Jimmy Kimmel Fake Cries as He Confronts His Own Lies About Charlie Kirk Assassination After Being Yanked Off the Air | The Gateway Pundit

Jimmy Kimmel Fake Cries as He Confronts His Own Lies About Charlie Kirk Assassination After Being Yanked Off the Air

Jimmy Kimmel returns to the late-night stage, addressing backlash over his false claims about Charlie Kirk’s assassination during his first monologue back on air. (Screenshot/ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!)

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel tried to stage a desperate damage-control moment on Tuesday night, choking up on camera as he attempted to walk back his lies about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Just last week, Kimmel told his dwindling audience that Kirk was killed by a “MAGA conservative,” a smear designed to demonize Trump supporters and weaponize a national tragedy for political gain. The statement was false, reckless, and dangerous.

The backlash was immediate. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr blasted Kimmel for spreading blatant disinformation on national television, warning of potential federal action against ABC and its parent company Disney.

Disney, facing mounting outrage, abruptly yanked Kimmel’s show off the air. But less than a week later, ABC announced he would be returning, prompting fury from viewers and broadcast partners alike.

By Monday evening, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which owns 30 ABC affiliates—announced it would no longer carry Jimmy Kimmel Live! in protest of ABC’s cowardly cave.

On Tuesday, Nexstar Media Group followed suit, pulling the show from all 32 of its ABC affiliates.

During his opening monologue, Kimmel tried to claw back credibility with a teary-eyed “apology”:

Jimmy Kimmel:
But I do want to make something clear because it’s important to me as a human, and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don’t think there’s anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it—and I still do.

Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the act of what was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some, it felt either ill-timed or unclear—or maybe both.

For those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset. If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I’d have felt the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don’t agree on politics at all.

I don’t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn’t—ever.

Also, selfishly, I am a person who gets a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my coworkers—because of what I choose to say. I know those threats don’t come from the people on the right who I know and love.

That’s what I wanted to say on that subject. But I don’t want to make this about me, because—and I know this is what people say when they make things about them—but I really don’t. This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.

I’ve had the opportunity to meet and spend time with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia, countries in the Middle East, who tell me they would get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power—and worse than being thrown in prison. They know how lucky we are here. Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country.

That’s something I’m embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Steven off the air and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air.

That’s not legal. That’s not American. That is un-American. And it is so dangerous.

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Meanwhile, President Trump on Tuesday evening issued a thinly veiled threat to ABC after they caved and gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.

“I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE.

“He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings,” President Trump said on Truth Social on Tuesday evening.”

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Jimmy Kimmel Got Paid $16 MILLION Yearly for NOTHING | The Gateway Pundit

Jimmy Kimmel Got Paid $16 MILLION Yearly for NOTHING

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Jimmy Kimmel’s downfall was not sudden, nor was it really about one offensive remark regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination. 

The truth is, ABC had been looking for a reason to push him out. Kimmel’s contract, set to expire next year, gave the network an easy out: if he became a liability to the company’s image, he could be suspended. 

That is precisely what happened. The Charlie Kirk controversy was only the excuse.

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For years, Kimmel collected a staggering $16 million annually, while his ratings were collapsing. 

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” fell from nearly two million viewers in January 2025 to just 1.1 million by August, trailing his late-night competitors.

Those numbers told ABC all it needed to know. Why keep paying one of television’s most enormous salaries when the show could no longer justify the cost?

Kimmel’s political imbalance only exacerbated the situation. 

According to NewsBusters, he hosted just one Republican guest in three years—Mike Lindell, who was mocked by being forced into a claw machine. 

By contrast, Kimmel welcomed 13 left-leaning guests this year alone. His monologues became partisan screeds: 1,128 jokes about Donald Trump in 2025, compared to just 26 about Joe Biden. 

Nearly 97% of his political jokes targeted conservatives. Kimmel wasn’t a comedian anymore. He was a political activist with a studio audience.

The network could tolerate this bias when ratings were high. 

But once his audience shrank and his public reputation soured, Kimmel no longer looked like an asset. 

His comments about Charlie Kirk’s death—claiming the “MAGA gang” tried to spin the murder—only accelerated the inevitable. 

ABC didn’t suspend him because of “free speech” or political pressure. They suspended him because his contract allowed them to whenever he embarrassed the company.

The hypocrisy is hard to ignore. 

Kimmel mocked conservatives endlessly, misled viewers about one of the most shocking assassinations in modern American history, and still got paid millions for it. 

Meanwhile, his audience dwindled, his jokes lost relevance, and his public image grew toxic.

Even within liberal circles, Kimmel had become hard to defend. 

As Roger Stone bluntly put it, “Kimmel’s greatest crime was that he wasn’t funny, and that his rhetoric often veered into the hateful. He won’t be missed.” 

That sentiment resonates across the spectrum: Kimmel was expensive, polarizing, and ultimately replaceable.

ABC framed his suspension as indefinite, but the writing is on the wall. 

His contract was nearly up anyway, and the network was already preparing for life after Kimmel. The Charlie Kirk controversy was simply the final straw.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t lose his show because of one comment. He lost it because his time was already up.

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REPORT: Stephen Colbert’s Show Was Losing $40 Million a Year Before Its Cancellation | The Gateway Pundit

REPORT: Stephen Colbert’s Show Was Losing $40 Million a Year Before Its Cancellation

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Stephen Colbert’s show was losing  its parent company CBS a staggering $40 million every year before its cancellation.

Yesterday evening, the network confirmed that it was cancelling the show for financial reasons after over a decade on air.

Meanwhile, a report from Puck News has now shed light on the extent of those losses and also Colbert’s reaction to his cancellation:

Today’s announcement that CBS will end Late Show With Stephen Colbert at the end of the 2026 season came as a shock to you, me, and those who’ve worked on the program for years. Paramount co-C.E.O. George Cheeks pulled the trigger on this one, though sources tell me CBS executives have been discussing the future of the Late Show franchise for months.

The Colbert team was notified around July Fourth that the show was in jeopardy, and Colbert himself was told of the final decision last night. CBS did not plan to announce the move so soon, per sources, but Colbert decided that to avoid leaks, he wanted to reveal it this afternoon to his staff and discuss it on his show tonight, which he did.

You can tell from the clips he’s still kinda in shock, and backstage, I’m told he was resolute and matter-of-fact with his top staff, thanking them and “not angry, actually,” per one source in the Ed Sullivan Theater.

For those keeping track of Paramount merger politics, Cheeks did not consult Ellison, JeffShell, or the incoming Skydance team in advance. Canceling a money-losing program does not rise to the level of a “material decision” that must be run by the new regime, and Late Show has been losing more than $40 million a year for CBS (though that doesn’t include some ancillary revenue).

Colbert is one of the many late-night comedians who has never made any secret of his strong allegiance to the Democratic Party and dedicates most of his show to mocking President Trump and the MAGA movement.

President Trump weighed in on Friday over Colbert getting the axe.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings,” Trump wrote.

Trump went on to predict who would be the next late-night show host to lose their job and then hailed the ONLY one with a sense of humor: Greg Gutfeld.”

“I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!” he continued. “Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.”

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