First John Oliver, now Jimmy Kimmel. On last night’s show Jimmy Kimmel Live, the talk show host, ripped Elon Musk off for his lame joke about Dr. Anthony Fauci up. Kimmel poked fun at the new Twitter boss, saying he “fills in the troll hole cleared by Donald Trump.”
Musk tweeted Sunday Dec. 11, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Facui,” which appears to be another joke aimed at the non-binary community, the first of which required a response from his then-partner Grimes for telling him then: “I cannot support hate. Please stop it. I know that’s not your heart.”
The joke is also a desperate cry for approval from anti-science conservatives who believe the White House chief medical adviser is a fraud over his COVID-19 advice.
“In addition to being small minded, spreading lowest common denominator rubbish and false and dangerous conspiracy theories against a doctor who works for our good, it’s also just a horrible joke,” Kimmel said on last night’s show.
He continued, “It’s like an AI generated joke. It makes no sense. The structure is wrong, it didn’t rhyme with anything relevant. There are too many syllables. That’s exactly the kind of joke you’d expect from a guy who named his son after the bottom row of the eye chart,” referring to Musk and Grimes’ child named X Æ A-Xii.
Sharing a story about a “very nice guy” who asked him over the weekend if he had “no love for Elon,” Kimmel explained, “It’s not just Elon, specifically. I have a problem with any richest man in the world who comes to this country to casually slander a doctor who has dedicated his entire life to protecting our children from HIV and COVID and Zika and swine flu and Ebola.”
He went on to say that Musk spends his time “playing ass with Trump and launching rockets into space” to prove his “penis works.”
Kimmel closed the topic by saying that he “does not love Elon, brother… as long as he attacks and spreads lies about decent Americans.” He then tipped his hat to Fauci, who, he said, “has been doing his best to protect the world since this puke casserole was born.”
Just last month, Oliver roasted Musk Last week tonight, who said Twitter was worse than ever after acquiring the businessman. While chronicling facts about the rise in racist language and the Twitter verification mess, Oliver also landed some good jabs, once describing Musk as, “What if Willy Wonka had benefited from apartheid?”
Looks like Elon Musk is a free game (and I’m here for it).