Wanda Sykes was supposed to be the main guest on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on Wednesday.
Instead, the actor and comedian found herself issuing a video message “in a full face of make-up” via Instagram after her appearance was pulled at the last minute as the program was suspended indefinitely by ABC after government complaints about a recent Kimmel monologue about the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
In the clip, the actor and comedian explained: “I was supposed to go over and have a chat with my friend Jimmy Kimmel on his show, but as you have heard by now, the Jimmy Kimmel show has been pulled indefinitely, abruptly, because of complaints from the Trump administration.”
Sykes then directly called out President Donald Trump, saying:
“So, let’s see, he didn’t end the Ukraine war or solve Gaza within his first week but he did end freedom of speech within his first year. Hey, for those of you who pray, now’s the time to do it. Love you, Jimmy.”
An audience member has also revealed how they only found out the show wouldn’t be going ahead while waiting in line.
“They waited to pull the plug on this right as a studio audience was about to walk in,” he told the Associated Press. “They didn’t tell us what had happened, they just said that the show was canceled. Initially, my concern was, ‘I hope everyone’s okay, no one got injured.’”
“As they told us the show was being canceled, at the same time online they announced that it was indefinitely, which we can probably assume is forever, taken off the air because of certain comments that were made, which I was not aware of,” he added. “And then I went to go look to see what those comments were and they didn’t really seem to justify the means, it seemed to be a bit extreme.”
ABC announced the suspension of Kimmel’s show on Wednesday after he drew the ire of Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr for saying, following the killing of Kirk: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with 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.”
“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” Kimmel added.
Trump, a frequent critic of Kimmel, later celebrated the news, gloating on his Truth Social platform that it was “Great News for America” and demanding that Kimmel’s fellow late-nights hosts Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon should now be pushed out of NBC.
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