Jimmy Kimmel took the summer off but his show still goes on. Monday's Kimmel Live was guest-hosted by actor-comedian Anthony Anderson, who said he wasn't a fan of the phrase "guest host." "When you invite a guest over for dinner, you don't make them show up to an empty house and cook their own damn food," he pointed out. Anderson was impressed with the pirate fireworks displays blanketing the
Los Angeles skyline on what was "probably the worst 4th of July ever" and disgusted with a "particularly infectious" party "at Diamond Lake in Michigan on Saturday.""President Trump also had a rager outside the
White House on Saturday, and this kind of tells you everything you need to know about America right now," Anderson said. "In 2015, President Obama had Bruno
Mars perform at his 4th of July party." Trump, he showed, had a Bruno Mars
MILITARY cover band playing to a sparse crowd. "Wow, Major Embarrassment — that's the name of that lead singer," he said. (The
Singer was actually SFC Christopher Rettig of the U.S. Army Band.)Anderson also shrugged of Kanye West's presidential publicity stunt — "laugh all you want, but this would be historic, because this country has had a Black president, we've never had a crazy Black president" — and unveiled a special offer for white viewers who want to show how not-racist they are.
Tooning Out the News also touched on Trump's July 4th weekend, but the Mount Rushmore part. Watch below.