Pardon the Interruption
Tuesday night had me counting down to 10:30 like it was New Year’s Eve. I wasn’t waiting for fireworks—I just wanted the return of Jimmy Kimmel Live. At 10:25, I shut off my Xbox, flipped to ABC, and thanked my lucky stars I don’t live in a Sinclair or Nexstar market.
Kimmel opened with a wink: “Anyway, as I was saying before I was interrupted, if you’re just joining us, we’re preempting your regularly scheduled encore episode of ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ to bring you this special report.” Now, I have to admit, I’m wondering which B-list celebrities Steve Harvey had battling it out.
Then came the heart of it. Addressing the controversy over his comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder, Kimmel grew serious: “I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human... it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don't, I don't think there's anything funny about it... Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what... was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.”
His voice cracked when he recalled Erika Kirk’s powerful gesture at the memorial: “She forgave him. That is an example we should follow. If you believe in the teaching of Jesus as I do, there it was. That's that's it. A selfish act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow."
Of course, Kimmel couldn’t skip the free-speech fight. He quoted FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s own 2022 words back at him: “Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech.” Even Trump got airtime in a 2022 clip: “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country.”
Kimmel capped it with a jab: “You almost have to feel sorry for him. He tried, did his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”
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