Jimmy Kimmel Met with Groans for Joke About Manning and Menendez Brothers

Jimmy Kimmel made his emotions identified about Peyton and Eli Manning’s musical abilities — or lack thereof! 

Whereas delivering a monologue-turned-roast at Disney’s 2025 Upfront on Might 13, the late night time host joked concerning the former pro-athletes’ musical opening quantity.  

The Mannings — who had been selling the upcoming collection Chad Powers, starring Glen Powell and impressed by Eli’s character of the identical identify for his ESPN docuseries Eli’s Locations — began the present by singing an elaborate track the place they used phrase play to insert their final identify into just a few of Disney’s hit ABC reveals, highlighting High Potential, Abbott Elementary and Paradise throughout the routine.

The actors who star on these reveals talked about, together with Kaitlin Olson, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Sterling K. Brown, joined the 2 onstage to play alongside and jokingly shut down any prospects of the NFL greats becoming a member of their collection.

To wrap up the occasion, Kimmel, 57, took to the stage with a spherical of roasts, which included rival networks like CBS and NBC, in addition to commentary on the Mannings’ opening quantity: “I do need to thank the Manning brothers for lastly answering the query, ‘What if two jars of mayonnaise might sing?’ The reply is, they cannot,” Kimmel stated.

“That was worse than what the Menendez brothers did,” he added, as viewers members groaned. “Too quickly or too late?”

The comic ended his monologue with one other jab in direction of Peyton and Eli, joking that the brothers could be singing one other track if advertisers did not give them extra money.

“Do give us cash earlier than we ship them out once more,” he stated, referring to the Mannings.

Kimmel’s joke got here on the identical day that Lyle and Erik were resentenced to 50 years to life in prison, which makes them instantly eligible for parole. The brothers had been serving a life sentence with out parole for the 1989 murders of their dad and mom Jose and Kitty Menendez of their $5 million Beverly Hills dwelling, however have lengthy claimed the murders had been dedicated in self-defense after years of sexual abuse by Jose.

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The late night time host’s roasts weren’t simply reserved for the Mannings. He made a jab at NBC over the community’s new portfolio of NBCU cable channels known as Versant, saying it “seems like one thing you subscribed to by chance.” He even commented on his personal community’s lack of latest reveals. He identified that the one new present for ABC is a derivative of one other. “Which begs the query: What are we doing right here? We risked our lives flying into Newark for this?” he teased.

He closed his remarks with a heartfelt plea to advertisers to help a information present from the rival community, CBS. “I do know it’s not a part of our multi-platform, however help 60 Minutes — they deserve it. You could have the facility, as a result of you might have the cash. Help journalism. It’s essential, and it doesn’t work with out you.”