 | Friday September 19, 2025 | | | | |
| |  | | According to new reporting from Puck's Matt Belloni, Jimmy Kimmel and ABC/Disney brass have continued to meet in hopes of finding a path to returning Jimmy Kimmel Live! to the air, but for now both sides are far apart. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | As Bill Carter writes, Thursday night saw late-night hosts unite in outrage—and in comedy—as they stood up for their friend Jimmy Kimmel and the First Amendment itself. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | LateNighter republishes Rick Ellis’s 'Too Much TV' interview with an unnamed Jimmy Kimmel Live! staffer on the fear, frustration & fallout behind ABC pulling the show—and why they doubt it’s coming back. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | With Saturday Night Live behind her, Ego Nwodim is beginning to picture her next chapter. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | Jon Stewart responded to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension Thursday night by transforming The Daily Show into “the government-approved Daily Show,” complete with soaring patriotic music, an announcer hailing him as a “patriotically obedient host,” and the show’s trademark blue hue repainted in gleaming Trump gold. | | | | | |
| | | |  | | Stephen Colbert opened Thursday night’s Late Show with a Disney-styled animated musical number lampooning ABC and its parent company Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! under pressure from the Trump administration. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | The fictional former host of The Colbert Report returned to The Late Show Thursday night to warn late-night hosts to “Shhhhhh!” as Kimmel’s suspension looms over the time slot. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | Seth Meyers closed out Thursday night's "A Closer Look" with a pointed—and personal—message about Jimmy Kimmel's sudden suspension and its implications for free speech in America. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | Jimmy Kimmel's last night on the air—for now—ended with a prescient musical performance. | | | | | |
| |  | | Will Forte's 'MacGruber' Miata is the gift that keeps on giving. For the third time in two years, the car is back on the auction block for a good cause—and once again, it comes with the chance to hang with MacGruber himself. | | | | | |
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Conan O'Brien on Kimmel Suspension: 'Anyone with a Conscience Knows Its Wrong'
| "The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the promise to silence other late-night hosts for criticizing the administration should disturb everyone on the Right, Left and Center," O'Brien wrote in an Instagram post Friday.
| | Jay Leno: ‘I’m on Jimmy Kimmel’s Side’ | Jimmy Kimmel Standards and Practices Exec Calls Suspension 'Unnerving'
“We live in very unnerving and surreal times which is all I’ll say now on the matter,” John Wolk, a member of Kimmel's standards and practices team, said in a post shared with friends on Facebook, per The Wall Street Journal.
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