An emotional jimmy kimmel returns at the end of the evening after the suspension of show
Jimmy Kimmel returned in the air on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to a controversy that has sidelined his late evening show and intensified the debate around freedom of expression in the United States.
Kimmel opened his monologue with a joke characteristic of his show – “as I said, before being interrupted” – but took a dark tone when he had addressed the days that have passed since he was suspended from his niche.
“This show is not important,” said the host, taking the scene in Los Angeles carrying a blue tie with red stripes.
“What is important is that we live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”
It was one of the most anticipated late evening openers in recent years. During his 15 -minute monologue, Kimmel defended the right of the Americans to speak freely and said that he had heard Americans who believed in his protection against the political aisle.
Look | Kimmel’s complete monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_zo_ty
The host was sometimes emotional when he thanked those who had contacted with support and, because he recognized how he failed to speak of the man accused of having killed the right commentator Charlie Kirk.
“I never intended to shed light on the murder of a young man. I don’t think there is something funny about this. I posted a message on Instagram the day he was killed, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I thought it. And I always do it,” said Kimmel.
Kimmel rents the widow of Kirk
Disney and ABC suspended Kimmel’s show last week after the host said that “Le Gang Maga” had “desperately tried to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them, and to do everything they can to get political points.”
Tuesday, Kimmel said that it was not his intention “to blame a specific group for the actions of what was obviously a deeply disturbed individual”.
“It was really the opposite of the point I was trying to do, but I understand that for some who felt badly informed or not very clear, or perhaps both, and for those who think that I have pointed a finger, I understand why you are upset,” he said. “If the situation was reversed, there is a good chance that I would have felt the same thing.”
He also mentioned the widow of Kirk, Erika, who publicly forgiven the accused shooter who killed her husband during a memorial on Sunday.
“This is an example that we have to follow … it deeply touched me. If there is something we should take from this tragedy to continue, I hope it can be,” said Kimmel.
One hour before the start of the show, Trump threatened potential legal action against the network.
“I think we are going to test ABC on this subject. Let us see how we do it. The last time I proceeded to them, they gave me $ 16 million,” he wrote on the Social Truth, referring to the ABC of $ 15 million agreed to pay to his presidential library to settle legal action on an inaccurate anchoring at the height of Trump.
“This one seems even more lucrative.”
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Was suspended indefinitely after the comments of the end of evening host on the political trends of the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk. Andrew Chang breaks down Kimmel’s controversial monologue and why some experts are concerned about an attack on the Trump administration against freedom of expression. Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.
Kimmel did not stop with his usual Trump needle that night. He said that the president having said that the show had not obtained good grades, then joked: “I am doing this evening.”
“(Trump) did his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people watching the show.
The end of the evening host then joked by saying that Disney had asked him to read a message in the show as a condition for her return, asking people to reactivate their subscriptions to Hulu and Disney +. He then thanked his patterns of the network for allowing him to “stretch the limits of what was formerly traditional for a talk show at the end of the evening” over 23 years in his role, but said that he was “not happy when they withdrew me from the air”.
“I do not agree with this decision, and I told them, and we had a lot of conversations. I shared my point of view, they shared theirs. We talked.
The other comedians Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon made fun of the American president Donald Trump Thursday after Jimmy Kimmel Live! was removed from the air Wednesday by ABC after the pressure of the Federal Communications Commission. Although Trump does not retreat, even the republican senator Ted Cruz raises the concerns that the situation has gone too far.
Critics and supporters thanked for freedom of expression
Kimmel also thanked the former colleagues, the other end -of -evening hosts, the names of celebrities and “everyone” others who contacted him with messages on support. It was emotional to thank the public for the same thing.
“I also want to thank you all,” he said. “Who supported our program, cared enough to do something, to make your voice heard so that mine can be heard. I will never forget it.”
Kimmel also distinguished several personalities and politicians politically on the right who condemned his suspension, despite their personal disdain for the host, as a repression of freedom of expression.
“Perhaps especially, I want to thank people who do not support my program and what I believe, but supports my right to share these beliefs anyway,” said the host, including names like the conservative commentator Candace Owens and the republican senator Ted Cruz in his list.
“They need courage to denounce this administration and they have done so and they deserve merit. Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television and we must resist.”
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