The presenter’s return to studios earned 6.2 million viewers on Tuesday, despite being censored by 20% of ABC affiliates
The comedian took a moment to thank the president for his efforts in the episode of Thursday of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “It was a tumultuous week. Even being censored in 60 American cities, on Tuesday we had our second program with the highest audience in almost 23 years in the air,” he said Kimmel.
The monologue of Tuesday night has over 21 million views only on Youtube. And I mean we wouldn’t have achieved without you, Mr. President. Thank you very much.
Last week, the ABC abruptly suspended the longtime series Kimmelquoting a “timed and thus unstable” monologue in which the comedian criticized the right for trying to “mark political points” with the murder of Charlie Kirk. Kimmel He did not issue a statement in the following days, but Hollywood raised his voice on his behalf with more than 400 artists, actors and entertainment figures taking a position against the “government threats to our freedom of expression.”
THE Disney reached a formal decision to bring Kimmel Back to the waves of ABC a week after your indefinite suspension. “We spent the last days having reflective conversations with Jimmyand after these conversations, we reached the decision to return the program on Tuesday, ”said the Walt Disney Co. in a statement.
Donald Trump responded to the announcement of the return of Kimmel with an outburst in Truth Socialstating that it intends to process the Night Program network. Naturally, the presenter recognized the president’s chilique the next day, describing Trump as a “80’s movie boot style” and making a line deconstruction by line of your post on Truth Social.
At another time of Thursday’s monologue, Kimmel mocked the “escalator that tried to viciously attack the president this week”, referring to the public irritation of Trump with a defective escalator at the UN General Assembly. “You have enjoyed the most ridiculous distraction from Trump judgments of Epstein?”, he said Kimmel In his program, before passing conservative media clips lamenting the president’s transport fiasco. “Do you know what is another word for frozen escalator? Stairs,” he joked Kimmel. “Is he the strongest, healthy, and physically powerful debut already elected president or a fragile grandma with osteoporosis?”
This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Charisma Madarang on September 26, 2025, and can be checked here.
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