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Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was pulled from schedules due to his comments about Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting.

US comedian Jimmy Kimmel is all set to return to his late-night talk show on Tuesday after he was suspended for making jokes relating to the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Disney said on Monday that it suspended the show because it “felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive”. Disney owns the US broadcast network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live.”We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” Disney said.ALSO READ: D4vd Tesla controversy takes another shocking turn: Did Celeste Rivas lie about her age? Explosive theories emergeWill Jimmy Kimmel apologise for Kirk’s comments?Though Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC Tuesday but the country’s largest owner of its local affiliate stations won’t air his show, The New York Post reported citing sources. Jimmy Kimmel will reportedly address the controversy during his monologue though he will stop short of apologizing, the sources said.ALSO READ: ‘Even the drug’s name…’: Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump for struggling to pronounce ‘acetaminophen’ after four tries The episode won’t be aired on dozens of local ABC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. It will instead air news programming in its place.Live Events“Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” the company said in a statement.In response, Turning Point USA posted on X, “Good for @WeAre-Sinclair for blocking Kimmell [sic] from its 31 ABC affiliates. Reminder, Kimmell has yet to apologize for saying the assassin was MAGA, and he was reportedly going to double down. He’s an unrepentant liar, and affiliates have every right to demand accountability.”In a statement Monday, Disney said it suspended Kimmel last Wednesday “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” calling some of his comments “ill-timed and thus insensitive.” The suspension followed a monologue in which Kimmel claimed Kirk was killed by other Trump supporters — despite authorities saying the alleged shooter had left-wing views.ALSO READ: Chilling twist in D4vd’s Tesla scandal as singer’s ‘dead body in trunk’ music video surfaces amid Celeste Rivas caseWhat did Jimmy Kimmel say about Charlie Kirk?Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was pulled from schedules due to his comments about Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting. The comment that got Kimmel in hot water featured in Monday’s episode (14 September), when he said: “We had some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”Kimmel also used the subject to mock Donald Trump, showing a viral clip that showed the US president discussing White House renovations when asked how he was faring in the wake of Kirk’s death.“On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this,” Kimmel said.ALSO READ: Celeste Rivas was pregnant when her decomposed body was found in D4vd’s Tesla? Internet abuzz with rumoursIn the clip, Trump said he was doing “pretty good”, adding: “And by the way, right there where you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House.”When the camera cut back to Kimmel, the host said: “Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief, construction. “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?”At the time of Kirk’s death, while hosting an event at a Utah college on 10 September, Kimmel wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?“On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.”Donald Trump had welcomed Kimmel’s suspension and suggested that some TV networks should have their licences “taken away” for negative coverage of the president. He had posted on Truth Social during his state trip to London: “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED.”Add as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now!
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