{"id":842875,"date":"2026-09-10T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842875\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:48:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-says-james-talarico-interview-wont-air-after-fcc-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842875\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Says James Talarico Interview Won’t Air After FCC Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico<\/a> will not air on TV after President Donald Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>!, ABC, their affiliates, and local stations. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring his Wednesday monologue, Kimmel said that while Talarico would stop by the show for an interview on Thursday, viewers at home won\u2019t be able to watch it on broadcast television. Instead, the interview with the Democratic nominee has been relegated to YouTube.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTomorrow night, I\u2019ll be interviewing James Talarico \u2014 tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances,\u201d Kimmel began. \u201cYou know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I\u2019ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, et cetera, et cetera. I\u2019ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel highlighted that he interviewed Trump when he was running for president in 2015. \u201cAt that time, when he was the one sitting next to me, he seemed to have no problem with the idea of talk show hosts interviewing candidates,\u201d said the host, adding that Trump was \u201cvery eager\u201d to return before he became the nominee in 2016. Kimmel added, \u201cBut for some reason, and I can\u2019t seem to figure out what that reason is, something has changed now that he is president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow that Trump is president, Kimmel said that \u201chis FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations \u2014 based on simple, traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings it would seem they don\u2019t like.\u201d He said that \u201cout of consideration for our local stations, especially our ABC affiliates in Texas who would have to deal with this nonsense,\u201d his interview with Talarico will not air on television and instead, will be posted to YouTube.<\/p>\n

\n\tTalarico is facing a close race in Texas against state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Democrats have not won a national seat in Texas in over 30 years.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cSo if you want to learn about a candidate for the Senate tomorrow, you will have to go to the Jimmy Kimmel Live! YouTube channel where you will see it in its entirety,\u201d continued Kimmel. \u201cAnd thank goodness we have that, because in the America we live in right now, that is the best that we can do until November, of course. Make sure you\u2019re registered to vote, by the way, because that\u2019s the most important thing you can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tKimmel\u2019s announcement arrives nearly six months after former Late Show\u00a0host\u00a0Stephen Colbert<\/a> claimed lawyers for CBS barred the Late Show<\/a>\u00a0from airing an interview with Talarico, citing threats from the FCC. \u201cHe was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers \u2014 who called us directly \u2014- that we could not have him on the broadcast,\u201d Colbert said at the time. CBS denied they prohibited the Late Show from broadcasting the interview.<\/p>\n

\n\tTalarico, a former school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian serving his fourth term in the Texas House of Representatives, made waves in national politics through a combination of progressive values grounded in religious doctrine. Talarico has packaged his left-leaning politics as the common sense approach to combating wealth inequality while holding the disconnected Washington, D.C., elite to account \u2014 as a result, he has courted the votes of Texas independents, moderates, and even disaffected Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on TV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,69123,17114,11575],"class_list":["post-842875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-james-talarico","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}