Jimmy Fallon, Bill Maher joke about Sen. Katie Britt’s State of the Union rebuttal
Late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Fallon and Bill Maher joked about Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s rebuttal of Pres. Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on their Friday night shows.
“Everyone’s talking about this Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s rebuttal to the State of the Union address,” Fallon said on the Tonight Show. “And her delivery was a little dramatic.”
He then showed clips of Britt’s changes of emotion during the rebuttal.
“Has anyone checked that kitchen for a gas leak?” Fallon joked about the setting for Britt’s rebuttal, which was the kitchen in her home in Montgomery.
“Even producers of Hallmark movies were saying ‘it’s a bit much … a tiny bit much,’” said Fallon, who joked she got rave reviews from her speaking coach, William Shatner.
Fallon’s jokes were tamer than Maher’s on his HBO Max show “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Maher’s jokes were laced with a bit of profanity, and like Fallon, made jokes about the kitchen setting.
He showed similar clips of her rebuttal.
Maher compared her as a “rising star” to Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert.
“I just want to remind you Daylight Savings Time starts this Sunday, so it will be an hour later when the cuckoo bird flies out of her head,” Maher said after clips of her address were shown.
“Republicans, they do this all the time,” he said. “They introduce us to their new rising star and America is like ‘what the … was that?’”
“Here’s what I learned about Katie Britt,” Maher said. “I never heard of her before. She’s got a husband named Wesley. She’s got kids named Bennett and Ridgeway. And she’s this close to driving them all over a cliff in a minivan.”
Maher said Republicans picked her because she has school-aged kids “who now have to endure taunts of ‘your mom’s a weirdo.’”
The March 8 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher can be streamed on HBO Max.