After announcing its winners in the spring, the Peabody Awards celebrated the 34 honorees at a Beverly Hills event on Sunday.
The awards span television, podcasts/radio and the web in categories for entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service and interactive/immersive programming and media. Winners are chosen by a unanimous jury vote and selected for their potential to change culture. Heated Rivalry, Pluribus, The Pitt, Andor, The Rehearsal, Adolescence and Jimmy Kimmel Live! were among the Hollywood winners, with Kimmel having a standout moment on stage after months of publicly battling Donald Trump.
Ben Affleck was on hand to honor Kimmel, teasing that “for years he’s used his show to challenge authority on a nightly basis, and by authority I think we all know who that really means — one particularly credit-hogging narcissist named Matt Damon,” referencing Kimmel’s longtime on-screen beef with the star. Affleck continued, “when they pulled his show off the air, Jimmy refused to back down. What he said to me was it wasn’t for his own benefit, but because he knows justice dies in the dark — I taught him that as Batman.”
“Comedy and satire are vital parts of democratic speech, whether the government likes them or not,” Affleck added before Kimmel took the stage, as the late-night host — joined by sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez — admitted “I’ve felt pretty dumb a lot of times in my life but I’ve never felt dumber than I do right now,” while he stood beside documentarians and reporters who had worked on projects about ICE, abuse and wars.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)05:21:21
“I called our president Fattyshack,” Kimmel joked, before going on to list the many other Trump nicknames he had coined throughout the years, “and somehow we got a Peabody out of that. This country really has gone to shit.”
He continued, “Making jokes about the president in America shouldn’t win you a prize. We have the right, guaranteed by the Constitution, to criticize and satirize our leaders,” as he reflected on how millions of people spoke out and supported him when his show was temporarily suspended in September. Kimmel added, “You sent a message that we do care and we stand up and we will not stand by when comedy and journalism and dissent are censored and regulated and criminalized.”
And after thanking his staff and paying tribute to his fellow honorees, Kimmel closed by thanking Trump himself — accompanied by more nicknames including “our commander-in-thief” and “Abrascram Lincoln” — for “inspiring us to fight for our freedom of speech.”
Along with the competitive awards, a number of special honors were also given throughout the ceremony, with Amy Poehler receiving the Peabody Career Achievement Award, Sterlin Harjo the Peabody Trailblazer Award, James L. Brooks the Industry Icon Award, and PBS Kids getting the Industry Award. PBS Kids — whose award was accompanied by a performance from the Musyca Children’s Choir — had a particular bring-the-house-down moment when general manager Sara DeWitt declared, “we were defunded, but we are not defeated” to thunderous applause.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)05:29:31
>>1517782(OP) jimmy kimmel viewers are braindead morons and stupid old boomers.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)06:23:32
>>1517784 The more you seethe about it the more he wins.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)08:31:58
>>1517790 you're going to die before I do I hope I piss on your grave boomer, no one but stupid and old people watch that cunt
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)11:39:18
>>1517796 Cry more over the millions of people who watch him every night
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)14:46:39
>>1517796 They raped the planet, destroyed the housing market, and pulled up the ladder behind them to a society where you could support your family with a job out of high school.
Gee, your piss really showed them.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)14:49:58
>>1517782(OP) This is antisemitic unAmerican treason, we need to petition Trump to cancel the Peabodies
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)17:03:07
>>1517803 Sorry but a show on Fox News just stole kimmel’s thunder.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)18:16:17
>>1517782(OP) Makes sense as all Democrats get their politics from late night comedy shows.
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)18:59:07
I can't believe tRump paid tax payer dollars to have Jimmy Kimmel of all people assassinated. Fascist scumbag. What, you cant take a little joking?
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)22:23:58
>>1517874 As opposed to the complete joke in the white house who's building a new pedo dungeon for himself?
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Anonymous06/02/26(Tue)23:17:14
>>1517874 As a redblooded American MAGA FREEDOM FIGHTER I get all my news from Instagram shorts and truth social. Not gonna be like them homo dem sheep
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)15:28:19
>>1517921 Fox News, who is also right wing: Am I a joke to you?
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)18:10:39
>>1517919 If Trump was a pedo why didn't democrats go after him for that between 2021-2025? They went after him for everything else. If Trump was in the files, why didn't Biden release them as an october surprise to win the 2024 election?
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)18:24:13
>>1518018 If you're a shill why don't you get a real job
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)18:39:06
>>1518018 Because Dems are in the files too. And Trump. All of our politicians are pedos. Which is why I will write in Budd Dwyer for president this year. A dead guy cant diddle kids.
>>1518018 >why didn't Biden release them as an october surprise to win the 2024 election? because you fags would then be crying election interference.
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)20:14:48
>>1518036 That's what happened in 2016 with the Access Hollywood "grab em by the pussy" tape And in 2020 with the Hunter Biden laptop story. It would have been a third october surprise
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)21:19:37
>>1518037 Ah yes, the laptop that Rudy discovered. Very credible.
Wonder what happened with that, not an issue anymore I see.
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)22:25:38
>censored
you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)23:22:37
>>1518037 To be fair, only virgins, Democrats and feminists think "grab em by the pussy" was a negative comment. Women love to be grabbed by the pussy and many like to be choked for some reason. Being submissive is a big part of female psychology, and they've been trained to hate it along with their reproductive systems thanks to liggeralsim.
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Anonymous06/03/26(Wed)23:24:22
>esl shill admits they've never been alone with a woman
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Anonymous06/04/26(Thu)01:30:50
>>1518037 It doesn't change the fact that trump is a pedophile and rapist.
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Anonymous06/04/26(Thu)02:31:51
>>1518094 The female version of "Grab em by the pussy" is Hawk Tuah suck that cock
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Anonymous06/05/26(Fri)07:26:47
>>1517782(OP) Trump is an old senile pedo but Kimmel is not funny and has never been funny. Even on The Man Show that was the writers feeding him the jokes. People just have a really low bar for comedy I guess.
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Anonymous06/05/26(Fri)13:32:37
>>1518094 No, anyone who isn't an out of touch loser understands a disgusting old man erroneously bragging about how he can grab women by the pussy is as pathetic as it is inappropriate.
You are basically Chevy Chase in community (behind the scenes, not in the show). You think you're a cool badass that everybody loves, but the joke is you're an out of touch piece of shit, and you aren't in on it.
>women loved to be grabbed by the pussy, and many like to be choked for some reason.
For some reason, eh? So you don't get it.
>Why don't women like to be choked and abused by me? Must be those damned liberals! It's not because I'm a spineless, sniveling, weak bitch, who women don't respect and won't submit to! I'm not inadequate, they're brainwashed!
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)20:25:13
>>1518139 >uses the word pedophile again. >The latest rule of the internet states pattern recognition recognizes anyone using pedophile and derogatory language in the same breath is projecting and is therefore by 4chan standards an ESL Shill.