Bill Maher backs Jimmy Kimmel, recalls own ABC cancellation 24 years ago
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The host of “Real Time” expressed empathy for his colleague at the end of the evening Jimmy Kimmel on Friday as an ABC star who also landed in hot water.
“It was 24 years old for the day I made comments on ABC who made me cancel this network, and Jimmy Kimmel took my place,” said Maher during his opening monologue.
“Oh yes, I was canceled before even canceling a culture,” he joked.
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The host of “Real Time” Bill Maher thought about his own ABC shot while addressing the saga of Jimmy Kimmel during his monologue. (Screenshot / HBO)
“ABC, they are stable. ABC is” always doing the basket “, then called his ex-employer.” So Jimmy, my friend, I’m with you. I support you. And on the right side, you don’t have to pretend that you like Disneyland. “
Before his stay of several decades in HBO, Maher previously welcomed “politically incorrect” on ABC, which the network canceled in 2002 after Maher faced the counterpou to having argued that the air pirates of September 11 were not “cowards” only a few days after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Bill Maher had previously welcomed “politically incorrect” on ABC until it was canceled in 2002 for controversial remarks which he made shortly after September 11. (Dan Watson / American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images)
Kimmel, meanwhile, was removed from the air after suggesting that accused Charlie Kirk Assassin was a supporter of Trump.
“Listen, I don’t think what he said was exactly right. I don’t do it,” said Maher. “We do not agree on this. He [shouldn’t] Lose your job for that! “”
“Was he on the left? I don’t know either … It’s a crazy race to try to say that these nuts do these things are in a team,” he said later. “This kid does not belong to any of the parties. It belongs to a tank top. It is an ambulatory who should not be released! But you have the right to go wrong, or to have an opinion that you want! This is the first amendment!”
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Maher notably had a stormy exchange with the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro last week on the political ideology of the assassin Tyler Robinson alleged.
Before wrapping his monologue, he offered a last message for his successor ABC.
“You have made a big funny show for two decades. You should be proud of this. If this shot goes for you as it did for me, you will be 23 years old in a better network,” Maher told Kimmel.
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Bill Maher expressed his support for his “friend” Jimmy Kimmel, who was withdrawn from ABC following his comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. (Randy Holmes / Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
Kimmel suggested that Robinson was on Monday Part of the “Gang Maga” Despite information, he had a left -wing ideology, which was then reaffirmed in Tuesday’s indictment.
“We have struck new stockings during the weekend with the gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points,” Kimmel told his audience.
He also made fun of President Donald Trump about an exchange he had with a journalist about Kirk’s death, saying: “It is not as an adult crys the murder of someone he called a friend. This is a 4 -year -old child crying a goldfish, ok?”
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Disney faced the growing pressure of ABC affiliation stations across the country as well as the Federal Commission Commission (FCC) on its manipulation of Kimmel. The company finally decided Wednesday that it would preempt its program indefinitely.
