After several weeks off for the holidays, Jimmy Kimmel was back on Monday night for his first show of 2024—and the moment clearly could not have come any sooner. The host wasted absolutely no time in addressing the reason his name has been all over the news the past week: Aaron Rodgers.
Last week, while appearing as a guest on Pat McAfee’s ESPN show, the New York Jets quarterback—and noted conspiracy theorist—claimed that he was anxiously awaiting the release of a new batch of documents related to convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, hinting that Kimmel would be among the many A-list names with links to the late billionaire. Spoiler alert: It was not.
While Kimmel took a break from his break to fire back at Rodgers, a.k.a. “Aasshole,” he saved the real shellacking for his first night back.