ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel
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In the wake of Kimmel's indefinite suspension from ABC, late night hosts like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Seth Meyers took to their programs to show support for Kimmel and lament the latest attack on free speech.
ABC is stupid,” said one ABC source. “They should have edited Kimmel. They know Trump is after him. Their standards department should have flagged it. They should have known better.”
ABC pulled "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air Sept. 17 over comments made about Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. Here's how late-night hosts reacted.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr told Hannity that ABC affiliates were right to drop Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday, saying broadcasters must serve the public interest and not politics.
Jimmy Kimmel predicted his own demise the day after President Donal Trump won the 2024 election, assuming he was on the president’s “list of enemies’’ and should give up — before vowing reverently to keep his own “very important voice’’ on air.
Jimmy Fallon did open his first Tonight Show after the news broke with jokes about the suspension and kind words for Kimmel (with whom he collaborated on a podcast during the 2023 writers’ strike). What was striking about his monologue,
Sinclair plans to replace the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" time slot with a special in remembrance of Charlie Kirk at its ABC affiliates on Friday night.
The Post reviewed his all of Kimmel's monologues for the last 12 months so you don't have to — and the findings were monotonous.