{"id":50345,"date":"2025-10-02T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/50345\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:29:08","slug":"jimmy-fallon-will-be-avoiding-politics-after-kimmel-and-colbert-late-night-show-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/50345\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon will be avoiding politics after Kimmel and Colbert late night show suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Fallon<\/a> has said he will be avoiding politics on his talk show, following the temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show after he commented on the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

Kimmel\u2019s show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which has run since 2003, was taken off the air on September 17.<\/p>\n

Kirk was\u00a0shot in the neck and killed<\/a>\u00a0at Utah Valley University\u2019s campus on September 10, and, following the incident, Kimmel suggested that the signs pointed to Kirk\u2019s shooter being a Trump supporter.<\/p>\n

The comments drew criticism from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), with the chair of the organisation, Brendan Carr, describing it as \u201cthe sickest conduct possible\u201d \u2013 according to the BBC.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, Jimmy Fallon has spoken about the involvement of politics or political discussion on his own show. Speaking to CNBC<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSquawk on the Street,\u201d he said his show \u2013\u00a0The Tonight Show\u00a0\u2013 has \u201cnever really been political\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit both sides equally, and we try to make everybody laugh, and that\u2019s really the way our show works,\u201d Fallon said. \u201cOur monologues are kind of the same that we\u2019ve been doing since Johnny Carson was hosting \u2018The Tonight Show.\u2019 So really, I just keep my head down and make sure the jokes are funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued:\u00a0\u201cI have great writers. And we\u2019re just trying to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Returning to his show on Tuesday (September 23),\u00a0Kimmel addressed his comments regarding the shooting of Charlie Kirk, saying he never intended to \u201cmake light\u201d of the murder<\/a>, but stopping short of apologising for them. He also directed criticism at\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/a>, whom he claimed \u201cwants to see me and hundreds of people who work here fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>, the returning episode drew 6.2million viewers, nearly four times the usual audience, as measured by ratings analysts Nielsen. This contradicts Trump\u2019s assertion that the show is \u201cfailing\u201d in the ratings, and the figure is notable given 20 per cent of ABC\u2019s network affiliates refused to show the episode.<\/a><\/p>\n

In other talk show-related news, in August, Trump<\/a> hit out at both Kimmel and Fallon<\/a>, predicting that they would be \u201cnext\u201d<\/a> after it was announced that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u00a0would be ending in May 2026.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Stephen Colbert<\/a>, a vocal critic of Trump,\u00a0announced that his long-running show would be ending, and the\u00a0Late Show\u00a0franchise itself would retire.<\/a>\u00a0The host took over the show in 2015 from David Letterman, who had fronted it since its inception in 1993.<\/p>\n

It is rumoured that the cancellation was related to the merger between parent company Paramount and Skydance, which needed to be ratified by the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n

While CBS stated the move was made for \u201cpurely financial reasons\u201d, many have speculated that it was done to ease the merger through.<\/p>\n

In other Jimmy Fallon-related news, earlier this year, the presenter revealed<\/a> that he ruined a date with\u00a0Nicole Kidman<\/a>\u00a0by playing\u00a0Mario Kart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon has said he will be avoiding politics on his talk show, following the temporary suspension of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-50345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}