Jimmy Kimmel ridicules Rudy Giuliani over Arizona indictment: ‘Happy birthday dummy!’

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel roasted former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani for getting unceremoniously served with an Arizona indictment just moments after his big 80th birthday bash in Florida.

Mr Kimmel recounted the story in the opening monologue of Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! by describing how “MAGA OG Rudy Giuliani” had celebrated the milestone birthday in Palm Beach with a party at which “guests serenaded him with what might be the most off-key version of ‘Happy Birthday’ ever recorded”.

A clip of the song, which was indeed excruciating, was then played, before the host continued: “So this is where it gets funny.

“Rudy, as you may know, has been charged with making false claims of voter fraud in Arizona after the election in 2020, and I guess he was feeling a little bit feisty because he posted [on X], ‘If Arizona authorities can’t find me by tomorrow morning, they must dismiss the indictment’.

“So then two agents, they look at the video, they figure out where the party is, they show up and they serve him the papers.

“Happy birthday dummy!”

Mr Kimmel concluded the segment by observing: “This has to be the second-most embarrassing thing that ever happened to Rudy Giuliani.

“The first, of course, being the time he accidentally held a press conference outside a dildo store.”

That was a reference to the notorious media event staged by Mr Giuliani – then a personal attorney to Donald Trump attempting to prove the outgoing president’s spurious election fraud narrative – in the parking lot of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping garden center in industrial Philadelphia on 7 November 2020, a venue presumably booked in error after mistaking it for the Four Seasons luxury hotel.

To make matters worse, standing close