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President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to suppress comedian Jimmy Kimmel were thwarted by the Streisand effect, whereby attempts to censor something only cause it to circulate wider.<\/span><\/p>\n Kimmel\u2019s Tuesday monologue\u2014the first since <\/span>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/span><\/i> was canceled, then uncanceled, by ABC\u2014has reached a massive audience and garnered significant media attention.<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas, celebrity.land data analyst Harry Enten <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a>, the median video on Kimmel\u2019s YouTube channel in the last six months has been viewed 240,000 times, Kimmel\u2019s returning <\/span>monologue<\/span><\/a> has already garnered more than 11 million views on YouTube, with the number still rapidly growing. Another indicator of significant interest in Kimmel\u2019s show, Enten observed, is a record-high number of Google searches for the time <\/span>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i><\/span> airs, which were up over 10,000 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n Kimmel joked about the influx of attention in his monologue, saying of Trump, \u201cYou almost have to feel sorry for him. He tried his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly! He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from <\/span>this<\/span> now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n ABC\u2019s since-reversed decision to cancel <\/span>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i> came after Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission chair threatened companies that platformed Kimmel, due to the host\u2019s jokes about MAGA\u2019s reaction to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.<\/span><\/p>\n