US late night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel joined the internet chorus outraged at the killing of a beloved Zimbabwean lion, Cecil, by US dentist Walter Palmer.
US late night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel joined the internet chorus outraged at the killing of a beloved Zimbabwean lion, Cecil, by US dentist Walter Palmer.
In his material about the incident during last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live show, he called the act “vomitous” and cracked a few jokes: “Is it that difficult for you to get an erection that you have to kill things stronger than you?”
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But when Kimmel asked his audience to donate to Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, the group that was tracking Cecil for a study, he choked up:
