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Jimmy Kimmel Joke Sparks Backlash [Update]


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Jimmy Kimmel Live! host Jimmy Kimmel is facing criticism today over a joke he made years ago to Megan Fox on his show. In 2009, the Transformers star stopped by the show and shared an anecdote about her time filming Bad Boys II . According to Fox, she was brought in for a small role in a bar scene but being 15 at the time she couldn't drink or sit at the bar counter; director Michael Bay's solution was to dress her in a bikini and have her dance under a waterfall.  Fox commented that she felt as though the scene was a "microcosm of how Bay's mind works." That's when Kimmel cut in, joking that "that's really a microcosm of how all of our minds work." 

 

The clip was being shared around Twitter today, and Buzzfeed picked it up:

Jimmy Kimmel was just named the host of the 2020 Emmys

 

UPDATE: Megan Fox addressed the controversy on Instagram in a statement defending Michael Bay. Full post below

 

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raragaga

She does deserve an apology. Kimmel's comment says a lot about him.. never liked him anyway. And Michael Bay movies are lame and overrated.

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Rude and disrespectful

 

That being said we really should legit have a rule that unless someone commited murder or rape or something on that level, anything older than like 2 years should be ignored

 

Who hasn't cracked either a dirty joke or said something quite disrespectful since 2009?

 

Next!

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1 minute ago, Economy said:

Next!

I'm not saying one way or the other re: canceling him, I'm just saying the situation is happening

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Franch Toast

I was wondering when Twitter was going to come for him, but I thought it'd be over his use of blackface like they when they came for Fallon. 

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HEARTSTOP

Did she even understand the joke back then? Come on, this is getting insane. This is literally just a Family Guy-level joke that will get over most young people's heads.

You guys might find it funny and fun to create drama everywhere and cancel everyone left and right but some day that will turn around to bite you... Ever heard of a story called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?

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Are people just searching random celebrity names and going through old videos to find anything worth cancelling them over 10 years later?

Tbh I bet every single one of us has something that would get us cancelled.

It was a stupid, gross comment though :green: and I guess she'd appreciate an apology. Well, or not. Because it would only come by force from this being dug up.

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1 minute ago, JRCF29 said:

I'm not saying one way or the other re: canceling him, I'm just saying the situation is happening

It wasn't directed at u. It was directed at ppl in the internet that chronically have nothing better to do than to dig up dirty on every celebrity going back a decade plus to make it a thing to begin with

 

In a span of 10 years pretty much everyone has done or said really bad things unless they are a saint

 

Society just loves to hold celebrities to impossible standards as if they themselves never make a mistake they could be "cancelled" for if they were celebrities or public figures themselves

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Just now, dynamite said:

Are people just searching random celebrity names and going through old videos to find anything worth cancelling them over 10 years later?

Yes! It seems like it

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4 minutes ago, HEARTSTOP said:

Did she even understand the joke back then? Come on, this is getting insane. This is literally just a Family Guy-level joke that will get over most young people's heads.

You guys might find it funny and fun to create drama everywhere and cancel everyone left and right but some day that will turn around to bite you... Ever heard of a story called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?

These woke ppl would probably be canceled too if they were celebrities

 

Ppl are not that perfect. It's just that normal people say and do stupid things and it's forgotten or ignored but celebrities are literally under a microscope

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