"Kimmel came back to his ABC late-night show on September 23 following a nearly week-long suspension on Tuesday night, all while wearing a monkey suit alongside Guillermo in a banana costume. After a warm welcome from the studio audience, Kimmel lightened the mood with a joke at the top of his opening monologue: "I'm not sure who had a weirder 48 hours: me or the CEO of Tylenol.""
""It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don't think there's anything funny about it," he said. "Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.""
"Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country. And that's something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen off the air and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air. That's not legal. That's not American. That is un-American, and it is so dangerous."
Jimmy Kimmel returned to his ABC late-night show on September 23 after a nearly week-long suspension, appearing in a monkey suit with Guillermo in a banana costume. He opened with a light joke and thanked fellow late-night hosts and the audience who protested Disney's decision, even explaining how to resubscribe to Disney+/Hulu. Kimmel clarified and apologized for comments about the murder of Charlie Kirk, saying he did not intend to make light of the death or blame any specific group. He urged viewers to defend the First Amendment, criticized affiliate coercion, and played a clip of Trump praising his firing.
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