If, at any earlier time in his career, anyone had suggested to Jimmy Kimmel that people would someday be citing him as the conscience of the nation, he would surely have done the world's greatest spit-take. Related: Jimmy Kimmel gets emotional after shooting in his hometownWelcome to politics in the Trump era, Jimmy. Kimmel was sucked into the political maelstrom by the commitment that Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, made: That for him to support it, any new health-care bill would have to pass the "Jimmy Kimmel test." Related: Did Jimmy Kimmel kill the health care bill? But Kimmel surely meant it Monday when he said: "I want this to be a comedy show.

Source: CNN October 04, 2017 01:30 UTC