# Jimmy Kimmel pulled indefinitely from the air after comments about GOP response to Charlie Kirk’s death (Kimmel will be back on air Tuesday 2025-09-23) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [September 18, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140 "2025-09-18T01:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/1 "2025-09-18T01:00:48Z")
ABC has pulled _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ off the air indefinitely after he made comments about Charlie Kirk’s death that caused Republicans to lose their shit. > **[ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show off air 'indefinitely' over Charlie Kirk comments](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html)** > > Jimmy Kimmel suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, was aligned with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement. > In his [opening monologue for Monday night’s show](https://abc.com/episode/e3a6b644-b2c5-4d2b-aa32-2d77ce427304/playlist/PL557226598), Kimmel suggested that [Tyler Robinson](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-charges.html), the man accused of [fatally shooting Kirk](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-shooting-utah-gov-cox-.html) last week at a [Utah university](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/09/10/trump-ally-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-college-event.html), was aligned with President [Donald Trump](https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/)’s Make America Great Again movement. > > “The MAGA Gang 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,” Kimmel said. > > “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he added. That took guts, Jimmy. The FCC threatened to take away ABC’s broadcast license over it. And now Trump wants Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers of NBC off the air too. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/2 "2025-09-18T01:16:13Z")
You know, I’m just so disappointed that I don’t even have the emotional bandwidth to be mad. This is disgusting what’s happening to our country. And people voted for this. I have no faith in humanity. Especially Americans. And fuck all these media outlets too. I hope this backfires and bankrupts you all. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/3 "2025-09-18T01:17:09Z")
Seth Myers and John Oliver soon to follow, I’m sure. Fallon is a bland no-talent. He’ll probably skate. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/4 "2025-09-18T01:30:13Z")
Nothing he said was offensive or even disrespectful to Charlie. This is disheartening. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/5 "2025-09-18T01:31:21Z")
How many days until NBC folds? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/6 "2025-09-18T01:33:51Z")
Thread already here: [ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show indefinitely because of comments about Charlie Kirk - #34 by Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-show-indefinitely-because-of-comments-about-charlie-kirk/1023138/34) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/7 "2025-09-18T01:38:30Z")
So, in the midterms we’re voting for a new president, right? Right? Tell me we are. And the midterms are this November, right? A few months? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/8 "2025-09-18T01:53:04Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > That took guts, Jimmy. > > The FCC threatened to take away ABC’s broadcast license over it. > > And now Trump wants Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers of NBC off the air too. I’m sure he wants much more to happen to them. How long before he comes out and says it openly that he wants his political opponents not only silenced, but executed? Fuck me. He’s already said that, hasn’t he? > [@bobot](#): > > So, in the midterms we’re voting for a new president, right? Right? > Tell me we are. > And the midterms are this November, right? A few months? The midterms are this November, but the reason they’re called midterms is because they’re the election in the middle of the president’s term. So, nope, we’re not voting for prez this year. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/9 "2025-09-18T01:53:17Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Nothing he said was offensive or even disrespectful to Charlie. This is what I don’t get. What exactly was the offensive part? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/10 "2025-09-18T01:54:00Z")
What was offensive to the rightwingnuts is that Kimmel did not glorify the dead bigot. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/11 "2025-09-18T01:54:24Z")
He failed to refer to Kirk as a saint. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/12 "2025-09-18T02:06:04Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The midterms are this November, Sadly, no. That will be next year. It is still sad, because at this time Trump’s polling is underwater. And that usually goes to favor the party that is not in power to take the House at least. Finally having some needed accountability. But that will be until 2026 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/13 "2025-09-18T02:16:08Z")
Sadly, that won’t matter if people are convinced that he is still preferable to a Democrat…or if he makes it next to impossible for a Democrat to run. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/14 "2025-09-18T02:28:46Z")
Once again I am so glad I don’t live in the United States…and so sorry I live so close to the US border… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/15 "2025-09-18T02:45:02Z")
I am getting really REALLY sick of right wing cancel culture, along with the stench of hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/16 "2025-09-18T02:49:41Z")
That’s the smell of swamp-juice. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/17 "2025-09-18T03:20:57Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > The midterms are this November, > > Sadly, no. That will be next year. Right. I’m so disgusted with the current state of the country, I’m letting my wishes take over. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/18 "2025-09-18T03:27:10Z")
MAGA Republicans act as if there will be no midterms. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/19 "2025-09-18T03:28:51Z")
I hope a widespread boycott begins against ABC and Disney. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/20 "2025-09-18T03:29:12Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > MAGA Republicans act as if there will be no midterms. They’re doing their level best to make sure 2026 elections don’t matter, > **[The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-next-election)** > > The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways. > **[The 10 Ways Republicans Plan to Rig the 2026 Midterm Elections](https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-10-ways-republicans-plan-to-rig)** > > Donald Trump and Republicans have already announced their supervillain plot to rig the 2026 elections. How come Democrats and corporate media aren't sounding the alarm and fighting back? > **[Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/donald-trump-plan-to-rig-2026-midterm-elections-voter-suppression-gerrymandering-certification/)** > > From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor. Stranger [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140.md?page=2)