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By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, US CHIEF REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 10:24 EDT, 9 October 2025 | Updated: 10:24 EDT, 9 October 2025 <\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> is still railing against his suspension from ABC but admitted on Wednesday that he has an ‘aggressive and unpleasant’ side.<\/p>\n

The liberal host sparked fury from conservatives<\/a> and was temporarily suspended\u00a0for comments he made after the assassination of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘I didn’t think there was a big problem,’ Kimmel said over a week after his return to TV during a conversation at the Bloomberg Screentime event in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

‘I just saw it as distortion on the part of some of the right-wing media networks, and I aimed to correct it.’<\/p>\n

Kimmel shared that he spent the weekend following his suspension speaking with Disney Entertainment Co-Chair Dana Walden about how to address the situation.<\/p>\n

‘It helped me think everything through, and it helped me just kind of understand where everyone was coming from,’ Kimmel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I can sometimes be reactionary. I can sometimes be aggressive, and I can sometimes be unpleasant. And I think that it helped me really having those days to think about it.’<\/p>\n

\"Comedian <\/p>\n

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel was briefly taken off the airwaves last month over remarks about the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy <\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late night following his suspension saw his ratings triple and reach his largest audience in over a decade. However the ratings bonanza was short-lived<\/p>\n

But Kimmel also said on Wednesday said he hopes the outrage over his late-night show’s suspension following pressure from the Trump administration had drawn a ‘bold red line’ for free speech.<\/p>\n

‘I hope that we drew a really, really bold red line as Americans about what we will and will not accept,’ said Kimmel. ‘I really hope that that’s what comes out of all this.’<\/p>\n

Disney-owned ABC brought back Kimmel’s show after a week-long hiatus, and Kimmel experienced a short-lived ratings bonanza when he returned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kimmel’s removal from the airwaves came shortly after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr appeared to threaten the licenses of stations broadcasting the show unless they did so.<\/p>\n

Kimmel said his comments about Kirk’s alleged killer had been ‘intentionally and, I think, maliciously mischaracterized’ by Republicans.<\/p>\n

But he said he would ‘love to have Trump on the show’ in future.<\/p>\n

‘I wouldn’t necessarily be interested in Brendan Carr on the show,’ he deadpanned.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the boycotts by companies owning dozens of ABC affiliate stations, Kimmel on Wednesday admitted he initially thought his show was permanently finished.<\/p>\n

‘The idea that I would not have whatever it was, 40 affiliates… I was like, “Well, that’s it,”‘ he told the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\"People <\/p>\n

People walk outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre where the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show is performed<\/p>\n

‘I said to my wife, “that’s it. It’s over,” he said.<\/p>\n

As many as 6.5million people tuned to Kimmel the night of his return last month, which was a three times the show’s usual audience and the biggest in over a decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But two days later, Kimmel averaged 2.3million – a shocking 64 percent drop since the show’s return episode, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n

Notably, Kimmel lost 73 percent of the viewers in the coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54, getting just 465,000.<\/p>\n

Typically, Kimmel gets about 1.8 million viewers each night on television. The numbers released by ABC do not include viewership from streaming services.<\/p>\n

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