Former Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has been front and center in major Hollywood headlines recently due to an ongoing feud between the now Jets signal caller and comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
Last week, Rodgers took a shot at Kimmel, who works for Disney, during the quarterback’s appearance on the Disney-owned ESPN show hosted by Pat McAfee. Rodgers said in a seemingly joking manner that Kimmel is one of the people who is hoping the Epstein list is not released.
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“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel are really hoping that doesn't come out.”
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 2, 2024
Kimmel, who makes fun of people for a living, didn’t take the claim from Aaron Rodgers lightly, whether it was a joke or not.
The comedian took to social media threatening court action and claiming the former Green Bay Packers star put his and his family’s life in danger
“Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any “list” other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality. Your reckless words put my family in danger. Keep it up and we will debate the facts further in court,” Kimmel wrote.
Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any “list” other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality. Your reckless… https://t.co/p8eug12uiS
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 2, 2024
Jimmy Kimmel Continues Fued With Former Green Bay Packers QB With More Than 7-Minute Monologue Aimed At Aaron Rodgers
On Monday night, Kimmel opened his late night show with a monologue over seven minutes long dedicated to addressing the feud with the NFL quarterback, who was injured in his first season with the New York Jets from a torn Achilles he suffered in the fourth play of the season opener.
Kimmel opened up by brining up the initial claim made by Rodgers last week and once again confirmed he’s never met, been on a plane, or associated with Jeffrey Epstein in any way.
“You know when you hear a guy who won the Super Bowl and is in State Farm commercials, say something like this a lot of people honestly believe him. A lot of delusional people honestly believe I am meeting up with Tom Hanks and Oprah old Brad at Shaky’s once a week to eat pizza and drink the blood of children.
And I know this because I hear from these people often. My wife hears from them, my kids hear from them, my poor mailman hears from these people and now we’re hearing from lots more of them thanks to Aaron Rodgers, who I guess believes one of two things. Either he actually believes my name was gonna be on Epstein‘s list which is insane or the more likely scenario is he doesn’t believe it, he’s just mad at me for making fun of his top knot and his lies about being vaccinated.”
He then shared his belief for the former Green Bay Packers quarterback’s attack at Kimmel stemmed from the comic making fun of him for publicly stating the UFO sightings that were being reported in February were a distraction from the Epstein list.
“Let me show you the moment that so badly bruised Aaron’s Thanksgiving-sized ego” Kimmel said before sharing a clip of him mocking Aaron Rodgers talking about a possible coverup of the Epstein case last year.”
“So he saw that and maybe to retaliate he decided to insinuate that I am a pedophile. This is how these nuts do it now, you don’t like Trump, you’re a pedophile. It’s their go-to move and it shows you how much they actually care about pedophilia.”
Kimmel Insults Aaron Rodgers Calling Him “Hamster Brained” & Bashing Him For Not Graduating From Community College
Everything Kimmel said previously was sort of standard rebuttal-based comedy, but then the comedian attacked Rodgers on a personal level, taking it a bit too far.
“Here’s the thing Aaron Rodgers has a very high opinion of himself, because he had success on the football field and he believes himself to be an extraordinary being. He genuinely thinks because God gave him the ability to throw a ball. The idea his brain is just just average and he’s not smarter than everyone else is in fathomable to him. We learned during COVID he knows more about science than scientists.
A guy who went to community college and then got into Cal on a football scholarship and didn’t graduate, someone who didn’t spend a minute studying the human body is an expert in the field of immunology”
Kimmel may have made some new enemies that are Green Bay Packers fans in his next statement.
“He put on a magic helmet and that G made him a genius,” Kimmel Aaron got two A’s on his report card and they were both in the word, Aaron, Ok.”
“And can you imagine this hampster-brained man knows more than the government does because he’s a quarterback doing research on YouTube and listening to podcasts. I looked it up, it’s called the Dunning Kruger effect. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.”
“In other words, Aaron Rodgers is to arrogant to know how ignorant he is.”
Kimmel closed it out by saying Rodgers is free to give his opinion on important issues but it’s not okay to call someone a pedophile without factual information — and backed up him constantly making fun of people — by stating he has a team that does deep research to ensure the factual information behind his jokes.
Finally, Kimmel says if he makes a mistakes, he apologizes, and says that’s what the former Green Bay Packers star should do, but doesn’t believe he will.
He closes out by saying if you’re conservative and watching, or part of a group that thinks it’s okay to call people a pedophile and have no proof, maybe you should consider leaving that group.
And then, of course, Kimmel takes a final shot at Rodgers, who the Jets acquired in a trade from the Green Bay Packers ahead of the season, for his injury in a non-direct but obvious way.
“I want to say congratulations to Aaron Rodgers who has done the impossible, he made the New York Jets look even worse,” Kimmel said with a grin.
It’s highly doubtful Rodgers apologizes and there’s a decent chance this isn’t over yet. We shall see.
