Jimmy Kimmel's late night show suspended

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off-air 'indefinitely' after the host made controversial comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk who was assassinated last week.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Massive breaking entertainment news out of America. Jimmy Kimmel's late
night show has been suspended following comments about Charlie Kirk's
assassination were deemed inappropriate.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
If I'm all, we're joined by Peter Ford Pete, this
is just breaking. Now, what's the.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Latest, Well, there's a lot we don't know. Still, it's
all unfolding. So we're now just after four point thirty
in the afternoon. This is exactly the time when Jimmy
Kimmel would have been starting recording his show. The audience
are told to be there from three point thirty. Record
time is four thirty. That's so it can go to
air on the East Coast. So that's clearly not happening.

(00:35):
All those people who were there will be sent away.
I don't know what they're being told. They're probably very
confused and probably disappointed. Don't forget it was eight weeks
ago when President Trump said Jimmy Kimmel is going to
be next. So all this relates to a comment. Wasn't
a joke, It was a comment. Wasn't even a big
deal kind of shot comment that Jimmy Kimmel made on

(00:55):
Monday Night show speculating about what kind of political leaning
the assassin of Charlie Kirk may have had. That's the comment.
Now we'll run it later. It's not something you would say,
oh my god, he should be fired for that. You
almost get the feeling that they've been sitting there waiting
for something, anything, to do this. And you might have

(01:17):
also heard about a man called Brendan Carr, who's the
boss of the Federal Communications Commission. He's a Trump appointee.
He's the person who appeared on a podcast yesterday and
said this was the sickest possible behavior. That comment was
the sickest possible behavior. So the ABC can't afford to
lose their license. So what happened in about forty five

(01:38):
minutes ago a group called next Start, how do you feel?
A group of affiliates across America, some of them big towns,
some of them small towns, but thirty two of them
said we're not going to put the show to air
tonight and for the foreseeable future. Now, at that point,
the ABC network hadn't said the show's not happening anyway.
After that, the ABC there and said the show is

(02:01):
canceled indefinitely. In a very very short statement. So whether
maybe at one point they are going to let him
do the show even though it wouldn't air in thirty
two cities. Maybe they couldn't risk it. If you know, Kimmel,
I can't see. He's the type of guy who's going
to apologize. He's going to dig his heels in and
this will be a real showdown. He's clearly under contract.

(02:22):
But the bigger picture is the ABC license. Show business
is two words. The second word is longer than the first.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, very well, but it's going to be very interesting
to watch that. Pete back home and tributes to paurd
In overnight for legendary Channel seven News presenter Roger Clemson,
who has passed away at the age of ninety three.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, just shy of ninety four and a gentleman of
the industry, and such a beautiful voice, such a smooth delivery.
You know. I don't know about you, two, but when
you're growing up, you see certain people on TV and
you think, oh, they're so cool. You know, I'd like
to be like that, And he's one of those people.
In that audience, of course, it was this is your
life for so many years. Did that beautifully Australia's most

(03:05):
wanted But because his story is also a really interesting one,
and why it's even more significant is because he also
goes back to the radio days, the days of radio
soap operas and plays, and he was working on those
shows with a group of people like Rod Taylor and
Bud Tingwell and Peter Finch who went on to huge
international success. His big one was Tarzan. He actually wasn't Tarzan,

(03:29):
but he was the narrator. But surprisingly it did call
upon him to have to perfect something. This is goingback
about thirty seven years. He was appearing on Bert Newton's
daytime show here on seven and he told Bert about
that Tarzan.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, I did fifteen hundred episodes of Tarzan as the narrator,
and as the narrator I had the pleasure of screaming
out the title, which went something like ah tars King
of the Apes, What just do the call again?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh that's a battle tack. I'm gonna tell you now.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Actually Roger was rehearsing that and he's dressing it this
morning and Bernard King rushed in.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, very years ago. So I'll tell you what though. Look,
this is the problem. You don't get your Edwin A.
Bartholomew's or your Liam Tappers being able to do Tarzan calls,
do you what the young breed just cannot do anymore?
So he was multitasking and great talent and a gentleman
of the industry, a good solid.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Just the most beautiful news reader. I grew up Roger
Clemson in my lounge room, and that's such a sad.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
And in the industry, and this is rare.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
No one would have a bad word to say any.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
All Right, we'll have we'll have more on Roger a
little bit later in the show. I'm moving on Pete.
We've been given our first look at the Aussie Osbourne documentary.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, so, what they agreed to do in the couple
of months leading up to what turned out to be
Ozzie's death they didn't know that obviously, but was all
centered around the big finale concert. They allowed two groups
of documentary makers to come in and to follow Sharon
at Ossie at home, obviously looking at his health, the
preparations for the concert, et cetera. Now I don't know

(05:24):
what is included, if anything, after the death, that's unclear.
But this drops on October the seven, and it is
Ozzy Osbourne Coming Home. Take a look at a part
of the trailer.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Ozzie's one regret is that he never really said goodbye
to his bands.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
It was middle of the night, oh smut. He'd broken
his back neck.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
He comes out of surgery and he's far worse having to.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Cancel the tour. That was really his biggest heartbreak.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
You're all I talk down to the studio every single
day he'd get to when it was like the magic would.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Begin a blast.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
That was the best manage from over. If my life's
coming to an end, I really can't complain a great life.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
So we're very used to the concept of cameras following
the Osbourne's around, but normally it's you know, back then
it was all lightweight, silly stuff. This clearly is a
lot more confronting and dramatic.