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Liberalynn

(7,549 posts) Tue May 12, 2015, 11:03 PM May 2015

I get he was supposed to be joking but..

Read this on Jimmy Kimmel's bit at the ABC upfronts and found some of this really poor taste and offensive. The report said he did it to mock his own bosses and maybe he thinks he's the new Colbert, but he doesn't come close to Colbert's skill and the way he did it just made me say yuck! Don't get me wrong I'm not upset by the network being mocked, but in mocking out their efforts to appear "diverse", I thought he was bordering on being offensive to minority groups too. Or maybe I'm just being overly sensitive?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-upfronts-jimmy-kimmels-10-795092

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I get he was supposed to be joking but.. (Original Post) Liberalynn May 2015 OP

I laughed mackerel May 2015 #1

I was being overly sensitive then. Liberalynn May 2015 #3

It's possible that I'm just an insensitive bastid. LOL mackerel May 2015 #5

I doubt that! Liberalynn May 2015 #6

Meh. progressoid May 2015 #2

That makes sense Liberalynn May 2015 #4

mackerel

(4,412 posts)

1. I laughed

Reply to Liberalynn (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2015, 12:51 AM

May 2015

Liberalynn

(7,549 posts)

3. I was being overly sensitive then.

Reply to mackerel (Reply #1)

Wed May 13, 2015, 07:09 AM

May 2015

When I first started seeing quotes from it, I didn't see that it was from Kimmel and thought it was from an ABC executive and thought I can't believe they are saying this then I saw it was from Kimmel!