--- title: Jimmy Kimmel: Jennifer Lawrence, Jon Stewart Read Insults description: Jimmy Kimmel turned 50 years old, and to celebrate, a group of his closest famous friends teamed up for a special edition of "Mean Tweets." canonical: https://time.com/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-14T15:55:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:45.939Z og:title: Jennifer Lawrence and Jon Stewart Read Jimmy Kimmel's Mean Tweets og:description: Kimmel's friends celebrated his birthday with a special edition of "Mean Tweets" og:url: https://time.com/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80b11bfb2adabca8/6988e5c3ab6d77e7356b09ec/screen-shot-2017-11-14-at-10-14-31-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1202 og:image:height: 676 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Live-Jennifer-Lawrence-Mean-Tweets og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Lawrence and Jon Stewart Read Jimmy Kimmel's Mean Tweets twitter:description: Kimmel's friends celebrated his birthday with a special edition of "Mean Tweets" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80b11bfb2adabca8/6988e5c3ab6d77e7356b09ec/screen-shot-2017-11-14-at-10-14-31-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Lawrence and Jon Stewart Are Really Great At Reading Mean Tweets About Jimmy Kimmel > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 14, 2017 3:55 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 14, 2017 3:55 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5016952/jimmy-kimmel-trumpcare-tweets/) turned 50 years old on Monday, and to celebrate, a group of his closest famous friends teamed up for a special edition of his [“Mean Tweets”](http://time.com/4683415/oscars-2017-jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets/) segment that exclusively featured insults aimed at the _Live!_ host. A number of notable celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Chris Hemsworth, made appearances in the bit to read out barbs hurled at Kimmel by various displeased Twitter users. “‘[@jimmykimmel](https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Eappleosx%7Ctwcamp%5Esafari%7Ctwgr%5Eprofile) is a comedy god. Like a deformed, lame, hideous god. Such as ancient Greece’s Hephaestus,'” Hemsworth delivered with some hilarious commentary of his own. Even fellow late night personalities Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and David Letterman got in on the birthday fun. “‘Jimmy Kimmel is that same fat kid from _Win Ben Stein’s Money_ who grew up to become that fat kid from _Win Ben Stein’s Money_,'” Stewart read before adding, “I don’t care for this fellow who wrote this.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/"},"headline":"Jennifer Lawrence and Jon Stewart Are Really Great At Reading Mean Tweets About Jimmy Kimmel","datePublished":"2017-11-14T15:55:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:45.939Z","description":"Kimmel's friends celebrated his birthday with a special edition of \"Mean Tweets\"","url":"https://time.com/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jennifer Lawrence","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80b11bfb2adabca8/6988e5c3ab6d77e7356b09ec/screen-shot-2017-11-14-at-10-14-31-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80b11bfb2adabca8/6988e5c3ab6d77e7356b09ec/screen-shot-2017-11-14-at-10-14-31-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Live-Jennifer-Lawrence-Mean-Tweets","caption":"","creditText":"ABC","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/","name":"Jennifer Lawrence and Jon Stewart Are Really Great At Reading Mean Tweets About Jimmy Kimmel"}}]}] ```