I avoided this thread for a reason after my question was answered but I'm just gonna take a step out on the ledge here and say....I typically find Kimmel funny? That said, I never heard him make fun of MJ. So I dunno how harsh he is about him - and I don't think I wanna know.
But now that I see the Blanket thing - I dunno, I'm not that offended? Unfortunately blanket and the rest of the kids are now celebrities. So him having an image of him isn't that odd. And him making a very literal joke "Blanket on a blanket" isn't malicious to me. Its an unclever pun really.
I dunno, i think the less attention we bring to this, the better since...I don't think many people even noticed/got it.
Hey, different strokes for different folks, lol! The way I see it is comedy (like any other art form) for the most part is a matter of taste. What I may enjoy or find funny may be offensive to others and that's alright. Of course there is a big difference between making light of something and being cruel and demeaning (ala Ms. Rivers, who wasn't such a mean and vindictive bitch in the earlier days of her career).
We have to remember that Mike's career and fanbase spans over 4 decades and that also means people of those decades came to the table with various life experiences and POVs. Speaking for myself (a fan since the J5 era), I grew up listening to comedy greats like Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley (which many of you will have to Google) as well as Carol Burnett, Soupy Sales (Detroit, REPRESENT), Paul Lynde, Lucille Ball (post-I Love Lucy) and Robin Williams, to name a few. The younger comics (like Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Katt Williams, etc.) I really haven't paid much attention to, because I'm not feeling them, but people younger than me DO.
To wrap things up, when it comes to Mike some of the post-J5 era fans need to grow a thicker skin and not have a knee jerk reaction to EVERY LITTLE THING a comedian, etc. may say or do concerning him, because in that line of work, everyone and everything has the potential to become a punchline. It's called a PUNCH line for a reason. . .it hits and sometimes it hits hard, but it's supposed to be the funny bone that's getting punched. I agree that if it is deliberately and viciously malicious, SPEAK OUT against it. For frat boy level jokes like "Blanket on a blanket", let that roll off your back and keep it moving. . .