ABC Drops Jimmy Kimmel After Cruel Joke About Charlie Kirk

By Rob Bluey | Commentary, The Daily Signal

Jimmy Kimmel is off the air. Good riddance.

The vile and disgusting ABC late-night host used his Monday night monologue to make this comment about Charlie Kirk’s assassin (emphasis added):

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Yes, you read that correctly. And to make matters worse, Kimmel then proceeded to play a video mocking President Donald Trump and suggesting that he wasn’t grieving over Kirk’s death.

This is apparently the sad and pathetic state of late-night comedy in 2025.

It’s no wonder Americans are turning off has-been comedians like Kimmel.

They don’t find his crude jokes funny. And for that matter, neither does FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

It was Carr, in an appearance Wednesday on Benny Johnson’s show, who methodically explained that broadcasters operate by a different set of standards than others.

Carr’s agency, the Federal Communications Commission, is responsible for regulating America’s airwaves. To obtain a broadcast license from the FCC, companies that own and operate ABC affiliates—like Nexstar and Sinclair—must do so in the public interest.

Mere hours after Carr’s comments, both companies announced plans to preempt Kimmel’s late-night show Wednesday with other programming. ABC subsequently suspended production of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” indefinitely.

Carr’s comments elicited the typical media meltdown we’ve come to expect. It proved they’re out of touch with America—and, in this case, reality.

Americans should be grateful to have a fearless leader like Carr at the FCC. He’s committed to holding companies accountable and unafraid to speak the truth. In this case, Kimmel’s conduct warranted a swift rebuke. He deliberately misled his viewers about Kirk’s killer, suggesting he was a MAGA conservative.

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