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Well, This Should Be Interesting – Kimmel Tonight!

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We’ve probably said everything that can be said about this until the show starts, but here’s a place to say it all again for the next 20 minutes while we wait for the show to air.

It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

I don’t know how fast clips will show upon-line, but if you find one, please link to it in the comments.

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    1. 1.

      Jackie

      Living on the west side of the country, I have to wait until 11 PT. I’m DVRing it – as I won’t make it “live.” But I WILL watch it in the morning!

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    3. 3.

      Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

      Wish I could watch it live on TV. Guess I’ll have to settle for clips on YouTube. My local ABC affiliate is a Nexstar-owned station.

      We were able to bully ABC/Disney into doing the right thing, I think Sinclair and Nexstar should be next. I’ve seen people recommend that if you have a Sinclair/Nexstar station in your area, you should watch the local news broadcast and note who their advertisers are. Then call them up and tell them you won’t give them any of your business until Kimmel is back on Sinclair/Nexstar’s stations

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    4. 4.

      Karen Gail

      Am doing online game; ads for preachers, so many megachurches are tied to Turning Point, no wonder there was such a big turnout for memorials.

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    5. 5.

      Jackie

      FFOTUS is already threatening ABC stations that ARE airing it:

      In a new Truth Social post on Tuesday night, Trump said he “can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.”

      “The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!” Trump wrote. “Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his ‘talent’ was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE.”

      “He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution,” Trump continued. “I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.”

      I hope the ABC stations who do broadcast Kimmel get excellent ratings!

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    6. 6.

      Ohio Mom

      I’m with Cole on this, I’m relieved to be able to go back to not caring about Jimmy Kimmel again.

      Now if we could get to the point where I don’t have to hear about Charlie Kirk constantly. After watching a few clips, he reminded me of Rush Limbaugh. I haven’t forgotten Limbaugh but he doesn’t get mentioned much any more and I enjoy that absence.

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    9. 9.

      dm

      @Ohio Mom:

      Now if we could get to the point where I don’t have to hear about Charlie Kirk constantly. After watching a few clips, he reminded me of Rush Limbaugh. 

      I’ve heard that Kirk listened to Limbaugh, and thought, “I can do that”, and that’s how he got his start.

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    11. 11.

      MisterForkbeard

      @Jackie: Saying “I’m going to extort an entire media company because I think they have one show thats friendly to Democrats” out loud is definitely one hell of a legal strategy

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    13. 13.

      Jay

      “”I live like a capitalist every single day, Cenk! I live as a capitalist, okay? I live what I believe!
      —Charlie Kirk, losing his temper in a debate with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, attempting to physically attack the latter.[1]
      “”I think it’s worth [it] to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal.
      —Charlie Kirk, at a his Turning Point USA event on 04/05/2023 [2][3]
      Charles James Kirk (1993–2025)[4] was an American right-wing grifter, trustfund baby, professional meme maker, and diaper enthusiast. He was the founder and spiritual leader of Toilet Paper USA Talking Points USA Turning Point USA (TPUSA), which organizes bizarre conservative stunts on college campuses and (according to an exposé at the conservative leaning Washington Examiner) has a long history of teen underage drinking and rape at its student conventions.[5]

      TPUSA claim that they’re a “youth organization that promotes the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government,” when in reality, they’re just a right-wing echo chamber for dying boomers and edgy white boys that takes any chance they can get to insult socialists and anyone left of Henry Kissinger. Most of their Twitter feed consists of calling out socialists for being “hypocrites”[6] (because apparently using an iPhone and buying things to survive instead of living in a cavemen commune invalidates all your left-leaning arguments), complaining about leftist propaganda in the curriculum,[7] making antisemitic and/or rape jokes,[8] preying on naive first year college students instead of debating professionals, pundits and experts, sharing terrible memes, et cetera.

      Kirk was also known for his resemblance to the spokesperson for the fictional restaurant Li’l Bits in an episode of Rick and Morty.[9] And he really thought that making “vagina hands” à la Donald Trump[10] made him look badass.[11][12]

      On September 10, 2025, Kirk was assassinated by a shot to the neck in a rally at Utah Valley University.[13]

      rationalwiki.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk

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    18. 18.

      Shalimar

      It is so nice of Sinclair and Nexstar to make it easy for the millions of people who cancelled Disney+ to find out which of their local ABC stations to never watch again.  If they aren’t broadcasting Kimmel, you know they’re rightwing propagandists.

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    19. 19.

      mrmoshpotato

      The shooter does represent the super Nazi faction of the GOP party.  I hope Jimmy was mocking the shitshow that was the funeral.

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    23. 23.

      Karen Gail

      @MisterForkbeard:

      Ye gods, my in laws listened to Rush; when heard about Kirk it was like hearing the same things just from younger standpoint.

      My past catches up with me and end up paying attention to right wing zealots because of family.

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    24. 24.

      Karen Gail

      We should never forget; what appeals to so many is that Trump, MAGA and cult have been willing to say the quiet things out loud, in open forums and in broad daylight. So many haven’t changed or become “infected” rather they have been given the freedom to speak and act.

      People don’t really care about ICE, they won’t until they are the ones in crosshairs; “they came for.”

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    26. 26.

      eclare

      Colbert starts off making fun of how Iranian diplomats in New York City are forbidden to shop at warehouse stores like Costco.  So funny.

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    28. 28.

      Craig

      @Karen Gail: infected. Yes. I watched the Phillip Kaufman Invasion of the Body Snatchers last week. Seemed almost ripped from the headlines. The last scene with Donald Sutherland is still terrifying

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    29. 29.

      Redshift

      The local Sinclair station in DC didn’t air Kimmel. For the first half hour they had a rerun of the 11 o”clock local news that they labeled a “Special Edition” (lol). Then during the ad block at the top of the hour they showed a static card with sponsor acknowledgements for the news for a solid five minutes, no real ads.

      I quipped to Ms. Redshift that it was Sinclair’s “Swan Lake”. (Look up Soviet state TV history if you don’t know.) I didn’t watch the news rerun, so I don’t know if it had any actual ads to use as complaint fodder.

      Then for the second half hour it was Sinclair’s execrable right wing “The National Desk”.

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    31. 31.

      Gloria DryGarden

      @Jackie: YouTube is showing 975,700+ Views, in an hour. Wonder how the tv viewership went tonight.

      When you record from your tv, does it show you how many are watching?

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    33. 33.

      Jackie

      @Gloria DryGarden:

      When you record from your tv, does it show you how many are watching?

      I’ve never seen that before. Other than sports, everything I watch is recorded so I can ff through commercials. Most news I watch I start at 30 mins in, again so I can ff through commercials. I’ve never noticed a ticker showing # of viewers. I have YouTube TV.

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    34. 34.

      Ohio Mom

      @Time Travelin: Thank you for that link. I’ve only seen the first 10 minutes so far, and Kimmel is being very menschadik (that’s the adjective form of mensch, he is being mensch-like).

      I’ll watch the rest tomorrow, I just saw the time.

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    36. 36.

      Jay

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    37. 37.

      Craig

      @Gloria DryGarden: I thought that was a great monologue. Accepted Ted Cruz support while still making fun of him. Red/Blue tie. Hanged Carr with his on words. Solid, fearless, and still funny. I’m not a big fan, and I can’t remember watching a whole monologue, but this was good.

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    38. 38.

      Jackie

      Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel jabbed President Donald Trump’s administration for its pressure campaign to remove his show from TV in a new episode that aired Tuesday night.

      Kimmel received a standing ovation when he came out on stage and addressed some of the controversy during his opening monologue.

      “You almost have to feel sorry for him,” Kimmel said of the president. “He tried his best to cancel me; instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly!”

      LOVE this! 😂

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    47. 47.

      Socolofi

      Yeah, TIL KOMO in Seattle is Sinclair, so fuck them. Not that I watch a lot of local ABC anyway.

      I do kinda wonder if the networks can just put up a national feed on YouTube or direct via their streaming services and say FU to affiliates, who are just 20%. Personally I am a cord cutter (fuck you Comcast) and watch broadcast TV via both an aging TiVo and a HDHomeRun setup (which often has issues I find). I suspect just the thread of that may cause the Sinclairs of the world to come to heel, as aside from a handful of local programs they’re just becoming more irrelevant in the age of streaming.

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