Rosie O’Donnell sat down with Kara Swisher on her podcast on Monday to preview her upcoming time as guest host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! During their conversation, O’Donnell would lament ABC wouldn’t let her sing about Trump’s “teeny tiny penis,” which not only highlighted the nakedly partisan slant of the show but omitted the copyright issues at play because Jimmy Kimmel Live! does parodies all the time.
O’Donnell told Swisher that she views her job as a guest host to echo Kimmel’s nightly anti-Trump obsessions, “I think that I plan on doing what Jimmy Kimmel has done so beautifully, which is giving it to him in a comedic, honest, truthful way. And I will do that as big as I can.”
Rosie O’Donnell previews her upcoming Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest hosting duties by saying “Now, the song that I sang in my show, ‘If Only He Had a Brain.’ I wanted to do that on Kimmel. But they just told me I can’t. That they couldn’t get permission for the parody because it’s… pic.twitter.com/4tA3aIDQ3w— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) August 4, 2026
She then lamented, “I wanted to do that on Kimmel. But they just told me I can’t. That they couldn’t get permission for the parody because it’s political content. And I was like, ‘Well, that is absurd to me,’ because we used to do parodies every day on my show.
From Mike Lindell to JD Vance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kimmel has parodies and satires on his show all the time. On rarer occasions, Josh Meyers will even stop by to impersonate Gavin Newsom.
As it was, O’Donnell obliged Swisher’s desire to provide a snippet of what could have been. O’Donnell sang, “His approval rate is 30. His diaper’s always dirty, I think the guy’s insane. He ain’t no stable genius. Got a teeny tiny penis and he doesn’t have a brain.”
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