Las Vegas' mayor offered up the city's citizens as a 'control group,' and Jimmy Kimmel went at her hard

Jimmy Kimmel is hard at work right now, promoting the re-launch of celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and broadcasting his late night show from his home following the shutdown of… uh, the entire world. Kimmel, like many of us, is doing the responsible thing: staying home so that healthcare professionals can try to slow down the spread of COVID-19. So it’s understandable that recent statements made by Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman have set him off. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Goodman offered up the good people of her city as an experimental “control group.” If you haven’t seen the original, forehead-slapping, jaw-dropping interview, you can watch it here.While Cooper most definitely did his part to take Mayor Goodman to task for what came across as a completely callous and shortsighted argument (the CNN host asked her if her plan to reopen casinos, hotels, convention centres and stadiums doesn’t sound like a “virus petri dish”), it was Kimmel who really let the zingers fly.[video_embed id='-1']RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel’s hilarious attempts at a family photo are super relatable[/video_embed]"Mayor Goodman has a lot of thoughts, and the one thing those thoughts have in common is that none of them make any sense," quipped Kimmel. This, after taking in the 20-minute-plus spectacle, during which even Cooper lost his cool, holding his face in his hands and muttering, ‘Okay, that makes no sense’ when Goodman claimed that her support for reopening Vegas wasn’t about ‘the disease’ it was about ‘living.’ Kimmel, who spent a large part of his youth in Las Vegas, actually called for Goodman to resign yesterday afternoon upon first seeing the interview.

The @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman should resign before lunch arrives today. She is an embarrassment to my hometown.

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 22, 2020

As Kimmel points out, this is a woman who got more than 80% of the vote in Las Vegas’ last municipal election. We’ll see how she does in the next one. The high — scratch that — low point of the interview came when Goodman casually announced that she’d offered up her city as a “control group” to receive a placebo vaccine while the real one was tested somewhere else. Cooper’s jaw nearly hit the floor. Luckily for Las Vegans, an unnamed, heroic city statistician told Goodman she wasn’t allowed to do that.Watch Kimmel’s takedown, featuring the most out-there moments from the CNN interview, below. [video_embed id='1944725']Before you go: Here’s how to cut your own bangs at home[/video_embed]