Jimmy Kimmel’s Return: A Rare Opportunity for Grace, Empathy and Healing

Jimmy Kimmel’s Return: A Rare Opportunity for Grace, Empathy and Healing

Colby Hall Sep 23rd, 2025, 10:50 am

On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel will walk back onto the stage where he has spent two decades navigating America’s moods. This time will be different. He returns not as the comic jester who skewers the day’s absurdities, but as the man at the center of them — reinstated by ABC after a suspension that became a story more combustible than the comments that prompted it.

The outrage machine spun in all directions. His words about the attempt to label Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin as something other than what he was — a man with clear leftist sympathies — sparked fury. ABC, feeling the heat, pulled him off the air. Brendan Carr , a Republican commissioner at the FCC, went f