Host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Wire Ben Shapiro. (Screenshot)

On his daily Facebook live podcast “The Ben Shapiro Show” Monday, host Ben Shapiro mocked Jimmy Kimmel for suggesting that talk show hosts are liberal “because it requires a level of intelligence,” saying Kimmel’s comment is “so smug, and it’s so smarmy.”

“And there are a bunch of people saying, ‘Well, isn’t he right? Aren’t all the talk show hosts on the left?’ Well, no,” stated Ben Shapiro. “The most successfully talk show host of the last 35 years was Jay Leno, and Jay Leno is center-right. Jay Leno’s a libertarian. So, no. This is stupidity all the way up. And it’s so smug, and it’s so smarmy. And then you wonder why the culture is being torn apart.”

Ben Shapiro’s comments came after ABC’s late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, on “Pod Save America,” suggested that late-night talk show hosts are liberal “because it requires a level of intelligence.”

Below is a transcript of Shapiro’s remarks from his show on Monday:

“Meanwhile, speaking of people who are eating away the root of the social fabric, late-night, over the weekend, really outdid itself. “So, Jimmy Kimmel has been the pacesetter. He’s the new pope of the left, according to Guy Benson, a good label, I think. And Jimmy Kimmel, apparently, appeared at a— he apparently appeared at some event for Pod Save America. “So, last week, remember, I criticized Steven Colbert for having on Pod Save America after the State of the Union, because Steven Colbert would never have me on after the State of the Union by a Democrat or a Republican, and we have about the same size audience. “Jimmy Kimmel, obviously, had to outdo his compatriot in leftist terms because he is the new pope. And so, he actually said at this event, ‘It just so happens that almost every talk show host is a liberal, and that’s because it requires a level of intelligence.’