Kimmel, Colbert remain silent on Swalwell allegations
Fox News contributor Joe Concha discusses late-night hosts' silence after former Rep. Eric Swalwell was accused of sexual misconduct and the controversial comments from far-left influencer Hasan Piker.
Jimmy Kimmel is ostensibly supposed to be a "comedian." Though it's debatable whether, in his decades-long career, Kimmel has ever said anything that remotely approaches a joke or could be considered funny.
Somehow, through the incompetence of studio executives, he was still handed a nightly television show. This show, with its gigantic budget, initially started as at least an attempt to make people laugh. Over time, and as Kimmel has increasingly become unhinged and extreme, it's turned into something completely different.
Instead of clever humor, writing, and comedy, it's effectively a far-left MSNBC show that's even less funny and entertaining.
Kimmel's come in for criticism in recent months because his show is so unrelentingly unfunny, extreme, and tough to watch. Particularly after he seemed to blame the Charlie Kirk assassination on the right, when his alleged killer is conclusively not on the right.
Still, his turn to left wing politics would be one thing if Kimmel attacked both sides with any regularity. But in a recent interview with Michelle Obama, he demonstrated proud defiance against rationality, and accidentally revealed himself to be a tremendous hypocrite in the process.
Rep. Eric Swalwell appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Nov. 20, 2025, alongside host Jimmy Kimmel, and announced his gubernatorial campaign. (Randy Holmes/Disney)
Jimmy Kimmel Stays Silent On Eric Swalwell For Some Reason
During the interview, Obama praised him for turning his comedy show into a political lecture, saying it was a brave, important decision to make. Kimmel, always happy to pat himself on the back, agreed.
"It just seems obvious and unavoidable. I just can't imagine on those nights talking about anything other than what we are talking about," he said.
Then he continued, saying he believed it would be "embarrassing" and "shameful" not to address what's going on in the world. Essentially, criticizing the Trump administration.
"I think it would be embarrassing if we didn't talk about this stuff. It would be shameful. And to say that 'Well, your job is this,' it makes me...I bristle at that. Because first of all, don't tell me what my job is. My job is whatever I decide it is, whatever my employer allows me to do. That’s what my job is."
Well, speaking of embarrassing and shameful, one of the major stories happening in the world these days has been the litany of accusations of inappropriate behavior levied at now-former California Congressman Eric Swalwell. Swalwell, who's so close with Kimmel that he chose to announce his run for governor on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," has allegedly engaged in a years-long pattern of misbehavior with women. After dropping out of the gubernatorial race, he then resigned from congress.
Seems like a pretty big story, right? Something that counts as "what's going on in the world," no?
Guess who, with plenty of opportunities, has completed ignored any reference to Swalwell's scandal on his show covering "what's going on" in the world? That's right, our old pal Jimmy. The nation's self-appointed conscience. The comedian who views his job as informing us of the political goings on and, as Michelle Obama said, speaks "truth to power."
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One of the most powerful figures in Congress, someone who was the frontrunner to become the leader of the largest state in the country, being accused of years of inappropriate behavior, and Kimmel chooses to completely ignore it. Wonder why!
It makes you wonder how he'd handle it if a Republican representative were accused of something similar.
Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during The Hollywood Reporter Women In Entertainment Presented By Lifetime at The Beverly Hills Hotel on December 03, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Obviously, we know exactly what he'd do. In fact, he's spent much of the last six-nine months speaking about the Epstein files, even though many of those emails are far less credible than the allegations against Swalwell. He'd be on a relentless nightly crusade to call out that political figure, criticize the right, and demand accountability and "believe all women."
When it comes to his close buddy and a prominent part of the No Kings resistance left? Complete silence. If it seems hypocritical, that's because it is extremely hypocritical. But that's par for the course for Kimmel and for many prominent voices on the left. Swalwell himself chief among them. This is why Kimmel's influence has rapidly degraded over time; because he's not a serious person. He's a hypocrite, someone who would never do anything to hurt his party. That's his actual conscience, his actual goal, not to entertain people or make people laugh, but to advance the causes of the left by any means necessary. And he's willing to be as dishonest and misleading as it takes to achieve it.
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