Kimmel Returns to TV

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves. MSNBC’s Jason Johnson reports and is joined by David Litt, former speechwriter for President Obama, and Tara Setmayer, co-founder and CEO of The Seneca Project.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Beat. I'm Jason Johnson in Fari Melbourne. We begin tonight with a victory of sorts for free speech. As late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves in just a couple hours, just days after Disney announced that he was suspended indefinitely, reports say Kimmel plans to address the controversy tonight in his opening monologue, his first public comments about the ordeal.
0:24.7	Fellow late night host Stephen Colbert was celebrating Kimmel's return.
0:30.1	Wonderful news for my dear friend Jimmy and his amazing staff.
0:34.6	Once more, I am the only martyr in Lake Nights.
0:39.3	Like,
0:40.3	unless CBS,
0:42.4	you want to announce anything?
0:44.9	Ah?
0:45.6	Nah?
0:46.6	Hey, me.
0:48.4	Yeah?
0:48.5	Huh?
0:49.2	Huh?
0:51.3	Still no?
0:53.2	Right,
0:53.7	because the money thing, I forgot.
0:54.8	Yeah, the mine thing, right?
0:57.6	Colbert also a frequent Trump critic poking fun at his own demise.
1:01.8	His show was in its vital season.
1:04.1	But this free speech crisis is far from over as Trump allies and MAGA fans are furious for Jimmy Kimmel's return.
1:11.9	The LA Times noting, quote, Disney wanted to be done with politics, but politics wasn't done
1:16.5	with Disney.
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