(NEXSTAR) -- Hours before his late-night show was set to return to air, Jimmy Kimmel took to Instagram for the first time since "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was suspended over comments he made following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

On Monday, Disney announced "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" would return to ABC's lineup after "thoughtful conversations with Jimmy." The company said last week that it was preempting Kimmel's show "because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”

ABC suspended Kimmel’s show last week after Kimmel made multiple comments following the death of Kirk, who was assassinated on Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.

The network’s decision came after Nexstar Media, the parent company of this news station, announced its ABC affiliates would p

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