📺 Jimmy Kimmel Returns To Television With Emotional Monologue

Back on the air after nearly a week away, host Jimmy Kimmel has used his return to directly address the controversy surrounding the suspension of his programme on the channel.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, after a few days suspension by the ABC, which
is owned by Disney, Jimmy Kimmel's talk show is back
on the air. Disney has lost a lot of money
in the last few days. People have been canceling cruises,
people have been canceling trips to Disneyland, people have been
canceling their Disney subscriptions, and the ABC has copped a
lot of flax. So Jimmy was America Australia. Yes, ABC

(00:24):
Australia also received a lot of got some mail about
and they're saying, hey, nothing to do with us, don't
look here. So so many people tuned in to watch
this show and the monologue video alone has had twelve
point nine million views. Wow, So all eyes on deck
pretty much to see how he would deal with what's
happened to him over the last few days. He actually

(00:45):
began by saying, I'm not sure who had a weird
of forty eight hours meal the CEO of Tyler Old started.
But then in a very he got quite emotional as
he explained what he had been trying to do in
that first monologue and why he accepted what people might
have been upset.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I do want to make something clear because it's important
to me as a human, and that is you understand
that it was never my intention to make light of
the murder of a young man. I don't. I don't
think there's anything funny about it. I posted a message
on Instagram and the daves killed, sending love to his

(01:22):
family and asking for compassion, and I meant it. I
still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any
specific group for the actions of what it was obviously
a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of
the point I was trying to make. But I understand
that to some that felt either ill timed or unclear,
or maybe both. And for those who think I did

(01:44):
point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the
situation was reversed, there was a good chance I'd have
felt the same way.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Very classy, very close, very very gracious, he said he'd
had a lot of people had reached out to him
in the last few days. Have been so humbling.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I've had the offer tuians to meet and spend time
with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia,
countries in the Middle East who told me they would
get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power,
and worse than being thrown in prison, they know how
lucky we are here. Our freedom to speak is what
they admire most about this country. And that's something I'm

(02:19):
embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled
my friend Steven off the air and try to coerce
the affiliates who run our show in the cities that
you live in to take my show off the air.
That's not legal, that's not American, that is un American,
and it is so bad, and I'm glad he's back.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm glad he's back.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Does that mean that he's got a guys soft on
Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
He tried his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced
millions of people to watch the show that backfired. Bigley,
he might have to release the Epstein files to distract
us from this. Now, that is another thing.