Jimmy Kimmel praises first responders after ‘scary’ and ‘terrible’ week

Jimmy Kimmel has worked on Hollywood Blvd for over 20 years and he returned today to offer a big thank you to everyone who helped during the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

The comedian opened his show, holding back tears, calling it a “very scary, very stressful, very strange week here in Los Angeles,” but quickly thanked the emergency responders, as well as everyone who helped in Los Angeles, including including Steve Guttenberg. .

He did, however, have a few choice words for looters, parking attendants and Donald Trump.

Kimmel showed footage showing how close the fires were to the Jimmy Kimmel Live! studio and revealed that some of his colleagues had lost their homes.

“It was terrible. Everyone who lives in the city knows someone, most of us, several people, families, friends, colleagues, neighbors, whose house was burned down, and the truth is that we don’t even know if it happened. is over,” he said. “I think I speak for all of us when I say that this has been a sickening, shocking, horrible experience, but it has also been, in many ways, a beautiful experience.”

“Because once again we see our fellow human beings coming together to support each other. People who lost their own homes were volunteering in the parking lots to help those who had lost theirs,” he added.

He lambasted Trump, who has already managed to politicize the tragedy. “I don’t want to get into all the vile, irresponsible and stupid things our so-called future president – ​​and his band of bastards – have chosen to say – in our darkest and most terrifying hour. The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters – who apparently aren’t white enough – for being out there and risking their lives for us is…it’s disgusting. But that’s not surprising.

Instead, he thanked the Los Angeles firefighters as well as firefighters in Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Washington, Northern California, from New Mexico, Idaho, Maine as well as Mexico and Canada, as well as the police, the National Guard, the first responders. , with doctors, nurses, paramedics and pilots working 12-hour shifts. “Thank God for all of you,” he said.

He also shouted out local Los Angeles reporters.

He joked about downloading the Watch Duty app, which has become an essential tool for everyone in the city. “You know, when you monitor homework on Google. You really have to be careful. You don’t know what could happen,” he joked.

As of Thursday evening, he said he and his family lived with 19 people and four dogs. “It was unlike anything I had ever experienced.”

He told the story of one of the show’s producers, Hera, whose family had to evacuate. She asked her eight-year-old to pack her most important belongings and in that bag she discovered eight pairs of underwear and a container filled with her baby teeth. “Apparently he’s saving them for the Tooth Fairy,” he said.

He also praised chefs Susan Fenifer and Mary Sue Milliken for feeding people, as well as actor Steve Guttenberg, who helped put out fires and clear cars so emergency vehicles could reach affected areas in the Palisades.

“It’s a really, really difficult time right now. But you know, I appreciate everyone, the LA Fire and all the businesses that help us. “It’s a tough time,” he said, adding that he needed clean underwear, before Kimmel reminded him that the last time he was on the show was after his exit from Dancing with the Stars.

But he also criticized looters and parking enforcement officers who fined them.

“There should be a law that says if you are caught burglarizing your house during a fire, you automatically have to trade places in prison with one of the inmates who are working to save people from the fire,” he declared. “The other thing we could do without, and it’s a small thing, but the city continues to hand out parking tickets. Unless your car is blocking a fire hydrant or emergency responders, they shouldn’t be handing out parking tickets at this time. The entire city is currently in the red zone.

He concluded by saying a few things that Angelinos had learned last week, including the names of all the local reporters, that there is a “boiling water advisory,” that Steve Guttenberg is a damn national treasure, that the most of us are useless in an emergency situation, new words like “Slopover” and “Phos-chek”, that there is a socially acceptable usage for the word “retarder”, that there was a museum rabbit in Altadena, that none of our out-of-state family members – know the difference between Santa Monica and Santa Clarita and that whoever was sending out these emergency notifications to evacuate – should not be doing this work.

Joining Kimmel on the show tonight are Los Angeles icon Snoop Dogg and comedian Roy Wood Jr. as well as the band Dawes, who were hit hard by the fires, coming from Altadena.

“You know, for most of the last week, we’ve seen some very upsetting images, but we’ve also seen countless examples of courage and compassion from our neighbors under literal fire,” Kimmel concluded before showing images of such uplifting stories.