4 h. ago Trump gives morbid answer when asked about his hopes for 2026: ‘I want to survive’

Trump’s comments come just a month after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University

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7 h. ago Jon Stewart hijacks Jimmy Kimmel monologue to deliver gag about Trump’s late

Stewart joked that ‘the job security’s not really there right now’ for late-night talk show hosts

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51 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert on one another’s shows to ‘drive Trump nuts’

Kimmel returned to TV after his show’s suspension in the wake of comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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62 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel mocks Donald Trump's sex life and fitness routine after show suspension

Jimmy Kimmel has been back to his old ways of mocking Donald Trump since returning to television after his show was suspended following his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination

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2 d. ago FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel

Brendan Carr earlier said ‘we can do this the easy way or the hard way’ as he urged networks to take action on KimmelBrendan Carr, the tough-talking, pro-Trump chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claimed on Tuesday that Democrats and the media had “misrepresented” critical comments he made about Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talkshow.Television conglomerates including Nexstar and Sinclair opted to pull the show for “business” reasons, Carr argued, not because of anything he said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Utah governor calls on people to ‘stop shooting each other’ after Kirk killing

Spencer Cox tells 60 Minutes he’s making plea after being able to ‘unsee’ video of Charlie Kirk being shotThe Utah governor, Spencer Cox, has called on people in the US to “stop shooting each other – that’s it” saying he makes that plea against political violence after being unable to “unsee” video of a sniper in his state killing rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.Cox delivered those comments in an interview aired Sunday evening on the CBS program 60 Minutes, 18 days after Kirk’s shooting death at Utah Valley University (UVU) and one week from the Turning Point USA founder’s memorial service outside Phoenix. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings revealed days after huge viewership spike for return

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ was taken off the air following a controversy sparked by the host’s comments about the death of Charlie Kirk

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6 d. ago ‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right

After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turnIt has taken barely two weeks for Donald Trump to turn the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk to his political advantage, unleashing an unprecedented peacetime assault on free speech and a free press on the back of the assassination.Since Kirk’s death, the president and his top team have:forced a private media company to suspend late-night TV star Jimmy Kimmel for inaccurate comments he made about Kirk’s suspected shooter;threatened other TV networks with losing their licences should they say things Trump doesn’t like;vowed to prosecute “hate speech” that is fully protected under the first amendment;declared antifa a terrorist organisation in an indiscriminate attack on political ideology;and told journalists covering the Pentagon that they will have their access revoked unless they agree to restrictions on their reporting. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Kimmel controversy highlights ‘wildly dangerous’ consolidation of TV broadcasting

Rush to ‘preempt’ Kimmel’s talkshow after FCC chair’s threats comes as broadcasters seek merger approvalsIf the controversy behind Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a series of dominoes that fell one after the other, from the late-night host making his comments on Charlie Kirk’s killing to ABC halting production of his show, the first domino arguably fell this summer.Months before Kimmel was briefly pulled off the air, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) quietly announced it was seeking to make a huge change to broadcasting rules. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel, 57, trolled after revealing his elderly mother cared for him amid Charlie Kirk suspension

Kimmel, 57, was booted off the air last week over his comments about conservative political activist Charlie Kirk 's assassination at age 31.

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8 d. ago Disney investors demand details into company’s Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Shareholders want ABC owner to turn over documents related to decision to temporarily suspend late-night showA group of Disney investors is asking the company to turn over documents related to the company’s decision to temporarily suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, amid charges the media company may have been “complicit in succumbing” to media censorship.The investors, composed of lawyers for the American Federation of Teachers and Reporters Without Borders, noted that Disney’s stock “suffered significant declines in response to the company’s abrupt decision to suspend Mr. Kimmel and his show”, it said in a letter to Disney. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago They’ve finally gone there: South Park lets rip at Benjamin Netanyahu

No matter how hot the political temperature, Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s show can be counted on to go for the jugular. And with Brendan Carr in a mountain of poo and Israel’s PM in its sights, the latest episode doesn’t pull any punchesIn the three weeks since South Park last aired, things have changed. The assassination of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk exploded already fiery political tensions, with the Trump administration and its base embarking on a campaign of retribution the likes of which haven’t been seen since the McCarthy era, and stating, without sufficient evidence, that Kirk’s murder was the result of a wide-ranging leftist plot. Scores of people in the public and private sectors have been punished for commenting on the situation, most notably late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, whose show was briefly pulled off air after the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, put parent company Disney under pressure to do so.Suffice to say, the situation is far to...

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8 d. ago Watch: Heated row erupts at US council meeting over proposal to rename road for Charlie Kirk

A council meeting in Florida erupted over calls to rename a road for assasinated political commentator Charlie Kirk.

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8 d. ago Ethan Hawke CRASHES Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue following late night host's controversial return

Ethan Hawke crashed Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue on Wednesday, as the host returned to air following his controversial week-long suspension.

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8 d. ago South Park returns to brutally mock Trump's FCC chair for targeting Jimmy Kimmel

Brendan Carr has faced immense backlash from liberals and conservative free speech champions for his rebuke of Jimmy Kimmel which led his late night talk show to be pulled off air for a week.

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8 d. ago Almost 80% of voters believe America is ‘in political crisis’ and more than half are concerned violence will worsen, poll shows

The poll reflects the impact of seismic political events including the recent assassination of MAGA commentator Charlie Kirk

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8 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel breaks record as comeback show's ratings are released after suspension over Charlie Kirk remarks

Monday's episode, which was still preempted in 23 percent of the country over Kimmel's comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, drew 6.26 million viewers to ABC.

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9 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional ABC return after Charlie Kirk comments racks up millions of views on social media in hours: Live

“It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” Kimmel said Tuesday night as he got choked up

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9 d. ago Kimmel returns to late night with an emotional monologue but no apologies following suspension

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned to his show following a nearly one-week suspension with an emotional monologue but without apologies

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9 d. ago MAGA furious at Disney and ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s return: ‘They let the woke mob get to them’

Conservatives, including President Donald Trump, express anger over short duration of comedian’s suspension following ‘insensitive’ comments over fallout from murder of Charlie Kirk

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