Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday evening trotted out his now-familiar shtick for media buyers, taking jabs at home network ABC with a monologue that neatly skewered the very underpinnings of broadcast TV.
And as was the case two years ago, when a tone-deaf New York Times blogger totally missed the point, this year’s routine was again greeted with a very literal-minded incomprehension.
Noting that Kimmel’s “barbs were particularly sharp,” one blogger reported that the comic mocked the crowd and his superiors when he accused them all of having rather short memories.
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