At least he has good taste in newspapers.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Kimmel, who was suspended from his late-night show in September<\/a> over his inflammatory comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s killer, is featured in next month\u2019s Vanity Fair holding the very edition of The New York Post that trumpeted his on-air return.<\/p>\n The late-night host was photographed holding the Sept. 23 newspaper featuring his grinning face \u2014 and the headline, \u201cWhat a joke!\u201d \u2014 while sitting atop Los Angeles\u2019 El Capitan Theatre where his show is filmed.<\/p>\n Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is featured in next month\u2019s Vanity Fair holding the very edition of The New York Post that trumpeted his on-air return. Norman Jean Roy \/ Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n The Post\u2019s front-page story exclusively reported <\/a>that Kimmel would be back on ABC, though the country\u2019s largest owner of its local affiliate stations wouldn\u2019t air his show after he refused to apologize for his false suggestion that Kirk\u2019s assassin was a pro-Trump Republican.<\/p>\n Sources told The Post that Kimmel negotiated his return to the airwaves directly with Disney CEO Bob Iger and his No. 2, Disney Entertainment Co-Chair Dana Walden, and that he was set to clarity his comments in his monologue but would not issue a mea culpa, as both he and his bosses \u201cdidn\u2019t think he did anything wrong.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Kimmel prominently features in a Vanity Fair article about Hollywood \u201cat a crossroads.\u201d<\/a> The issue is set to hit newsstands Dec. 2.<\/p>\n The article, which is already available online, consists of a series of vignettes about Hollywood\u2019s movers and shakers \u2014 including Paramount Skydance<\/a> boss David Ellison, celebrity stylist Law Roach and Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel.<\/p>\n The Sept. 23 front page of The Post featuring his grinning face.<\/p>\n In the piece, Kimmel revisits what Vanity Fair calls a \u201cgood news day\u201d \u2014 namely, the day Disney-owned ABC put him back on the air after a brief hiatus.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis September, in the face of censorship, Kimmel unwittingly became a beacon that united everyone from anti-fascists to Ted Cruz,\u201d Vanity Fair wrote. \u201cSoon there were calls to boycott Disney and protest an administration that would dare take away an American\u2019s right to laugh \u2014 and to free speech. Perhaps as more rights come under attack, Americans will remember this moment of collective power.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel was briefly suspended over his inflammatory comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s killer. via REUTERS<\/p>\n The longtime TV host was suspended from \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d for six days over his tasteless commentary about Kirk\u2019s <\/a>killer.<\/p>\n Iger and Walden benched the late night star as they faced scrutiny from Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr, President Trump and major affiliate stations Nexstar and Sinclair.<\/p>\n President Trump, next to Erika Kirk, posthumously awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk in October. Getty Images<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Kimmel\u2019s A-list friends like actor Ben Stiller, comedians Wanda Sykes and Marc Maron, rivals Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert <\/a>\u2014 and even former President Obama \u2014 backed Kimmel publicly.<\/p>\n