"In a vacuum, ABC's sudden suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" won't change my life in any meaningful way. Kimmel operated in late night, a genre whose cultural influence died off many years ago. And I myself never watched Kimmel's namesake broadcast, which has run on ABC without incident for 22 years. I'm sure it's a perfectly decent show, but it was never one that I felt the urgent need to tune into. I'm glad it existed, but I lived without it."
"The rest of this country will now also have to do likewise. ABC, owned by Disney, took Kimmel off the air indefinitely (and almost certainly forever) yesterday. This move did not happen in a vacuum. Quite the contrary. In fact, Kimmel's demise was quickly engineered by a number of factors after the host said this during his monologue on Monday night:"
"Some context here. Extreme right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk was killed in cold blood last week. The man suspected of shooting Kirk is Tyler Robinson, who recently turned himself in to the authorities. Kirk didn't deserve to be felled by an assassin's bullet - no one does - but Jimmy Kimmel never stated, nor implied, as much. In fact, Kimmel went out of his way on Friday night to distance himself from any sort of macabre gloating over Kirk's murder."
ABC, owned by Disney, suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely and likely permanently after host comments about Charlie Kirk and his allies. Kimmel previously condemned celebratory reactions to Kirk's killing and distanced himself from gloating. Charlie Kirk, a right-wing podcaster with a record of inflammatory racial remarks and ties to former President Trump, was killed; the suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, turned himself in. Kimmel's follow-up monologue attacked Kirk's allies, triggering a rapid campaign of pressure and consequences. The suspension occurred despite Kimmel's two-decade run on ABC and amid observations that late-night television's cultural influence has waned.
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