Both Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel have completely ignored the serious allegations against their one time Democratic ally Eric Swalwell, with no "jokes" appearing in their politically charged monologues since the congressman resigned in disgrace one week ago. For...
The dwindling late-night television landscape shifted again this week as ABC announced that it was indefinitely pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air. The decision came after years of declining ratings and a fresh wave of backlash following Kimmel spreading misinformation about the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Could Jimmy Kimmel Live! actually return to the air on Disney-owned ABC? Has Jimmy Kimmel been fired or even cancelled?
Kimmel has not been fired as of yet, but he is refusing to apologize for the comments that sparked this backlash. That refusal, paired with heavy political and affiliate pressure, appears to have left Disney executives little choice but to act.
In a stunning development, Disney and ABC have yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following intense backlash over Kimmel’s offensive and misleading commentary on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The decision comes after one of ABC’s most powerful affiliate groups, Nexstar, announced it would preempt Kimmel’s show on its stations due to his “recent comments concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk.”
Jimmy Kimmel has long been one of the most partisan voices on late-night television, but his recent comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk crossed from mockery into outright misinformation. On his ABC show, Kimmel smeared conservatives and President Trump by wrongly claiming Kirk’s alleged killer was a Trump supporter. The reality? Evidence has revealed the suspect was radicalized by supposed “anti-fascist” rhetoric — the very opposite of the narrative Kimmel peddled to his shrinking audience.
Upon receiving his award at the Emmys, Colbert was quoted stating, “Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. Ten years later, in September of 2025, my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!”
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time turning the tragic assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk into a political weapon against President Trump.
Instead of using his ABC platform to reflect respectfully on this horrible event, Kimmel chose to attack President Trump..Again. This time over what he perceives as the president’s failure in calling for unity in the wake of tragedy. The problem? Kimmel has never been a voice for unity himself. In fact, his career has been built on stoking rage and mocking conservatives, making his lecture to Trump ring hollow.
The tragic death of Charlie Kirk has shaken political and media circles alike. Yet the fallout has already exposed sharp divisions about how to react, and who gets to claim the moral high ground. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, long known for his scathing barbs aimed at conservatives like Charlie Kirk, is now urging Americans to stop “angry finger-pointing.”
Jimmy Kimmel has built his late-night persona on mocking President Trump. At this year’s Creative Arts Emmys, he kept that streak alive while also brushing off any suggestion that he’s some noble figure “defending democracy.” Still, if his comments backstage sounded dismissive, his attitude showed the same smug self-satisfaction that has defined his Emmy-night politics for years.
Jimmy Kimmel returned from his summer hiatus this week and wasted no time going back to the same well he’s been drawing from for years: Donald Trump. In his opening monologue, Kimmel mocked the President as “woke” and accused him of embracing cancel culture. The line made headlines, but the bigger story is Kimmel’s refusal to budge from the partisan content that has steadily driven away his audience.
In one of the strangest twists in recent Hollywood memory, Stephen Colbert has finally won an Emmy for The Late Show—just weeks after CBS announced his program is being canceled. After nearly a decade on the air and 33 nominations without a single victory, Colbert’s show secured its first statuette in the Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series category.
The timing couldn’t be more suspicious. Was this really about rewarding creative merit, or was Hollywood sending a political message after CBS pulled the plug on the partisan host?
As Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers return from their summer hiatus, media outlets are working overtime to assure readers that late-night TV’s struggles have nothing to do with politics. Late Nighter, a trade site focused on the format, ran a feature this week framing the looming season as a test of the medium itself rather than the hosts’ increasingly partisan material.
A wild rumor has been spreading across social media, claiming Stephen Colbert has signed a $13.5 million contract with Netflix for a seven-episode docuseries. The supposed project was described as a behind-the-scenes look at Colbert’s rise to fame. It sounded...