmy Kimmel returned last night. He did quite well, and eventually got in a bunch of jabs at Trump and the FCC. All day yesterday I received requests from folks to post his monologue because they are still living in Kimmel-free zones—the 20% of the country controlled by Sinclair and Nexstar, which includes even “liberal” cities such as Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Portland. So here is his full monologue and then more:

Here is map of area where blackout continues:

After the monologue, where he, like others, cited the FCC chief’s “mafioso” type threats (“This can go easy or go hard”), a familiar Good Fella face appeared to embody all of that:

In his monologue, taped earlier, Kimmel said that Trump had not yet weighed in on his return but by then the disorganized crime boss had:

Meanwhile, the still-cancelled Colbert:

And you have to love this, an anonymous group put this up for National Friendship Week:

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands placed on National Mall

Kimmel’s musical guest was Sarah McLachlan. She was fresh from refusing to perform at gala for opening of her “Lilith Fair” documentary because it is produced by ABC News and streams on Hulu (which were then part of pro-free speech Kimmel boycott).

Did you hear? Yesterday we were supposed to experience The Rapture. Don’t know about you, but I am still here, so to celebrate, here is Blondie’s live “Rapture.”

From Tunes to Toons

On Trump’s disgraceful, disgusting, humiliating, U.N. speech, two of the greats, Ann Telnaes and Steve Brodner:

Gaza Beach 2030, by Danish cartoonist Peter de Wit