Late-night talk show hosts picked up where Twitter left off when it came to throwing punches at Aaron Rodgers after the Green Bay Packers‘ season-ending loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC divisional round game Saturday at Lambeau Field.
On Monday night, the quarterback found himself once again the target of jokes, after a year in which he misled the public on his vaccination status, touted unproven treatments for COVID-19 and, in an ESPN interview published a day before the 49ers game, criticized President Joe Biden and “his fake White House set saying that this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’
“It was a weekend of upsets. On Saturday, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers hosted the San Francisco 49ers and lost in Green Bay. In other words, Aaron Rodgers failed his at-home test,” Fallon said in his opening monologue.
“Ahead of his loss to the 49ers, Rodgers criticized the CDC, President Biden and the fake white house in an interview with ESPN. What a year for Rodgers. He could be the first person named MVP and governor of Florida.”
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In one of his regular NFL-themed “Tonight Show Superlatives” segments in December, ahead of the Packers-Chicago Bears game on Dec. 12, Fallon showed a team photo of Rodgers (before his long hair of this past season) and quipped, “He was voted most likely to miss the days when he was trending on Twitter for hosting ‘Jeopardy.'”
‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’
“The NFL reportedly notified unvaccinated players last week that they will no longer be required to be tested daily for the coronavirus. In fact, some of them don’t even have to come to work,” Meyers said, as a photo of Rodgers popped up during the host’s take on the latest news headlines.
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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
In his monologue about the NFL playoff games, Kimmel said this:
“Aaron Rodgers you may recall was caught in a series of lies about his vaccination status earlier in the season. Before the game, he lashed out at President Biden. He said we have a fake White House, a bunch of other stuff befitting a man who has been hit in the head a lot of times, but Karen Rodgers wasn’t the only anti-vaxxer speaking out this weekend …”
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