Rob Schneider’s Jimmy Kimmel Comment Goes Viral

Rob Schneider has attacked fellow comedian Jimmy Kimmel, as he weighed in on the talk show host’s criticism of Aaron Rodgers for erroneously linking him to the list of people associated with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

On January 2, Kimmel issued a scathing response to NFL star Rodgers, after he suggested that the comic’s name would appear on an anticipated list of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. Disgraced financier Epstein died by suicide in August 2019 while in custody awaiting trial on federal trafficking and conspiracy charges. He had been previously convicted for procuring sex with an underage girl.

The list comes from unsealed documents from a 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend who is currently serving a prison sentence for helping the disgraced financier recruit and sexually abuse underage girls.

The now-settled lawsuit was brought against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre, one of her and Epstein’s victims. The court documents featured the names of 150 people who were connected to the pair either by flying on Epstein’s private jet or by visiting Little St. James, his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Many of those whose names appear in the documents aren’t accused of wrongdoing or have been mentioned previously in legal proceedings or news accounts. Despite persistent assertions across social media, the documents released are not an Epstein “client list.”

Rodgers, while recently appearing on the Pat McAfee Show, incorrectly claimed Kimmel would be one of many people who “are hoping that [list] doesn’t come out.” When the list was released on January 3, Kimmel was not among those named.

Responding to Rodgers’ suggestion ahead of the list being made public, Kimmel wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Dear Aa******: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any ‘list’ other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality.”

Tagging Rodgers in the post, Kimmel further added that the football player’s “reckless words put my family in danger. Keep it up and we will debate the facts further in court.”

With social media responses to the post being divided, one X user shared a screenshot of a Business Insider headline from September 2021 that was described as “worse” than what Rodgers had said about Kimmel.

The headline in question read: “Jimmy Kimmel says unvaccinated people shouldn’t get ICU beds in hospitals.” It was derived from the comedian’s comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he said that people with health problems who had received a COVID-19 vaccine should get priority at crowded hospitals over those who had refused it.

Chiming in, The Hot Chick star Schneider wrote: “You, @jimmykimmel asking for hospitals to NOT treat unvaccinated patients and let them die in hospital corridors was dangerous, wrong and shameful and fed into people being fired, demonized and ostracized. And YOU NEVER APOLOGIZED.”

As of press time, Saturday Night Live alum Schneider’s X post attacking Kimmel has been viewed more than 4.5 million times.

Newsweek has contacted a representative of Kimmel via email for comment.

On his show in 2021, Kimmel cited then-chief medical advisor to the president Dr. Anthony Fauci, when he said: “Dr. Fauci said if hospitals get any more crowded, they’re going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed.”

“That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me,” he went on. “Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in. We’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”

The “horse goo” comment was made in reference to those who had touted use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. The drug is typically used to treat parasites in animals.

After testing positive for COVID-19 in 2021, Rodgers said that he had been taking the anti-malaria medication hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat his symptoms. According to medical authorities, neither medication has any proven effect on alleviating COVID symptoms.

While Kimmel has denied having any contact with Epstein, and has not been named in the documents, X account @MythinformedMKE shared a now-viral video of the star hanging out with Epstein’s personal chef, Adam Perry Lang. The pair were friends, but this does not suggest that Kimmel had any connection to Epstein.

The clip, which first aired on TV show Extra, shows Lang and Kimmel at the chef’s new restaurant and explained they were long-time friends.

“We met, Adam was a chef on my show,” Kimmel told his interviewer.

Lang has a long history with Kimmel and was even arrested on one of his properties in 2019.

Police responded to an incident of a man who had apparently shot his girlfriend with a rifle and planted several bombs around the house. Kimmel was not at the property at the time.

Authorities entered the building and took Lang into custody but a representative of Kimmel and Lang’s attorney claimed a fake 911 call had been made in a practice known as swatting.

“The ‘male’ that called 911 was absolutely not Adam Perry Lang,” attorney Glen T. Jonas told TMZ. “Mr. Lang will be cleared of any wrongdoing. He was fast asleep with his ringer off. He immediately cooperated once he was notified of the commotion.”

Following that incident, Lang confirmed he was assisting New York prosecutors in their investigations into Epstein’s sex ring.

“Meanwhile, Mr. Lang has begun a course of fully cooperating with the federal authorities investigating this case,” Lang’s attorney, Lawrence Lustberg told The Daily Beast in 2020. “He, like them and like the victims, wants only that justice be done.”

Lang added in an email: “We have absolutely always been available to the attorneys for the lawyers representing the victims.”