US President Donald Trump on Saturday mocked late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and called him “horrible” while presenting the 2025 Kennedy Center Honours honourees with their medals at the Oval Office.“We have never had a president hosting the awards before. This is the first,” Trump said while addressing reporters, as per Deadline. “I’m sure […]
Viewers tuning in to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night were surprised to see a rerun instead of the new episode that had been promoted. The show was scheduled to feature David Duchovny, Stranger Things actor Joe Keery and singer Madison Beer. No announcement was made before the change, which led to confusion and questions […]
Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel said his remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk were “intentionally and maliciously mischaracterized” by right-wing groups.The Jimmy Kimmel Tonight! host became a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s culture wars after comments he made about Kirk’s assassination last month. His remarks led FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to urge television stations to […]
Donald Trump spoke for nearly an hour at the United Nations General Assembly session in New York, almost three times the allotted slot. The speech came the same day Jimmy Kimmel returned to TV screens after being reinstated by ABC. The two juxtaposed a curious intersection of the American zeitegeist which can be broken down […]
Nexstar Media Group, one of the US’s largest broadcast TV station owners, announced it will not air Tuesday’s return of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The move follows Sinclair, which on Monday also confirmed it would preempt the late-night show in favor of alternative programming.“We made a decision last week to preempt ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ following what […]
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said Monday evening that he will attend a town hall hosted by WABC-TV after ABC announced it is reinstating late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, reversing his earlier decision to boycott the event.Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, had earlier withdrawn from the forum in protest of ABC’s suspension of Kimmel following […]
Disney-owned ABC announced Monday that it will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show. The show had been pulled indefinitely following controversy over his remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.“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,” […]
Donald Trump threw shade at Jimmy Kimmel‘s late night show during his Charlie Kirk memorial speech, and went on to criticise “wrong pronoun, commentators and influencers” who “greeted his assassination with sick approval.“Calling out those who “fascism over a cancelled late night TV show,” referring to Kimmel’s show, he declared that the anchor had “no […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that the administration had any role in ABC’s indefinite shelving of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following the host’s monologue on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. She also criticized former President Barack Obama for alleging that the Donald Trump […]
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he pledged to “bring back free speech to America,” casting himself as the scourge of cancel culture and the defender of voices silenced by elites. Nine months later, the same president is threatening to strip broadcasters of their licenses, applauding the suspension of a […]
