On September 17, ABC announced that it would be pulling new episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely” after remarks about Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin sparked right-wing rage and comments from FCC chair Brendan Carr. Kimmel is getting canceled for the setup to a joke, not even the punch line. In the monologue from September 15, Kimmel said, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Carr told YouTuber Benny Johnson that he was considering pulling ABC’s affiliate licenses because Kimmel appeared to be playing “into the narrative” that suspected shooter Tyler Robinson was “somehow a MA

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