'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' suspended indefinitely following Charlie Kirk comments Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY September 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM 0 Jimmy Kimmel's latenight talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has been suspended indefinitely following the host's comments on the fatal shooting of conservative activist ...
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Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY September 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has been suspended indefinitely following the host's comments on the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week.
Walt Disney-owned ABC said on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that it will indefinitely stop airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live" after the late-night host's comments about Kirk's assassination came under harsh criticism from the head of the Federal Communications Commission. "'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will be pre-empted indefinitely," a spokesperson for the network said to USA TODAY in a statement.
USA TODAY has reached out to Kimmel's representatives for comment.
Earlier on Wednesday, Nexstar Media Group Inc. said it would stop airing the show on its 32 ABC affiliates. "Mr. Kimmel's comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse," said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division.
Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 28th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation's "Taste For A Cure" event at Beverly Wilshire on May 2, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California.
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had seemingly threatened ABC, Disney and Kimmel over his monologue about Kirk during a YouTube episode of commentator Benny Johnson's show on Sept. 17. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said.
"There's calls for Kimmel to be fired," he added. "I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this."
In a Sept. 11 episode of his show, Kimmel criticized President Donald Trump for saying Democrats were responsible for the fatal shooting of Kirk. "With all these terrible things happening you would think that our president would at least make an attempt to bring us together but he didn't," Kimmel said during his opening monologue.
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