Celebrity Family Feud<\/em> to be on the air. \u201cI\u2019m not sure who had a weirder 48 hours, me or the CEO of Tylenol. It\u2019s been overwhelming. I\u2019ve heard from a lot of people over the last six days. I\u2019ve heard from all the people in the world over the last six days. Everyone I\u2019ve ever met have reached out 10 or 11 times. The guy who fired me from my first radio job in Seattle where we are not airing tonight, by the way, his name is Larry. In 1989 Larry tried to force me to do a bit called Jokes for Donuts, where people would call in and tell jokes for donuts, and I refused to do it and eventually Larry fired me and I had to move back in with my parents. Even he checked in. Thank you, Larry.\u201d<\/p>\nHe gave a special shout-out to his fellow late-night hosts, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, and many others, such as Howard Stern and Jay Leno. He noted that even late-night hosts form other countries reached out. \u201cThis country has become so authoritarian that even the Germans are like, \u2018Come here!’\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, he also gave a special message to his viewers who made sure their \u201cvoices were heard so mine could be heard.\u201d Especially, though, he mentioned those who don\u2019t share his beliefs, but stood up for his right to still be on the air, including Candace Owens and Ted Cruz. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever said this before, but Ted Cruz is right,\u201d Kimmel noted. \u201cIf Ted Cruz can\u2019t speak freely, then he can\u2019t cast spells on the Smurfs. Even though I don\u2019t agree with many of those people on most subjects, some of the things they say make me want to throw up, it takes courage for them to speak out against this administration, and they did and thye deserve credit for it. Telling your followers that your government cannot be allowed to control what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel then got emotional as he said, \u201cYou understand it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed asking compassion for his family, and I meant it. I still do. Nor did I mean to blame any specific group for the actions of a aspecific individual. That was actually the opposite of the point I wa trying to make. For those who think I did point a finger, I get why you\u2019re upset. If the situation were reversed, there\u2019s a good chance I would\u2019ve felt the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cI don\u2019t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This is a sick person who thinks violence is a solution, and it isn\u2019t ever. Also, selfishly, I am a person who get a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my coworkers, because of what I choose to say. And I know those threats don\u2019t come from the people on the right who I know and love. And I don\u2019t want to make this about me. This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel then spoke candidly about how it\u2019s \u201cnot legal\u201d and \u201cun-American\u201d to force affiliates to take his show off the air. He specifically referenced FCC chair Brendan Carr\u2019s comments about wanting to pull his show. \u201cBrendan Carr is the most embarrassing car Republicans have embraced since this one,\u201d he said, as a photo of a Tesla Cybertruck spray painted with Trump\u2019s name showed on the screen.<\/p>\n
Kimmel also pointed to past comments Carr made about free speech and shared an old clip of Donald Trump talking about how important it is for there to be free speech in this country. \u201cThat was also in 2022. How did that guy turn into this guy?\u201d he continued, before showing a recent clip of Trump calling him a \u201cwack job\u201d and claiming he got \u201cno ratings\u201d for his show. Kimmel then smirked and added, \u201cWell, I do tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n
More to come \u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nJimmy Kimmel<\/strong><\/em> Live<\/em>!, Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. ET, ABC<\/strong><\/p>\nRead the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/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":"Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back on ABC following a six-day suspension. The talk show returned on Tuesday, September 23, after it was indefinitely suspended by the network over comments host Jimmy Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk. Cities with ABC affiliate stations owned by Nexstar and Sinclair will continue to see the late-night show preempted for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2045408,"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":[340116,23571,23060],"class_list":["post-2045407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jimmy-kimmel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Live-Updates-of-Jimmy-Kimmels-Return-to-Late-Night.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045407","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=2045407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}