--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at Roy Moore Over Christian Values description: Jimmy Kimmel has fired back at Roy Moore after the Republican Alabama Senate candidate issued a challenge to confront him "man to man." canonical: https://time.com/5043752/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-christian-values/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-30T21:32:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:00.055Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at Roy Moore's 'Man to Man' Challenge og:description: The late night host and Alabama Senate candidate are battling it out on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/5043752/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-christian-values/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e6a049d9c6560ff/6988f33c0a4a22520b9d0e19/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at Roy Moore's 'Man to Man' Challenge twitter:description: The late night host and Alabama Senate candidate are battling it out on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e6a049d9c6560ff/6988f33c0a4a22520b9d0e19/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Roy Moore Challenged Jimmy Kimmel to Confront Him 'Man to Man.' 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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 30, 2017 9:32 PM UTC  Drew Angerer—Getty Images; Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 30, 2017 9:32 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5025433/jimmy-kimmel-hillary-clinton-impeach/) has fired back at [Roy Moore](http://time.com/5029172/roy-moore-accusers/) after the [Republican Alabama Senate candidate](http://time.com/5038367/roy-moore-lee-busby-alabama-senate-race-doug-jones/) issued a challenge to confront him “man to man.” In the wake of Tony Barbieri — a comedian who has appeared on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ under the stage name Jake Byrd — [reportedly](http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/roy-moore-protester/index.html) disrupting an event at an Alabama church where Moore was speaking on Wednesday, Moore took to Twitter to call out Kimmel. “.[@jimmykimmel](https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel) If you want to mock our Christian values, come down here to Alabama and do it man to man,” Moore tweeted on Thursday. However, the late night host was quick to deliver a response that made it clear he had no intention of making the trip from Los Angeles to Alabama. “Sounds great Roy,” he wrote. “Let me know when you get some Christian values and I’ll be there!” Moore is currently [facing sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women who say they were teenagers at the time](http://time.com/5031448/leigh-corfman-roy-moore-accuser/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5043752/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-christian-values/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5043752/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-christian-values/"},"headline":"Roy Moore Challenged Jimmy Kimmel to Confront Him 'Man to Man.' 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