Jimmy Kimmel is coming back — and he will be bigger than ever, Joe Rogan predicts.
The podcast star, on the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday, said he believes the briefly-exiled late-night host will have a huge audience when he returns to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night.
“For Jimmy Kimmel, all this does is help him. It makes his show bigger, much more support,” Rogan said.
Rogan added he’s “sure there’s a lot of hate, as well, which isn’t fun,” but that it is outweighed by the publicity Kimmel has received over the last week.
For those who have missed it, ABC and Disney suspended Kimmel on Sept. 17 for claiming the man who killed Charlie Kirk was a supporter of President Donald Trump.
“The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on his Sept. 15 show.
The comment led to swift pushback from Nexstar and Sinclair, which control a large chunk of TV affiliates, and FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Sept. 17 said he felt Kimmel’s comment warranted a suspension.
Hours later, Kimmel was suspended — leading to some critics saying ABC and Disney caved to President Trump’s administration; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied the president put “pressure” on ABC to suspend Kimmel.
Following all of that, ABC announced on Monday it was lifting Kimmel’s suspension after four days.
Kimmel is going to have a tough time living up to Rogan’s prediction, though, considering Nexstar and Sinclair — which control nearly one-quarter of the ABC affiliates nationally — both said they will not air Kimmel when he returns on Tuesday night.
Rogan, on his Tuesday episode — which appeared to be recorded before the news broke the night before that Kimmel would return — said he predicted the comedian, ABC, and lawyers would work out a way for Kimmel to resume hosting the program he has led since 2003.
“He comes back to a standing ovation, Donald Trump tweets mean sh*t about him, and then the world moves on,” Rogan joked.
He then told his guest, comedian Andrew Santino, that it was “f*cking insane” that President Trump finds the time to share anti-Kimmel posts on social media.
You can watch a clip of Rogan discussing Kimmel above. And you can watch the full episode on YouTube by clicking here.
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