Kimmel Jokes Columbus Was so Bad ‘He Could Probably Run the Republican Party’ (Video)
thewrap.comToday is Columbus Day in the United States, and during his monologue on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kimmel suggested an Italian American figure we could celebrate instead, and it’s not bad, actually.But first, he ran through a comprehensive list of reasons why Columbus was terrible, including noting that he was so “willfully ignorant” that were he alive now, “he could probably run the Republican party.”“Here’s how you know Columbus Day isn’t so hot anymore,” Kimmel said as he got into his monologue. “There’s no Google doodle for it.
There’s nothing. They’d usually have a doodle for the holidays. They had a doodle to celebrate Fairy Bread day. Today, they’re doodle-less.”Kimmel noted that today is also Indigenous People’s Day, and that we really ought to pick one of the other. “That’s like saying it’s Arbor Day and Chainsaw day.
It can’t be both,” he joked. “I don’t know why Columbus even has a day anymore,” Kimmel continued as he began to explain many of the reasons Columbus sucked. “I understand why Italian Americans get upset when you say this because in school, we were all taught that Columbus discovered America.
When the truth is,- he never stepped foot anywhere even close to North America. Not only that, Leif Erickson set foot on Canada hundreds of years before Columbus was born.
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