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Jimmy Kimmel repeats ‘hateful’ joke about ‘expectant widow’ Melania Trump in attempt to defend himself after WHCD shooting

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Jimmy Kimmel repeats ‘hateful’ joke about ‘expectant widow’ Melania Trump in attempt to defend himself after WHCD shooting

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel dared to repeat the “hateful” ill-timed joke he made about first lady Melania Trump looking like an “expectant widow” in a bombed roast he delivered days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Kimmel, who narrowly dodged outright cancellation for making similarly distasteful jokes about Charlie Kirk’s assassination in … Read more

Mentalist Oz Pearlman won’t appear on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ after WHCD shooting, Melania Trump ‘widow’ quip

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Mentalist Oz Pearlman won’t appear on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ after WHCD shooting, Melania Trump ‘widow’ quip

Mentalist Oz Pearlman will not appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, despite previously being scheduled as the embattled comedian’s guest. Pearlman’s apparent decision to back out comes two days after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, where the entertainer was set to perform magic tricks for the commander-in-chief and attendees — and hours after … Read more

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ house band changes its name after Cleto Escobedo’s death

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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ house band changes its name after Cleto Escobedo’s death

Cleto Escobedo III’s legacy lives on. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has honored Escobedo, the program’s house band leader who died Nov. 11 at age 59, by changing the musical group’s name. During the late night show’s title sequence on Monday’s episode, Cleto and the Cletones was officially rebranded as The Cletones. Cleto Escobedo performing with his … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel reveals special way he is honoring late friend and ‘JKL!’ band leader Cleto Escobedo

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Jimmy Kimmel reveals special way he is honoring late friend and ‘JKL!’ band leader Cleto Escobedo

Jimmy Kimmel is still mourning his close friend and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” band leader Cleto Escobedo. The grieving late-night host recently took to social media to announce the launch of two fundraisers on Escobedo’s behalf following his shocking death earlier this week at the age of 59. “Cleto was always kind and eager to help … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel breaks down in tears paying tribute to best friend, bandleader Cleto Escobedo: ‘It’s just not fair’

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Jimmy Kimmel breaks down in tears paying tribute to best friend, bandleader Cleto Escobedo: ‘It’s just not fair’

Jimmy Kimmel paid homage to his late best friend and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” band leader, Cleto Escobedo III, during the “hardest” opening monologue the late-night host said he ever had to deliver. Kimmel broke down in tears on Tuesday night’s show as he shared intimate details about his “great friend, father, son, musician and man” … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel grills Aziz Ansari for performing at Riyadh comedy festival under ‘brutal regime’

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Jimmy Kimmel grills Aziz Ansari for performing at Riyadh comedy festival under ‘brutal regime’

Liberal talk show host Jimmy Kimmel grilled comedian Aziz Ansari on Monday for performing at a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, noting he is one of many to be scrutinized for taking money from Saudis. The entertainment world has been rocked in recent weeks by a massive comedy festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, featuring many of the … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel says he’d ‘love’ to have Trump on his show: ‘I’ll ask him’

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Jimmy Kimmel says he’d ‘love’ to have Trump on his show: ‘I’ll ask him’

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he would “love” to bring President Trump on his nearly axed ABC show despite frequent clashes with the prez online and the White House’s celebration of its suspension. “I’d love to have Trump on the show, for sure,” Kimmel said during an interview at the Bloomberg Screentime media conference on … Read more

Jane Fonda revives Cold War-era activist group following Jimmy Kimmel suspension

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Jane Fonda revives Cold War-era activist group following Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Drawing upon her personal and political past, Jane Fonda has revived an activist group from the Cold War era that was backed by her father and fellow Oscar winner, Henry Fonda. Jane Fonda announced she had launched a 21st century incarnation of the Committee for the First Amendment, originally formed in 1947 in response to … Read more

How ‘shaken’ Jimmy Kimmel found out his late-night show was suspended: ‘Emotional rollercoaster’

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How ‘shaken’ Jimmy Kimmel found out his late-night show was suspended: ‘Emotional rollercoaster’

Jimmy Kimmel is looking back on the fateful moment he learned his late-night show was suspended. While appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday night, Kimmel, 57, said he went through an “emotional rollercoaster” when ABC briefly axed “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last month because of his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “It … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert guest-star on each other’s shows to vent about late-night cancellations

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Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert guest-star on each other’s shows to vent about late-night cancellations

Late-night talk show pals Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert guest-starred on each other’s shows Tuesday night to vent about their respective programs being pulled from TV. The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host, whose coveted late-night show was briefly yanked off air by ABC on Sept. 17 following his controversial comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, recounted … Read more

Disney is having the worst year ever — Kimmel, ‘Snow White’, ‘Captain America’

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Disney is having the worst year ever — Kimmel, ‘Snow White’, ‘Captain America’

“One Battle After Another” is a new Warner Bros. movie out this weekend starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s also a bang-on description of the non-stop pummeling that one of WB’s rival studios, Disney, has endured all year long. Check your tires! The House of Mouse is roadkill. From audience franchise fatigue to creative incompetence to multiple … Read more

Sarah McLachlan, Jewel cancel Disney premiere performances to support ‘free speech’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

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Sarah McLachlan, Jewel cancel Disney premiere performances to support ‘free speech’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Sarah McLachlan and Jewel are standing in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel. The singers canceled their planned performances at ABC News’ “Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery” documentary premiere in Los Angeles Sunday to protest Disney’s decision to suspend “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” McLachlan, 57, introduced the film at the screening and told the audience that the artists … Read more

Actor James Woods bashes Jimmy Kimmel in a series of X posts

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Actor James Woods bashes Jimmy Kimmel in a series of X posts

Actor James Woods is bashing Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of his boot from late night TV, calling him an “unfunny” money loser who should “eat s–t” — and ripping his supporters as “douchebags.” On Thursday, the Emmy winner — who has 5 million X followers — feigned support for the embattled funnyman, and then … Read more

Bill Maher says Jimmy Kimmel was ‘wrong’ to suggest Charlie Kirk’s killer supported MAGA — as he blasts ex-network over suspension

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Bill Maher says Jimmy Kimmel was ‘wrong’ to suggest Charlie Kirk’s killer supported MAGA — as he blasts ex-network over suspension

HBO host Bill Maher said Friday that Jimmy Kimmel was “wrong” to suggest that Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin was a MAGA Republican — but slammed his former network ABC for taking the comedian off the air. “You know, Jimmy, look, I don’t think what he said was exactly right. I don’t agree. We don’t agree … Read more

Keith Olbermann goes after Stephen A. Smith for ‘prostituting himself to right wing’ with Jimmy Kimmel joke criticism

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Keith Olbermann goes after Stephen A. Smith for ‘prostituting himself to right wing’ with Jimmy Kimmel joke criticism

Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann extended his torrent of controversial social media attacks this week, this time taking aim at current ESPN star Stephen A. Smith.  Smith weighed in on ABC’s decision to indefinitely pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air for recent remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, during an episode of his podcast on Thursday. Smith criticized … Read more

FCC chair thinks investigating ‘The View’ ‘worthwhile’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

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FCC chair thinks investigating ‘The View’ ‘worthwhile’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday he believes it would be “worthwhile” to investigate whether ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” is violating broadcast rules in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. Carr argued on “The Scott Jennings Show” that the left-leaning talk show could be violating the commission’s “equal time” rule, which … Read more

Seth Meyers calls Trump a ‘visionary, innovator, great president, even better golfer’ in joke following ABC’s indefinite suspension of Kimmel

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Seth Meyers calls Trump a ‘visionary, innovator, great president, even better golfer’ in joke following ABC’s indefinite suspension of Kimmel

One day after “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was pulled off the air, comedian Seth Meyers slammed the Trump administration’s “crackdown” on free speech during his late-night show, while calling it a “privilege” to know Kimmel. “Donald Trump is on his way back from a trip to the United Kingdom, where he was met with protest, while … Read more

Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled off air ‘disturbing’ — but Stephen A. Smith admits comments ‘didn’t appear to be the wisest move’

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Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled off air ‘disturbing’ — but Stephen A. Smith admits comments ‘didn’t appear to be the wisest move’

Stephen A. Smith has now weighed in on Jimmy Kimmel’s eponymous show being taken off the air indefinitely by ABC.  The ESPN personality spoke on Kimmel, who was suspended by ABC for controversial comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during his show on Monday, in a video posted to YouTube on Thursday, … Read more

David Letterman slams ABC for putting Jimmy Kimmel on pause over Charlie Kirk comments

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David Letterman slams ABC for putting Jimmy Kimmel on pause over Charlie Kirk comments

David Letterman is weighing in on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late-night TV. The comedy legend slammed ABC’s recent decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” while speaking at the 2025 Atlantic Festival on Thursday, Sept. 18. David Letterman takes part in the 2025 Atlantic Festival in New York City on September 18, 2025. Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel … Read more

Late-night TV is truly dead — and you can only blame egotistical, politically obsessed Kimmel and Colbert themselves

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Late-night TV is truly dead — and you can only blame egotistical, politically obsessed Kimmel and Colbert themselves

Late-night TV is well and truly dead — at the hands of the hosts themselves. Their weapon? Their own blind rage at half the country. Hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have deluded themselves into thinking that their mandate is to save democracy with one-sided political rants, rather than serving up breezy topical humor … Read more