Jimmy Kimmel spent a big chunk of his Wednesday monologue mocking Donald Trump’s new White House plaques, but he also saved time to respond to Texas senator Ted Cruz calling him “unfunny.”
The comment took place at a Senate hearing to question FCC chairman Brendan Carr over threats he made to Kimmel’s network ABC earlier in the year that led to Kimmel being briefly suspended. Cruz was one of the few Republicans to say he doesn’t think it’s appropriate for politicians to pressure the FCC — but he did also go on to make his feelings about Kimmel very clear.
“Jimmy Kimble [sic] is angry, overtly partisan, and profoundly unfunny,” Cruz said.
“Jimmy Kimble!” responds the host in the clip above. “I have to say, profoundly unfunny hurts my feelings. I would never say he isn’t funny. I think he’s very funny. It was funny when he jetted off to Cancun during that snowstorm.”
