Kiss the right butts in this town and you're safe.
Maybe Jimmy Kimmel is aligned with an Illuminati cabal -- friends with Oprah, Tom Hanks, and all the producers behind the scenes it wouldn't be impossible -- because someone just talked Sinclair Broadcasting Group into carrying the show on its stations after last week's massive scandal of preempting the show in league with Nexstar and Tegna, Inc.
Trump threatens Jimmy Kimmel and ABC, escalator fiasco at the UN, and Ethan Hawke interrupts
Meanwhile, Trump welcomes his master Bibi ✡
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) 5,050,661 YouTube views and counting. Sept. 24, 2025: JKL! is back to work again doing his show for most of the country, thank Gosh the 'The Golden Bachelor' has not been pre-empted, Kimmel heard from Do Jo Trump who posted on his Truth Social (Twitter knockoff) with threats moments after the taping of the show Tuesday night, Trump claimed it was the ratings that got Kimmel “fired,” Trump is an old-fashioned 80s movie-style bully, many of its staffers got crazy texts from their loved ones over the last week, there was a fun little conspiracy theory heard on right wing Newsmax today, according to MSNBC the FBI has a recording of Trump’s border czar Tom Homan taking a big bribe in a bag from undercover agents with $50,000 cash in it, Team Trump is worked up about the escalator stopping while the Donald was at the UN yesterday, and Ethan Hawke interrupts the monologue when Jimmy thanks the more than 400 entertainers, actors, writers, directors, and producers who signed the ACLU letter supporting the show.#Kimmel
Right wing Benny Johnson, the new Charlie Kirk, show Epstein ALIVE on his Pedo Island
Before the fracas, Kimmel would get about 1.6 million monologue views. Tuesday's return saw the number of viewers skyrocket, quadrupling even though he has been pre-empted/banned from Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting stations. Those make up about a quarter of viewers. About 6.26 viewers watched live on TV, with many many more going uncounted watching on livestream, social media, and YouTube. The monologue currently has 26 million YouTube views, which is common. His key demographic (ages 19-49) that advertising salespeople love is the best it's been in a decade, according to Conan Nolan at NBC News (NBC4 LA).
Will he shave beard to keep his sky-high ratings?
Kimmel’s return breaks his YouTube record: Most-watched monologue ever
James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 24, 2025
Kimmel's emotional and highly anticipated return to ABC very quickly became the most popular 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' monologue on YouTube. Nexstar and Sinclair really missed out. The affiliate groups boycotting Jimmy Kimmel Live! missed airing — and selling ads — on what’s rapidly become Kimmel’s most-watched monologue of all time on YouTube.
Kimmel’s return to ABC on Tuesday night (Sept. 23, 2025, Rapture Day) featured a nearly 30-minute show opening that included the host’s emotional monologue where he thanked those who supported him during his suspension, attempted to clarify his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk and, most of all, passionately defended free speech. More: Hollywood Reporter
(Sky News Australia) Sept. 24, 2025: Media Meltdowns: News host rips into Kimmel’s “pathetic” come back after deliberate Kirk lie [which was actually a joke taking a dig at MAGA gun nuts]. Angry right wing Australian Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power lashes out at Kimmel’s “pathetic” come back and his “crocodile tears.”
Meanwhile, SoCal car truck chase
(ABC) It's different because it's a stolen semi-truck that could lead a Convoy
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 23, 2025: Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air and talks about all of the people who have reached out over the last six days including fellow late night talk show hosts, fans of the show, and those who don’t support what he believes but support his right to share those beliefs anyway, and he expresses that it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man...
I'll release Epstein Client List (if they remove me)
How important it is to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this, the Chairman of the FCC Brendan Carr telling an American company that “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Trump saying he has no talent and no ratings, being fortunate to work at a company that has allowed us to do the show we want to do for almost 23 years, not agreeing with the decision to have our show pulled off the air last Wednesday, Trump making it very clear he wants to see Jimmy and other late night hosts fired, and solidarity from the right, left and those in the middle. Then Jimmy talks to the new FCC Chairman (Robert De Niro), and gets into Trump’s day addressing the United Nations, the escalator breaking, having trouble with the teleprompter, and the headache he’s creating with his buddy RFK over Tylenol. Jimmy Kimmel is Back!#Kimmel
Fortunate to grow up in Los Angeles, we have known and listened to Kimmel for more than 30 years. How? Long before he became famous, he lived in Las Vegas and wanted to be in radio. So he traveled to Hollywood and got a job as a comedian and sports reporter on the Kevin & Bean Show(K&B on KROQ FM), the morning zoo of the foremost alt rock station in the area. KROQ had a direct line to MTV with its DJs who became VJs and Loveline and determining hit songs.
KROQ's Kevin Ryder made Kimmel famous.
Soon after Jimmy arrived -- doing his many funny characters which he could never do now, Gay James, Mo the Angry Midget, Karl Malone in Blackface, and so on -- he met a nobody named Adam Corolla. Jimmy accepted a challenge to box someone and was taking it lightly. Corolla was an impoverished construction worker/carpenter, driving his rundown truck through the Valley, listening to K&B. He heard about the boxing match and decided to take his very green comedic chops, which he was working on at Groundlings Improv, down to the station to help Jimmy.
THE STRANGEST THING
Nearly no one but us is likely to remember the paranormal aspect of Jimmy Kimmel's career success from early KROQ days.
Sadly, our memory is imperfect as to the exact details. In those days there was another famous friend of Kimmel and Corolla named Ralph Garman (a voice comic long since forgotten to the oblivion of his own paywall podcast no one cared about and Corolla's former apartment roommate). Whatever might be said about Bean Baxter and Kevin Ryder, they were intensely interested in the paranormal. They played this off with jokes, gags, and James Randi-style skepticism. K&B used all of these as covers to repeatedly invite psychics, hypnotic past life regressionists, mystics, and others onto the show. They made so much fun of these real-life people that one had to wonder why they kept inviting them back. K&B ran a lazy show, preferring others to be funny and do most of the comedic work. They just picked great people to come on and do it.
Future Cmdr. Ralph Garman
Therefore, when it came time to be hypnotized or progressed (future life progression), they put in Jimmy and Ralph and Beer Mug rather than participating directly themselves. This was very shocking because they all clowned around and acted like nonbelievers, doubters, and jesters -- given our very scientific and secular society and city. That let them continue to be funny, whether the channels or visionaries they brought on were crazy or not, such as our favorite guest Bridget Nielsen.
Bridg-ET (the bridge between ETs and humans as a hybrid mom, bridgetnielsen.com) and an old couple who channeled The Beatles from heaven to bring NEW Beatles' music to the world. The point: It turned out that both Jimmy Kimmel and Ralph Garman, according to their progressions, will be very important in the future history of the human plane.
What they described seeing and who they described being was stunning, making one wonder how it was that these apparent goofs were actually not on radio in one of the world's largest radio markets by accident. Kimmel becomes important when we are a space-traveling species, which has already happened.
Best friend Adam Corolla
Garman is a future ruler who sends many people off to war to die. The KARMA to fill these stations is uncommon. Kimmel was an atheistic-sounding Italian (Roman) Catholic. Did the personal experience under hypnosis make him a believer in rebirth? Or in keeping with his Jewish girlfriend Sarah and other secular Jewish friends in the Valley, did he just say "pshaw" and dismiss it all as parapsychological mumbo jumbo for the radio?
It was kismet and karma combined. They fell in love with each other, and Kimmel got Corolla a job on the show as Mister Birchum, the angry high school woodshop teacher. He was hilarious, so much so that he promoted up and up, until Comedy Central gave the duo a shot to create something. They came up with The Man Show. Corolla became the movie reviewer for K&B for movies he never saw. He was doing comedy in between construction jobs, as many future-famous friends partied in the Valley in a strange amalgamation of Hollywood talent:
LA is a smoggy kitchen of half-baked ideas, with just a few hills between the dusty Valley and shiny Hollywood. It all comes around because this morning (Sept. 24, 2025), Kevin Ryder (the K in K&B) is back on KROQ FM and the old K&B Show is now Klein . Ally . Show.
Kevin Klein and Ally Johnson have been following the Kimmel saga, as has Kevin Ryder, who was personally on hand at the historic Hollywood Masonic Lodge on Hollywood Blvd., where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is taped. He cried more than Kimmel did and reported what happened inside as Kimmel received a 7-minute standing ovation as soon as he stepped out in front of the studio audience. He called in to talk about it:
The censorship nightmare ends. Will Kimmel reign it in and stop raking the Orange One over the coals nightly? Will he apologize? Will he pay off [Karen] Kirk during her time of grieving with such hateful eyes as she pays beautiful lip service to evangelical Christian ideals? Probably. Disney-owned ABC is bringing him back, having been in negotiations since this all happened. What will Nexstar and Sinclair, cogs in the Network with the power to pre-empt the show on their stations, have to say about it? What will Trump's counter-reaction be? Satire to be made a felony for making people question authority.
Sinclair will refuse to air show, will pre-empt it with a dull news program: DC, Seattle, St. Louis, Columbus (Ohio), Las Vegas, Baltimore, and others (for a total of 38 nationally) will ban it from the air. Viewers will have to watch it on YouTube and in funny clips the next day
Jimmy Kimmel to RETURN: ABC ends suspension starting Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025
Brian Steinberg, Variety, Sept. 22, 2025
Take that, Old Poopy Drawers!
Jimmy Kimmel will have more to say on late-night TV. Disney and ABC will bring the comedian back to its schedule starting Tuesday night.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.
It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the company said in a statement. “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.”
Disney’s decision to bench one of its signature [comedic] personalities came after two major station owners, Nexstar Media and Sinclair, said they would pre-empt his program following a Kimmel monologue last Monday during which he offered remarks tied to the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Hollywood wields more power than Mar-a-Lago?
And yet, after Kimmel was taken off the air, Disney faced protest from the creative community. On Monday, 400 celebrities — including people like Martin Short and Tom Hanks, who have created memorable characters for Disney in the recent past — signed a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union decrying the blow the maneuver delivered to free speech in America.
The decision to bring Kimmel back was approved by Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, and Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The executives acted based on what was best for the company, this person said, and not on external factors. Indeed, it remains unclear if all ABC affiliates will air Kimmel’s program.
Spokespersons for Nexstar and Sinclair could not be reached for immediate comment. More
ABC suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ over [need to appease Trump's FCC to get approval of a merger to consolidate more power in one corporation using] Charlie Kirk comments [as a pretext]
(TODAY) Sept 18, 2025: ABC announces that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has been suspended “indefinitely” after the late-night host made comments on Monday about the shooting of Charlie Kirk. While many conservatives, including Pres. Don Trump, are applauding the move, Democrats and free-speech advocates are condemning it as a form of censorship. NBC’s Liz Kreutz reports for TODAY. #ABC #donaldtrump #FCC
Now as a result of all this censorship hoopla and corporate chaos, Kimmel's ratings are sure to skyrocket for his return Tuesday. Will he be able to hold onto them though?
Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, 9/23/25; Klein . Ally . Show (KROQ 106.7 FM); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
Former NFL player Mel Owens is the new Golden Bachelor | GMA
In our desperate search for love and fulfillment, some even go lesbian like author of Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert, who suffers from clinging (upadana) and severe intimacy/sex issues.
(Good Morning America) Former NFL player Mel Owensnamed "The Golden Bachelor" for Season 2.
The hit show has been renewed for a brand-new season on ABC and Hulu, with Owens taking on the role of leading man, Disney announced at Hulu's inaugural Get Real House event on Tuesday.
According to a press release, Owens is a 66-year-old Detroit native from a "close-knit Midwestern family." He attended the University of Michigan and was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams as the ninth pick in the 1981 NFL Draft.
Read more: goodmorningamerica.com/cu...
(Bachelor Nation on ABC) Sept. 4, 2025: #TheGoldenBachelor Going gold, going bold. [Getting old, getting sold...down the river to increase ratings as so many of us in our Golden Years still yearn and seek for The One.] Meet the INCREDIBLE women of #TheGoldenBachelor Season 2, premiering Sept. 24, 2025, on Disney's ABC. Stream it on Hulu.
Bachelor Nation on ABC, Sept. 4, 2025; GMA, April 23, 2025; ET; The View; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Crystal Q., Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! returns to ABC after suspension | LIVE outside Kimmel Theater | N18G
Heads will roll at the FCC for this! Disney!
(CNBC-TV18) Started streaming Tuesday, Sept. 23 (day of The Rapture) - HOLLYWOOD, California - We are live outside the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" theater (Masonic Lodge) in Tinsel Town, Los Angeles. Kimmel's late-night talk show is to resume airing tonight. He arrived around 11:00 am to prepare to videotape the program. The comedian's show was suspended after accusing Kirk's shooter of being MAGA [and because Nexstar wants to merge with Tegna, Inc. to gain market share, reaching 80% of households rather than the legally-limited 39% it currently controls, and Sinclair Broadcasting is also involved, dealing with Trump's FCC head Brendan Carr]. Kimmel will return after a massive boycott of Disney and Hulu by the free speech loving American public.
Disney, which owns the US broadcast network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live, said on Monday that it suspended the show because it "felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive." "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," Disney said. The comic's abrupt suspension came after threats by the federal TV regulator (FCC's Carr) to revoke ABC's broadcast license, sparking nationwide debates over free speech.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! tapes live from the Hollywood Masonic Temple on Hollywood Blvd. near Grauman's Chinese Theater with a studio audience of people in town to see Hollywood and locals.
On Feb. 21, 2024, Kimmel hinted that he may not renew his contract for further seasons after his current contract expires in May 2026 in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, stating that "I think this is my final contract. I hate to even say it because everyone's laughing at me now — each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good, that seems like enough" [23][24].
On Sept. 17, 2025, during an interview on right wing Benny Johnson's podcast, Trump's FCC chair Brendan Carr warned that action could be taken against ABC for humorous remarks by Kimmel during the monologue of the previous night's episode, in which he stated that the "MAGA gang" was "desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it" [25].
FCC Chair Carr called Kimmel's comments "truly sick” and said his agency "has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC, and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation," arguing that Kimmel "appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that Kirk’s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter" [26] [which would make it disinformation if that were the case].
MAGA, Kirk comments as pretext
Hail Fearless Leader Commander-in-Chief Trunf! All hail! Round up those who didn't hail.
. Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group both announced after the warning that they would pre-empt the show [show something else in its place] from their ABC affiliate stations indefinitely allegedly in response to Kimmel's [unforgiveable and "truly sick"] comments [27][28][29] [which most people did not think were that bad or too far from the mark].
Trump cares so much about Kirk that he sent AI
Shortly afterward, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be suspended indefinitely [25][30]. Nexstar stated that its original decision was made unilaterally and was not influenced by any correspondence with the FCC or other agencies.
However, it was pointed out that Nexstar has been seeking FCC approval for the acquisition of fellow television broadcaster Tegna, Inc. [31][32].
Deadline reported that Kimmel had refused to apologize but had planned to clarify his comments and specifically call out Trump supporters on that night's episode, and that ABC "hope[d] that it will be able to have Kimmel back on the air 'soon,' per sources, but whether Kimmel himself is willing is also unclear" [33].
Variety described the suspension as coming after "several prominent conservatives have called for any critic of [Kirk's] work to be silenced, no matter how nuanced the argument may be" [34][35].
CNN reported that Disney employees and Kimmel's staff received death threats following Carr's remarks and were doxxed [personally exposed] on social media and that the safety of employees and advertisers was a consideration.
However, Disney said they were reportedly "hopeful" that Kimmel's show will return [36] soon. It returns tonight, Sept. 23, 2025, shortly after massive financial fallout for Disney Corporation, with many Americans cancelling their subscriptions to Disney+ and the corporation's stock tumbling in value to the tune of a $4,000,000,000 loss.
With billions at stake and massive fallout from Hollywood luminaries and ordinary citizens and subscribers to deal with, Disney (which owns ABC) made nice and brought Kimmel right back less than a week after his initial suspension. What will Kimmel do to retaliate?
He didn't pay for our forgiveness, Charlie.
Will he make more jokes or follow the normal course of repeating jokes from the pool all the late-night hosts (Colbert, Meyers, Fallon, etc.) seem to use nowadays but with his own spin.
The past week, the joke everyone has been doing is exaggerated deference to the Orange Fuhrer, Dictator Trump, and the FCC Gestapo. One can only hope for a little apology, rising above the fray, and then digging into Trump on a nightly basis as usual. More
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