In the opening of last night’s of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel took a detour from the usual late-night monologue jokes to tell a very personal story about his newborn son William. Jimmy Kimmel made a tearful plea during his opening monologue for better health care for kids in the U.S.
The monologue included his trademark mix of humor and vulnerability, a winning combination that makes him one of the best storytellers and most relatable hosts of late night television. It was overall an unusual moment for Kimmel, who has been hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! for 14 years now but rarely ventures into personal storytelling or overtly polemical material.
Kimmel who thanked each of the doctors and nurses who treated little Billy by name showed pictures of the baby buried under a mountain of tubes and wires after the surgery. Within hours of William’s birth, a nurse noticed symptoms of a congenital heart defect, and he was quickly given open-heart surgery to repair the damage. William is fine, Kimmel assured his viewers showing them pictures of his son resting peacefully at home. “Poor kid, not only did he get a bad heart, he got my face,” he quipped, one of a handful of jokes he managed to squeeze out in between the tears.
He told the audience how his son, William, was born with a congenital heart disease. With William recovering from the surgery at home, Kimmel was moved to address other families that could have been negatively affected by President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the National Institute of Health.
Kimmel will be out the rest of the week on paternity leave, with Will Arnett, Anthony Anderson, Kristen Bell, and David Spade filling in as guest hosts. You can donate to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the hospital that saved Kimmel’s son and countless other children, here.
Kimmel concluded his emotional account, “I saw a lot of families there, and no parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child’s life. It just shouldn’t happen. Not here.”
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