Did President Donald Trump warn Jimmy Kimmel and others in a social media post that "I had James Comey arrested"? No, that's not true: The supposed post does not appear on the president's official Truth Social account, and there are no re
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kimmel Did NOT Offer A "Sincere Apology To Everyone Regarding That Widow Joke" On Monday’s Episode Of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
Did Jimmy Kimmel offer a "sincere apology to everyone regarding that widow joke" on Monday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"? No, that's not true: Kimmel did not make the apology featured in a reel posted on Facebook. The Hiya Deepfake Vo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Did NOT Make ‘Expectant Widow’ Joke About Melania Trump After WHCD Attempted Shooting
Did Jimmy Kimmel make an "expectant widow" joke about Melania Trump after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD)? No, that's not true: Kimmel made the joke on his late night show on April 23, 2026. He was making a m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Colbert, Kimmel And Fallon Are NOT Officially Teaming Up For A New ‘Freedom Show’ — It’s Viet Spam
Are late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon joining together to create a new "Freedom Show"? No, that's not true: This is an unsourced clickbait claim, made up and distributed by a spam network based in Vietnam
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clickbait Fake Stories Say SAT Score Reveal Silenced Trump, Obama, Kimmel After Each Called Harvard Grads ‘Overrated’
Were President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama or TV host Jimmy Kimmel silenced after calling Harvard grads "overrated and dumb" when opponents revealed their SAT scores? No, that's not true: There is no public record of Trump
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Michelle Obama Did NOT Perform ‘Live Takedown’ Of Trump On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Show — No Such Episode Or Video Exists As Of November 12, 2025
Was former first lady Michelle Obama videotaped executing a barbed takedown of Donald Trump on the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' show in the fall of 2025? No, that's not true: As of November 12, 2025, no such video recording existed. Michelle Obam
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Travis Kelce Did NOT Say of Jimmy Kimmel ‘It’s Best He Leave America’ — Famous Names Used In Cookie-Cutter Clickbait Formula
Did Travis Kelce or other celebrities make a public statement that Jimmy Kimmel should leave America? No, that's not true: This is a made-up story which has been repeated using the same formula with many different famous names. At least n
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sharon Osbourne Did NOT Storm Off Jimmy Kimmel Or Jimmy Fallon Show Over Charlie Kirk Remarks — Didn’t Appear On Either
Did Ozzy Osbourne's widow Sharon storm off "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" or "Jimmy Fallon's show" over remarks about Charlie Kirk? No, that's not true: Osbourne did not appear on either show since the death of Charlie Kirk. The story originated on
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fake Pink Quote Defending Jimmy Kimmel "Freedom of Speech Cannot Be Bought With Money" Did NOT Appear On Her Socials
Did singer Pink publish a defense of Jimmy Kimmel on social media that read "Freedom of speech cannot be bought with money; it is the voice of the people."? No, that's not true: No such post appeared on any of the social media channels of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Maddow, Colbert And Kimmel Did NOT Launch ‘The Independent Desk’ Newsroom Together — Story Contains False Details
Did Rachel Maddow, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel just team up and launch a newsroom named "The Independent Desk"? No, that's not true: The story appeared on a recently launched website that does not list owners or publishers and it jus
PolitiFact→ Sean Hannity – Sean Hannity said he couldn’t find a conservative hoping for Jimmy Kimmel’s firing. Donald Trump did
There was not “a single, prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.”
PolitiFact→ Key question in the Jimmy Kimmel case: Does the FCC have the power to regulate speech?
Can FCC restrict speech for the public interest?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Did NOT Kick Clint Eastwood Off His Show In April 2025
Did Jimmy Kimmel kick Clint Eastwood off his show in April 2025? No, that's not true: Searches across the website of ABC, which airs the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, demonstrated that Eastwood was not a guest between January 1, and April 18,
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel isn’t ending his show and emigrating because of Trump’s election
“Jimmy Kimmel just announced that his show will end on January 20th … he’s leaving for Canada and says he’s ‘never coming back.’”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Did NOT Say He Was Ending His Show On January 20, 2025, Moving To Canada — From Self-Described Satire Account
Did late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel say he was ending his show on January 20, 2025, and moving to Canada? No, that's not true: This comes from a website that labels itself satire. An online search turned up no evidence that Kimmel had eve
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ABC Did NOT Sign $400 Million Deal With Tucker Carlson To Replace Jimmy Kimmel — It’s Satire
Did the TV network ABC sign a $400 million deal to give former Fox News host Tucker Carlson a late-night show that would replace current ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel? No, that's not true: The claim is from an online article labeled "Pa
Logically→ Nej, Jimmy Kimmel nämns inte i de offentliggjorda Epstein-dokumenten
FactCheck.org→ Kimmel Not Named in Unsealed Epstein Documents
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take Court documents that include names of people associated with accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are being unsealed, but late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has
Logically→ No, Jimmy Kimmel is not mentioned in the newly released Epstein court papers
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Was NOT Mentioned As Jeffrey Epstein’s Client In Court Records Released On January 3 And January 4, 2024 — His Name Wasn’t There At All
Was comedian and TV host Jimmy Kimmel named as Jeffrey Epstein's client in the most recent batch of court documents released in the first week of 2024? No, that's not true: Lead Stories manually reviewed the files, and none of them discus
PolitiFact→ X posts – Claim this document shows Jimmy Kimmel in Epstein court case is Pants on Fire!
Jimmy Kimmel was on the Jeffrey Epstein list, documents show.
AllSides→ Jimmy Kimmel Is Not on Published Epstein Flight Log
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jimmy-kimmel-not-published-epstein-flight-log-1857402 Jimmy Kimmel
Washington Post→ Jimmy Kimmel’s false claim that Pence carried empty boxes
A viral video clip posted by the comedian purported to show Vice President Pence carrying empty boxes. But it was manipulated video.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Pence Did Not Deliver Empty Boxes Of PPE To A Hospital As Seen In Jimmy Kimmel Video
Did Vice President Mike Pence deliver empty boxes of PPE to a hospital as a publicity stunt? No, this is not true: Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel mocked a video of Pence delivering boxes that were "empty" to a health care center amid t
Internet Archive→ Jimmy Kimmel Live : WPVI : January 16, 2018 11:35pm-12:25am EST
Kristen Bell; Will Poulter. Also: Lo Moon perform..This item belongs to: movies/TV-WPVI.This item has files of the following types: Closed Caption Text, Columbia Fingerprint TV, Columbia Sparse Fingerprint TV, Extended Data Services, JSON, MP3, MPEG2,
Washington Post→ Fact-checking Jimmy Kimmel on CHIP funding
CHIP “always had bipartisan support. But this year, they let the money for it expire while they work on getting tax cuts for their billionaire and millionaire donors.” — Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, in a monologue, Dec. 11, 2017
Internet Archive→ Jimmy Kimmel Live : WJLA : November 29, 2017 11:35pm-12:37am EST
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PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Jimmy Kimmel, late-night hosts on gun violence after Las Vegas attack
A somber tone fell over the late-night talk show scene as hosts tried to address the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Some used their platform to bemoan the frequency of gun-related deaths in the United States, while others seized the moment to point out fl
ABC News→ AP FACT CHECK: Kimmel’s take on health care harder to refute
AP FACT CHECK: Considering all the arguments, TV host Jimmy Kimmel's take on the Republican health care bill is harder to refute
PolitiFact→ PolitiFact Live: Parsing the Kimmel-Cassidy health care feud
PolitiFact editors explain President Donald Trump's misleading tweet about gas lines forming in North Korea as well as the exaggerations in Jimmy Kimmel's monologue about the Graham-Cassidy health care bill. Tune in live Thursdays on Facebook a
Washington Post→ Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: ‘More people will have coverage’
“I’m sorry he doesn’t understand. Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage.” –Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), interviewed on CNN’s “New Day,” Sept. 20, 2017 Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel atta
PolitiFact→ Bill Cassidy – Bill Cassidy offers misleading defense in face-off with Jimmy Kimmel
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Bill Cassidy offers misleading defense in face-off with Jimmy Kimmel Following a sharp rebuke by late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., hit the airwaves on Sept. 20 to defend his bil
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Jimmy Kimmel's reaction to the Graham-Cassidy bill
Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel is back in the middle of the health care debate, using his opening monologue to take down the latest move to repeal and replace Obamacare. Kimmel had urged Congress not to throw out the Affordable Care Act a few months
PolitiFact→ Without Obamacare, what happened to kids like Jimmy Kimmel's son?
Jimmy Kimmel’s intensely personal tale of his newborn son’s emergency -- and successful -- heart surgery came with a potent policy message. After thanking the people who pulled his son back from the brink, he defended the Affordable Care Ac
FactCheck.org→ Providing Context for Leavitt’s Examples of ‘Violent Rhetoric’
Two days after an armed man tried to enter the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cited rhetoric from Democrats that she said is “inspiring violence” against President Donald Trump and ot
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Colbert, Stewart, Hanks Did NOT Reveal A Number Of New Names From Epstein Files — It’s International Clickbait
Did comedians Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart or actor Tom Hanks broadcast a television program to disclose the names of numerous people not previously known to be implicated by the files of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein? No, that's
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thitikul, De Niro, Hanks, Penrod Did NOT Say ‘Don’t Touch My Family Or My Country’ To Karoline Leavitt Or Whoopi Goldberg — It’s Vietspam
Did Thai golfer Atthaya "Jeeno" Thitikul say 'don't touch my family' at a news conference with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? No, that's not true: No media outlets reported that about the golfer or any other celebrity, incl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Stephen Colbert Did NOT ‘Reveal’ Donald Trump’s 1970 Wharton Aptitude, IQ Tests
Did Stephen Colbert "reveal" Donald Trump's "1970 Wharton IQ test"? No, that's not true: This claim and its variations originated from accounts that warned their audiences that they do not post factually accurate content. The rumor spread
Lead Stories→ Lead Stories’ Top Debunks Of 2025: Charlie Kirk, Jeffrey Epstein, And What Trump Did NOT Say
False claims about the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Jeffrey Epstein files, and purported verbal gaffes by President Trump topped the list of most-read Lead Stories fact checks in 2025. Here are our most read fact checks of the past yea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cher Did NOT Read Karoline Leavitt’s Bio Live On MSNBC — Neither Did Other Celebrities
Did Cher tell Karoline Leavitt to "sit down, baby girl" after reading out her bio on MSNBC? No, that's not true: The viral story about the singer reacting to a supposed rant from Leavitt about "out-of-touch celebrities who think they can