Kimmel上次就被没有被惩罚，道歉了事
No joke: Man sues Kimmel, ABC over death remark
Sergio BichaoThe (Cherry Hill, N.J.) Home News Tribune
A skit on Kimmel%27s late-night show featured a child suggesting killing everyone in China as solution to the U.S. debt problem
Cao Guoliang alleges negligence and infliction of emotional distress in lawsuit
Lawsuit says Kimmel failed to suppress %27hateful and offensive remark%27
Jimmy Kimmel and Disney are being sued by a New Jersey man over a skit that aired in October.
NEW BRUNSWICK — It's not every day that a late-night talk show host's joke becomes a matter of international relations — or the subject of a lawsuit.
But an Edison, N.J., man is taking ABC host Jimmy Kimmel and the network's parent company, Disney, to court over a skit in which a 6-year-old boy suggested killing everyone in China as a solution to the U.S. debt problem.
The Oct. 16 segment led China's Foreign Ministry to demand an apology, which the network and Kimmel did at least three times. Even the White House weighed in, condemning the segment but defending freedom of speech, after more than 100,000 people signed an online petition asking for "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to be taken off the air.
Although ABC pulled the plug on any future "Kids' Table" segments on the show, the offending joke continues to be a problem for the company.
Cao Guoliang, who was born in China, filed a complaint in December in Superior Court in New Brunswick alleging negligence and infliction of emotional distress.
Cao's complaint says that he "was deeply shocked, offended, and outraged at the comment to kill all everyone in China since that is his home country and Jimmy Kimmel failed to suppress such a hateful and offensive remark."
The complaint says ABC "should have understood the distress the exchange about killing everyone in China would have on persons of Chinese descent and edited it out."
Kimmel "further victimized persons ... by saying that he would not have made such comments towards African Americans."
As a result of the segment, Cao says he "suffers substantial and enduring emotional distress including, but not limited to, nervousness, anxiety and loss of sense of self-worth. "
He is suing for unspecified damages, including for mental and emotional distress, medical and related expenses, punitive damages and legal fees.
A spokeswoman for ABC referred questions to a show publicist, who did not immediately return a request for comment Monday.
This is not the first time that a late-night show landed in court.
In 2012, Jay Leno and NBC faced a libel complaint after a skit on "The Tonight Show" used an image of a Sikh temple to represent presidential candidate Mitt Romney's summer vacation home.
Leno was hit with another lawsuit last year — by a woman who said the show wrongly accused her of bestiality after the host joked about a news report in which the former flight attendant was accused of smuggling rats in her underwear.
Also last year, Donald Trump sued the host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" for $5 million after Maher failed to make good on a joke that he would pay the sum if Trump could prove that he was not the son of an orangutan.
Cao is represented by Long Zhu Liu, a California attorney who is being allowed to work this case in New Jersey because of his "degree of knowledge of race relations involving the Chinese population," according to an affidavit.