Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy spoke out in favor of ABC’s decision to indefinitely pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! from the air.
“With Kimmel getting canned I’m seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture,” Portnoy, 48, posted via X on Wednesday, September 17. “To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if Kimmel got canceled for s— he did on the Man Show that would be cancel culture.”
Kimmel, 57, co-created The Man Show, a former sketch comedy series that was aimed at a male audience. He co-hosted the first four seasons of the show with the show’s co-creator, Adam Carrolla, from 1999 to 2002, before turning over the hosting duties to Joe