The movie legend played the role of FCC chairman and interrupted Kimmel with an inspection.
Jimmy Kimmel recalled Wednesday night that a little more than a year ago he was taken off the air after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a joke he made about the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
“As much as I would like to say things have gotten better over the last year, that’s not really the case,” Kimmel said. “We are still under threat from the FCC.”
At that moment, screen icon Robert De Niro crashed onto the set, not as himself but as chairman of the FCC.
“Are you being threatened by the FCC? » he asked. “Who is threatening you? Am I threatening you? Do you feel threatened by me?”
As he spoke, he hit Kimmel with a baseball bat — a not-so-subtle nod to one of his scariest scenes as mob boss Al Capone in “The Untouchables.”
“Hey, look who it is everyone. It’s the chairman of the FCC,” Kimmel said. “What was your name again?” »
“My name is none of your business,” De Niro said, adding that he was there for an “inspection” of the show.
“Now if you’ll shut your damn mouth, I have a few things I’d like to discuss,” De Niro said as he presented a list of 192 insults Kimmel directed at President Donald Trump.
When Kimmel tried to intervene, De Niro interrupted.
“Did I tell you it’s your turn to speak, idiot?” he said. “You talk when I tell you to talk and otherwise you shut up.”
De Niro said that from now on, Kimmel should accompany every Trump insult with something nice about the president and offered him an example.
“If you were to say something like, ‘Trump wasn’t invited to Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday party because they were afraid he would start eating the cake before the kid jumped out,’ then you also have to compliment his penmanship in that naked woman birthday poem that he didn’t write,” De Niro explained. “Am I clear?”
“Not really,” Kimmel said. “It just seems to me that you are trying to control what I do and what I don’t say by abusing the power of the federal government.”
“Finally! You got it,” De Niro said. “He’s a fucking idiot, he’s finally starting to understand!”
Then, with one final profanity: “Fuck the Red Sox!” » – he left the stage to applause.
Find out in the Wednesday evening monologue:
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