Over the past year and a half, public broadcasting and the late night comedy shows have formed an alliance. Some comedians hold fundraisers or advocate for public media on their shows. Public media then in turn hosts the comedians on their own shows and honors them by giving them awards. The latest development in this exercise in mutual liberal back-patting came on Thursday as ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel gave PBS an idea for a new tote bag.
On his Wednesday show, Kimmel reported how PBS’s Threads account has had to inform people that just because the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has shut down does not mean that PBS has ceased to exist. To that end, he played a satirical ad from PBS:
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