{"id":89741,"date":"2025-09-23T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=89741"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:47:11","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-live-returns-after-controversy-over-charlie-kirk-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/jimmy-kimmel-live-returns-after-controversy-over-charlie-kirk-comments\/89741\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Live! Returns After Controversy Over Charlie Kirk Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"485\">Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back on air tonight after ABC temporarily pulled the show following criticism over comments Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s death. The host had condemned the attack and sent love to Kirk\u2019s family, but also spoke critically about the political response, including a viral clip of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"796\">ABC said they decided to reinstate the show after \u201cthoughtful conversations\u201d with Kimmel. However, 70 ABC affiliate stations, including those owned by Sinclair and Nexstar, will still not broadcast the episode. They cited Kimmel\u2019s remarks as \u201cinappropriate and deeply insensitive\u201d during a sensitive moment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"1058\">Kimmel\u2019s original comments included criticism of MAGA supporters trying to politicize Kirk\u2019s death, as well as Trump\u2019s response to the killing. He compared the president\u2019s reaction to a child mourning a goldfish while focusing on his White House renovations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1060\" data-end=\"1315\">The show returns tonight at 11:35 pm ET\/10:35 pm CT, which is 4:35 am in the UK. If your local ABC affiliate isn\u2019t airing it, you can watch the episode the next day on Hulu or through streaming services like DirecTV, Fubo, YouTubeTV, Live TV, and Sling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back on air tonight after ABC temporarily pulled the show following criticism over comments Kimmel made\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":89742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[4463],"class_list":["post-89741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-jimmy-kimmel"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}