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Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> opened his return to Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> with a line ripped from late-night lore, staring into the camera after nearly a week off the air and borrowing another host\u2019s defiant comeback.<\/p>\n As the boisterous audience cheers settled Tuesday night, Kimmel began: \u201cAs I was saying before I was interrupted\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n The move was a deliberate echo of Jack Paar<\/strong>, the mercurial host who \u2014 while on air \u2014dramatically quit NBC\u2019s Tonight Show<\/em> in 1960 after network censors cut one of his jokes about a bathroom.<\/p>\n Paar stunned the country with his walk-off, declaring: \u201cThere must be a better way of making a living than this.\u201d<\/p>\n When NBC coaxed<\/a> him back seven weeks later, Paar reclaimed his desk with the same words Kimmel opened with Tuesday.<\/p>\n Paar went on to repeat his parting words from his last show weeks earlier, asking aloud if there was \u201ca better way of making a living than this\u201d before adding the immortal kicker: \u201cI\u2019ve looked, and there isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel\u2019s borrowed remark came after a brief suspension<\/a> by ABC following backlash to a line about MAGA in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s<\/strong> assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n The comments were then highlighted by Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr<\/strong> on a podcast last week and triggered a pile-on by affiliate conglomerates before ABC ousted Kimmel.<\/p>\n Watch above via ABC.<\/p>\n The post Jimmy Kimmel Channels Late-Night Legend\u2019s Defiant Comeback Line \u2014 65 Years Later<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/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 opened his return to Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a line ripped from late-night lore, staring into the camera after nearly a week off the air and borrowing another host\u2019s defiant comeback. As the boisterous audience cheers settled Tuesday night, Kimmel began: \u201cAs I was saying before I was interrupted\u2026\u201d The move was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046083,"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":[379271,23060],"class_list":["post-2046082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jack-paar","tag-jimmy-kimmel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Channels-Late-Night-Legends-Defiant-Comeback-Line-\u2014-65.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046082","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=2046082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}