Jimmy Kimmel Live! turned “Take Your Kids to Work Day” into “Put Your Kids to Work Day.”
Jimmy Kimmel’s writers brought their kids into the writer’s room yesterday, giving Kimmel a handful of jokes for a special part of his monologue.
“Please welcome our adorable child laborers,” Kimmel announced as the kids marched out after Kimmel had delivered a few monologue jokes of his own.
Each of the five kids, as young as 4 years old, delivered two jokes they’d written themselves. (Highlights included “Why was Luke Skywalker so sad? Because he killed his dad,” and “Why aren’t the Los Angeles Dodges allowed to go to the orchestra? Because they steal basses.”)
Kimmel and the audience were naturally supportive of the kids’ attempts, with most jokes garnering hearty applause. But Kimmel turned when one’s joke fell flat.
“What did the lion put on his pizza?” 6-year-old Luca wrote. The punchline? “Roar-ins,” as in “onions.”
“Don’t clap for that,” a deadpan Kimmel told the crowd. “I’m gonna have to fire your father,” he joked to the child.
But his older brother Joshua won the crowd back with two unexpectedly political jabs. “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it wanted to get eggs in Mexico for cheaper,” drew cheers from the crowd, which only doubled with the next joke: “What do you get when you mix red and yellow? Our president.”
Before the segment ended, Luca delivered a surprising, um, anti-joke. “What did the plant say to the burger?” he asked. The answer: “Do you have a burger?”
“That is called alternative comedy,” Kimmel remarked.
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day is a nationally recognized holiday held on the fourth Thursday of every April. The nonprofit Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation founded the holiday to expose children to possible future career paths and emphasize the value of education.
It remains to be seen if these kids choose to follow their parents’ career paths, but each now have a pretty great starting credit for resumes.
“Your parents are always complaining about how hard it is [to write jokes],” Kimmel remarked to the kids. “And then you come in, and it’s so easy!”
“Watch Kimmel’s monologue segment with the kiddos below:
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