Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday delayed his show’s taping so that he could respond directly to President Donald Trump after the State of the Union speech. But Trump went on for so long ― at 1 hour and 48 minutes it was the longest address to Congress ever ― that Kimmel had to start his show with the address still in progress.
But the four-time Academy Awards host had some ideas for how to rein in Trump’s speeches.
“They do need to hire an orchestra to play him off like the Oscars,” Kimmel suggested. “At the stroke of 90 minutes, go straight into ‘YMCA’ and end it.”
He then offered a much shorter take on where the nation stands a little more than one year into Trump’s second term.
See more in his Tuesday night monologue:
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