The elevate of woke tradition ought to current the late night time comedians a golden mine of joke materials given the absurdities it presents, however as a substitute they selected to concentrate on the response. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel did simply that on his Thursday present as he advised Fox Information, “you are embarrassing yourselves” by reporting on the most recent progressive trigger.

Teeing up a montage of Fox Information and Fox Enterprise personalities, Kimmel had a suggestion, “As an alternative of continually bitching about these merchandise, make your personal issues. No one’s stopping you. Make your individual homophobic potato dudes or your indignant white man breakfast cereals, or your little plastic bricks to construct a wall round a sombrero, do no matter you need as a result of I’ve some Fox Information for you, you are embarrassing yourselves.”

Kimmel then performed 32 clips to attempt to argue that Fox is obsessive over a subject that doesn’t matter, however the fast fireplace nature of the montage meant that viewers didn’t get an opportunity to see what is de facto occurring.

For instance, Jake Deangelis lamenting that “Microsoft Phrase is the following one to go woke” sounds foolish in isolation, however it’s lacking the context that Phrase was rolling out a brand new future that deems phrases like “mankind” to be problematic.

Equally, Ashley Strohimer is proven at one level declaring that “Wordle goes woke” as a result of the sport banned phrases like “slave” and “whore.”

Different examples embrace Harris Faulkner on the Cambridge Dictionary rewriting the definition of a “man” and “lady” and Tucker Carlson lamenting the Nationwide Hockey League doing the identical.

Not solely does Kimmel joke in regards to the response to absurdity somewhat than the absurdity itself, he additionally ignores these are concepts with actual society penalties.

After a remaining clip of Ainsley Earhardt decrying cross-dressing Muppets, Kimmel wrapped up the Fox bashing portion of his monologue, “Oh, not Kermit too. That is a — they’re proper, issues are a mess.”

They’re a large number, simply not in the best way Kimmel thinks.

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Here’s a transcript for the February 23 present:

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Reside!

2/23/2022

11:45 PM ET

JIMMY KIMMEL: However that is the way it goes. And guys, here is an concept. As an alternative of continually bitching about these merchandise, make your personal issues. No one’s stopping you. Make your individual homophobic potato dudes or your indignant white man breakfast cereals, or your little plastic bricks to construct a wall round a sombrero, do no matter you need as a result of I’ve some Fox Information for you, you are embarrassing yourselves. 

GERRY BAKER: These firms have gone woke.

STUART VARNEY: Disney goes woke. 

AINSLEY EARHARDT: Our healthcare system is going woke. 

EDWARD LAWRENCE: Investments going woke. 

BILL HEMMER: The famed French cathedral going woke. 

JACKIE DEANGELIS: Microsoft Phrase is the following one to go woke. 

CARLEY SHIMKUS: Certainly one of America’s favourite candies goes woke. 

VARNEY: Victoria’s Secret goes full woke. 

HEMMER: U.S. Census Bureau, apparently, it is going woke too. 

WILL CAIN: Pizza Hut has gone woke. 

VARNEY: Walmart goes woke. 

STEVE DOOCY: The NFL goes woke. 

TOMI LAHREN: Baseball goes woke. 

TUCKER CARLSON: The Nationwide Hockey League has apparently gone woke. 

HARRIS FAULKNER: Cambridge Dictionary, they’re going woke. 

TODD PIRO: Google going woke. 

SHANNON BREAM: A.I. applications have gone woke. 

LAURA INGRAHAM: The Military goes woke. 

CAIN: My Little Pony goes woke. 

BENJAMIN HALL: Captain America going woke. 

CHERYL CASONE: Minnie Mouse goes woke. 

ASHLEY STROHMIER: Wordle goes woke. 

SANDRA SMITH: Video video games going woke. 

INGRAHAM: Woke media. 

JOHN KENNEDY: Woke agenda. 

JOHN CRIBB: Woke algorithms. 

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: Woke universities. 

TODD SPITZER: Woke prosecutors. 

JESSE WATERS: Woke Pentagon.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: Woke faith.

JEANINE PIRRO: Woke apocalypse. 

EARHARDT: Guess who’s going woke? The Muppets. 

KIMMEL: Oh, not Kermit too. That is a — they’re proper, issues are a mess.