{"id":240565,"date":"2025-09-20T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240565\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:08:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-staffer-calls-out-maga-a-hats-while-making-prediction-about-shows-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240565\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel staffer calls out ‘MAGA a–hats’ while making prediction about show’s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dejected Jimmy Kimmel staffer said they \u201ccan\u2019t imagine a scenario\u201d in which the late-night show returns after ABC indefinitely axed it <\/a>over the comedian\u2019s false claim that Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged assassin was a MAGA supporter.<\/p>\n

The now-unemployed \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d worker insisted the one-hour late-night show will remain permanently shelved, saying right-wing critics are unrelenting and Disney \u2014 ABC\u2019s parent company \u2014 will likely buy out the host and fill his slot with reruns of other flagship network programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if Jimmy was willing to publicly apologize and donate money to whatever ghoulish conservative group that is demanding it\u2026.MAGA people will never be happy,\u201d the unidentified staffer told veteran journalist Rick Ellis in an interview published on his \u201cToo Much TV\u201d Substack Friday. <\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d staffer said it\u2019s unlikely the late-night show will return to ABC. ABC<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will never be enough. And Disney will look at the situation and decide it\u2019s cheaper to buy out the rest of his contract and replace the show with reruns of \u2018Modern Family\u2019 and \u2018Judge Judy,’\u201d the staffer charged.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow, they\u2019ll convince themselves the worst is behind them. Until a day or two pass and they find themselves having to defend Whoopi [Goldberg] and the other women of \u2018The View.\u2019 And no one wants to be in that position.\u201d<\/p>\n

The despondent staffer said they weren\u2019t shocked by the decision to suspend the show but was surprised by the timing, explaining that the job has intensified since November\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n

A woman in blue gloves pushes a trash can after the Kimmel\u2019s show was suspended. REUTERS<\/p>\n

They added that in recent weeks, it became clear Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC executives would kill the late-night staple if it risked hurting \u201cattendance to Disney World or cost anyone their annual bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised that it happened that specific day. But you could see it coming,\u201d the worker said. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time some MAGA a\u2013hat would spout off about the show, the knot in my stomach just got tighter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down on Sept. 10 during a speaking event at Utah Valley University. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

The former employee maintained that they stand by the 57-year-old comedian\u2019s controversial remarks<\/a> about the conservative activist\u2019s hateful assassination<\/a> at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit 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 and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel said during his opening monologue<\/a> on Monday. <\/p>\n

The comedian\u2019s careless tirade came a day after authorities announced that the accused killer, Tyler Robinson, 22, held a \u201cleftist ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers load a truck with equipment from Kimmel\u2019s late-night talk show after it was axed Wednesday. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The long-running show was officially yanked<\/a> from the air Wednesday \u2014 and Kimmel has since refused dozens of calls to apologize. <\/a><\/p>\n

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned Thursday<\/a> that networks holding TV licenses, like ABC, NBC and CBS, have an obligation to serve the public interest, which Kimmel failed to do by \u201cappearing to directly mislead the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump \u2014 often targeted in Kimmel\u2019s liberal-leaning monologues<\/a> \u2014 celebrated the move, highlighting the his \u201cbad ratings\u201d and vowing to go after other late-night hosts.<\/p>\n

Kimmel was spotted in LA on Thursday afternoon, driving himself to a meeting with his lawyer. London Entertainment for NY Post<\/p>\n

While Kimmel has not commented publicly on the suspension, he was spotted Thursday afternoon<\/a> in Los Angeles driving to his lawyer\u2019s office for a meeting.<\/p>\n

Kimmel has hosted the ABC show since 2003. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dejected Jimmy Kimmel staffer said they \u201ccan\u2019t imagine a scenario\u201d in which the late-night show returns after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8811,185,19719,7299,69,171,11171,50812,398,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-charlie-kirk","11":"tag-disney","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","15":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","16":"tag-media","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234662480397844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}