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
(LastWeekTonight) Sept. 21, 2025: John Oliver discusses ABC’s move to [censor, ban, cancel, suspend, temporarily] pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air, what it has to do with Trump's FCC man Brendan Carr and the FCC, what it means for free speech in the United States of America, and which broadcasting giant should open an Italian restaurant. Okay, fine: it’s Tegna. With a name like “Tegna” you’ve just gotta serve complimentary garlic knots. End of discussion. Peoples' hero Luigi Mangione is brought up, and the new wannabe Charlie Kirk Benny Johnson makes an appearance.
Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: lastweektonight.#nexstar #sinclairbroadcasting #tegna
John Olivers, This Week Tonight (HBO), Sept. 1, 2025; Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Reports say that all Kimmel needs to do is swallow his pride, kowtow to King Trump, and cut down on the "Trump is an idiot, a fascist, and a moron" talk -- which could get someone blamed for his attempted assassinations. It may be, however, that Kimmel is ready to quit and move to his new cabin, leaving Hollywood's limelight for the glow of fireflies with his show business partner wife.
(CNN) Host Erin Burnett looks into the authoritarian situation brought on by Fearless Leader Trump, who claims that ABC wouldn't want Kimmel back because of his terribly "low ratings." Of course, networks want the lowest ratings they can get because that's how they make their money. Oh, wait, it's the opposite. The government does not even license networks, just local broadcasters. The FCC does not have the power to threaten broadcasters, local or national, just because the Fuhrer (Nazi-like leader) has a problem with what they're saying about him. Should said leader be able to bring down South Park for satire and genuine criticism? What if The Simpsons gets out of line? If Access Hollywood or TMZ take a jab, are they out?
And by cancelled we mean "suspended indefinitely" and by Trump we mean the Powers That Be at Nexstar Media Group, who threatened to preempt JKL from here on in, with Bob Iger/Disney-owned ABC network, rushing to say they would suspend Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel's show pulled 'indefinitely' by ABC after Charlie Kirk remarks
I am the Dictator, so I get what I want!!!
(CNN) Sept. 17, 2025: Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night comedy talk show off the air immediately and indefinitely amid an exaggerated controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer. “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson said, declining to share any further details. #CNN #News
Billionaire Trump has a lot of rich friends trying to get richer. And one great way to do that is to kiss up to the Orange King.
The biting satire of Kimmel every night gets under Donald's skin worse than Stephen Colbert used to.
First they came for me. I fell.
So he had to go, and brownnosers trying to sidle up to Trump have always been looking for a way. One finally found one when, returning from summer break, Kimmel dared to comment on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, daring to suggest that the real killer was "one of them" (a right winger MAGA Trump fan) not a person on the Left. This was enough to seize on.
And the head of an owner-operator [CEO Perry Sook or COO Michael Biard] said Jimmy Kimmel Live would be preempted instead of appearing on their network (Nexstar Media Group) of affiliated stations under the control of the kisser-upper. And when the money stream is threatened, Disney pays attention.
Wow, ouch, maybe I should shush
Kimmel is now "suspended indefinitely," which with no unsuspension date really means cancelled, fired, dropped, banned, censored, terminated, destroyed... What will right wing best friend comedian Adam Corolla have to say about this, torn between friendship and his severely right-wing pro-Israel (pro-Praeger U) politics.
REASON TO KISS UP: It seems Nexstar was seeking an approval for a $6.2 billion merger, awaiting federal and/or Trump administration approval.
There has been NO public meltdown (yet).
So as to curry favor with Trump, who is currently having his English muffin kissed in England by British royalty, Nexstar thought it was advantageous to get Kimmel out of Trump's hair. Disney/ABC caught on and saved Nexstar the trouble of changing its programming. Now, currently in Hollywood near Grauman's Chinese Theater, where Kimmel filmed his show, the building is being locked down so none of the hundreds of workers on the show get in.
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