ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Disney's ABC said "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "will be will be pre-empted indefinitely," a spokesperson confirmed to NBC News, after the late night host's Monday monologue about conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University when he was fatally shot last week. During his monologue Monday, Kimmel raised the possibility that the alleged assassin Tyler Robinson might have been a pro-Trump Republican. "The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said.

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So much for free speech ehhhhhhhh. Come on Jeff. Defend this.

#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-17 07:00 PM | Reply

The Trump administration is using the death of a hate monger to censor comedians.

Republicans don't want freedom of speech.

They want the freedom to be able to vomit up hate.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-17 07:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I didn't see this headline.

I like mine better.

Kimmel canceled

#3 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-17 07:41 PM | Reply

I read Kimmel's comment was saying Kirk was actually killed by "one of their own" and now trying to blame it on the left.

#4 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-17 07:43 PM | Reply

I said nobody wants to be connected to shit like this.

ABC is terrified of tolerating that kind of thing

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-17 07:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

-The Trump administration

ABC is scared of their advertisers and viewers.

IOW, you and me.

ABC is scared of you and me.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-17 07:54 PM | Reply

I read the FCC pressured Disney and ABC.

#7 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-17 07:55 PM | Reply

" ABC is scared of their advertisers and viewers."

Nonsense.

The suits at Disney realize a win in public would lead to A LOT of losses on paper ... which is all that matters. Paramount's payoff was a rounding error in its merger.

Meanwhile, the current POTUS is shaking down corporate America, and Republicans are fine with that.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-17 07:59 PM | Reply

Further proof: Trump isn't expecting to get $15 Billion from NBC. He's expecting them to spend a lot of money, against his unlimited budget.

Is that the Republican ideal? Or are we dealing with a cult?

#9 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-17 08:02 PM | Reply

I'm saying advertisers and viewers are all of it.

Just part of it.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-17 08:03 PM | Reply

Dan,

People who want comedy instead of politics are going to be happy

#11 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-17 08:04 PM | Reply

-I read the FCC pressured Disney and ABC

Link?

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-17 08:04 PM | Reply

Nevermind ... ... widely reported.

My bad ... ..

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-17 08:06 PM | Reply

"The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said."

Facts will not be tolerated by the Trump Propaganda Police!

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-17 08:56 PM | Reply

Kimmel was either misinformed or simply lying regarding the motive of th3 shooter. His edits to make Trump seem like he didn't give a rip about Kirk's death was kind of offensive and IMO not funny, but so what? Comedians are supposed to be edgy. I didn't see anything that, from my POV, warrants a suspension of his show.

#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-17 09:02 PM | Reply

Colbert will probably have Kimmel on his show and give him the Emmy he won the other day.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-17 09:07 PM | Reply

Well, if Colbert is allowed to have a show again.

#17 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-17 09:08 PM | Reply

"Obama condemns horrific' Kirk shooting, but defends the right to criticize the founder of Turning Point USA

The former president suggested Republicans have deepened the nation's polarization in response to the killing.

"We can also, at the same time, say that I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake," he continued.

"I can say that I disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power. I can say that I disagree that Martin Luther King was awful."

"When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents vermin, enemies who need to be targeted, that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now," Obama said.

"When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we've got a problem," he added."
excerpts

www.politico.com

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-17 09:15 PM | Reply

Bell,

My concern is that we're sliding from comedy into a kind of speech-policing that feels uncomfortably McCarthyesque.

I'm not saying I believe this to be true, but I do wonder who's next.

#19 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-17 09:17 PM | Reply

...but I do wonder who's next.

Jon Stewart.

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-17 09:21 PM | Reply

Bell,

That being said, I'm not going to miss him.