Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity have been trading Twitter shots since Thursday, when Hannity took offense to Kimmel poking fun at First Lady Melania Trump at the White House Egg Roll on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
After Hannity called Kimmel an “ass clown” on his Fox News show Hannity, Kimmel called Hannity an “ass clown circus” on his late night show. Hannity then took to Twitter to continue the feud, sharing old videos of the Man Show—a raunchy sketch comedy series that aired from 1999 to 2004 on Comedy Central that Kimmel co-hosted—and dubbed him “Harvey Weinstein Jr.,” since one of the clips included women guessing what was in Kimmel’s pants. Hannity also launched the hashtag, #pervertkimmel.
“This is ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, aka Harvey Weinstein Jr., asking 18 year old girls to grab his crotch and 'put their mouth on it,'” Hannity tweeted. “Jimmy that’s you being a pervert asshole. How would you feel if that was your daughter? I bet Disney is so proud.”
Kimmel barely fired back, until the next day, when Hannity tweeted Kimmel in blackface from the Man Show, writing, “Disney, are you proud to employ Harvey Weinstein Jr? Are you proud of this?”
Hannity also tweeted a poll on Friday, asking, “tonight will Jimmy Kimmel be 1—asking 18 year old girls to grab his crotch? 2—Attacking a woman reading books to children? Or 3—be a racist asshole? 4—All of the above.”
Kimmel finally lobbed one back at Hannity, tweeting in response to his poll, “I vote for whichever one best helps you trivialize the horrors of Harvey Weinstein by comparing them to televised comedy bits in which every woman was a willing participant who gladly signed a release.”
Hannity is specifically hyper-focused on a video where Kimmel asked women to freely use their hands or mouth to identify the bulge in his pants. Later on Friday, Kimmel referenced one of President Donald Trump’s most famous lines, where he told Billy Bush he could grab women “by the pussy” whenever he wanted.
Kimmel tweeted, “Now YOU answer THIS question: Would you want your daughter being “grabbed by the pussy?” Yes or no?”
That one seemed to stump Hannity, who volleyed a fairly weak insult back at Kimmel, writing, “Harvey Jr, you have over 100 writers (you are in last place) That’s all you have? #KeepUp. You are a poor man’s Colbert. #pervertkimmel.”
To which Kimmel responded, “And you, a poor woman's Rachel @maddow (she's beating you bigly, right?) Now answer the question.”
After all that, it looks like Kimmel got the last word on Friday night.
