{"id":359065,"date":"2026-09-28T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359065\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:56:11","slug":"mamdani-set-to-join-jimmy-kimmel-live-for-nyc-broadcast-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359065\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani set to join \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 for NYC-broadcast on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be sitting in the guest seat for Monday\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/25\/us-news\/mamdani-to-join-nyc-broadcast-of-jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d as the West Coast-produced <\/a>show heads to the Big Apple for a week-long stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/02\/us-news\/mamdanis-200-strong-influencer-army-revealed-blurring-lines-between-campaign-and-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media-focused mayor\u2019s<\/a> interview will air as part of the ABC late night talk show\u2019s weeklong stint filming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music\u2019s Howard Gilman Opera House.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s interview with lefty late night host Jimmy Kimmel will air during tonight\u2019s broadcast as part of the hosts weeklong broadcast from the Big Apple.  Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Other guests lined up for the five-day stretch of shows at BAM include Paul McCartney, Billy Crystal, Pete Davidson, Bruce Springsteen, Howard Stern and Mahershala Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The show is usually recorded in California.<\/p>\n<p>Host Kimmel, a well-known critic of President Trump, returned to the air for his 4,000th episode earlier this month after a summer hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>The host drew headlines when his show was pulled off the airwaves in 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/18\/entertainment\/jimmy-kimmels-full-controversial-comments-on-charlie-kirk-that-led-to-abc-pulling-jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after Kimmel doubled down on controversial comments<\/a> about conservative commentator Charlie Kirk\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post cover from when Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show was pulled off the air following his controversial comments<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel mocked FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and cast himself as a martyr for free speech in his first monologue <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/24\/media\/jimmy-kimmels-full-monologue-in-return-from-charlie-kirk-suspension\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but stopped short of apologizing<\/a> for linking Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged killer to the MAGA movement.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/10\/media\/jimmy-kimmel-claims-abc-scrapped-james-talarico-interview-due-to-fcc-pressure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently claimed<\/a> that ABC opted not to air a recent interview with Democrat Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico due to threats from Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel stopped short of apologizing for linking Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged killer to the MAGA Movement. Disney via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d airs at 11:35 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be sitting in the guest seat for Monday\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d as the West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5520,5521,57,9,24,55,54,56,58,82],"class_list":["post-359065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}