{"id":3257,"date":"2025-09-22T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:47:06","slug":"abc-ends-jimmy-kimmels-suspension-and-his-show-will-return-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"ABC ends Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension and his show will return Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ABC Reinstates Jimmy Kimmel After Backlash Over Suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel will return to&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>&nbsp;after being suspended for comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed Sept. 10. \u201cWe have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,\u201d the network said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimmel sparked controversy when he said, \u201cmany in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk\u201d and accused \u201cthe MAGA gang\u201d of trying to distance themselves from the killer. His remarks prompted ABC affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair to pull his show, while President Donald Trump called the suspension \u201cgreat news for America\u201d and urged other late-night hosts to be fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FCC\u2019s Brendan Carr also warned networks about Kimmel\u2019s comments: \u201cThese companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the backlash, more than 430 Hollywood stars\u2014including Robert De Niro, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep\u2014signed an open letter through the ACLU calling the suspension \u201ca dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The View<\/em>&nbsp;co-host Whoopi Goldberg also defended Kimmel, declaring: \u201cNo one silences us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimmel, who has hosted his late-night show since 2003, expressed earlier this year that comedians must remain unafraid despite political pressure: \u201cWell, you\u2019d have to be naive not to worry a little bit. But that can\u2019t change what you\u2019re doing.\u201d His reinstatement highlights ongoing tensions between politics, media, and free expression in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Reinstates Jimmy Kimmel After Backlash Over Suspension ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel will return to&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&nbsp;after being suspended for comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed Sept. 10. \u201cWe have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}