Jimmy Kimmel: Cancel Culture Or Consequences?

Amala Ekpunobi

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show indefinitely amid backlash over his comments about Charlie Kirk. Everyone has takes on this—we’ll look at what people on the right and left are saying, and I’ll share mine. Let’s talk about it.

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0:59.2	So Jimmy Kimmel's show Jimmy Kimmel Live has been suspended indefinitely after backlash
1:03.0	regarding his comments on Charlie Kirk.
1:04.9	And I got to say, guys, I do not know how I feel about this.
1:08.1	Let's talk about it.
1:08.9	Yeah, you better.
1:14.3	Yeah, you better.
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1:21.1	Today we're going to be talking about Jimmy Kimmel.
1:22.2	So here's the news.
1:28.5	ABC polls Jimmy Kimmel live indefinitely after nextstar backlash to host Charlie Kirk comments.
1:33.0	And we're going to get straight into the Charlie Kirk comments that brought about all this criticism and all this backlash. Let's hear what he had to say.
1:35.9	We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize
1:40.9	this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them
1:44.9	and doing everything they can to score political points from it. Okay, there you go. Those are
1:50.7	the comments in question. So I guess he's trying to put forward this narrative that the shooter
1:55.9	of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, was in fact a MAGA conservative. Now, this sort of spin, I guess, on the story
2:03.0	comes from the idea that because Tyler Robinson grew up in a conservative Christian household,
2:08.8	that he must be a MAGA conservative. Now, I don't know whether or not Jimmy Kimmel is just
2:13.6	outright lying at this point when saying this because he would have had information,
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