Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the statement says.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
If I was Jimmy Kimmel I would absolutely not return lol. Fool me once…
Oh…. I would return… and give them a REAL reason to suspend the show this time!
Like a real Mon Motma speech scene… with the little Mouse scrambling to pull the plug live on air!
It’s not just Kimmel, there are a lot of staff that would lose their jobs on the show if he refused to return.
Exactly. He is probably swimming in money already, and could easily get another well-paying job in the industry somewhere or start his own e.g. production company. But the people working for him need their jobs, and there are around 200-250 of them. So even if he could say fuck you to Disney, he has to consider his responsibility to his colleagues/employees.
I was thinking of Norm Macdonald’s monologue when he got to host SNL after being fired.
That all depends on the lawyers and contracts.
But they pay him well so…