--- title: Jimmy Kimmel on Roy Moore Alabama Special Election Loss description: Jimmy Kimmel Live! was taped before the results of the Alabama special election came in. But that didn't stop Kimmel from taking a preemptive victory lap. canonical: https://time.com/5062413/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-alabama-special-election-results/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-13T15:49:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:16.255Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Wanted the Last Laugh on Roy Moore og:description: Kimmel got in some final jabs at the Republican Senate candidate og:url: https://time.com/5062413/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-alabama-special-election-results/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67977e67608c47b7/6988f4d6fb4eacd015894f10/screen-shot-2017-12-13-at-10-32-24-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Roy-Moore-Alabama-Special-Election og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Wanted the Last Laugh on Roy Moore twitter:description: Kimmel got in some final jabs at the Republican Senate candidate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67977e67608c47b7/6988f4d6fb4eacd015894f10/screen-shot-2017-12-13-at-10-32-24-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Dedicated the Evening to Last-Minute Roy Moore Jabs  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 13, 2017 3:49 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 13, 2017 3:49 PM UTC Tuesday’s episode of [_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_](http://time.com/5060542/roy-moore-stephen-colbert-jimmy-kimmel/)was taped before [Doug Jones was declared the winner](http://time.com/5059673/alabama-special-election-results-2017-doug-jones/) of the [Alabama special election](http://time.com/5062262/donald-trump-roy-moore-loss-twitter/). But that didn’t stop Jimmy Kimmel from taking a preemptive victory lap at Roy Moore’s expense. Kimmel opened his show by taking a number of last-minute shots at the Republican Senate candidate — who started a [Twitter war](http://time.com/5043752/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-christian-values/) with the late-night host in November — as well as a few of his spokespeople. “I don’t know the results yet, the polls just closed, but I do know Roy Moore shouldn’t even be in the race,” Kimmel said. “And I’m not talking about the Senate race, I mean the human race.” Of course, when the results of the election came in, Kimmel couldn’t resist getting in one final jab at Moore by sharing the monologue on Twitter. “Goodbye Roy Moore [@MooreSenate](https://twitter.com/MooreSenate) & the Moore-ons who backed him,” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/940931973605756928) Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5062413/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-alabama-special-election-results/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5062413/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-alabama-special-election-results/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Dedicated the Evening to Last-Minute Roy Moore Jabs","datePublished":"2017-12-13T15:49:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:16.255Z","description":"Kimmel got in some final jabs at the Republican Senate candidate","url":"https://time.com/5062413/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-alabama-special-election-results/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","Roy Moore"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67977e67608c47b7/6988f4d6fb4eacd015894f10/screen-shot-2017-12-13-at-10-32-24-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/blt67977e67608c47b7/6988f4d6fb4eacd015894f10/screen-shot-2017-12-13-at-10-32-24-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Roy-Moore-Alabama-Special-Election","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/5062413/jimmy-kimmel-roy-moore-alabama-special-election-results/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Dedicated the Evening to Last-Minute Roy Moore Jabs"}}]}] ```