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<\/p>\n Read in app<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n This story is available exclusively to Business Insider Hollywood is rallying behind Jimmy Kimmel, after his talk show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” got pulled from ABC.<\/p>\n ABC “indefinitely” suspended the show over Kimmel’s comments on the shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> on September 10.<\/p>\n “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said in a Monday episode of his show.<\/p>\n He added that Trump’s supporters were politicizing the shooting.<\/p>\n Reactions from actors and comedians have poured in, expressing dismay over the show’s suspension.<\/p>\n Ben Stiller<\/p>\n Ben Stiller said the show being pulled off the air wasn’t right.<\/p>\n The actor and comedian Ben Stiller<\/a> used just a few words to describe his feelings about the show’s suspension.<\/p>\n Reposting an X post by The Wall Street Journal’s journalist about the news, Stiller wrote, “This isn’t right.”<\/p>\n The “Zoolander” actor made the post on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n Wanda Sykes<\/p>\n Wanda Sykes said Trump had ended freedom of speech.<\/p>\n Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n The actor and comedian Wanda Sykes<\/a> made a reel on Instagram to criticize the Trump administration.<\/p>\n In the reel, posted on Wednesday evening, she said she had a full face of makeup on because she was set to go on Kimmel’s show.<\/p>\n “But as you have heard by now, the Jimmy Kimmel show has been pulled indefinitely, abruptly, because of complaints from the Trump administration,” Sykes said.<\/p>\n She said Trump had ended freedom of speech within his first year of his term.<\/p>\n Sykes ended the reel saying, “Love you, Jimmy.”<\/p>\n Paul Scheer<\/p>\n Paul Scheer protested the show being pulled.<\/p>\n Paul Scheer, an actor, comedian, and podcaster, protested the show being pulled from ABC.<\/p>\n Near midnight on Thursday, Scheer posted on Threads about the show’s suspension, musing on why ABC couldn’t air the show on its cable affiliates like ESPN.<\/p>\n Alex Edelman<\/p>\n Alex Edelman posted about the show’s cancellation on X.<\/p>\n Alex Edelman, a comedian, actor, and writer, made a series of posts on X about Kimmel’s show being taken off the air.<\/p>\n Edelman, who stars in “The Paper,” first posted about it on Wednesday evening, saying, “This is the actual cancel culture everyone claims to hate so much.”<\/p>\n He then criticized the government, accusing it of pressuring ABC to fire Kimmel.<\/p>\n Shortly after midnight, he posted, “The joke I would like to make about the Kimmel situation is one I, apparently, can only text to close friends.”<\/p>\n Jean Smart<\/p>\n Jean Smart said Kimmel’s comments were not hate speech, but free speech.<\/p>\n Rich Fury\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
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