Jimmy Kimmel honoured at 2026 Peabody Awards.

The TV personality's late-night chat show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was honoured with an award for "embracing the responsibility of comedy to reveal truths amid political volatility". Taking to the stage with his sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, Kimmel told the audience, ”Making jokes about the President - in America - shouldn't win you a prize. We have the right, guaranteed by the Constitution, to criticise and satirise our leaders. That is a right I took for granted, for the first 57 years of my life, until last September..."