Jimmy Kimmel Live! has held a weeklong residency in Brooklyn seven times since 2012, but this was his first as Comrade Jimmy . About a week after Kimmel’s show was reinstated from a suspension by ABC after comments by FCC chair Brendan Carr, the shows were full of politics as well as hometown affection. (He’s from Mill Basin.) On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of free-ticket-lottery winners lined up at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, infusing Ashland Place with midtown tourist energy. They shuffled through the lobby metal detectors, stopping to post at a giant photo-op scrim made to look sort of like street art. Outside, three middle-aged women held up signs: TRUMP MUST GO NOW ! One old guy shouted back, “I love your signs!”

Inside, a DJ spun Motown oldies for VIPs eating Nathan’s ho

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