‘That backfired’: All the savage digs Jimmy Kimmel made after returning from his brutal axing

After being fired and rehired in the space of a week, Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time in returning to his savage roots during Tuesday night’s triumphant comeback of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel addressed the viral story on his show. For 23 years, he’d commented on political stories and divisive figures, but it was that monologue that got his show exsanguinated by right-wing people in America. Ironically, he didn’t even say anything that bad, and most of his speech was about Donald Trump – it was almost like the axing had nothing to do with Charlie, and everything to do with one stroppy man baby.

After six days of backlash and arguments of censorship, Jimmy Kimmel Live! was reinstated. Though some feared that he would return with a toned-down version of his political commentary, that couldn’t have been further from the truth.

He called the axing a ‘direct violation of the First Amendment’

Addressing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its chairman, Brendan Carr, who was largely responsible for his savage removal from the air, the late-night talk show host said: “I want you to think about this: Should the government be allowed to regulate which podcasts the cell phone companies and Wi-Fi providers are allowed to let you download to make sure they serve the public interest?

“You think that sounds crazy, but 10 years ago, this sounded crazy, Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, telling an American company, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, and that these companies can find ways to change, conduct and take action on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.

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“In addition to being a direct violation of the First Amendment, is not a particularly intelligent threat to make in public. Ted Cruz said he sounded like a mafioso. Although I don’t know, if you want to hear a mob boss make a threat like that, you have to hide a microphone in a deli and park outside in a van with a tape recorder all night long. This genius said it on a podcast.”

Ironically, Jimmy thanked President Donald Trump

a lot of people were like “Jimmy Kimmel being back on PROVES there was no government coercion against free speech” and then Trump just posted he’s going to sue ABC for putting Jimmy Kimmel back on pic.twitter.com/IaVGi6R12B

— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) September 24, 2025

Donald Trump obviously backed Jimmy Kimmel’s removal from the air; in fact, he outright said he was going to go after similar shows and networks. Despite that, it actually boosted ratings for Jimmy’s show.

“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,” he said.

Jimmy Kimmel admitted to having a ‘weirder 48 hours’ in his monologue

In a 16-minute monologue before the chat show, which included Glen Powell and Sarah McLachlan, Jimmy Kimmel questioned who had the stranger 48 hours – him or the CEO of Tylenol?

“So it’s been overwhelming. I’ve heard from a lot of people over the last six days. I’ve heard from all the people in the world over the last six days; everyone I have ever met has reached out 10 or 11 times,” he said.

“Some that I do especially want to mention are my fellow late-night talk show hosts, my friend Stephen Colbert. He’s found himself in this predicament. My friends Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Conan O’Brien, James Corden, Arsenio, Kathy, Wanda, Chelsea, even Jay (Leno) reached out. I heard from late-night hosts in other countries, from Ireland and from Germany. The guy in Germany offered me a job.

Jimmy Kimmel returns to his show to a huge standing ovation.

“Anyway… as I was saying before I was interrupted” pic.twitter.com/NBfvZeGghv

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) September 24, 2025

“Can you imagine? This country has become so authoritarian, the Germans are like, ‘Come here. Cut loose.’ My boyhood idols, Howard Stern and David Letterman, were very considerate and kind and I feel honoured to be part of a group of people that knows what goes into doing a show like this. And I also want to thank all of you — I do — who supported our show, cared enough to do something about it, to make your voices heard so that mine could be heard. I will never forget it.”

Jimmy Kimmel had some surprising support, including Ben Shapiro

Though Jimmy Kimmel sort of expected support from people on the left and the colleagues he had worked with for years, nothing could have prepared him for the support from right-wing commentators like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candace Owens, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz.

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