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ABC late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel is trying to de-escalate a feud with Fox News host Sean Hannity that began over a joke about first lady Melania Trump’s accent.

Kimmel said in a Twitter post Sunday that his exchanges with Hannity were fun, but he didn’t want to add to the “vitriol” of their spat, which included Hannity calling Kimmel a “sick, twisted, creepy, perverted weirdo” during his Fox show Friday. Kimmel said such animosity is “harmful to our country,” and he wanted to apologize “to those who took offense.”

He also said President Donald Trump’s wife had enough to worry about “without being used as a prop to increase TV ratings.”

On ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on April 2, Kimmel prodded the first lady’s reading of a children’s book at the White House Easter egg hunt. He

Tina Fey: Online bullying makes her ‘Mean Girls’ relevant

Tina Fey had no idea “Mean Girls” would be timelier today than it was 14 years ago. And that makes her a little uneasy.

“It’s just sort of unfortunate that it does,” the Emmy-winning actress and writer said Sunday at the opening night party for her Broadway adaptation of her 2004 film “Mean Girls.”

“When the movie was written, it was about relational aggression among girls. And now, everyone does that. The government does it. People are unkind. They don’t respect each other’s basic human dignity, and so social media is such a disease, right?” Fey said. “So it feels like it’s an even more timely reminder now that we all need to just kind of take a breath before we hurt each other.”