Jimmy Kimmel will reasonable a dialog between President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama for a Biden marketing campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles subsequent month. The occasion may also characteristic particular friends George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
The fundraiser will likely be held June 15, with tickets beginning at $250 per particular person and rising to $500,000 for an “occasion chair” tier. Proceeds go to the Biden Victory Fund.
Kimmel won’t be the primary late-night host to dip his toe within the recreation of presidential moderation this yr. In March, Stephen Colbert moderated a New York Biden fundraiser that featured the present president, Obama and former President Invoice Clinton in dialog. Per the Related Press, the occasion raised $26 million.
Information of Kimmel’s gig comes after an enormous week for the comic, given he made headlines for his brutal Disney upfront monologue on Tuesday, throughout which he laid into into CEO Bob Iger, the Golden Bachelor, streaming bundles, Star Wars, Elon Musk and extra.
“Bob Iger needs to be retired by now, he needs to be off on a yacht someplace,” Kimmel advised the viewers. “As a substitute he’s right here pretending to be excited a few new season of Will-Fucking-Trent. Bob tried to promote us final yr, he put us up on the market, and as if that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, nobody wished to purchase us. When nobody was , Bob defined that he didn’t imply he actually wished to promote us, he was simply testing the waters for Wall Avenue. You understand, Bob, when folks check the waters, they normally dip in a toe, they don’t drown their youngsters.”