{"id":2032478,"date":"2025-09-18T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2032478"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:29:46","slug":"espn-host-backs-jimmy-kimmels-suspension-over-charlie-kirk-comments-where-was-the-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/espn-host-backs-jimmy-kimmels-suspension-over-charlie-kirk-comments-where-was-the-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN host backs Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension over Charlie Kirk comments: \u2018Where was the joke?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show this week after comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JasonJournoDC\/status\/1968678277570048122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reacted to the news;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reacted to the news<\/a> on Thursday\u2019s episode of his SiriusXM Radio Show, \u201cStraight Shooter with Stephen A. Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhere was the joke? Because you\u2019re a late-night host \u2014 and obviously that has a comedic attachment to it. Where was the joke? Obviously, it wasn\u2019t anything funny about that,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_agt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_igt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kimmel made several remarks about the reaction to Kimmel\u2019s assassination last week 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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC, which has aired Kimmel\u2019s late-night show since 2003, made the move quickly 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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c\u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d a spokesperson for the network said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">MORE SPORTS COVERAGE<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sports\/2025\/09\/espn-analyst-reacts-to-jimmy-kimmels-pulled-show.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NJ.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NJ.com<\/a>. Add <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NJ.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NJ.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=www.nj.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/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 www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show this week after comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith reacted to the news on Thursday\u2019s episode of his SiriusXM Radio Show, \u201cStraight Shooter with Stephen A. Smith. \u201cWhere was the joke? Because you\u2019re a late-night host \u2014 and obviously that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[340116,23060,305537],"class_list":["post-2032478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-stephen-a-smith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ESPN-host-backs-Jimmy-Kimmels-suspension-over-Charlie-Kirk-comments.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032478","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=2032478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}