Jimmy Kimmel has returned to the airwaves after an episode was unexpectedly pulled from ABC’s late-night lineup final week.
Kimmel, 57, hosted a brand-new present on Monday, November 10, kicking off an ’80s-themed week with visitors George Clooney, Mike Tyson and “Crusing” singer Christopher Cross.
The late-night host didn’t clarify why ABC eliminated the Thursday, November 6, version of Reside! from its schedule. Kimmel made topical jokes about politics throughout his monologue and engaged in a breezy, upbeat dialog with Clooney, 64, who regaled the viewers with humorous tales about pranking Brad Pitt and filming an unreleased horror flick dubbed Grizzly II: Revenge circa 1983. Elsewhere on the present, Kimmel promoted his “Massive Stunning Meals Financial institution” initiative offering meals for individuals who depend on SNAP advantages to get by.
Kimmel’s Thursday episode was initially scheduled to have David Duchovny, Joe Keery and Madison Beer as visitors. Beer later took to her Instagram Tales to substantiate the information she’d not be showing, writing, “Because of unexpected circumstances, @jimmykimmellive wanted to reschedule my efficiency that was initially scheduled to air tonight to a later date.” She famous that her look can be rescheduled for a later date.
As an alternative, a previous episode that includes Tessa Thompson, Daymon John and The Beths re-aired as an alternative. Whereas no additional particulars got on the time, Leisure Weekly later reported that the present was canceled attributable to a “private matter” involving Kimmel.
The shock cancellation got here only one month after Kimmel was suspended following his on-air feedback about Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson. On the time, a spokesperson for ABC confirmed to Us Weekly that Jimmy Kimmel Reside! can be “pre-empted indefinitely.”
The choice to drag the present resulted in ABC going through a good quantity of backlash, with 400 A-list celebrities signing an open letter in assist of bringing the comic again to late night time. Simply six days off air, Disney, ABC’s father or mother firm, introduced that Kimmel would return to its frequently scheduled programming.
“Final Wednesday, we made the choice to droop manufacturing on the present to keep away from additional inflaming a tense state of affairs at an emotional second for our nation,” the Walt Disney Firm stated in a press release. “It’s a choice we made as a result of we felt a few of the feedback had been ill-timed and thus insensitive. Now we have spent the final days having considerate conversations with Jimmy, and after these conversations, we reached the choice to return the present on Tuesday.”
The destiny of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night time present, Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, has been determined after it was pulled off the air. “Final Wednesday, we made the choice to droop manufacturing on the present to keep away from additional inflaming a tense state of affairs at an emotional second for our nation,” the Walt Disney Firm stated in a press release […]
Kimmel returned with a brand new episode on September 23, thanking viewers and followers for his or her assist, calling it an “overwhelming” week.
“I’ve heard from lots of people over the past six days. … Everybody I’ve ever identified has reached out 10 or 11 instances,” he stated throughout his opening monologue. “Characters from my previous, the man who fired me from my first radio job in Seattle — the place we aren’t airing tonight, by the way in which — his title is Larry.”
He continued, “You supported our present and cared sufficient to do one thing about it to make your voices heard in order that mine may very well be heard, and I’ll always remember it.”
When Kimmel appeared as a visitor on The Late Present Starring Stephen Colbert two days later, he admitted to pondering Reside! was “over” perpetually. “I used to be like, ‘That is by no means coming again on the air,’” he recalled pondering. “That’s actually what I assumed.”
Jimmy Kimmel Reside! airs on ABC weekdays at 11:35 p.m. ET.
