Jimmy Kimmel returns tonight - what will he say? How did the comeback happen?

Jimmy Kimmel's return to late-night television tonigh.  A look at the intense negotiations with top Disney executives, leading to a last-minute agreement. Hollywood's reactions were mixed, with some calling it a 'pseudo suspension.' The podcast quotes other late-night hosts like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who commented on the situation. The episode also references historical late-night TV controversies and previews Jimmy Kimmel's anticipated monologue. 

Feed update:
Today - there was the normal episode, then a binus episode with Mark Malkoff host of Inside Late Night and The Carson Podcast, and author of Love Johnny Carson.

Wednesdau - normal epsiode at 3am, a fantastic bonus with Jason Zinoman from the New York Times at noon, and a Kimmel bonus at 3pm or so.



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
All right, this is the Tuesday, September twenty third Jimmy
Kimmel bonus episode. Jimmy's Show is back tonight. Just to
clean up the feed. There was a normal episode this morning.
Around noon, I dropped an hour long episode with Mark
Malkoff from the Late Night Podcast. We talked about this
stuff a little bit, mostly about Johnny Carson, and this
is the bonus episode. If you are a new listener
who has recently discovered the show. Normally I do one

(00:32):
of these a day, seven days a week. It is
called Daily Comedy News, and I am Johnny Mack. Deadline
reports that tonight's return of Jimmy Kimmel to Late Night
was the result of days of meetings and negotiations with
top Disney executives. They only figured this out on Monday
around three Eastern was when the news came out. The
conversations were between Disney CEO Bob Iger, who many are

(00:55):
saying has really tarnished his legacy with this Kimmel move.
Disney entertained Mint chief Dana Walden, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy's team.
An insider toil Deadline, there was always a desire to
do the best dating for the company. Yeah, you think.
There was apparently a last minute flurry of paperwork, techts
and calls with team Jimmy Kimmel. What will Jimmy say tonight?
A source says Jimmy will say what Jimmy wants to say.

(01:20):
It is believed there are no restrictions on that. Personally,
I'm expecting Jimmy to clarify what he meant by the
controversial remarks, and I think he will give a very
thoughtful response. I don't think you're going to get what
you might have gotten out of say John Stewart here.
I think he'll get a very thoughtful monologue tonight. We
will see, and of course I will cover that on
Wednesday in a bonus episode. Deadline reports people in Hollywood

(01:43):
were not happy about this. One source called it a
pseudo suspension. They also quote a Hollywood power player saying
it became such a mess the only solution for all
sides was to get this over with sooner rather than later.
As I record this on Tuesday, I have not seen
any sort of reaction yet from the President of the
United Slime States. The show's staff found out around the
same time we did. A staffer tells people, we received

(02:06):
an email from the executive producer with the good news.
It was shortened to the point just sharing the good
news and telling us to come to work on Tuesday.
That person said they were surprised that it happened all
of a sudden. They thought this would drag out a
little bit. The staffer says his coworkers had relief and
joy across the board. Myself and my colleagues are overjoyed.
Can't wait to see Tuesday's monologue on The Daily Show.

(02:28):
Was John Stewart's time behind the desk? By the way,
you guys gave him a free pass for jumping on
the desk last week on Thursday. I know we all
love John Stewart, but if Jay Leno stole the desk
from Desi Lidick, you guys would have lost your mind.
Fair's fair, guys. Anyway, John Stewart had this to say, No,
Kim's coming back.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
That campaign and I you know what I'm joking around.
I want to say this seriously. That campaign that you
all launched pretending that you were going to cancel Hulu
while secretly racing through four seasons of only in the
building that really worked. Congratulations. It wasn't it interesting to

(03:06):
try and figure out all the tentacles Disney has in
your daily life. It's one thing to swear off cruises,
but the Avengers. No, how is it possible that by
getting rid of one company, I can't watch Winnie the
Pooh or Monday Night Football or listen to early Hillary

(03:27):
Duff So yesterday, I would sing more of it. Obviously,
Disney is very litigious.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Stephen Colbert also commented this. He refers to in this
clip is his Emmy.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
We do like one hundred and sixty of these a
year or something, And you know, when I have the chance,
it's always nice to start the show with some good news. Well,
just a few hours before we tape this broadcast, we
got word that our long national Late Nightmare is over
because Disney announced that Jimmy kim Alive will return to Well,

(04:08):
I just see tomorrow Thursday Night. Come on, what.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
As well, they said me, this is I just couldn't
have just wonderful news for my dear friend Jimmy and
his amazing stat they get into the show. That's you know,
I'm so happy for them. Plus now that Jimmy's not
being canceled. I get to enjoy this again.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Discussed once more. I am the only martyr and late
Nights great unless CBS you want to announce anything.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
In the course of my travels, didn't see anything from
Jimmy Fallon. I have to check. Jimmy did do a
Tonight show on Sunday night, so it's possibly Monday was
a rerun seth Meyers said, we make jokes about politicians
and people in the news, including Joe Biden. It was
just harder with Joe Biden because he didn't say much.
You Trump, on the other hand, talk all the time.
You never stopped talking. You didn't stop talking when he

(05:17):
was president. You talk more than all the other presidents combined. Ever,
people say Johnny Carson didn't make this many jokes about politics,
but he would have if every time he spoke Ronald
Reagan did fifteen minutes on how toilets didn't flush well anymore.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said, Jimmy Kimmel is in the
situation that he is because of his ratings, not because
of anything that's happened at the federal government level. Sure,

(05:39):
Jan Chairman Carr was at the twenty twenty five Concordia
Annual Summit. Listen to this crap. I'm not gonna pull
my bunch here. Listen to this crap. Carr said, what
I spoke about last week is that when concerns are
raised about news distortion, there's an easy way for parties
to address that and work that out. In the main
that takes place between local television stations that are licensed

(05:59):
by the FCC and what we call national programmers like Disney.
They work that out and there doesn't need to be
any involvement of the FCC. He adds, then now if
they don't, there's a way that's not as easy, which
as someone can file a complaint at the FCC, and
then the FCC, by law I set up by Congress,
has to educate that complaint. And when I've been very
clear in the context of the Kimmel episode is the

(06:20):
FCC and myself in particular have expressed no view on
the ultimate merits. Yeah, because Carl said, frankly, when you
see stuff like this, I mean, we could do this
the easy way or the hard way. These companies can
find ways to change conduct, to take action. Frankly, on Kimmel,
or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. Look,
there's calls for Kimmel to be fired. You could certainly
see a path forward for suspension over this. This is

(06:42):
previously Again, the FCC is going to have remedies that
we can look at. We may ultimately be called to
be a judge on that right sure. By the way,
a Google search of the phrase Joe Rogan Kimmel at
eight fifty four Easter in This Morning turned up nothing.
One of the comparisons with Jimmy Kiml returning tonight is
when Jack Parr walked off the Tonight Show on February eleventh,

(07:04):
nineteen sixty. Parr walked off because the night before they
had cut one of his jokes. His joke was about WC. Now,
younger people are like, huh, well, WC is water closet.
Younger people are like, huh, what's that? A water closet
is a bathroom. It's nineteen sixty. We're not joking about
bathrooms on the air. We've come a long way. Everyone.

(07:26):
Parr sat at his desk on the Tonight Show and said,
if you read some of the newspapers, you think I
had committed a terrible obscenity. The whole thing has gotten
out of hand, but the damage has been done not
only to the Tonight Show but to me personally. I've
been wrestling with my conscience all day. I'm leaving the
Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making
a living than this. There's a way of entertaining people
without being constantly involved in some form of controversy, which

(07:49):
is on me all the time. It's rough on my
wife and child, and I don't need it. I believe
it was let down by this network at a time
when I could have used their help. Parr got up,
shook hands with announcer Hugh Down, and then Downs had
to wing the show. Down said, I told Jack when
he first mentioned to me he intended to do what
he said. I wish he wouldn't do it. So my
hope this isn't final. Jack does things hastily at times

(08:11):
that he doesn't hold on too. I hope he can
be putting his mind back to the show because he
built it. Downs then hosted the show with guess orson Bean,
Shelley Berman and Genevieve Downs hosted the show's next eight episodes,
and then Arlene Francis hosted a week. Jack Parr returned
to the Tonight Show on March seventh, strolled on stage,
took a beat, and said, as I was saying before
I was interrupted, which is one of the all time

(08:33):
late night lines, it might you know what probably is
the number one line. Par then continued, when I walked off,
I said, there must be a better way of making
a living. Well, I've looked, and there isn't. That is
Jimmy Kimmel. A bonus episode All eyes on Jimmy Kimmel
tonight all right in the morning, normal episode, and then
I'll have a Kimmel for you, and I'll probably also

(08:54):
have a bonus episode with Jason Zinnemann from The New
York Times, who I was planning on recording with on
Tuesday morning. So keep checking that feed lot going on.
Thanks for listening.