{"id":150838,"date":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150838\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","slug":"abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-show-over-remarks-about-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150838\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live show over remarks about Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American network ABC said it would indefinitely stop airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! after remarks the late-night host made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mvme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination<\/a> came under harsh criticism from the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Nexstar Media Group said it would stop airing the show on its 32 ABC affiliates, citing comments that Kimmel made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Kimmel\u2019s comments about the death of Mr Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,\u201d Nexstar broadcasting division president Andrew Alford, said.<\/p>\n<p>During his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said: \u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn between the finger pointing, there was, uh, grieving \u2013 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,\u201d Kimmel said, before cutting to a clip in which US President Donald Trump responded to reporters asking about how he was doing by pointing to construction at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel\u2019s comments inflamed many conservative commentators and brought a rebuke from members of the Trump administration<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, FCC chair Brendan Carr had urged local broadcasters to stop airing the show on the Walt Disney-owned ABC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jimmy Kimmel.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d1bb22090a89d35c6fe5672abd3b3ffb13f63b07.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel.Credit: Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported that Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that Kimmel\u2019s remarks constituted \u201cthe sickest conduct possible\u201d and suggested the FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licences to force Disney to punish the late-night host, who has been a vocal critic of Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American network ABC said it would indefinitely stop airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! after remarks the late-night host made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-150838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}