Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return TOMORROW after host was canned over Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show will return to screens on Tuesday night, a week after his suspension for remarks about Charlie Kirk’s murder.
The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, said they’ll ‘return the show on Tuesday’ in a statement.
Kimmel had been banned from public airwaves since Wednesday after suggesting MAGA supporters were trying hard to distance themselves from Kirk’s alleged killer Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from southern Utah.
A Disney spokesperson said: ‘Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.
‘It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.
‘We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.’
No further details were provided.
Kimmel’s controversial comments came on his show this past Monday.
The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, said they’ll ‘return the show on Tuesday’ in a statement
Pictured, Disney’s statement Monday announcing Kimmel’s return
‘We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it,’ he said.
‘In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving on Friday. The White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this.’
Kimmel proceeded to play clip of Trump responding to a question about how he was coping with Kirk’s death where the president chose to talk up up an ongoing White House construction project.
‘Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend,’ Kimmel joked, before being reprimanded for his comments two days later – by FCC boss Brendan Carr.
On Wednesday, Carr told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson he was considering an investigation into Kimmel and ABC over the remarks, which he called ‘some of sickest conduct possible,’ during a conversation streamed on X.
He added, ‘Frankly, I think it’s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, “Listen, we are going to… we’re not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out.”‘
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