Jimmy Kimmel Live … from New York!
“We are broadcasting to about 75 percent of the country from Los Angeles, California tonight,” host Jimmy Kimmel, 57, said in his Thursday, September 25 monologue.
“On Monday, we will be in Brooklyn for a week of big shows from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. What we have to do now is stay on the move so the FCC can’t get us,” the comedian, who was born in the New York City borough, quipped.
His joke comes after FCC chief Brendan Carr called for the late-night show’s suspension on Wednesday, September 17, in reaction to Kimmel’s comments regarding Charlie Kirk’s murderer.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said in an interview with Benny Johnson. “These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Disney (which owns ABC) briefly took him off the air, but Kimmel returned on Tuesday, September 23. He acknowledged that his comments about Kirk may have seemed “ill-timed, or unclear, or maybe both” to many viewers and insisted, “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”
About 70 ABC affiliates from two broadcast groups — Nexstar and Sinclair — are continuing to preempt his show.
The September 23 episode earned the second-highest ratings in the show’s 22-year history.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be in Brooklyn — where it has broadcast seven times before, per ABC — from Monday, September 29 through Friday, October 3.
Scheduled guests include fellow talk show host Stephen Colbert along with Tom Hanks, Ryan Reynolds, Spike Lee, Bruce Springsteen and Emily Blunt.
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