--- title: Anthony Scaramucci Fired: Jimmy Kimmel Scores Fake Interview description: The ABC host joked he scored the first“exclusive interview” with Scaramucci since his firing canonical: https://time.com/4882029/anthony-scaramucci-fired-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-01T12:40:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:03.358Z og:title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'Exclusive Interview' With 'Anthony Scaramucci' Post-White House Exit og:description: The call is nearly all bleeped due to profanity og:url: https://time.com/4882029/anthony-scaramucci-fired-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32fde9ed6bd08b64/6988d7f1e76ad24a9262e8ce/jimmy-kimmel-anthony-scaramucci.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" - Season 15 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'Exclusive Interview' With 'Anthony Scaramucci' Post-White House Exit twitter:description: The call is nearly all bleeped due to profanity twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32fde9ed6bd08b64/6988d7f1e76ad24a9262e8ce/jimmy-kimmel-anthony-scaramucci.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'Exclusive Interview' With 'Anthony Scaramucci' Post-White House Exit by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Aug 1, 2017 12:40 PM UTC  JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE - JIMMY KIMMEL JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE - JIMMY KIMMELRandy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Aug 1, 2017 12:40 PM UTC Late night comedy hosts seemed shocked by [Anthony Scaramucci’s ousting](http://time.com/4881241/anthony-scaramuci-white-house-communications-director/?xid=homepage) as White House communications director on Monday, and many tried to use up the many jokes they’d been writing before his short tenure came to an end. “Anthony Scaramucci – The Mooch – who, 10 days ago, was named White House Communications Director, today is out of a job,” [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4858595/jon-stewart-on-jimmy-kimmel-bar-mitzvah/), bewildered, [told the audience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time%5Fcontinue=25&v=jntTHyrDVkA) on his ABC show. Scaramucci left his White House role on Monday, the same day [John Kelly](http://time.com/4879523/john-kelly-donald-trump-chief-of-staff/) started as President Trump’s new White House chief of staff. In his 10 days with Trump, Scaramucci was involved in the departures of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. He got himself in trouble when he gave an angry, vulgar interview to The _New Yorker_ last week. “President Trump reportedly thought those comments were ‘inappropriate.’ And you know, say what you’d like about him, he is a very appropriate person,” Kimmel joked. The ABC host then joked he scored the first“exclusive interview” with Scaramucci since his firing. Because The Mooch follows Kimmel on Twitter, the host said, he got the now-ex White House communications director on the phone. The call was almost entirely bleeped due to profanity and included crude remarks about Scaramucci’s firing, in a nod to his _New Yorker_ interview. Kimmel added that in addition to the White House staffing changes, Trump has had a tough time recently thanks to the death of the Republicans’ health care plan and a controversy over missiles in North Korea. “Weirdly, I don’t feel tired from all the winning yet, I really don’t,” he quipped. Now that Scaramucci is gone, Kimmel speculated Trump might need to replace some other members of his inner circle. “It’s only a matter of time before Donald Trump replaces Ivanka with Tiffany,” the host said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4882029/anthony-scaramucci-fired-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4882029/anthony-scaramucci-fired-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'Exclusive Interview' With 'Anthony Scaramucci' Post-White House Exit","datePublished":"2017-08-01T12:40:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:03.358Z","description":"The call is nearly all bleeped due to profanity","url":"https://time.com/4882029/anthony-scaramucci-fired-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","onetime","anthony scaramucci"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32fde9ed6bd08b64/6988d7f1e76ad24a9262e8ce/jimmy-kimmel-anthony-scaramucci.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32fde9ed6bd08b64/6988d7f1e76ad24a9262e8ce/jimmy-kimmel-anthony-scaramucci.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ABC's \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" - Season 15","caption":"ABC's \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" - Season 15","creditText":"Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images","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/4882029/anthony-scaramucci-fired-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel's 'Exclusive Interview' With 'Anthony Scaramucci' Post-White House Exit"}}]}] ```