Jimmy Kimmel Spoofs Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Day at the Office Cleaning Up After Elon Musk: ‘I Can Fix Him’
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live spoofed X/Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday, showing what her day at the office might look like cleaning up after Elon Musk.
After host Jimmy Kimmel recounted Musk’s recent controversial statements, and the news that several major advertisers had decided to pull their ads from his social network X, the camera cut to Jimmy Kimmel Live writer Blaire Erskine sat at a desk, impersonating Yaccarino on the phone.
“Yeah, I’m pretty sure he didn’t say that all Taiwanese people eat kittens. That would be crazy. Let me check,” said Erskine, playing Yaccarino on a phone call. “Nope, he said all Taiwanese people eat kittens. Okay, thank you so much.”
Kimmel interrupted, “Linda, hi, it’s Jimmy Kimmel. I just wanted to check in with you and see is everything going okay over there? Because I’ve read a lot of stuff in the news.”
As Yaccarino poured a comically large glass of wine, she replied, “Everything’s going great, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Why are you drinking so much wine then?” Kimmel questioned, to which Yaccarino replied, “Because I already drank all the vodka.”
As Yaccarino pulled out a cake and began eating it with her hands, Kimmel asked, “Are you concerned that Elon’s hateful posts are harming your business?”
She responded, “Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that’s a good one. Um, I don’t know, I guess it would depend on the shape of the hotdog.”
After Yaccarino’s phone began to ring, the Twitter CEO answered the call with a loud scream.
“Excuse me, what? He said Hitler is a cool guy? No, no, no, that can’t be right. He wouldn’t say that. He probably just meant that Hitler was chilly,” she said to the caller. “Nope, I see it here. He said, ‘Hitler is a cool guy.’ Okay, that’s great. Thank you so much.”
Yaccarino then snapped her laptop in half and cut off a portion of her hair.
“Listen, Elon is outspoken, okay? But I can fix him, you know? I just have to shrink myself down and hide under his chef hat and kind of control everything he does,” she told Kimmel, who pointed out that that was the plot to 2007’s Ratatouille.
After Yaccarino received yet another phone call, she pulled out a hammer and smashed up her desk.
Watch above via ABC.
