ABC pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ indefinitely after ‘offensive’ Charlie Kirk comments | 17 Sept 2025 | Jimmy Kimmel is taking an involuntary hiatus. ABC has announced that it is pulling the comedian’s late-night talk show off the air “indefinitely” following the host’s controversial comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk. “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed to The Post on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Kimmel, 57, faced backlash Monday night after he said that the “MAGA gang” was trying to score political points off Kirk’s murder after the conservative activist was shot dead on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said during his monologue. Nextstar Media Group, the major broadcast company that serves as a primary affiliate for ABC, further confirmed that it would “preempt” Kimmel’s program in the wake of his incendiary remarks.