{"id":144390,"date":"2025-09-18T00:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:35:06","slug":"jimmy-kimmels-show-pulled-over-comments-about-charlie-kirk-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144390\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel’s show pulled over comments about Charlie Kirk | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has had his programme pulled over “offensive and insensitive” comments about Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

Kimmel used his show on Monday night to accuse Donald Trump and his allies of “doing their best to fan the flames” following the conservative influencer’s assassination last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disney-owned ABC said it would be taken off-air indefinitely – and with immediate effect – after network operator Nexstar said it would stop broadcasting the programme.<\/p>\n

Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, said it “strongly objects” to Kimmel’s comments.<\/p>\n

“Mr Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,” he said, with the show to go off-air to “let cooler heads prevail”.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump welcomed the news on Truth Social, writing “congratulations to ABC” and “Kimmel has ZERO talent”.<\/p>\n

What happened?<\/p>\n

Kimmel called out what he believes is hypocrisy in how Republicans have responded to Mr Kirk’s death.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump and Vice President JD Vance are among those to cite “left-wing extremism” as a factor in the killing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suspected gunman Tyler Robinson appeared in court for the first time on Tuesday night<\/a>. Prosecutors said he had shared negative views about Kirk, an influential media figure in the MAGA movement.<\/p>\n

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The killing of Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n

On the Monday edition of his show, Kimmel drew attention to Capitol rioters<\/a> who “wanted to hang” Mr Trump’s first term vice president, Mike Pence, for certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.<\/p>\n

“Was that the liberal left? Or the toothless army who stormed the Capitol on January 6,” said Kimmel.<\/p>\n

His remarks saw the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Trump backer Brendan Carr, threaten to “take action” against Disney and ABC.<\/p>\n

A representative for Kimmel did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the cancellation.<\/p>\n

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Kimmel follows in Colbert’s footsteps<\/p>\n

The abrupt removal of Jimmy Kimmel Live comes after fellow late night host Stephen Colbert saw his programme cancelled, which fans claimed was a result of his criticism of Mr Trump.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump presents himself as a staunch advocate of free speech, but regularly rails against media organisations which criticise him. This week he launched a lawsuit against The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CBS announced in July it would end The Late Show when its current series ends next May.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the network said the move was “not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”<\/p>\n

Mr Trump praised the move, saying “his talent was even worse than his ratings”.<\/p>\n

Colbert’s Late Show won an Emmy for outstanding talk series for the first time at the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has had his programme pulled over “offensive and insensitive” comments about Charlie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-144390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}