Before Jimmy Kimmel Live was suspended then reinstated in September, the 57-year-old host taped an appearance on Ted Danson’s podcast where he blasted the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s rival show. The 61-year-old Late Night host shockingly announced on July 17 that Paramount/CBS would not be renewing his contract after 11 years on the air, and … Read more
Aziz Ansari’s attempts to blunt criticism over his performance at a controversial comedy festival held in Saudi Arabia appear to have backfired. The 42-year-old comedian and filmmaker signaled Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he planned to donate a portion to his fee from performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival to organizations including Human Rights … Read more
A top broadcasting executive for the Sinclair organization says that Jimmy Kimmel‘s fate ultimately lies in Disney’s hands. Rob Weisbord, who serves as Sinclair’s chief operating officer and president of Local Media, was asked about the future of Kimmel’s ABC late night program Tuesday on the red carpet at New York City’s Ziegfeld Ballroom. Weisbord … Read more
Taylor Swift is slated to appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the coming days. But the 35-year-old pop star will not be stopping by Jimmy Kimmel’s controversial late show, which returned to the air last week after a hotly debated suspension. In promotion of her forthcoming album, The Life … Read more
Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe at Trump over the president’s United Nations escalator ‘sabotage’ which occurred earlier this week. The 57-year-old comedian – whose late night talk show returned on Tuesday after being pulled off the air – referenced to the incident by sharing an Instagram post on Friday. His sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez posed for … Read more
Jimmy Kimmel endured a bit of ridicule after revealing his mother Joann Iacono had been ‘relentlessly’ making food for him during his show’s week-long suspension. Kimmel, 57, was booted off the air last week over his comments about conservative political activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination at age 31. But the comedian was not without any sustenance during … Read more
LIVE couple Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos made rare political comments defending beleaguered late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and stressed the ‘importance’ of the USA’s First Amendment during their ABC morning show Wednesday. The Daytime Emmy Award-winning hosts – both 54 – fully admitted they normally ‘don’t talk about any politics’ especially while ‘sitting here in … Read more
Jimmy Kimmel was greeted by a familiar face as he returned to the set of his late night show Tuesday. A-list actor Glen Powell was there to provide support for his longtime friend as his first guest back since Kimmel’s suspension last week over comments he made about the reaction to the death of conservative … Read more
Jimmy Kimmel’s celebrity peers, including his close friend Jennifer Aniston, shared their celebratory reactions to his big late-night TV return. The host, 57, was ‘indefinitely’ suspended by ABC last week after the FCC came down on the network over ‘jokes’ he made about the death of conservative activist, Charlie Kirk. But, after days of ‘thoughtful … Read more
Roseanne Barr fiercely denounced the ‘double standard’ of ABC reinstating Jimmy Kimmel, seven years after the network fired her from her iconic sitcom. Jimmy Kimmel Live! was indefinitely suspended last Wednesday after its host suggested Charlie Kirk’s killer may have been part of the ‘MAGA gang,’ prompting the FCC chairman to publicly threaten a probe … Read more
Robert De Niro made a surprise appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback show on Tuesday, following the host’s ‘indefinite’ hiatus. The Oscar winner, 82, made a virtual cameo on Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing as a fictional new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairperson in a comedy sketch. The two lampooned FCC over free speech, after … Read more
Jimmy Kimmel made his late-night show return on Tuesday just one week after ABC suspended the comedian ‘indefinitely’ over remarks he made about the death of conservative activist, Charlie Kirk. Fans lucky enough to nab a ticket to the taping shared their thoughts on Kimmel’s comeback as they filed out of the El Capitan Theatre on … Read more
Barbra Streisand made a thinly-veiled reference to the Jimmy Kimmel fracas in a post remembering her classic movie The Way We Were, starring her alongside Hollywood legend Robert Redford, who died last week. Jimmy Kimmel Live! was indefinitely suspended last Wednesday after its host suggested that Charlie Kirk’s killer may have been part of the … Read more
