BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Popular late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel took a shot, or two, at a well-known Birmingham weatherman Thursday night.

Kimmel featured a segment on Fox 6 weather forecaster Mickey Ferguson, and titled it "TV Weatherman's Creepy Moment." Kimmel went on to say, "Mickey Ferguson has an awkward exchange with young girls in Tuscaloosa."

Kimmel prepped his viewing audience by explaining that Ferguson was doing his own segment, called "Weather Wednesday," outside a pharmacy in Tuscaloosa.

Ferguson is the lead forecaster for Good Day Alabama and Fox6 News at Noon.

"Follow along with this," Kimmel said with a chuckle, "because you're about to see a man dig himself into hole, after hole, after hole."

Ferguson, known for his somewhat goofy persona, asked two young girls to do a cheer for him. They responded with a chant called, "I've got spirit in my britches."

After the cheer, Ferguson quipped, "I was wondering what was in your britches all this time. It was spirit. OK, that's what I'll tell my wife the next time she complains."

After a split second of silence, Ferguson went on to say, "After the Mexican."

Laughing, Kimmel called Ferguson a "Tuscalooscannon."

"He managed to be creepy, mildly racist and to humiliate his wife," Kimmel said, "all in one weather report."

Efforts to reach Ferguson this morning for comment were unsuccessful.