{"id":249053,"date":"2026-08-14T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/249053\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:25:19","slug":"anthony-anderson-isnt-sure-who-to-believe-about-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/249053\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Anderson Isn&#8217;t Sure Who to Believe About Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unclear who controls the Strait of Hormuz right now, as both the US and Iran are claiming it, and Anthony Anderson has no idea who to believe.<\/p>\n<p>During his final monologue as \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d guest host on Thursday night, Anderson first congratulated the Powerball winner, and offered them some advice: block the \u201cgreedy motherf\u2013kers\u201d that are their family. But, \u201cspeaking of greedy motherf\u2013kers,\u201d Anderson pivoted to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday he went on Truth Social and said the U.S. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he explained. \u201cWell, it turns out that may not be true because today Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is actually under their control, and \u2018The baseless claims made by the United States \u2026 are nothing more than lies and falsehoods.\u2019 Now, at this point, I don\u2019t know who to believe: the authoritarian psychopaths or the Iranians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786721118_283_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From there, Anderson went on to make fun of the fact that streets in Washington D.C. were shut down on Wednesday, due to a suspicious device that warranted a call from the bomb squad. In the end, it turned out that the device was actually a sex toy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it was a weapon of mas\u2026turbation,\u201d Anderson joked.<\/p>\n<p>The guest host then used his experience on \u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d to \u201cenhance\u201d the image of the device, only to \u201creveal\u201d it had a label saying it belonged to Jimmy Kimmel. <\/p>\n<p>You can watch Anthony Anderson\u2019s full final monologue in the video above. Kimmel is set to return to the show next week.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/deals-ma\/how-bob-iger-bought-the-lakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/081326-Lakers-Iger-v3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"The Lakers star player Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and new co-owner Bob Iger (Getty Images\/Christopher Smith for TheWrap)\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s unclear who controls the Strait of Hormuz right now, as both the US and Iran are claiming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[69119,102,69120,101],"class_list":["post-249053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-anthony-anderson","tag-hormuz","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117094562386518779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}