Eight days after he was unceremoniously yanked off the air, Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC Tuesday night with a monologue that got right to the point. “I’m happy to be here tonight with all of you,” Kimmel began. “I’m not sure who had a weirder 48 hours—me or the CEO of Tylenol.”

Kimmel then thanked everyone who reached out to him in the week he was off the air, including fellow late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Conan O’Brien, and former ABC host James Corden. He also made a point of thanking “the people who don't support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway”—folks like Ben Shapiro , Clay Travis , Candace Owens , Mitch McConnell , Rand Paul, and even Kimmel’s longtime antagonist Ted Cruz , all of whom publ

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