Jimmy Kimmel has discovered himself in sizzling water.
Throughout a stand-up routine at Tuesday’s 2025 Disney Upfront occasion, the 57-year-old comic got here beneath hearth for evaluating soccer legends Eli and Peyton Manning to the incarcerated Menendez brothers.
Kimmel’s poorly obtained joke got here after Eli, 44, and Peyton, 49, carried out a song-and-dance quantity by which they pitched their manner into a number of reveals beneath the Disney banner.
“I do wanna thank the Manning brothers for finally answering the question: What if two jars of mayonnaise could sing?” Kimmel quipped, per Leisure Weekly. “The answer is: They can’t, and they shouldn’t.”
“That was worse than what the Menendez brothers did,” he added.
However Kimmel’s bit didn’t finish there, as a result of the late-night host included one other punchline after the viewers loudly groaned at his preliminary joke.
“Too soon or too late?” Kimmel requested.
Lyle Menendez, 57, and his youthful brother Erik Menendez, 54, had been discovered responsible in 1996 of brutally killing their mother and father seven years earlier.
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles choose modified their sentences from life in jail with out parole to life in jail with the potential for parole, doubtlessly paving the brothers’ solution to freedom after greater than three many years behind bars.
In the meantime, Kimmel later took another shot on the former NFL stars on the finish of his 12-minute stand-up set in New York Metropolis.
“Ladies and gentlemen, here with another song, the Manning brothers,” he stated by way of EW, although Eli and Peyton didn’t return to the stage for an additional efficiency.
Some critics additionally took to social media to slam the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host.
“Kimmel is an ass!” one irritated particular person tweeted.
Others, nonetheless, agreed with Kimmel’s critique of Eli and Peyton’s song-and-dance act.
“Kimmel ain’t wrong,” somebody wrote on X after the Disney occasion, “the Manning Bros need to hang up their dancing shoes.”
Elsewhere throughout his greater than 10-minute schtick, Kimmel poked enjoyable at Disney CEO Bob Iger.
“This is my, I think, millionth upfront? I do it once a year like a prostate exam,” he joked. “But it’s hard to say no when Bob Iger shows up. Bob Iger has passionately led Disney for 20 years and reluctantly for three.”
He additionally teased that Iger, 74, doesn’t care about Disney’s annual Upfront presentation, its viewers, or the corporate’s many advertisers.
“This is Bob’s second Upfront appearance in a row. You think he needs to be here? He doesn’t need to be here,” Kimmel stated. “You assume Bob provides a s–t about ‘The Rookie’ Season 8?
“Bob doesn’t care if this whole room turns into ‘Avengers: Endgame’ dust, OK?” Kimmel added. “But he showed up.”
As for the Mannings, they later returned to the stage to advertise their upcoming Hulu comedy “Chad Powers” with Glen Powell.
The present, which stars Powell and was impressed by Eli Manning’s in style ESPN+ section, will comply with the “Twisters” actor as a disgraced soccer star who dons a disguise to play for an additional workforce.
Eli and Peyton function government producers on the upcoming collection.
