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Disney Silent as Jimmy Kimmel ‘Joke’ Appears to Encourage Viewers to Vandalize Tesla Vehicles Over Political Differences With Elon Musk

March 20, 2025  ·
  Marvin Montanaro
Jimmy Kimmel doing a monologue

Jimmy Kimmel performing a Monologue on his ABC show - X, @kylenabecker

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is once again facing backlash—this time for making light of widespread vandalism against Tesla vehicles during a recent monologue. But the bigger question isn’t just about Kimmel’s smug quip—it’s about the network and corporate giant standing behind him.

Kimmel, whose Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs on Disney-owned ABC and routinely proves that if a tree falls in the forest with no one around it still makes a sound, used the ongoing destruction of Tesla vehicles as material for his Tuesday night opening bit. 

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Author: Marvin Montanaro
Marvin Montanaro is the Editor-in-Chief of That Park Place and a seasoned entertainment journalist with nearly two decades of experience across multiple digital media outlets and print publications. He joined That Park Place in 2024, bringing with him a passion for theme parks, pop culture, and film commentary. Based in Orlando, Florida, Marvin regularly visits Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando, offering firsthand reporting and analysis from the parks. He’s also the creative force behind The M4 Empire YouTube channel, bringing a critical eye toward the world of pop culture. Montanaro’s insights are rooted in years of real-world reporting and editorial leadership. He can be reached via email at mmontanaro@thatparkplace.com SOCIAL MEDIA: X: http://x.com/marvinmontanaro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marvinmontanaro Facebook: https://facebook.com/marvinmontanaro YouTube: http://YouTube.com/TheM4Empire Email: mmontanaro@thatparkplace.com
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Bunny With A Keyboard

Sometimes jokes just aren’t funny. Jimmy Kimmel is one such joke. But then, jokes need to have some degree of surprise, and there’s no surprise with a terrorist calling for violence and threats in the pursuit of a political agenda. That’s just fulfilling the definition.

Mad Lemming

This is a lose-lose situation for Disney. If they denounce Kimmel and his “joke,” the woke will turn their terrorism on them and their woke employees will start *actively* sabotaging them as opposed to just being incompetent. If they support him, they open themselves up to federal charges of supporting terrorism and more civil lawsuits they have no chances of winning.

So they’ve chosen the third option: not saying anything and hoping this will blow over.

James Eadon

Disney should do the right thing, and fire him.

Mad Lemming

See my point about what will happen if they denounce him. Also I don’t doubt most executives agree with him and everything else he says and does. Why else wouldn’t they have fired him once his show’s ratings bottomed out?

James Eadon

Based on his obnoxious activism, this guy should be prosecuted for incitement to terrorism. Besides, I thought comedy was not allowed to offend anyone these days. Except patriots, it seems.

CenFla

Everything points to the far left brainwash being violent. BLM and Antifa riots burning down cities. Attempted assassinations of SCOTUS and POTUS. And now targeted domestic terrorism of a company.

Their jokes just validate the brain rot.

Would they be joking if the far right violently targeted everything George Soros?

skinnyelephant

I cannot believe I was alone to politicize when I saw, not st. George die under the weight of fentanyl, but watching violence and vandalization of public property by the lowest scum of society in 2020.
That sh*t awoke a lot of people previously indifferent to politics.
The violence and radicalization was their stupidest mistake of the left, and hopefully their downfall.

CleatusDefeatus

Kimmy jimmel is such a non-factor. Watch this beta,…. Nope gamma, on the Man Show and reconcile that with what this sackless wonder has morphed into for his/her paycheck.

Mad Lemming

The term you’re looking for is “omega.” The bottom of the totem pole, the runt of the pack, the end. Any of which sum up Kimmel.