Jimmy Kimmel show taken off air after Charlie Kirk comments

US television network ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

The veteran late-night comic had made several comments about the reaction to Kirk’s assassination on his show Monday and Tuesday nights, including that “many in Maga land are working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

ABC, which has aired late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! since 2003, moved swiftly after Nextstar Communications Group said it would pull the show starting Wednesday.

“Mr Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, said.

Following the news, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich wrote on X: “Welcome to Consequence Culture. Normal, common sense Americans are no longer taking the b———- and companies like ABC are finally willing to do the right and reasonable thing.”

During his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

“In between the fingerpointing, there was, uh, grieving — on Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level you can see how hard the president is taking this,” he continued.

He then cut to a clip where Donald Trump responded to reporters asking about how he was doing by pointing to the construction of a ballroom at the White House.

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody he called a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?” Kimmel said.

He also said that FBI chief Kash Patel has handled the investigation into the murder “like a kid who didn’t read the book, BS’ing his way through an oral report.

He returned to the topic on Tuesday night, mocking Vice President JD Vance’s performance as guest host for Kirk’s podcast.

He said Trump was “fanning the flames” by attacking people on the left.

“Which is it, are they a bunch of sissy pickleball players because they’re too scared to be hit by tennis balls, or a well-organized deadly team of commandos, because they can’t be both of those things.”

Kimmel has not yet commented on the development.

Kimmel has consistently been critical of Trump and many of his policies on his ABC show.

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