Jimmy Kimmel would like to clarify he has no "psychic abilities" after one of his recent jokes took on a new meaning.
On his late-night show, the comedian responded to backlash over a joke he made about Rudy Giuliani, days before it was reported that the former New York City mayor was hospitalized in "critical but stable condition."
During his April 28 monologue, Kimmel joked that Giuliani "rose from the grave" before the comedian played a clip of the politician. Less than a week later, a spokesperson confirmed on May 3 that Giuliani had been hospitalized. Some of Kimmel's critics brought the joke back up amid Giuliani's hospitalization, with conservative commentator Benny Johnson posting it on X and asking, "Why is Kimmel always joking about death?"
Kimmel addressed the resurfaced comments in his May 4 monologue.
"When I read this [about Giuliani], I really thought, 'I wonder if they'll try to blame this on me,'" he said. "And then sure enough, one of these podcast bozos points to a joke I made about Rudy on Thursday, about him being a vampire, and then suggests I might actually have some inside knowledge of what's going on in Trumptown there, and then that becomes a thing."
