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Josh Gad<\/strong> <\/a>is speaking out after Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s talk show was taken off<\/a> the air indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk<\/strong> and President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHey Disney, that guy on the right has done more for your company than most entertainers,\u201d Gad, 44, wrote via Instagram on Friday, September 19, while sharing a photo of the actor and Kimmel, 57, shaking hands on the now-suspended late night talk show.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have a very clear choice right now and it\u2019s not the one you\u2019re making,\u201d Gad, who famously played the beloved Frozen<\/em> character Olaf, a Disney film, continued.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, September 17, ABC confirmed to Us Weekly<\/em> that the network and its parent company, Disney, had pulled the late night show off its schedule \u201cindefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel Is Working on a Compromise With Disney to Bring Back Late-Night Show: Report<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d an ABC spokesperson told Us<\/em>. Variety<\/em> had previously reported earlier that day that ABC decided to remove the late night talk show from its network after Nexstar Media reportedly threatened to erase the show from its lineup.<\/p>\n Nexstar told Variety<\/em> on Wednesday that its \u201cowned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight\u2019s show.\u201d<\/p>\n The host has not publicly addressed his show\u2019s suspension. Us Weekly<\/em> has reached out to representatives for Kimmel for comment.<\/p>\n The move came after the FCC chair criticized the host after he made comments regarding the recent death of the far-right political activist and Turning Point USA founder.<\/p>\n \u201cThe MAGA Gang (is) 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 Kimmel said on Monday, September 15, referring to the 22-year-old accused of shooting and killing Kirk while he spoke at a university campus in Utah.<\/p>\n Kimmel then joked at Trump\u2019s response to a reporter\u2019s question regarding how he was \u201cholding up\u201d in the wake of Kirk\u2019s assassination, who he reportedly considered to be a \u201csecond son.\u201d<\/a> (Trump has three sons, Baron Trump<\/strong>, Eric Trump<\/strong> and Donald Trump Jr<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n The host played a clip of the president saying he was doing \u201cvery good\u201d before gleefully pointing out the nearly-completed construction of the White House\u2019s new $200 million ballroom.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s at the fourth stage of grief: construction,\u201d Kimmel joked. \u201cThat is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.\u201d<\/p>\n Stars React to Jimmy Kimmel Being Taken Off the Air After Charlie Kirk Remarks<\/a><\/p>\n After Kimmel\u2019s comments, Brendan Carr<\/strong>, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened ABC, Disney and Kimmel in response to the host\u2019s monologue while appearing on a far-right podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s calls for Kimmel to be fired,\u201d Carr said on Wednesday while appearing on Benny Johnson\u2019<\/strong>s YouTube show. \u201cI think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this.\u201d<\/p>\n He then commented, \u201cFrankly, when we see stuff like this, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump praised the indefinite suspension of Kimmel\u2019s show, before taking aim at late night hosts Jimmy Fallon<\/strong><\/a> and Seth Meyers<\/strong><\/a>. Later, on Thursday, September 18, Trump floated the idea of pulling the broadcasting licenses of any network that airs what he considers to be \u201cagainst\u201d him and his administration.<\/p>\n \u201cI have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me, again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily, all seven swing states,\u201d the president erroneously claimed, while referring to the 2024 election.<\/p>\n \u201cThey give me only bad publicity, press. I mean, they\u2019re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away,\u201d he continued, before claiming that ultimately the decision \u201cwill be up to Brendan Carr.\u201d<\/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":" Josh Gad is speaking out after Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show was taken off the air indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump. \u201cHey Disney, that guy on the right has done more for your company than most entertainers,\u201d Gad, 44, wrote via Instagram on Friday, September 19, while sharing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2037974,"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":[25172],"tags":[374317,376581,340116,23301,22389,348381,23060,345661,356768,350440],"class_list":["post-2037973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-abc-television-network","tag-baron-trump","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-disney","tag-donald-trump","tag-eric-trump","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-josh-gad","tag-late-night-talk-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Frozen-Star-Josh-Gad-Calls-Out-Disney-for-Pulling-Jimmy.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037973","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=2037973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}