Kimmel on Trump’s White House flagpoles: ‘The kind of decision you make when you can’t get an erection’

With many late-night hosts still on holiday, Jimmy Kimmel looks at Donald Trump’s new White House flagpole obsession and Elon Musk’s Tesla woes.Wednesday marked 93 days of the new Trump administration, “and things are going pretty great. Really good,” Jimmy Kimmel said with deep sarcasm on Wednesday evening. “The CEOs of a bunch of big stores had to warn Trump that his tariffs could result in empty shelves, JD Vance is out there trying to give Ukraine to Russia, measles are back in a big way.”“And so today, Trump look a little stroll around the White House, he did a little location scouting just like he would do at one of his golf courses, deciding where he could bury an ex-wife,” Kimmel continued

Anatomy of a PM’s fall: did Albanese stumble off a stage - and why are we still talking about it?

Hi Caitlin, something has been bothering me lately. Did prime minister Anthony Albanese fall off a stage or not?It depends if your definition of “falling” is stepping into midair and then rapidly dropping to the ground. If it is, then yes, he did.You’d be hard pressed to have missed this viral moment, but to recap: earlier in the campaign, the prime minister was standing on a stage at a Mining and Energy Union conference in the Hunter region of New South Wales.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletterWhile posing for photos, he made a move to the left and suddenly – to the dramatic gasps of the audience – lost his footing and descended from the stage like a pin falling into the ocean

Jimmy Kimmel on Pete Hegseth: ‘Our secretary of defense is defenseless’

With several hosts still on Easter holiday, Jimmy Kimmel talks the search for a new pope and Pete Hegseth’s ongoing Signal scandals at the Department of Defense.Kimmel kicked off his show Tuesday by acknowledging Earth Day – and for the occasion, the US Environmental Protection Agency fired or reassigned hundreds of employees. “I can’t help but wonder how different things might be if Donald Trump’s father had taken him camping even one time,” he joked.He then turned his attention to the top global story of the week: the search for a new pope after Pope Francis died on Monday morning at the age of 88. “Nobody is going to be more insufferable this week than your friend who saw the movie Conclave and now knows everything about how it works,” said Kimmel

Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests

It has long been assumed that William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway was less than happy. He moved to London to pursue his theatrical career, leaving her in Stratford-upon-Avon and stipulating in his will that she would receive his “second best bed”, although still a valued item.Now a leading Shakespeare expert has analysed a fragment of a 17th-century letter that appears to cast dramatic new light on their relationship, overturning the idea that the couple never lived together in London.Matthew Steggle, a professor of early modern English literature at the University of Bristol, said the text seemed to put the Shakespeares at a previously unknown address in Trinity Lane – now Little Trinity Lane in the City. It also has them jointly involved with money that Shakespeare was holding in trust for an orphan named John Butts

Jimmy Kimmel on the pope’s death: ‘Now we know JD Vance is bad at praying, too’

With several hosts on post-Easter holiday, Jimmy Kimmel recaps Donald Trump’s hypocritical messages on religion and the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88.“Between Easter and 4/20, a lot of stuff got rolled yesterday,” said Jimmy Kimmel on Monday evening, and “our Peep-headed president got in the Easter spirit yesterday” with an “unusually warm” message on Truth Social wishing “peace and joy for all who celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ”.But Trump then followed up with a darker message: “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country.” (The post went on at length in similar fashion.)“It’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde your tax returns,” Kimmel joked

‘Be playful, try new things!’ The Southbank Centre’s Mark Ball on his new festival, Multitudes

The arts centre’s artistic director is on a mission to bring new audiences to the joys of classical music. He explains why mixing it with circus, grime, poetry, and film might be the way to do itCan you name the UK’s top five most visited attractions? A 2024 survey placed the British Museum and Natural History Museum in the top two spots, then Windsor Great Park and the Tate Modern. No surprises there. But the fifth is perhaps less expected: the Southbank Centre, with 3.7 million annual visitors