{"id":2030091,"date":"2025-09-17T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2030091"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:28:38","slug":"jimmy-kimmels-late-night-show-pulled-off-the-air-over-his-controversial-charlie-kirk-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmels-late-night-show-pulled-off-the-air-over-his-controversial-charlie-kirk-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s late-night show pulled off the air over his controversial Charlie Kirk remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ABC has decided to pull Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night talk show off the air \u201cindefinitely,\u201d Page Six can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d a spokesperson for the outlet told us on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after TV station conglomerate Nexstar Media threatened to pre-empt airings of the program following the comedian\u2019s comments on Charlie Kirk\u2019s death, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/nexstar-jimmy-kimmel-abc-charlie-kirk-1236522584\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nexstar delivered the message to ABC on Wednesday, saying that it \u201cstrongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8521494\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption>Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show has been pulled off the air \u201cindefinitely\u201d following his comments on Charlie Kirk\u2019s shooting death. <span class=\"credit\">ABC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The update comes soon after FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr threatened to launch an official probe into Kimmel and his show over his recent remarks that Kirk\u2019s alleged killer was a MAGA supporter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the conduct that has taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, it appears to be some of the sickest conduct possible,\u201d Carr noted in his Wednesday appearance on \u201cThe Benny Show\u201d podcast, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/09\/17\/jimmy-kimmel-fcc-comments-charlie-kirk-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per TMZ. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are avenues here for the FCC \u2014 so there are some ways in which I need to be a little bit careful because we could be called ultimately to be a judge on some of these claims that come up. But, I don\u2019t think this is an isolated incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have license granted by us at the FCC and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest,\u201d he said, adding that the networks could either take disciplinary actions or the FCC might step in.<\/p>\n<p>Reps for Kimmel did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment.  <\/p>\n<p>Kirk died on Sept. 10 after he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/10\/celebrity-news\/charlie-kirk-dead-at-31-chris-pratt-dave-portnoy-and-more-celebs-react-to-assassination\/\">was fatally shot<\/a> while speaking at Utah Valley University. Three days later, authorities announced that they had arrested his believed killer.  <\/p>\n<p>On <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk&amp;ab_channel=JimmyKimmelLive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday night\u2019s episode<\/a> of his eponymous show, Kimmel claimed that the \u201cMAGA gang\u201d was using the conservative pundit\u2019s death as a move to gain political points. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100% \" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/7243f1477b3245f2f0745dd957e58dbc\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Kimmel also responded to the news of Kirk\u2019s death via his social media accounts, offering his condolences to Kirk\u2019s family. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?\u201d Kimmel wrote at the time. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cOn behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>More to come\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has decided to pull Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night talk show off the air \u201cindefinitely,\u201d Page Six can confirm. \u201c\u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d a spokesperson for the outlet told us on Wednesday. The decision comes after TV station conglomerate Nexstar Media threatened to pre-empt airings of the program following the comedian\u2019s comments on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,21741,374324,23060,345661,46421,21913],"class_list":["post-2030091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-fcc","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-late-night","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jimmy-Kimmels-late-night-show-pulled-off-the-air-over-his.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}