At Jimmy Kimmel’s return
Robert de Niro ensures laughter as a mafia boss
With a sketch, Robert de Niro and Jimmy Kimmel warned about the restriction of freedom of expression on his TV comeback.
At the sensational comeback by Jimmy Kimmel (57) on the last Tuesday evening, not only the US talker provided some broad sides against President Donald Trump (79). In a surprise appearance, the two -time Oscar winner Robert de Niro (82) also honored and slipped into one of his parade rolls for a sketch – that of the unflapid mafia boss.
The Altstar, which was switched on by video, was the new head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), i.e. the US radio authority, which was previously involved in Kimmel’s short-term suspension. Even the ultra-conservative Republican US Senator Ted Cruz (54) had sharply criticized the FCC and assumed its mafia methods. A fact that Kimmel and de Niro now satirized.
Jokes against Trump cost “a few fingers”
“Sir Trump” has personally appointed him the new head of FCC, said de Niro. When asked about Kimmel, that the intimidation tactics of the authority are reminiscent of the gangster bosses, de Niro flaps back: “What the hell have you just said to me?” Then he tries the F-word several times to demonstrate that he as head of the FCC “damn can say everything I want damn again”.
Of course, this does not apply to everyone else: “Freedom of expression is no longer free. We calculate from now on per word. For example, if you want to say something nice about the beautiful, full and yellow hair of the president, it doesn’t cost anything. But if you want to tear a joke that he is so fat that he needs two seats in the Epstein jet, it is chargeable.” The price for such a joke? “A few fingers, maybe a tooth.”
Serious tones at the beginning
At the beginning of the first broadcast after the Kirk-Klat, Kimmel initially started serious tones. Among other things, he said with tears in his eyes: “I want to clarify one thing because it is important to me as a person, namely that it was never my intention to trivialize the murder of a young man,” he said, alluding to the murder of Charlie Kirk (1993-2025). “I don’t find anything funny about it.”
At the same time, he already found warning words in the monologue, which he later underlined by the joint sketch with de Niro Comedically: “If we have no freedom of expression, we have no free country. It’s that simple.”
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Source: Stern
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