Jimmy Kimmel was scheduled to make his comeback to ABC’s late-night television lineup on Tuesday following a nearly week-long suspension for his “insensitive” on-air comments regarding the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which corporate parent Walt Disney characterized.
The comedian’s remarks from last week, which offended some viewers, forced two major television station groups to boycott the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show, and threatened federal regulatory action, were supposed to be addressed on his first night back.
When Kimmel, whose program has regularly made fun of President Donald Trump, claimed that Trump’s followers were frantic to describe Kirk’s alleged killer “as anything other than one of them” and to “score political points” from his killing, conservatives were incensed.
Kimmel’s remarks were made during the first monologue of her show on September 15, five days after Kirk, a prominent Trump supporter, writer, and radio broadcaster, was shot and killed while giving a speech on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem.
On a podcast hosted by conservative commentator Benny Johnson on September 17, Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, which oversees broadcasters, claimed that Kimmel’s comments were part of an attempt to mislead the American public about the political views of the man behind Kirk’s death and that he was considering “remedies.
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