Late-night hosts celebrated the comeback of Jimmy Kimmel after ABC temporarily suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live last week. Speaking on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart recounted how ABC announced that Kimmel would return to TV on Tuesday night, noting that the audience response helped to convince Disney to do the right …
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Kamala Harris praised Disney‘s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air during an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last night. “Talk about the power being with the people and the people making that clear with their checkbooks as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel,” Harris told …
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Media group Nexstar has joined Sinclair in blocking Jimmy Kimmel Live! from returning to broadcast on its ABC-affiliate stations. In a press release, the company stated on Tuesday that it would “continue to preempt” the series and “monitor” the late-night host’s return to television. Last week, Kimmel was “indefinitely” suspended …
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John Oliver offered an impassioned defense of Jimmy Kimmel last night on Last Week Tonight. The host spoke out about the importance of free speech and not succumbing to “bullies,” at one point directing his monologue at Disney head Bob Iger. Oliver kicked off his monologue by discussing the death …
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Howard Stern called ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel “really dumb and fucking horrible,” and said he’s cancelling his Disney+ subscription in protest. Stern, who was off last week, addressed the still-simmering controversy when he returned to his SiriusXM show Monday, Sept. 22, saying, “When the government says, ‘I’m not …
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Artists — including Sarah McLachlan and Jewel — scheduled to take the stage at the Los Angeles premiere of the new documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery canceled their performances on Sunday in a move to stand for free speech. The film about the historic Nineties festival is being distributed …
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The women of The View have entered the Jimmy Kimmel chat after initially holding their tongues in the wake of his suspension last week. In the opening segment of their ABC morning show on Monday, the hosts made clear they didn’t hold back at first because they share a parent …
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Figures across the entertainment industry are coming together to stand with Jimmy Kimmel. On Monday, Sept. 22, the American Civil Liberties Union published a letter pushing back against “government threats to our freedom of speech” in the wake of the talk show host’s “indefinite” suspension last week following the death …
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Disney has reached a formal decision to bring Jimmy Kimmel back to the ABC airwaves on Tuesday night, just one week after his indefinite suspension following statements he made on Jimmy Kimmel Live! about Charlie Kirks’ assassin and after a threat from President Trump’s FCC chair. “Last Wednesday, we made …
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Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension under these circumstances is a fundamental attack on each individual American, regardless of party affiliation, regardless of whether or not you even vote. It affects every single American’s ability to lead the life they want to lead, to think whatever they want to think. I truly believe …
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