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ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show indefinitely beginning Wednesday after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing<\/a> led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show.<\/p>\n Kimmel, the veteran late-night comic<\/a>, made several comments about the reaction to Kirk\u2019s assassination on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d Monday and Tuesday nights, including that \u201cmany in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>\n ABC, which has aired Kimmel\u2019s late-night show since 2003, moved swiftly after Nexstar Communications Group said it would pull the show starting Wednesday. Kimmel\u2019s comments about Kirk\u2019s death \u201care offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,\u201d said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar\u2019s broadcasting division. Nexstar operates 23 ABC affiliates.<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment from Kimmel, whose contract is up in May 2026. ABC\u2019s statement did not cite a reason for why his show was preempted.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump celebrated ABC\u2019s move on the social media site Truth Social, writing: \u201cCongratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n He also targeted two other late-night hosts, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, and said they should be canceled too, calling them \u201ctwo total losers.\u201d In July, after CBS canceled \u201cThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert,\u201d<\/a> Trump wrote on his social media platform: \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!\u201d Like Colbert, Kimmel has been consistently been critical of Trump and many of his policies.<\/p>\n In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said that \u201cwe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Authorities say Tyler Robinson, 22, who is charged with killing Kirk, grew up in a conservative household in southern Utah but was enmeshed in \u201cleftist ideology.\u201d His parents told investigators he had turned politically left and pro-LGBTQ rights in the last year. Utah records<\/a> show he was registered as a voter, but not affiliated with either political party. His voter status is inactive, meaning he did not vote<\/a> in two regular general elections. He told his transgender partner that he targeted Kirk because he \u201chad enough of his hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n An audience was lined up outside the theater where \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d tapes when they were told Wednesday\u2019s show was canceled.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were just about to walk in \u2014 interestingly enough, they waited to pull the plug on this right as the studio audience was about to walk in,\u201d Tommy Williams, a would-be audience member from Jacksonville, Florida, told The Associated Press outside the theater. \u201cThey didn\u2019t tell us what had happened. They just said that the show was canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n Williams said he was worried someone had been injured \u2014 until he saw that ABC had announced nearly at the same time online that the preemption was indefinite. Williams hadn\u2019t been aware of Kimmel\u2019s comments on Kirk, but sought them out after the announcement.<\/p>\n \u201cThey didn\u2019t really seem to justify the means. It seemed to be a bit extreme. And it wasn\u2019t like insulting to, it really had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk at all. He didn\u2019t even mention anything ill about Charlie Kirk \u2014 it was about the shooter,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n Kimmel said that Trump\u2019s response to Kirk\u2019s death \u201cis not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?\u201d He also said that FBI chief Kash Patel has handled the investigation into the killing \u201clike a kid who didn\u2019t read the book, BSing his way through an oral report.\u201d<\/p>\n He returned to the topic on Tuesday night, mocking Vice President JD Vance\u2019s performance as guest host for Kirk\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n He said Trump was \u201cfanning the flames\u201d by attacking people on the left. \u201cWhich is it, are they a bunch of sissy pickleball players because they\u2019re too scared to be hit by tennis balls, or a well-organized deadly team of commandos, because they can\u2019t be both of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, called Kimmel\u2019s comments on Kirk some of the \u201csickest conduct possible\u201d in an interview Wednesday morning with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are calls for Kimmel to be fired. I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n Carr said it appeared to be an \u201cintentional effort\u201d to mislead the public that Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.<\/p>\n The conservative group interest group Center for American Rights cited Carr\u2019s comments in lodging a complaint Wednesday against ABC in addition to a prior complaint from early September accusing ABC of political bias. They wrote in the complaint that Kimmel showed a \u201creckless indifference or willful defiance of facts\u201d and asked the commission to take ABC off air, if ABC did not take Kimmel off air first.<\/p>\n FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticized the administration for \u201cusing the weight of government power to suppress lawful expression\u201d in a post on X.<\/p>\n The move comes as the president, his administration and political party have stepped up their effort to police speech about Kirk\u2019s death.<\/a> Vance earlier this week urged Americans to turn in fellow citizens who mocked the assassination. It is also the latest effort by the administration to use its power to lean on the media. Carr has launched investigations of outlets that have angered Trump and the president has sued numerous media organizations for negative coverage.<\/p>\n CBS said this past summer that it was canceling Colbert\u2019s show<\/a> at the end of this season for financial reasons, although some critics have wondered if his stance on Trump played a role. Soon after the cancellation, the FCC approved CBS parent company Paramount\u2019s long-pending deal with Skydance. ABC parent company Disney is currently awaiting regulatory approval for ESPN\u2019s acquisition of the NFL Network.<\/p>\n Read the original article on NJ.com<\/a>. Add NJ.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show indefinitely beginning Wednesday after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show. 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What Kimmel said on his show and reaction to it<\/h4>\n