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Jimmy Kimmel’s right to free speech is not up for debate<\/p>\n
After Jimmy Kimmel was abrupted pulled from late night TV, many are questioning the government’s attempts to control it.<\/p>\n
The Thursday, Nov. 6, episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>” was postponed on short notice, leaving viewers with a rerun instead.<\/p>\n The episode featuring “Malice” actor David Duchovny<\/a> and “Stranger Things<\/a>” star Joe Keery<\/a> was never filmed due to a personal matter involving Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, according to someone familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n Viewers expecting a new episode rewatched a rerun of the Oct. 28 episode instead. Fans with tickets to the Nov. 6 taping at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles were notified about the postponement and told they would be invited to a future taping, Deadline<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Pop singer Madison Beer<\/a>, who was scheduled to be the musical guest for the episode, acknowledged the episode’s postponement on her Instagram story.<\/p>\n “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jimmy Kimmel Live needed to reschedule my performance that was originally set to air tonight to a later date. I\u2019ll share more details on timing when I can, I can\u2019t wait for you all to see it,” Beer wrote.<\/p>\n It’s unclear whether the guests, Duchovny, Keery and Beer, will return to complete the originally scheduled taping.<\/p>\n Duchovny and Keery’s representatives did not respond to a USA TODAY request for comment.<\/p>\n Postponement comes after the series was suspended<\/p>\n The Thursday postponement marked the first time “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was halted since ABC suspended the talk show in September<\/a> following outrage over remarks he made about the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n The six-day suspension started on Sept. 17 and followed criticism from Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr regarding Kimmel’s\u00a0Sept. 15 monologue<\/a>. Soon after, both\u00a0Nexstar Media Group<\/a> and Sinclair Broadcasting Group<\/a> announced they would not air the show across their ABC affiliate stations.<\/p>\n The show returned to ABC on Sept 23, when the comedian called critics’ response to his comments “intentionally, and I think maliciously, mischaracterized.” Kimmel emphasized that it was “never my intention to make light” of Kirk’s death.<\/p>\n Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk<\/a>,\u00a0recently revealed that she spoke with the\u00a0Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0Kimmel’s controversial comments<\/a>\u00a0about her late husband.<\/p>\n “They asked, ‘Do you want Jimmy to give you an apology? Do you want to be on a show? How can we make it right?'” Kirk said. “Through our team, I responded. I said, ‘Tell them thank you. We received their note. This is not our issue. This is not our mess,'” she told Jesse Waters in a Fox News interview<\/a>\u00a0that aired Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel’s right to free speech is not up for debate After Jimmy Kimmel was abrupted pulled from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4287,6225,6491,17710,60150,61370,96,104994,69881,195,103,55818,10203,12838,77853,104995,6648,34159,3670,8929,17712,35418,50,27313,5143,35422,28771,4240,28770,47,391,37963,28773,5148,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-252140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-charlie","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-entertainment","tag-erika","tag-erika-kirk","tag-guides","tag-instagram","tag-jimmy","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-kimmel","tag-kirk","tag-life","tag-life-now","tag-live","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-now","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-programs","tag-reference","tag-shows","tag-top-stories","tag-tv","tag-tv-guides-u0026-reference","tag-tv-shows-u0026-programs","tag-u0026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252140","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=252140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}