Kimmel Offers Kansas a Pretty Good Comeback to NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Insult (Video)
thewrap.compeppered with bigotry and implied violence, while normal Kansas who aren’t fueled by made-up grievances made their own more substantial rebuttals.
But in his monologue, Kimmel highlighted one of the cornier responses and offered an even better one of his own.“Former Brooklyn Borough President and current Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is getting some heat for a comment he made about, of all places, Kansas,” Kimmel said, playing the clip of Adams’ comments.“First of all, I just want to say my wife went to Kansas and I have to defend them.
Kansas does have a brand. It’s the rectangle next to the other rectangle. But more importantly, what did Kansas do to deserve that?” Kimmel continued.“I mean, they’re minding their own business and then they get an unprompted attack from the Mayor of New York!
Obviously, the insult didn’t sit well with people from Kansas, who issued this very Kansassy rebuttal on their local news,” Kimmel added before cuing up a local news program.That news show listed several positive things about Kansas, including that 2.9 million people live in Kansas, that Dodge City is the actual windiest city in America (“It ain’t Chicago,” the anchor said), and that the state has more than 400 caves.“Wow.
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