Jimmy Kimmel: A ‘Comedian’ Who Thinks Encouraging Parents To Bully Their Children To Tears (And Record It For TV) Is ‘Funny’

If some stranger reduced your own child completely to tears on purpose for a ‘laugh’, especially a young child, any sort of parent with a pulse would want to tear that stranger responsible limb from limb, ending with ripping their still-beating heart out of their ribcages to show to their faces its rancidness before nailgunning them blind with the rustiest nails that could be found, and dumping their worthless carcasses (alive or not, but hopefully alive) into a large vat of boiling acid to dissolve screaming.

But when that stranger is a TV show host, thousands of Americans surrender their basic maternal and paternal instincts to torment their own children in the hope if they get upset enough it will make ‘good’ enough TV to be broadcast – furthering their child’s distress and humiliation by broadcasting it to the world for everyone they know to enjoy a moment’s schadenfreude watching them sobbing their little hearts out because they think their parents have betrayed them.

This isn’t ‘Prank TV’, this is ‘Prick TV’. Made by pricks, produced by pricks, aimed at pricks and enjoyed by pricks.

Before anyone so much as thinks a single ‘Yeah, but…’ of deflection over the whole ‘morality’ of the American version of Halloween anyway (teaching children ‘extortion pays’ by demanding sweeties from neighbours under threat of having their house and garden toilet papered or worse) as some sort of excuse; just remember those kids are only taking part in a tradition adults started, institutionalised and in time commercialised.

It doesn’t matter a damn that the parents later tell the children they were joking. Whether that happens after a minute, an hour, two hours, half a day, a whole day, what matters is at that moment suddenly that child is left feeling completely betrayed by their own parents – the one set of people they should feel able to trust completely: betrayed into believing the hours they’d put in making a costume (yeah yeah people, most of them buy or hire one, whatever…) and going round the door with friends was all in vain because the fruits of their labours were stolen by overgrown schoolyard bullies (isn’t the USA supposed to be the land proud of installing into their sproglets the  Protestant Work Ethic – even if it is the oldest ‘rich man – poor man’ lie of all)

Telling them afterwards it was all a ‘joke’ only compounds the nastiness – ‘we only told you we ate all your Halloween candy because we wanted to video you bursting into tears so it would be shown on TV’ – if someone else did that to their child, they’d be running to the news media and authorities demanding justice and orchestrating the lynch mob camped outside the court buildings like they were awaiting the January Sales before you could say ‘happy slapping’.

The most basic trait of any human being worthy of the name is compassion, even more so where the welfare of children are concerned – why else do charities bombard us with TV adverts at dinner time with plinky-plonk pondering piano to tug at our heartstrings and thus make us tug at our purse strings? If people now think that a child’s misery is a worthwhile price to pay for a few seconds of their own laughter – we in what is meant to be civilised society are in trouble.

Worse, if people think their own child’s misery is worth a few seconds of a complete strangers laughter, no wonder parents now complain about a generation of callous children growing up learning no respect for anyone or anything in the world other than themselves. They’ve had some education.

Jimmy Kimmel is a pathetic excuse for a human being, and if there’s any karma left in this world it will be slipping on some child’s dropped sweetie straight into the path of a runaway steamroller that sends him down to the lowest pit of steaming rabid bat dung in Hades whilst made to hear De La Soul’s ‘Me Myself And I’ in an endless loop for all eternity.

But he counts as nothing compared to the supposed ‘loving’ parents who aided and abetted him the last three years.