President Trump doesn't make writing a comedy show easier, Jimmy Kimmel said on Thursday's Kimmel Live. "In fact, in a way it makes it harder to be funny when nonsense and stupidity is pouring on your head at all times. So the jokes do not write themselves — or should I say, they did not write themselves until today, when Kanye West visited the White House. I kind of feel like every day I say, 'Oh, it was a crazy day, today was the craziest day' — this was something special."
Kimmel said he had no idea why they allowed cameras in to capture the Kanye-Trump Oval Office sit-down, "because not only was this a crazy conversation for this White House, this is the kind of conversation that would typically be held between people wearing hospital bracelets." He played part of West's monologue, annotated with Trump thought bubbles. "Now he knows how we feel every morning when we wake up to him," Kimmel laughed.
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