Kimmel was a mess even before his comments
Kimmel’s 2025 average viewership of 1.6 million is down 37% compared to 2015 totals.
The decline is even more significant among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults, ages 25-54. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" averaged nearly 1 million viewers in the critical demo in 2015 but plummeted to only 261,000 in 2025. The ABC late-night program shed a staggering 72% of the critical demo over the past decade.
Replies to: Kimmel was a mess even before his comments
Late night TV ratings have been falling for years.
The question is whether a US President should use the FCC to leverage networks to fire or muzzle TV hosts who make jokes about the President.
No other US President has done so. Until now.
“American Institution” Johnny Carson speaks out about Kimmel/Colbert on 60 minutes.
Since you value that.
Link: https://x.com/ForAmerica/status/1968297422876201304
You're just going to run with misinformation, huh.
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What was his joke? He delivered two matter of fact false claims on public airwaves that went against
the good interests of the country.
He then disobeyed his employer’s request that he apologize, and he planned to double down and go nuclear with the falsehoods and hate on the day they took him off of the air.
The employers were justified.
You do realize that monologues of late-night comedians tend to be rather jokey, right?
And that maybe things said in them are not “matter-of-fact false claims,” but jokes?
Humor is tough for MAGA, I know.
Less jokey, more preachy lately, but here no joke at all, just intentional falsehoods.
No rational person would even try to describe his statement as a joke. But yeah, you might try.
Imagine if the situation was reversed. A lib slaughtered. Satire about libs involved.
Knowing that a lib was not the assassin.
You gonna just laugh that off?
It wasn’t a joke about the dead dweeb. And it is not about him at all.
It’s about mocking Trump. That’s why he hates these comics.
It wasn’t a joke at all. It was an intentional effort to spread false information.
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It wasn’t a joke? In a monologue? Maybe it’s time to rethink your life choices.
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Correct. There was no joke. Just two false statements intended to perpetuate a false narrative
I watched it a few times.
You are trying to claim that because he is labeled a comedian, anything bad he says can be absolved because he was making a joke.
But he made no joke. His statement cannot be construed as a joke.
Now, ABC is the holder of the right to free speech in this case, not Kimmel. They are also the holder of the FCC license and obligation to follow the laws set forth when using public airwaves for their broadcasts.
They could have chosen to keep Kimmel on the air and continue to artificially support the financial money pit that his show was. If the FCC ever did anything about Kimmel's violation of the law, they could have taken the case to court.
But ABC and Disney decided Kimmel was wrong and that his words were false, offensive, and inappropriate.
They did ask Kimmel to apologize, he said no. They asked Kimmel to back off and drop it. He said no and planned to go all out in his next serious monologue the next night.
So Kimmel's employer canned his show because they knew they couldn't defend this loose canon's actions based on FCC rules, and they decided that he was more trouble than he was worth.
They saved themselves a LOT of money, made inroads with the audience base that will help them recover their rating, and most importantly did the right thing.
Never said it was. Said what if comic satirized libs being involved.
BTW, you post like a 7th grader.
“Dweeb”?
Grow up.
You really have to be a major, major snowflake to find offense in that.
And even if it is offensive, the first amendment gives people the right to say offensive shit without government interference.
I found it incredibly dumb. Like something a dweeb would say.
You work in an Ivory tower and hurl insults you would never say to a person’s face. That makes you a coward.
Calling me a snowflake is comical.
Another example of your cowardice.
And it’s your right to think that.
The president does not have the right to silence either of you.
And I would be happy to call Kirk a dweeb to his face, if that would make you happy for some reason.
The President didn’t silence Kimmel.
The buyers of his show ARE NOT REQUIRED to provide him with a platform for his rhetoric.
Kimmel was a loser from a business standpoint.
That is a fact.
Kimmel is still free to find another platform.
It is ridiculous to suggest Trump “silenced” or
“censored” him. That’s a lie and you know it.
Stop wasting your time, the nutty professor is immune to facts and logic.
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Truth. I’m headed out to dinner with friends.
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