{"id":2042472,"date":"2025-09-23T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2042472"},"modified":"2025-09-23T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:06:08","slug":"howard-stern-reacts-to-jimmy-kimmels-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/howard-stern-reacts-to-jimmy-kimmels-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Stern Reacts To Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before Disney announced Monday that Jimmy Kimmel would be returning to air<\/a> this week, Howard Stern had strong words for ABC. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen the government says, \u2018I\u2019m not pleased with you, so we\u2019re going to orchestrate a way to silence you,\u2019 it\u2019s the wrong direction for our country,\u201d Stern said on his SiriusXM show \u201cThe Howard Stern Show\u201d on Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kimmel was \u201cindefinitely\u201d suspended after criticizing<\/a> Trump supporters and conservatives\u2019 response to Charlie Kirk\u2019s shooting death on Sept. 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kimmel suggested during an episode of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d that Trump supporters were trying to capitalize off of Kirk\u2019s death following the arrest of the suspect accused of killing Kirk, 22-year-old <\/span>Tyler Robinson<\/span><\/a>. Robinson was <\/span>charged<\/span><\/a> in the shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The talk show host\u2019s remarks prompted Donald Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, to call on licensed broadcasters to stop airing the show<\/a>. Nexstar was the first to announce Wednesday that it would cease airing the late night show for its ABC affiliates, with ABC following suit soon after by pulling Kimmel\u2019s show off the air. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kimmel getting yanked from the air caused a stir among celebrities and sparked a nationwide debate about free speech protections in the United States. The incident also called into question the power President Trump possesses to silence and punish media companies<\/a> that he deems are biased against him. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Kimmel was suspended due to \u201cpressure given from the president of the United States\u201d even after Carr\u2019s threats<\/a> to pull broadcast licenses of ABC affiliates. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and to cancel his show came from executives at ABC,\u201d Leavitt said on Fox News\u2019 <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Saturday in America<\/span><\/a>.\u201d \u201cIt was a decision that was made by ABC because Jimmy Kimmel chose to knowingly lie to his audience on his program about the death of a highly respected man when our country is in a state of mourning.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Howard Stern and Jimmy Kimmel.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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She added: \u201cThat was a decision that he made, and he is now facing a consequence for that decision and for that lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Monday, however, Disney announced that \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d will resume airing on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLast 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,\u201d the company wrote in a statement. \u201cWe have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elsewhere in the episode, Stern noted that he sympathizes with both Kimmel and the ABC network, but argued that \u201csomeone\u2019s got to step up.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that ABC even has to be in this position,\u201d he said. \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have to be in this position. I feel for them too, in this. But someone\u2019s got to step up and be fucking saying, \u2018Hey, enough. We\u2019re not going to bow.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stern then declared that though it might \u201csound stupid,\u201d he canceled his Disney+ account in solidarity with Kimmel. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m trying to say with the pocketbook that I do not support what they\u2019re doing with Jimmy,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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