LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA- In what many are calling \u201cthe first funny thing to happen on Jimmy Kimmel Live in years, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s studio audience erupted into actual, unscripted applause yesterday when news broke of his indefinite suspension from ABC following his “insensitive” comments about the recent assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, which many deemed “tasteless” and “not funny at all.”<\/p>\n
But for the hundreds of audience members who have been forced to laugh at Kimmel’s stale, predictable jokes for years, the suspension was a godsend. “Oh, thank God,” said one relieved audience member, who wished to remain anonymous. “I mean, I love the free tickets and all, but pretending to find Jimmy funny was exhausting. His monologues and incessant orange man bad jokes were like watching paint dry, but with more smugness.”<\/p>\n
Another audience member, who had been attending Kimmel’s tapings for years, echoed the sentiment. “I’ve been laughing at his jokes for so long, I forgot what real laughter felt like. Now I can finally go home and watch actual comedy, like reruns of The Office or literally anything but Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Kimmel’s suspension comes after he made a series of jokes about Trump and Kirk’s assassination, including one about how “his supporters are circling around Trump’s orange skin the same way planets circle around the sun.” While some critics called the jokes “off-color” and “in poor taste,” others defended them as “typical bland, excruciatingly unfunny Kimmel humor.”<\/p>\n But for the studio audience, it was just another example of Kimmel’s desperate attempts to be edgy. “We’re simply relieved we don’t have to pretend to find him funny anymore.”<\/p>\n