--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Slams Devin Nunes Memo in Monologue Video description: Ahead of the Trump administration's release of the apparent classified memo from Devin Nunes, Jimmy Kimmel takes the politician to task. canonical: https://time.com/5130374/jimmy-kimmel-on-devin-nunes/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-02T16:51:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:18.129Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Slams Devin Nunes for Being 'Trump's Lap Dog' og:description: "To call Devin Nunez Donald Trump’s lap dog would be an insult to dogs and laps" og:url: https://time.com/5130374/jimmy-kimmel-on-devin-nunes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd0a546fee3d9aa24/6988fa5422fb857139e24948/jimmy-kimmel-calls-out-devin-nunes-for-memo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" - Season 15 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Slams Devin Nunes for Being 'Trump's Lap Dog' twitter:description: "To call Devin Nunez Donald Trump’s lap dog would be an insult to dogs and laps" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd0a546fee3d9aa24/6988fa5422fb857139e24948/jimmy-kimmel-calls-out-devin-nunes-for-memo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Has the Most Savage Monologue About the Devin Nunes Memo > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 2, 2018 4:51 PM UTC  JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! - "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EST and features a diverse lineup of guests that include celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. The guests for Thursday, January 25 included Viola Davis ("How to Get Away with Murder"), Lil Rel Howery ("Get Out") and musical guest LANCO. (Randy Holmes via Getty Images) JIMMY KIMMEL JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! - "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EST and features a diverse lineup of guests that include celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. 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(Randy Holmes via Getty Images) JIMMY KIMMEL Randy Holmes—ABC via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 2, 2018 4:51 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5125593/stormy-daniels-on-jimmy-kimmel-interview/) didn’t hold back while giving a blistering critique of the memo written by House Intelligence Committee Chairman [Devin Nunes](http://time.com/5128772/trump-nunes-memo-release/) that reportedly alleges that the FBI abused a surveillance program. “This is a memo written by Devin Nunes, a Republican Congressman from California that claims the FBI overstepped their surveillance of Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page in a very obvious attempt to paint the FBI as biased against Trump and to discredit the work of Special Counsel Mueller,” Kimmel said. “This is how our government works now: If your party is in charge, you can lie, you can cheat, you can game the system to benefit your buddies, you can basically do whatever you want.” Kimmel also said that the Republican congressman from California is overseeing the House’s Russia investigation, even though “he recused himself from the investigation, after her got caught sneaking to the White House to share information with the people he was supposed to be investigating.” Kimmel even had a humorous comparison of Nunes’s relationship with Trump. “To call Devin Nunes Donald Trump’s lap dog would be an insult to dogs,” he said. “And laps.” Watch the full clip of Kimmel talking about Nunes and the memo above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5130374/jimmy-kimmel-on-devin-nunes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5130374/jimmy-kimmel-on-devin-nunes/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Has the Most Savage Monologue About the Devin Nunes Memo","datePublished":"2018-02-02T16:51:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:18.129Z","description":"\"To call Devin Nunez Donald Trump’s lap dog would be an insult to dogs. 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