Kimmel Mocks ‘Paranoid’ Keystone Kash After Booze Bombshell

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Jimmy Kimmel had a brutal take on “Keystone” Kash Patel after the FBI director was accused of having a booze problem in a bombshell story by https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/" rel="" title="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/">The Atlantic.

Kimmel mocked https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kash-patel/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kash-patel/">Patel, 46, as the country’s “soon-to-be former FBI director.” The late-night host reported that Patel was “deeply concerned” he’d be fired, to the point that he had a meltdown about being locked out of his email account on April 10.

“Kash Patel was so worried about getting the axe when he had an issue logging onto his computer 10 days ago, he thought he’d been locked out and panicked.

He started frantically calling aids to announce that he’d been fired.

According to nine people familiar with this outrage—he called nine people to tell them he’d been fired.

Turned out it was just an IT issue,” Kimmel said to laughs from his audience.

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