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a kennedy

(31,885 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 11:44 AM Jan 2023

Oh for pete sake....Stephen A Smith wants to be on late night tv.....Jimmy Kimmel's spot. *roll eyes*

The ESPN personality has his eyes on another show.

Stephen A. Smith has become one of the primary voices on ESPN, but the talking head has his eyes on a bigger job.

While appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Smith said he would like to take over for Jimmy Kimmel doing late night TV.

“I am interested in doing late night,” Smith said. “I would love to be the heir apparent to Jimmy Kimmel. I believe I could do it. I would throw everybody for a loop, my politics would throw people off because I’d be fair to everybody and I’d listen to everybody. It wouldn’t be one-sided, I’m not a one-sided kind of guy. I’m one-sided on issues, I’m not one-sided on ideology.”

Kimmel currently hosts Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, which is one of the five primary late night shows on TV. Smith argued that late night television has gotten very left-leaning, and he would provide a show that is right down the middle and, as a result, more fair.

“It should be a problem because the reality of the situation is there’s more than 350 million Americans in this country and at least 170-180 million think conservatively like Sean Hannity, OK? We understand that, and whether you like it or not, that’s their reality,” he said.

(Sports Illustrated)

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Oh for pete sake....Stephen A Smith wants to be on late night tv.....Jimmy Kimmel's spot. *roll eyes* (Original Post) a kennedy Jan 2023 OP
Thinking and Sean Hannity do not go together n/t hibbing Jan 2023 #1
Can't STAND him. He's a RW suck up and misogynist. live love laugh Jan 2023 #2
Never could. He picked TCU in the Championship game BTW underpants Jan 2023 #5
LOL 😂 live love laugh Jan 2023 #11
Heard him say last week... czarjak Jan 2023 #3
OMG, I can't stand him. LisaM Jan 2023 #4
Trying to move into Jason Whitlock's turf. Hannity was one of his first podcast guests underpants Jan 2023 #6
I hate the guy TheRealNorth Jan 2023 #7
I remember that, despise him......and I love the TNT guys sooooooooooo much better too. a kennedy Jan 2023 #9
No thank you kimbutgar Jan 2023 #8
AND ALL HE DOES IS YELL, and sorry for yelling. a kennedy Jan 2023 #10

czarjak

(12,359 posts)
3. Heard him say last week...
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 12:10 PM
Jan 2023

"I'm conservative when it comes to my PERSONAL finances". Rich republican white-guys always are, huh?

LisaM

(28,460 posts)
4. OMG, I can't stand him.
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 12:19 PM
Jan 2023

I'd outline everything I don't like about him (starting with the sports figures he looks up to) but I am both at a loss for words and don't have all day.

underpants

(186,340 posts)
6. Trying to move into Jason Whitlock's turf. Hannity was one of his first podcast guests
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 12:22 PM
Jan 2023

Whitlock is a sports writer who found a rather welcome reception when he started spouting off right wing nonsense.

TheRealNorth

(9,629 posts)
7. I hate the guy
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 01:36 PM
Jan 2023

I remember when the Milwaukee Bucks went to the NBA finals, he was whining because it would be in Milwaukee, which apparently doesn't have the weather or luxury accomodations that he thinks he deserves. Elitist POS in my mind.

Much rather watch the TNT guys, even though Barkley sometimes says things I disagree with.

kimbutgar

(23,114 posts)
8. No thank you
Fri Jan 20, 2023, 01:42 PM
Jan 2023

I watched him the other night and was not impressed. I ask my husband who knows him from ESPN if he was a good guy or jerk he said he was ok. But I sensed a smarminess about him that annoyed me.

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