FCC Chair Brendan Carr Says Jimmy Kimmel May Have Misled Public With Kirk Comments

The veteran late-night comedian made several remarks about the reaction to the conservative influencer’s assassination, and his show was suspended.

Jimmy Kimmel attends the 28th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation's 'Taste for a Cure' event at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 2, 2025. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr responded to ABC and affiliate stations’ removal of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after the comedian made remarks about Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination last week.

ABC suspended Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely beginning Sept. 17 after comments he made about Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say they would not air the show and prompted remarks from a top federal regulator.