a series of similar questions about politics, speech and TV<\/a>.<\/p>\nBut while Colbert\u2019s cancellation was not popular \u2014 33% approved; 40% disapproved \u2014 reaction to the recent Kimmel controversy has been far more lopsided in his favor.<\/p>\n
Overall, more Americans see Kimmel favorably (46%) than unfavorably (39%). (Trump\u2019s current rating is 43% favorable, 54% unfavorable.) Predictably, Kimmel’s numbers are overwhelmingly positive among those who say he is their favorite late-night host (92% favorable, 6% unfavorable). But he also has a positive image among those who name other late-night hosts as their favorites (56% favorable, 31% unfavorable).<\/p>\n
In fact, Americans who say they don’t watch late-night television are the only group that gives Kimmel a net negative rating (19% favorable, 58% unfavorable). They also lean or identify as Republican rather than Democrat by a 58% to 19% margin.<\/p>\n
When Americans were asked in July to select up to three of their favorite late-night talk show hosts, Colbert (25%) tied Jimmy Fallon (25%) for first place, with Kimmel trailing at 22%. But now Kimmel (22%) leads Colbert (21%) and Fallon (20%) by a narrow margin.<\/p>\n
Why the shift? A significantly larger number of Democrats now name Kimmel as one of their three favorite late-night hosts: 44% today versus 35% in July. At the same time, Colbert and Fallon have lost some ground among Democrats. And while fewer Republicans still pick Kimmel as a favorite \u2014 7%, down from 13% \u2014 it\u2019s not enough to offset his gains on the other side of the aisle.<\/p>\n
Kimmel is widely viewed as liberal (57%) rather than moderate (14%) or conservative (4%). But more Americans (40%) say he is “about right” in his approach to politics than say he’s “too political” (35%). More Americans also continue to favor (45%) rather than oppose (33%) “late-night talk show hosts getting involved in politics by speaking out on political issues.”<\/p>\n
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The Yahoo survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,676 U.S. adults interviewed online from Sept. 25 to Sept. 29, 2025. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2024 election turnout and presidential vote, party identification and current voter registration status. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Party identification is weighted to the estimated distribution at the time of the election (31% Democratic, 32% Republican). Respondents were selected from YouGov\u2019s opt-in panel to be representative of all U.S. adults. The margin of error is approximately 3%.<\/em><\/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":"By a more than two-to-one margin, Americans approve (58%) rather than disapprove (25%) of the decision by ABC and its parent company, Disney, to end Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s recent suspension and let him return to TV, according to a new Yahoo\/YouGov poll. Earlier this month, ABC announced that it was pulling Kimmel\u2019s late-night talk show, Jimmy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2060276,"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":[384099,374318,23060,310715],"class_list":["post-2060275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-americans","tag-brendan-carr","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-president-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Americans-approve-of-Jimmy-Kimmels-return-to-TV-by-a.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060275","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=2060275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}