ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel joined former First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother and former college basketball coach Craig Robinson on their IMO podcast on Wednesday to discuss his career, which naturally touched on what it is like to be a late night comedy host in the Trump era. According to Kimmel, talking about politics in such a partisan way is a moral obligation that would be “shameful” to avoid. As for those wanting him to stick to comedy, he demanded they stop telling him how to do his job.
Obama set Kimmel up by praising him on how “you have so bravely and boldly used your platform to speak truth to power, as they would say.”
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