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.”
Who’s to say this isn’t all a stunt to boost ratings?
And now everyone is going to run back with naive happy arms.
“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**'s lawyers**, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Edited the original quote to include subtext.
When TV’s tamest talkshow host gets his show banned, you know we’re in dystopian times.
So much for all the fascist right’s posturing on “free speech” lol
He might be tame but he leans liberal and that can’t be allowed because it hurts MAGA sensitive feelings. The lessons here is that MAGA positions immediately collapse under any sort of criticism or examination.
Never mind the hateful content Fox spews out 24/7.
Freedom warriors scared of a comedian.
They always are. Mel Brooks pointed that out years ago.
They know the tremendous power of strong propaganda, they have been developing the Conservative Propaganda Machine for decades.
They see this Blue Line at 11:30 pm, following the local news, and they know that even MAGAs, who tuned away from Fox News for a half hour to hear what happened in town, might accidentally end up staying tuned in, and hearing Colbert and Kimmel making fun of him.
They are far more than just comedians, they are chipping away at the wall in the brains of MAGA citizens. Every night they expose him for the buffoon he is, and eventually he is going to do something that even their MAGA followers think is buffoonery, and an entire brick will fall out of the wall. Once that happens, steady pressure will eventually make it crumble.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine understands all of this, and more. They have data tracking behavioral responses going back decades, and they have ALWAYS been hostile to the late night talk shows. Rather than adjust their behavior to reflect the rest of society, and thus avoid humiliation for their poor decisions, they would rather kill the messenger.
As much as it still hurts when companies walk back their decisions, it’s really important as consumers that we also walk back our decision on supporting them. If we always stop supporting them regardless, they will continue to make decisions that don’t support the people. It’s important that we have power in these scenario. In the end, it’s better that Kimmel is back on the air, and that he can joke and criticize what’s happening. Let’s support them walking it back.
Just putting him back isn’t enough if he seems muzzled. We’ll see.
Blah blah we want your money blah blah.
Exactly
Fuck em, arrr
They can die. I only pirate content from them, will never pay a dime.
Kimmel didn’t make any “Charlie Kirk comments”
He made fun of Trump for not giving a shit about Kirk’s death because he couldn’t get over his 8 year old equivalent impulse control to start bragging about the monstrosity they built on top of the Rose Garden at the White House.
Holy shit, so much this!
It’s honestly wild how far that narrative that he made some edgy comments has gone, to the point where it’s just being taken as fact in headlines now.
He barely even mentioned Kirk, and just stated that MAGA is trying really hard to claim the shooter was not one of them–didn’t even make any assertions about the actual shooter or their motives.
Anyone claiming he made disrespectful or inflammatory comments about Kirk is ignorant or a hypocrite.
Not signing back up for Hulu after I canceled, fuck em
The mouse bends the knee. Cyber bullying works! Don’t resubscribe.
I kinda wish Kimmel had told them to get fucked and went somewhere else, or started his own podcast.
We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy
You mean conversations with your lawyers. I’m sure Kimmel was lawyering up for breach of contract.
Kimmel would have been okay, but by some estimates there are as many as 200 staff members out of their job, and he’d never be able to take all of them with him. As cathartic it would have been to see him levave Disney, staying was the best option for his team.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, a similar staff are all out of jobs.
And making it even harder would’ve been the fact that he makes it well known a significant portion of the people working on his show are members of his family.
I agree. “Yeah Disney, this is the consequence of your actions. Get fucked. Enjoy sucking Trump’s dick.” Would have been much better.
Keep. On. Boycotting.
They’re are just in PR damage control, they have not fired a single person or told Sinclair/Nextstar to fire those who actively voice support for fascism.
Sinclair is the one that needs to hurt at the moment since they refuse to run the show, let sponsors know you’re unhappy
Money, that’s our only way of influence.
Yes, this really isn’t difficult, or shouldn’t be, but Americans are incredibly addicted to convenience. I’ve been saying for years now that we don’t even need a general strike of workers not working, people simply need to stop being good little consumers for a while, only buy the essentials when necessary, cancel all extraneous services, stop using the fascists’ platforms. In a consumer economy, consumers hold the cards, but unfortunately we’ve been trained well and think we cannot live without 37 different streaming services and food and whatever else you want delivered to your door, and then need to post about it all on TwitFaceAgram after a post about corporate 'Merica run amok.
I’ve been doing this since the Inauguration.
A large enough percentage of the population buying only necessities local goods would get Trump ousted.
The monologue will be fire.
Indeed! But since it’s Kimmel we’ll have to wait and see if it’s funny.
Holy shit boycotting works?
Always has been 🌏🔫 🧑🚀👩🚀👨🚀🧑🍳🧑🏭👩🔧👨🔧👩🏭👨🔬🧑💼👩💼👨💼🧑✈️👩✈️👮♂️🧑🚒👨✈️👮🕵♂️💂♂️🥷💂👷♂️👳👰♀️🧕👲🤱🦸♂️🎅🦹🧞♂️🧛🧛♀️🧟♂️🧎♀️💇👩🦽👩🦯👨🦼🕴🏌♀️🧖🏊🚣🏋🚴♀️🤸🚵🤹♀️🛀🧘♂️👪🫂🦰🦱🦳🦲
if it happens yes, the problem with boycotting is most people online who say they will boycott something usually don’t, or they weren’t using it in the first place.
this is especially true for games
It’s been sixteen fucking years.
it’s just a perfect picture. but this regularly happens in games. gAmErS are the worst bunch in boycotts because most of them don’t even have the discipline to wait for a fucking game to release let alone not play it at all. they just either “boycott” games they were never interested in at all in the first place or they just say it online for fake internet points and play the game anyway.
Isn’t that the reason Target is a fucking metronome on social issues?
Perfectly executed publicity stunt
Publicity stunt by Disney? Do they really need publicity? They are Disney, the most publicized company of all time.
Not for Disney, they don’t need the publicity. Jimmy Kimmel’s show on the other hand would benefit drastically - just look at the publicity he’s been getting for the past week.
