The Tonight Present’s Jimmy Fallon took the stage at some point after Jimmy Kimmel’s late night time speak present was suspended indefinitely.
Fallon, 50, shared a press release about Kimmel, 57, in the course of the Thursday, September 18, episode of his present.
“Nicely guys, the large story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after stress from the FCC, leaving everybody considering WTF,” Fallon stated on the prime of the present. “This morning I woke as much as 100 textual content messages from my dad saying, ‘I’m sorry they canceled your present.’ I’m going, ‘That’s not me, that’s Jimmy Kimmel.’ However to be sincere with you all, I don’t know what’s happening and nobody does, however I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s an honest, loving and humorous man, and I hope he comes again.”
Fallon continued, “Lots of people are fearful that we received’t hold saying what we need to say or that we’ll be censored, however I’m going to cowl the president’s journey to the U.Ok. like I usually would. Right here we go. Nicely guys, President Trump simply wrapped up his three-day journey to the U.Ok. and he appeared …” he trailed off, earlier than a voice-over chimed in to say, “extremely good-looking.”
“As all the time, his tie was …” Fallon as soon as once more trailed off because the voice overhead stated, “Precisely the best size.”
“And his hair appeared …,” Fallon stated, because the announcer added, “higher than Conrad’s from The Summer season I Turned Fairly.”
“In the course of the journey, protesters managed to undertaking pictures onto the edges of Windsor Fortress of Trump, standing subsequent to his good buddy Jeff …,” Fallon stated, because the announcer added, “Goldblum.”
The back-and-forth between Fallon and the announcer continued all through the present’s opening, with the announcer ending the phase by saying, “I hereby nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize,” and Fallon saying, “And you may quote me on that! See, we will nonetheless say what we wish.”
Hours earlier than The Tonight Present aired, Fallon made headlines when he dropped out of a scheduled New York Metropolis look — the place he and Bozoma St. John have been to speak about his new NBC sequence, On Model.
“Sadly, Jimmy Fallon is not in a position to attend as we speak’s session,” the Quick Firm Innovation Pageant stated in a press release on Thursday, per Deadline. Representatives for the pageant instructed a Deadline reporter that there can be no additional touch upon the state of affairs.
Jimmy Fallon will not be making a scheduled look on Thursday, September 18, amid the fallout from fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel‘s present being suspended indefinitely. “Sadly, Jimmy Fallon is not in a position to attend as we speak’s session,” the Quick Firm Innovation Pageant stated in a press release on Thursday, per Deadline. Fallon, 50, and Bozoma […]
At some point prior, information broke that Kimmel can be taken off air following his controversial feedback about late conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
“Jimmy Kimmel Reside might be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed to Us Weekly on Wednesday, September 17.
A rerun of Superstar Household Feud aired on Wednesday instead of Jimmy Kimmel Reside! Us reached out to Kimmel for remark.
Kimmel triggered a stir on Monday, September 15, when he mentioned Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson. (Kirk died at age 31 after he was shot at a Utah Valley College occasion on September 10.)
Jimmy Kimmel spoke about Charlie Kirk‘s capturing earlier than the controversial monologue that led to his late night time present being suspended. Kimmel, 57, shared his ideas by way of X as information broke of the incident at Utah Valley College on September 10, writing, “As a substitute of the offended finger-pointing, can we only for at some point agree that it […]
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately making an attempt to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from one among them with every little thing they will to attain political factors from,” Kimmel stated on the time. “In between the finger pointing, there was grieving.”
Robinson, who’s at the moment in jail, is charged with capital offense aggravated homicide and felony discharge of a firearm. He additionally faces a number of counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and fee of a violent offense within the presence of a kid.
After his comment, Kimmel confirmed a clip of President Donald Trump being requested how he’s dealing with Kirk’s dying and speaking to reporters in regards to the White Home ballroom building. Kimmel quipped that Trump was taking the information “arduous,” including, “He’s on the fourth stage of grief, building. It’s demolition, building.”
“This isn’t how an grownup grieves the homicide of somebody he referred to as a buddy,” Kimmel continued. “That is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
Nexstar Media reportedly threatened to axe the present, with the corporate — which owns a number of TV stations — telling Selection in a press release on Wednesday that they “strongly” objected to “latest feedback made by Mr. Kimmel regarding the killing of Charlie Kirk.”
