Disney allows Kimmel to return Tuesday after Kirk comments

(The Center Square) – The Walt Disney Company announced on Monday that it will bring “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” back on air starting Tuesday night.

Executives at Disney suspended Kimmel for the “foreseeable future” on Wednesday after comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Company executives said they made the decision to return after “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel.

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” a company memo reads.

Unions representing writers and actors, including the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, condemned Disney’s decision to pull Kimmel.

Other late-night hosts and celebrities also condemned the networks suspension of Kimmel including David Letterman and Rosie O’Donnell.

“The decision to suspend airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone’s freedoms,” the union said. “SAG-AFTRA stands with all media artists and defends their right to express their diverse points of view, and everyone’s right to hear them.”