Jimmy Kimmel Calls Aaron Rodgers ‘Hamster-Brained’, Mocks His Anti-COVID Vaccine Beliefs After Jeffrey Epstein Files Comments

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ripped Aaron Rodgers during the opening monologue of his eponymous show Monday night.

While the Jets quarterback is set to address his previous comments on the Pat McAfee Show Tuesday, Rodgers now seems to have more ammunition after being called "hamster-brained," among other things.

During last week's appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers said Kimmel was hoping the Jeffrey Epstein files would not be released, prompting Kimmel to threaten a lawsuit, and deliver a Monday night roast, titled 'Karen Rodgers.'

"I've seen guys like him before," Kimmel said of the four-time MVP. "Aaron Rodgers has a very high opinion of himself because he had success on the football field. He believes himself to be an extraordinary being.

"He genuinely thinks that because God gave him the ability to throw a ball, he's smarter than everyone else. The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him. We've learned during COVID, somehow he knows more about science than scientists," Kimmel added, nodding to Rodgers' opposition to the COVID vaccine.

"A guy who went to community college then got into Cal on a football scholarship and didn't graduate. Someone who never spent a minute studying the human body is an expert in the field of immunology. He just put on he put on a magic helmet, and that G made him a genius," Kimmel joked, while showing the Packers logo. "Aaron got two 'A's' on his report card. They were both in the word Aaron."

Rodgers attended and played at Butte College, a junior college in California, in 2002 before transferring to the University of California the following season. After starring for the Golden Bears in 2003 and 2004, he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers with the 24th pick in the 2005 Draft.

While many have suggested Rodgers' comments last week were implying Kimmel would be on the list, they ostensibly have a simpler explanation. In March, Kimmel called Rodgers a "tin foil hatter" for theorizing information about UFOs was intentionally released as a bid to cover up the Epstein client list.

Rodgers' then-Packers teammate David Bakhtiari quote-tweeted Kimmel's March critique of Rodgers, writing: "Tell me you’re on the Jeffrey Epstein client list, without telling me you’re on the Jeffrey Epstein client list…."

Kimmel explained this notion -- to a point -- during his monologue, suggesting his mocking "so badly bruised Aaron's Thanksgiving Day Parade-sized ego."

"I guess he's particularly upset, I think, because I made fun of the fact that he floated this wacko idea that the UFO sightings that were in the news in February, were being reported to distract us from the Epstein list that was Aaron's theory," Kimmel added.

Notwithstanding this, Kimmel took Rodgers' comments last Tuesday as a potential insinuation of being on Epstein's client list, albeit unlikely in his own words. Kimmel has not been named at the time of writing, and according to him, never will.

"Of course my name wasn't on it, and isn't on it ,and won't ever be on it," Kimmel said. "I don't know Jeffrey Epstein I've never met Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not on the list. I was not on a plane or an island or anything ever."

Now we wait for Rodgers's rebuttal which may well stream on ESPN. Kimmel, of course, is arguably ABC's biggest star -- both ABC and ESPN are owned by Disney, adding another layer of complexity to this war of words.

Within it, Kimmel does not expect to receive an apology from the 40-year-old.

"When I do get something wrong, which happens on rare occasions, you know what I do? I apologize for it," he added. "Which is what Aaron Rodgers should do, which is what a decent person would do, but I bet he won't.

"If he does, you know what I'll do. I'll accept his apology and move on. But he probably won't do that."