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Jimmy Kimmel used his Wednesday monologue to warn Los Angeles voters against Spencer Pratt, the reality star polling second in next week’s mayoral primary.
Jimmy Kimmel spent a full segment of his Wednesday Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue trying to talk Los Angeles voters out of electing Spencer Pratt as their next mayor. The reality star is polling at 22 percent and currently sits in second place, with the city’s primary set for June 2.
Kimmel did not soften the framing. “This city, let’s be honest, this city is a mess,” he said. “That is something that became especially obvious during the fires.”
The fires are how Pratt entered the race. “You get a guy who is on a reality show, who’s on a lot of reality shows,” Kimmel told viewers. “His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows, and his house burns down.”
The host walked the audience through the rest of the path. TheWrap’s Yahoo-syndicated full transcript of Kimmel’s monologue on Pratt and the 22 percent polling figure captures the host detailing how Pratt’s lack of private insurance and stated rejection of climate change turned his post-fire frustration into a campaign.
Pratt’s housing situation got a sharper twist. Kimmel told viewers Pratt has been spending donor money on a $1,500-a-night room at the Hotel Bel-Air while simultaneously running campaign videos claiming he lives in a trailer on the burned-out lot where his old house once stood.
The host moved on to the budget math. “Mayor should not be your first job,” Kimmel said. “The mayor of L.A. is in charge of a $14 billion annual budget.”
The Trump comparison was unavoidable. Kimmel argued Pratt’s political rise was “eerily similar” to Donald Trump‘s, joking the difference was that the president “had a job before he was on a reality show.”
The kicker leaned on the apocalypse. Kimmel cited Pratt’s reported tendency to blow his fortunes after “believing the world was about to end in a Mayan apocalypse,” then closed with: “That’s the guy 22 percent of you want to be mayor of Los Angeles when the Olympics come to town.”
He gave the rest of the field a nudge. “And for the rest of the candidates running for mayor, I hope you are paying attention to why you are currently trailing this person,” Kimmel said.
The race itself is real and close. The New York Times’s late-night round-up framing the contest as a very L.A. race with Pratt sitting in second place notes that Kimmel, himself a Los Angeles resident, has been working the story across multiple monologues.
The incumbent is Karen Bass. Kimmel acknowledged he understood why voters might not want to back her, but warned them to “find somebody else to vote for, and preferably somebody who isn’t wasting our time and money to get himself back on television.”
Pratt did not let it pass. The reality star posted on X shortly after the broadcast aired, opening with “When people criticize me for not having ex…” before the rest of his rebuttal entered the news cycle.
OneNewsPage’s wire pickup of the mayor-should-not-be-your-first-job line and the second-place polling tracked the monologue moving through the news cycle within hours, alongside other LA political coverage tied to the June 2 primary.
Kimmel ended where he started. The reality-star pipeline has now produced an LA mayoral contender, and the late-night host who lives in the same city would, for once, like the joke to stop.
