Jimmy Kimmel calling out all of the liberal Bad Bunny fans that suddenly appeared in the past couple of weeks… are we living in the upside down?
We’re now a couple of days removed from Super Bowl LX and the Bad Bunny halftime show. You either watched it, or you didn’t (and possibly flipped over to Turning Point USA’s show headlined by Kid Rock). Or you watched both, maybe getting caught up with clips, and compared the two.
However you consumed the halftime entertainment, you are likely aware that controversy has surrounded both shows. Why? That’s a good question. Each show was great in its own way, and both seemed to make a lot of people happy. Neither of the performances themselves were overtly divisive either. We can argue about whether or not a Puerto Rican superstar should be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show for an audience that largely doesn’t speak Spanish at all… but the performance itself wasn’t divisive. There was no “F ICE” talk, no slamming Donald Trump… it was a very pro-western hemisphere performance paying homage to Puerto Rico.
Of course the conversation is pretty divided, but that’s kind of how things go nowadays, and that’s how Jimmy Kimmel decided to tackle the conversation in his latest Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. Obviously, the late night host is someone who leans hard to left, has made his disdain for Donald Trump WELL known, and has really made a career of waving the liberal flag on late night TV. So many expected Kimmel to rip into Turning Point USA’s show, and praise Bad Bunny’s.
He didn’t… SHOCKINGLY…
Instead, Jimmy Kimmel shined a light on both, and pointed out how absurd it is that people were up in arms about… halftime shows. He even praised Kid Rock being a talented performer and confessed to going to one of his shows in the past:
“I’m not jumping on the ‘Bash Kid Rock’ bandwagon. I don’t like what he says either, but he’s talented. I’ve seen him perform. He puts on a fun show. I don’t want to get into that. This is not Kid Rock versus Bad Bunny. Think about how dumb that sounds.
This is not that. You can like one of them, you can like the other. You can like either. You can like both. This is about the fact that everything has to be something. We have to take a side on everything.”
So… is Jimmy Kimmel right there?
The late night hosted complimented the “All Summer Long” singer, and then pushed against the idea that everything has to be something. Then, to take things a bit further, Kimmel called out all of those on the left who suddenly became die-hard fans of Bad Bunny in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl:
“This week, almost every liberal I know, (was) suddenly, really into Bad Bunny. I mean, people I’ve never heard say the words ‘Bad’ or ‘Bunny’ in their lives (we’re) like, ‘I can’t wait for Bad Bunny.’ (I’d ask), ‘Oh, what’s your favorite Bad Bunny song?’ (They’d say), ‘I don’t know but I love him. I love Bad Bunny.’
Here’s the thing about me. Did I know any of the songs Bad Bunny was singing? Absolutely not. Never heard even one second of one. Did I understand any of what he was singing? Yes, the word nunca. That was it.”
Pretty refreshing stuff from Jimmy Kimmel, eh? I mean, I’m kind of stunned… is he drunk? Is he sick? Is that Jimmy Kimmel?
If refreshing isn’t the right descriptive word for you, then unexpected might work better. Everyone thought that Jimmy Kimmel would zig on this one, and he zagged. Now, the late night host is getting a lot of praise online because of it. To quote Sean Connery in the great 1999 film Entrapment, seems like Kimmel is finally “playing both sides.”
You can view Kimmel’s full monologue below:
