Even Kimmel Can’t Avoid The News
Johnny Carson and Dave Letterman and Jay Leno made topical references in their monologues, but seldom made the kind of pleas that Jimmy Kimmel (formerly not passionate) and his confreres have been making lately, first about health care, now about the Las Vegas shooting (and always to bash crooked Donald). Some days, the world doesn’t feel funny, no matter how hard you try, and sincerity is the only appropriate approach.
