“Jimmy Kimmel Live” is back in Brooklyn.
The late night show returns to the New York borough for a week of performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This is Kimmel’s eighth time filming “Live” in Brooklyn, where he was born and spent his early years, and the comic has hosted a number of high-profile guests on his couch, from Howard Stern and Billy Crystal to Paul McCartney and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT). He said the show received more than 150,000 ticket requests and kicked off its week in Brooklyn with guests Pete Davidson and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as well as a TV-to-radio musical performance, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their famous album “Return to Cookie Mountain.”
While there were no stories involving an Oscar winner exposing himself to Kimmel in a bathroom, the host was heckled by Matt Damon in a Boston Red Sox cap – on the eve of the Yankees/Red Sox AL Wild Card Series – who was joined by Kimmel’s mother and sister, and Jon Hamm, dressing up as an angry construction worker in New York. After his interview with Davidson, who was promoting his Netflix video podcast “The Pete Davidson Show” and his upcoming film “How to Rob a Bank,” Kimmel welcomed Mayor Mamdani to the stage. He preceded his arrival with a montage of clips of Fox News talking heads predicting that New York City would become “terrifying” under Mamdani and that crime would “skyrocket.” This proved false, as murders and shootings in the city reached an all-time high during Mamdani’s first seven months.
“Another very unexpected thing is this relationship that you have with President Trump, which seems to be a very friendly relationship,” Kimmel said, adding, “Did you hit it off immediately or was it something that really led you to think, ‘OK, I need to have a relationship with the President of the United States, and I think the best way to do that is to charm him.’ How did you do this and can you help me?
Mamdani laughed. “Sorry bro,” he replied. “The president and I have many disagreements. One thing we agree on is this city, how much we love this city, so from that first meeting in November of last year, I was just thinking about how we could make this meeting not about us, but about New Yorkers. How can we spend this time talking about things that can make life in the city a little easier.”
Kimmel then played a video clip of Mamdani standing next to Trump at the Gracie Mansion as the president gave a rambling speech, with the camera focusing on Mamdani as he stood there stone-faced. “I mean, it’s remarkable,” Kimmel offered. “I look at that and say, ‘OK, that’s not a guy I would want to play poker with.'” Mamdani said that while Trump was speaking, he was focused solely on getting federal approval for his Sunnyside Yard project, a development in Queens that would include about 12,000 new homes and create about 30,000 jobs.
“You are sending a message to the president, have I read?” Kimmel insisted even more.
“Every now and then we’re in communication, and it’s about Sunnyside Yard, and how we can deliver for the city,” Mamdani responded. “One of the other things that the president talked about and we talked about, and that’s very close to my heart, is Haitian New Yorkers. Their protected status has ended, and I really believe we need to do everything we can for them to have stability. They’re part of the fabric of this city.”
Kimmel then asked if they could send Trump “a selfie of us right now,” but Mamdani shushed him: “Jimmy, I love you, but I love housing more.” »
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