TORONTO

Even Mayor Rob Ford can laugh at his run-in with a TV camera — now.

Ford getting whacked in the face by a CityNews camera and the expletive-laced reaction that followed made for some late-night laughs on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday.

The mayor said Wednesday he hadn’t seen the clip but managed to crack his own one-liner about Monday’s gaffe.

“I can laugh at it now but it wasn’t funny at the time, I’ll tell you,” Ford said. “I knew I would take my lumps but not literally.”

Ford dropped the F-bomb at City Hallafter getting bumped in the face by a TV camera as he rushed out of an executive committee meeting during the lunch break.

“Ah, f--- man. Holy Christ,” Ford said at the time. “Holy. Guys, have some respect. You just hit me in the face with a camera.”

Listen to audio of the incident.

Kimmel worked Ford’s extreme close-up with the camera into the opening of his late-night show. The U.S. comedian introduced Ford as a “man of significant carriage” and called the bop in the face an “unfortunate incident.”

“Unfortunate for the mayor a cameraman from CityTV News went in for a tighter close-up than usual,” Kimmel said, before rolling a clip from CBC News of Ford hitting the camera.

After running the clip, Kimmel — who was laughing along with his audience — chimes in “it’s all right, he has free health care — he’ll be fine.”

The ABC host then plays the clip in slow motion and points out a City Hall security guard standing behind Ford who appears to have a bemused look on his face.

“Look at the guy behind him smiling,” Kimmel said. “I have a feeling that gentleman is soon to be unemployed.”

Kimmel isn’t the only one outside Canada to hear about Ford’s run-in with the media.

The U.K.’s Daily Mail ran a story about the incident on its website Tuesday.

“Portly Toronto Mayor Rob Ford bruised more than just his ego when he managed to walk face first into a TV news camera on Monday,” the Daily Mail story began.

The story ended by recounting some of Ford’s other controversies including the time a woman accused him of giving her and her young daughter the finger after they chided him for driving and talking on his cellphone, the time he was caught reading while driving along the Gardiner Expressway, the time the mayor had a heated exchange with a TTC streetcar driver and the time he confronted a Toronto Star reporter behind his property.

And the hits keep on coming for Ford this week.

The website BuzzFeed listed Ford as one of “The 15 Most Ridiculous World Leaders Of All Time” — the site ranked the mayor as number 14 on the list.

Along with linking to video of Ford walking into the TV camera, BuzzFeed also included clips of him dancing and falling down while trying to throw a football during last year’s Grey Cup festivities.