Following a nearly week-long ban for his on-air comments regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which corporate parent Walt Disney deemed “insensitive,” Jimmy Kimmel was scheduled to return to ABC’s late-night television lineup on Tuesday.
The comedian was scheduled to discuss his remarks from the previous week, which offended some viewers, spurred two major television station groups to boycott the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show, and threatened federal regulatory action, on his first night back.
Conservatives were incensed with Kimmel, whose program has regularly made fun of President Donald Trump, for claiming that Trump’s followers were frantic to describe Kirk’s alleged killer “as anything other than one of them” and for attempting to “score political points” from his killing.
The remarks were made during Kimmel’s September 15 opening monologue, five days after Kirk, a well-known Trump supporter, author, and radio-podcast host, was shot and killed while giving a speech on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem.
On a September 17 podcast hosted by conservative commentator Benny Johnson, Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, which oversees broadcasters, claimed that Kimmel’s comments were part of an attempt to mislead the American public about the political views of the man who is suspected of killing Kirk and that he was considering “remedies.
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