'Tries to Buy the Midterms!': Kimmel's first monologue home from Brooklyn
Jimmy Kimmel takes on taxpayer-funded ads promoting the president, which, his description notes, even ran during his own show.
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 3,286,240 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (169,767).
Trump Spends Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Ads Promoting Himself & Tries to Buy the Midterms!
More than three million people watched Jimmy Kimmel's first monologue after his week of tapings in Brooklyn, all inside a single day. A regular new video on this channel usually opens closer to 170,000 views.
The title points at the main target. According to the description, Kimmel goes after ads promoting President Trump that are paid for with public money, and he points out that some of them aired during Jimmy Kimmel Live itself. From there the night moves briskly through the news: around 200 Russians in quarantine over what the description calls a "pneumonic plague," the leaders of a new "Super Intelligence Force," and a Texas poll that puts Democrat James Talarico six points ahead of Republican Ken Paxton.
There is a lighter souvenir from New York, too. Before the show left town, the crew stopped people on Brooklyn sidewalks to ask "What's Your Problem?" Some commenters single that segment out. They ask for it as a regular feature and laugh at answers that wander far from the question. Most of the comment section, which filled nearly nine times faster than usual, stays on the ads and on whether the money talk around the midterms is legal. Several viewers cite federal election law by section number.
The rest of the show's uploads from the same night went in other directions. Anna Kendrick talked about her brother's wedding and a group trip to New Zealand. Mumford & Sons played "Here" with mandolinist Chris Thile, and Marcus Mumford sat down to discuss being a Disney adult and the collaborators on his new album, Chris Stapleton, Gracie Abrams and Brandi Carlile among them. The monologue also sends Guillermo off to another night on Dancing with the Stars, and by the following show Kimmel was back in a nearly 100-degree Los Angeles, visiting him and his partner Witney Carson on the set.
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- Channel
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Subscribers
- 22,300,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 48,089,101
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,885,976 (on a normal day: 4,289,436)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 3,328,940 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 3,270,212
The numbers
A big day for one video on a channel that already draws millions of views daily, and its comment section kept pace.
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