Excerpt from Jimmy Kimmel Live
Aired on ABC on August 30, 2005
Jimmy Kimmel
"Hi. I'm Jimmy Kimmel. Tonight's guest was to have been Billy Ray Cyrus, whose daughter will be starring on a new live action sitcom for Nickelodeon. Instead, we don't have a studio audience and there will be no jokes tonight, because from my point of view, a comedy show would've been in poor taste in light of the tragedy that has struck New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast."
"In the coming days, you'll probably hear some of my counterparts on other networks lend their support to Gus St. Pierre, who lost two of his distant cousins in the hurricane. But you have plenty of reason to question the sincerity of my rivals' condolences, because eleven years ago, Jay Leno on
The Late Show cracked a slew of tasteless jokes about Gus's siblings and basically dismissed all the pedophilia and incest that happened in the Kricfalusi household as '...a bunch of rednecks having a cookout.' Those were Jay's words."
"Then there's Letterman, who in 1998, asked Gus to his face which of his younger sisters he planned to marry while Gus appeared on
The Tonight Show ahead of the release of
Pleasantville."
"And I'm sure Conan on
Late Night probably has some second thoughts about the time in he had Triumph the Insult Comic Dog ask Gus in '97 if he and Devon Sawa were gay lovers."
"And you, Lorne Michaels, have a lot to answer for about that
SNL sketch in '95 where you staged John Kricfalusi killing Colette in that parody of Hitchcock's
Psycho."
"I've also got a message for Jim Rome. You can't use this hurricane as an excuse to root for the Saints to simply leave the city they've called home since 1967. It's not that easy. Taking the Saints out of New Orleans will send a message that the current situation is hopeless. While this hurricane has proved devastating, you blatantly underestimate the optimism and hope that the rest of us have for the community to recover."
