Late-Night Shows Have a History of Violent Talk About Republicans
25th September 2025
This past Tuesday night, as many Jimmy Kimmel supporters and detractors watched his return to the helm of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they saw his monologue, and if they hung around past the first break, they saw the first skit.
That skit featured actor Robert De Niro, who was playing the role of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Carr has been accused of threatening ABC/Disney to dump Kimmel’s show, or face consequences. Kimmel ripped Carr in the first segment, quoting Texas Republican Ted Cruz who accused Carr of acting like a mob boss. So who better to play the role of a mob boss than De Niro, who has appeared in numerous mob-type movies. But there is something that I bet almost all of those watching Tuesday night’s show didn’t know.
Back in October of 2016, De Niro made a video to get out the vote, which included him calling then candidate Donald Trump, stupid, a dog, a pig, a bull-sh&t artist, you get the picture. But it didn’t stop there, De Niro added that he’d “like to punch Trump in the face.”