Disney Announces Jimmy Kimmel Will Be Returning To Late Night After All

Disney announced on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel’s suspended program is returning to late night television on Tuesday.

Executives at Disney announced on Wednesday that Kimmel’s show would be canceled “indefinitely” following his remarks about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a Sept. 15 monologue. The executives announced that the program is returning to the airwaves after having “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel.

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Kimmel sparked backlash after falsely stating in his Sept. 15 monologue that the “MAGA gang” refuses to admit that Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, is politically aligned with them. He also mocked President Donald Trump’s response to Kirk’s passing by comparing him to a child mourning his goldfish.

“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during his Sept. 15 monologue. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism. But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this” … “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, okay.”