Jimmy Kimmel spent some time during the monologue of the Halloween episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” talking about Kanye West and his relentless string of antisemitic rants. And along with a few other observations, he wondered whether psychiatric medicine should consider an entirely new diagnosis to describe Yeh’s mental illness: “tri-polar.”
Kanye has certainly been making increasingly blatant antitrust statements for weeks now. The two most recent was a rant he posted on Instagram over the weekend for attacking power agent Ari Emanuel and using the word “business” as an obvious stand-in for Jewish.
He then took an even more dire turn – a . In Rant captured by the paparazzi on sunday and then in the comments To podcaster Lev Friedman, he rejected his diagnosis of bipolar disorder and blamed it on “Jewish” doctors, whom he implied were trying to kill him. He also put forward conspiratorial ideas about the Jewish people controlling trade and entertainment.
Kimmel brought up this topic after mentioning that Kanye recently endorsed Georgia Republican U.S. Senate nominee Herschelle Walker, saying that endorsement “endorses lead paint like crystal meth.”
Kimmel mentioned how Kanye has lost lucrative business deals and forced friends and family to cut ties with him, but joked “Don’t worry, he still has people of other races around him.” There are so many objectionable things to say.”
Kimmel then played a clip from the paparazzi video, in which Kanye said, “So when I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. I want to apologize. Because God has shown me what Adidas is doing, what the media is doing, I know what it feels like to have a knee on my neck now. ,
It’s certainly a reference to how George Floyd was murdered by police officers, prompting Kimmel to respond, “No. no, not you. I think he may be tri-polar. Is that the thing?”
“Maybe it’s possible that Kanye is off his meds,” Kimmel continued, “turns out he was never on them, and you’d never guess why not.”
Kimmel then played a clip of Kanye complaining about Jewish doctors, first euphemistically and then frankly. ,[Kanye said he] I am not going to say which race, which people, which doctors, and which hospitals, and which media went to. We know I can’t say that. It was a Jewish doctor.
“Oh, thanks for telling us. The suspense was really killing me. I thought maybe he was going to say ‘Amish,'” Kimmel said.
The show includes some really funny stuff about the costumes of everyone working on it and a really cool joke, among other things, at the expense of Donald Trump Jr. Now watch the clip above.