In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 jokes making fun of liberals over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two jokes about liberals and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS. After playing a clip of a House hearing involving his nemesis, FCC chairman Brenden Carr, Kimmel quipped, “Meanwhile, Fredo's godfather, Donald Corleone, has also been working hard to kill PBS. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the organization that funds PBS, voted to dissolve itself last week after Trump pushed Congress to cut off funding which led a lot of people to believe that PBS was going off the air, which it is not. Poor Oscar the Grouch is now living in an actual garbage can, but PBS is still with us.”     Kimmel then introduced a clip of a satirical PBS ad, “The PBS social media team has been responding to a lot of posts like this that say, "After 58 years PBS has officially shut down," with posts like this: "Hey, uh, so actually, we're still here." And their PR team just put out a video to let everyone know that even though the situation is bleak, they're still going.” The ad mocked various PBS shows, “Masterpiece Theater, Sesame Street, News Hour, Austin City Limits, 22,000 hours and counting of Ken Burns footage. The show with people bringing [bleep] from their garage, and the one where white people find out they're black. PBS. Check your local listings. We're still here, bitch!” Kimmel kids because he loves, “Good. I hope you are here for a long time.” The two PBS jokes (Oscar’s trash can and the fake ad) bring Kimmel into a tie with Stephen Colbert for last place among the five late night shows NewsBusters tracks on a nightly basis. By contrast, thus far Kimmel has told 155 jokes about conservatives, including 21 on Wednesday. Kimmel’s six episodes without a joke about liberals are nothing new. Last year, not including his guest hosts, he had four such streaks: a 13-episode run from April 29-May 29, another one of 10 from October 9-November 3, a seven-episode stretch from September 10-25, and another one of six from December 3-11. Here is a transcript for the January 14 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1/14/2026 11:47 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Meanwhile, Fredo's godfather, Donald Corleone, has also been working hard to kill PBS. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the organization that funds PBS, voted to dissolve itself last week after Trump pushed Congress to cut off funding which led a lot of people to believe that PBS was going off the air, which it is not. Poor Oscar the Grouch is now living in an actual garbage can, but PBS is still with us. The PBS social media team has been responding to a lot of posts like this that say, "After 58 years PBS has officially shut down," with posts like this: "Hey, uh, so actually, we're still here." And their PR team just put out a video to let everyone know that even though the situation is bleak, they're still going. NARRATOR: Masterpiece Theater, Sesame Street, News Hour, Austin City Limits, 22,000 hours and counting of Ken Burns footage. The show with people bringing [bleep] from their garage, and the one where white people find out they're black. PBS. Check your local listings. We're still here, bitch! KIMMEL: Good. I hope you are here for a long time.