Jimmy Kimmel responds to George Santos suing him over Cameo videos

Jimmy Kimmel has spoken out afterGeorge Santos filed a lawsuit accusing him of “deceiving” the scandal-plagued former lawmaker when he paid him to make Cameo videos.

On his late-night show on Tuesday night, the host poked fun at Mr Santos’ lawsuit which claims he believed video requests about a dog named Adolf and a man eating six pounds of loose ground beef were “real messages and that he was duped”.

“He’s being represented by the prestigious law firm of Pot, Kettle, and Black,” Mr Kimmel quipped of the man who was ousted from Congress in shame after a series of lies and alleged fraud came to light.

The former New York lawmaker sued Mr Kimmel — as well as ABC and Disney — for copyright infringement, fraudulent inducement, breach of contract and unjust enrichment in federal court on Saturday.

It came after Mr Kimmel revealed he had sent Mr Santos 14 “ridiculous” requests on Cameo, the site where celebrities offer short greetings for a fee, to see if the former congressman would fall for them.

It turned out that Mr Santos did just that.

The disgraced former congressman indeed accepted Mr Kimmel’s requests for several Cameo videos, which the late-night host then broadcast on Jimmy Kimmel Live in December in a mocking segment titled: “Will Santos Say It?”

But now Mr Santos has alleged Mr Kimmel “falsely represented himself” in the requests in order to induce him to create personalised videos “capitalizing on and ridiculing” his “gregarious personality,” the lawsuit alleges.

Mr Santos also accused Mr Kimmel of “exploiting the Cameo Videos on national television”.

Cameo offers two types of licenses — personal and business – and the suit claims that “neither of these licenses permits the Users to broadcast the videos on