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Jimmy Kimmel Takes On Bob Iger, Netflix and Gen Z’s YouTube Habits in Upfronts Monologue: ’When You Have Kids, You’ll Come Crawling Back to Disney Like Dogs!”


Jimmy Kimmel gave his annual performance at the Disney/ABC upfront on Tuesday. Here are some of his best jokes.

), in which Kimmel offered selling naming rights for his grandkid (yeah, he knows Seth Meyers did a similar joke on Monday, more on that in a second), he still came out in person at the Javits Center to roast the industry, and in particular, his bosses at Disney. Kimmel then turned his attention to NBC, and sales chief Mark Marshall — who appeared at the NBCU upfront on Monday in a “Wicked” style Glinda bubble. NBC’s chairman of global advertising Mark Marshall claimed yesterday, his network has amassed the greatest collection of content that has ever been assembled by one media company.

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