{"id":152349,"date":"2025-09-18T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152349\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:21:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-by-abc-after-charlie-kirk-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152349\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Pulled \u201cIndefinitely\u201d By ABC After Charlie Kirk Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: There will be no more Jimmy Kimmel on TV for the foreseeable future after the late-night host offered his take on the reaction to the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Watch Kimmel\u2019s comments here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live! will be preempted indefinitely,\u201d an ABC spokesperson told Deadline today.<\/p>\n

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Following the FCC Chair weighing in earlier Wednesday, the stunning sudden dropping of Kimmel comes mere minutes after Nexstar axed his late night show<\/a> on the 32 ABC affiliates it owns out of a total of 200 stations throughout the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cNexstar\u2019s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight\u2019s show,\u201d said the company in a statement Wednesday. \u201cNexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: Nexstar\u2019s Decision To Drop Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s Show From Its ABC Stations Indefinitely Comes As It Seeks FCC Approval For Major Merger<\/a><\/p>\n

Known for his \u201cProve Me Wrong\u201d debates and MAGA POV, activist Kirk was shot dead at Utah Valley University on September 10 in a tragedy that has sent shock through the political and media worlds.<\/p>\n

Having previously mocked Donald Trump over POTUS\u2019 take on the NFL and TikTok, Kimmel offered his blunt assessment of the aftermath of Kirk\u2019s death in his opening monologue on his September 15 show : \u201cWe 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 doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d the host said.<\/p>\n

Watch it here, with the Charlie Kirk section and Kimmel on \u201cfour year-old\u201d Trump\u2019s reaction starting at the 2:00 minute point:<\/p>\n

RELATED: Trump Celebrity Supporters: Famous Folks In Favor Of The 47th President<\/a><\/p>\n

Reps for Kimmel did not respond to Deadline\u2019s request for comment on the shuttering of Live! Whether this is a suspension that sees Kimmel back on late-night eventually for ABC or, with possible legal action, if this is the end of the Hollywood Blvd filmed Live! remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

What is known is that Kimmel\u2019s September 15 remarks on Kirk\u2019s death were actually not the first time the ABC host spoke of the terrible shooting and its impact on the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence,\u201d Kimmel wrote on Instagram September 10,<\/a> just hours after the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n

No stranger to controversy in a divided America, the Emmy-winning Jimmy Kimmel Live! has held the late night fort on ABC since its January 26, 2003 debut.<\/p>\n

Ironically or not, considering today\u2019s news, the Matt Damon-obsessed Live! actually was born out of the network\u2019s cancellation of Bill Maher\u2019s Politically Incorrect in 2002. In the early days of the War on Terror, the now HBO host rebuked accusations that the 9\/11 terrorists were \u201ccowards,\u201d as the Al-Qaeda operatives were characterized by some in the Bush administration. The fast and harsh backlash saw advertisers flee PI in droves, and its demise was set.<\/p>\n

In 2025, with polarization and political violence on the rise in the country \u2013 \u2013 as the death of Kirk and the fatal June shooting of top Minnesota Democrat\u00a0Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark by the conservative leaning Vance Boelter horribly displays \u2014 the divisions in America took on a form not seen since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

As Trump, various conservative pundits, Attorney General Pam Bondi and others have lamented Kirk\u2019s death, the killing has also seen the likes of Vice President JD Vance, who hosted the conservative\u2019s podcast this week<\/a>, lashing out at progressive billionaire George Soros and the \u201cradical left,\u201d as Trump calls them. On The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday, the often hard punching Vance was joined by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. The aide selectively pointed the finger for such political violence at \u201cNGO Networks\u201d and swore to \u201cchannel all the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours before the announcements from Nexstar and ABC, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared on Benny Johnson\u2019s podcast and blasted Kimmel\u2019s remark, calling it \u00a0\u201csome of the sickest conduct possible.\u201d He also threatened some kind of action by the agency. \u201cThere are avenues here for the FCC, so there are some ways in which I need to be a little careful, because I could be called wholly to become a judge on some of these claims that come up,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: Donald Trump Lashes Out At ABC News\u2019 Jon Karl Over Pam Bondi\u2019s Threat To Go After Hate Speech: \u201cShe\u2019ll Probably Go After People Like You\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

After the ABC announcement, Carr later told Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity, \u201cI\u2019m very glad to see that America\u2019s broadcasters are standing up to serve the interests of their community. We don\u2019t just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already, as companies have been urged by the administration to purge those who attack the deceased Kirk. Paramount-owned Comedy Central on September 11 yanked a Kirk-themed South Park episode from just a few weeks ago off its reruns.<\/a> Before that MSNBC canned contributor Matthew Dowd over his \u201cinappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable\u201d comments, in the words of channel boss Rebecca Kutler, over Kirk\u2019s life and death in the hours following the shooting.<\/p>\n

This was after a pre-Skydance-owned Paramount pink slipped Stephen Colbert and his long running late night perch in July, with the show ending next year. Lambasted for apparently bending the knee to the White House with a $16 million lawsuit payout <\/a>and sidelining a poignant critic in Colbert, the company claimed it was a bottom line call, based on the declining revenue of linear TV. Still on until mid-2026, Colbert scored another Emmy this past weekend<\/a>. In a race he won when he was canned in July, Colbert also earned a very loud standing ovation from his peers and fellow nominees.<\/p>\n

Worth noting, that when Colbert\u2019s fate was unveiled earlier this summer, Trump reacted online with glee, <\/a>and bragged \u201cI hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!\u201d<\/p>\n

In the greater context, ABC, in December 2024, agreed to contribute $15 million to\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s presidential foundation and museum as part of a settlement reached in Trump\u2019s defamation case against the network.<\/p>\n

Ted Johnson contributed to this report<\/p>\n

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