--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Spoofs the Overabundance of Election Coverage description: "I sometimes try to remember what these 24-hour news channels talked about when there wasn't an election going on" canonical: https://time.com/4260890/jimmy-kimmel-election-cable-news/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-16T13:51:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:57.602Z og:title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel Spoof the Overabundance of Election Coverage og:description: "They're covering every iota of it" og:url: https://time.com/4260890/jimmy-kimmel-election-cable-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel Spoof the Overabundance of Election Coverage twitter:description: "They're covering every iota of it" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jimmy Kimmel Spoof the Overabundance of Election Coverage  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Mar 16, 2016 1:51 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Mar 16, 2016 1:51 PM UTC Having a 24-hour news cycle means that broadcasters have _a lot_ of time fill…which in turn means that no detail of the 2016 campaign is too small to be worthy of air time. “They’re covering every iota of it, and people are watching in huge numbers, so I thought it would be smart for us to start covering every iota of it too,” Jimmy Kimmel said on his show Tuesday, though what follows wasn’t so much an attempt at actual political coverage (he’s not exactly giving fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert a run for his money) as it was a send-up of the kind of programming Kimmel is talking about. There are flashy graphics, useless statistics and talking heads that talk all over each other—it’s all probably a little too familiar for anyone who’s been keeping with the presidential race. Watch the full skit above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4260890/jimmy-kimmel-election-cable-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4260890/jimmy-kimmel-election-cable-news/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel Spoof the Overabundance of Election Coverage","datePublished":"2016-03-16T13:51:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:57.602Z","description":"\"They're covering every iota of it\"","url":"https://time.com/4260890/jimmy-kimmel-election-cable-news/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4260890/jimmy-kimmel-election-cable-news/","name":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel Spoof the Overabundance of Election Coverage"}}]}] ```