Jimmy Kimmel returns with an emotional monologue defending freedom of expression
Jimmy Kimmel, in his first public words since ABC attended, has defended freedom of expression with caution, and grows emotionally throughout the opening monologue to present it late at night.
Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He celebrated the return of the host since ABC, owned by Walt Disney, announced last week that it had been suspended indefinitely. The decision came after the NexStar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group, ABC Affiliats owners, came that they will not broadcast a series of conversation because of the comments made by Kimmel about the suspect in the death of conservative activist Charlie Kerk. Even after Disney’s comment, the two companies said they would continue to keep “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Be off the air.
Kimmel was received by the studio fans with long -term applause and chants from “Jimmy”. He broke a joke to Fateh: “Who had 48 hours strangest – me or the CEO of Lilenol?”
The host said that he was affected by the support he received from friends and fans, but especially from those who usually do not agree with him. He referred to comments from Ted Cruz and mentioned the support he received from Ben Shapiro, Kandis Owens, Senator Mitch McConnell.
He said: “Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and not to say on the TV screens, and we have to stand for it.” “I heard a lot about what I need to say and do tonight, and the truth is, I do not think what I should say will make a big difference. If you love me, you are like me; if you do not, you are no, I have no illusions about changing anyone’s mind.”
“What was the most important for him, though, was that” my intention was to shed light on the killing of a young man. ”
“I understand that for some who felt either timing or unclear, or perhaps both, and for those who think I made a finger, I understood the reason for your annoyance,” Kimmel said about his comments about the suspect’s killer. “If the situation is reversed, there is a good opportunity to feel it in the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who loved them and kept near him, although we do not agree on politics at all. I don’t think the killer who shot Charlie Kerk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believes that violence was not.”
Kimmel also said that his ability to speak freely is “something I feel embarrassed to say that I took a foregone cabinet until my friend Stephen pulled [Colbert] Outside the air and try to force the subsidiaries that manage our offer in the cities you live in to take an accidental air. “
“This is not legal,” continued. “This is not American. This is not American.”
The host said that he knows that many people are wondering whether there were any conditions for his return, and he said that there was one: He read a statement from Disney. He began reading instructions on how Disney+ and Hulu accounts are re -activated, referring to many people who canceled their subscriptions in protest against ABC’s move last week.
Disney thanked him for welcoming him again on the air and said he believed that the company “unfortunately unfairly” is in danger. “The President of the United States has made clear that he wants to see me and hundreds of people who work here from our jobs. Our leader celebrates the Americans who lose their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke.”
Kimmel also pointed out that Trump said he hoped that both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Maires will be in the NBC series in the cutting block, and he said he hoped to be those who supported him “10 times loudly as you were this week” if these shows were targeted.
Kimmel did not explicitly apologize for his comments, which Senkler said was a condition that had to be fulfilled before he was broadcast again.
The host also said that he was “sorry” to President Trump, because he “did his best to cancel.” “Instead, millions of people are forced to watch the show,” continued. “He may have to launch Epstein files to distract us from this.”
After the monologue, Kimmel said that the exhibition arrived at the head of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, who said he agreed to join the show, and cut a video feeding with Robert De Niro, who seemed to manage his character from “Goodfellas”. Last week, Car Ali Podcast said, “We can do it in an easy way or in the difficult way,” ABC urged to behave Kimmil’s comments about Kirk and his killer shortly before Disney.
“You don’t need to know my name, and I am the new president of the Federal Communications Committee,” De Niro said to a confusing Kimmel. The host appears to have heard De Niro threatening “The View” Hopi Goldberg, but he insisted that he was simply “studying a lesson about the consequences.”
“It seems that the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) is using mob tactics to suppress freedom of expression,” said Kimmel, who was replied by de Niro with “What did you tell me?”
“About freedom of expression? It is no longer free.” “We bear a word now.”
He made it clear that the price depends on what you are trying to say: If you are looking to say “something nice about the beautiful, thick, yellow president, and how he can do his makers better than any wide, this is free.” But if you want to break a joke about how the president is “fat, he needs two seats on the Epstein plane”, which will manage you “a few fingers, maybe teeth.”
After this sector, Kimmel continued the work as usual, as he made a jokes about Snapos Trump at the United Nations on Tuesday and his comments on how to increase Tilanol during pregnancy from the risk of autism in children, which is few evidence.
Kimmel did not comment on his comment until Tuesday’s episode, which is broadcast on the West Coast at 11:35 pm, but the dialogue showers, actors, comedians, writers, and even former President of Disney condemned ABC’s decision to stop production.
Hours before the on Tuesday’s episode, Kimmel posted on Instagram For the first time since his comment, share a picture of himself with the iconic TV creative Norman Lear. Kimmel commented the photo “A missing man this man today.” The late Lear, who collaborated with Kimmel in “Live or A Studio Promeio”, was an explicit defender for freedom of expression, first amendment and organization’s foundations for the American road, which aims to stop censorship as one of its many goals.
Trump also moved to social media before Tuesday’s episode to express his ideas about Kimmel’s return, and writing on Social truth He could not believe that the show would return: “ABC told the White House that its show was canceled [sic]! “
“Why do they want someone to return very badly, and he is not funny, who puts the network in danger by playing a 99 % positive democratic garbage,” Trump continued. “It is another arm of DNC, and to my knowledge, it will be a great contribution to the campaign.”
He went on to write that he wanted to “test ABC on this.”
“Let’s see how we do. The last time I went after them, gave me $ 16 million,” he wrote, referring to the settlement with ABC after Trump filed a defaming lawsuit about inaccurate statements made by ABC news anchor George Stefanopoulos. “This one looks more profitable. A true group of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmeel rot in his bad classifications.”
The pressure came to the Kimmel comment from FCC Head Carr, who said in an interview with a podcast with the right -wing commentator Benny Johnson that ABC was on Kimmel’s actions.
After hours, NexStar, who controls 32 ABC, agreed to drop “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Undially, ABC followed its own advertisement that it was pulling Kimmel from the network. Senkler, who has been a long -standing sympathetic to the conservative reasons, also raised the offer and went forward by calling for a financial contribution to the Kirk Dynasty and the Conservative Da`wah Organization in the United States of America.
The Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) has released Anna M. Gomez, one of three commissioners, and the only democratic member, is a confusing statement the next day.
Gomez said the Federal Communications Committee “does not have power, ability or constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters to speak.
“When companies surrender to this pressure, they not only endanger themselves, but the right to freedom of expression for all in this country,” Gomez continued. “The duty to defend the first amendment is not rest with the government, but with us all. Freedom of expression is the basis of our democracy, and we must review any attempt to erode it.”
The authors of the employees of the Times Stephen Bataglio and Mig James contributed to this report.