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Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned Tuesday, Sept. 23 after its brief suspension \u2014 and nearly 6.3 million people tuned in!<\/p>\n
According to Nielsen, approximately 6.26 million viewers watched the show on Tuesday, despite it being pre-empted on Nexstar and Sinclair affiliate stations, which make up 23% of U.S. TV households. These numbers do not include streaming.<\/p>\n
According to ABC, the show typically draws about 1.6 million viewers per episode.<\/p>\n
Among adults 18-49, Jimmy Kimmel Live! earned a 0.87 rating,\u00a0which is the show\u2019s highest rated regularly scheduled episode in over 10 years.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Charlie Kirk\u2019s Family, Advocates for Free Speech During Return Episode<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to traditional viewership, Kimmel’s monologue has over 15 million views on YouTube as of 6 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Sept. 24 \u2014 quickly becoming his most-watched monologue on the platform ever.<\/p>\n Kimmel himself anticipated the successful comeback, showing a clip of President Donald Trump<\/strong> claiming the show gets “no ratings” during his nearly 30 minute-long monologue.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I do tonight!\u201d Kimmel retorted back. \u201cYou almost have to feel sorry for [Trump]. He tried his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly.”<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0\u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 Will Not Return to ABC Affiliate That Demanded Apology to Charlie Kirk\u2019s Family<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to making jabs at the president, Kimmel addressed the controversy<\/a> surrounding his Charlie Kirk<\/strong> comments, offering clarification and speaking kindly about the political influencer’s widow, Erika Kirk<\/strong>. He also took time to advocate for the right to free speech, arguing that pulling him and other late-night hosts off-air would be a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n Only time will tell if Kimmel’s ratings continue to remain high. Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns for a new episode on Wednesday, Sept. 24 featuring Ethan Hawke<\/strong>, Lisa Ann Walter<\/strong>, and musical guest YUNGBLUD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Kimmel\u2019s full monologue from Tuesday night’s episode can be viewed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfac<\/strong>\u00a0SIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\ud83c\udfac\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 24, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/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! returned Tuesday, Sept. 23 after its brief suspension \u2014 and nearly 6.3 million people tuned in! According to Nielsen, approximately 6.26 million viewers watched the show on Tuesday, despite it being pre-empted on Nexstar and Sinclair affiliate stations, which make up 23% of U.S. TV households. These numbers do not include streaming. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[340116,23060,309938],"class_list":["post-2047910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-president-donald-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Live-Returns-With-Record-Breaking-Ratings.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047910","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=2047910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}