{"id":457514,"date":"2025-12-19T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/457514\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:51:12","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-thanks-viewers-for-getting-him-through-a-hard-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/457514\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Thanks Viewers for Getting Him Through a ‘Hard Year’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> opened his final monologue of 2025 by sharing his gratitude with viewers for supporting him through an unprecedented year. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn September, Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a> was indefinitely suspended<\/a> by network ABC<\/a> after Kimmel was targeted by the Trump administration. The late-night show as brought back to air relatively quickly after a public backlash, and Kimmel has continued to trade blows<\/a> with Donald Trump<\/a> since. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis has been a strange year. It\u2019s been a hard year,\u201d Kimmel acknowledged. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some lows, we\u2019ve had some highs. For me, maybe more than any year in my life.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe host began to tear up as he continued, \u201cBut on behalf of all of us\u2014I\u2019m crying already, I\u2019m sorry. On behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm. And not just for watching. This year you literally pulled us out of a hole, and we cannot thank you enough, personally, professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know there are a lot harder jobs, but this is not an easy job to do,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cAnd sometimes it feels like we\u2019re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, so much damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose, and it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong. You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way, and then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don\u2019t know where that all went. You don\u2019t know what the American way\u00a0is\u00a0even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cBut when I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show and the shows that our friends and colleagues do on the other channels and it makes them feel less crazy, it makes me feel less crazy too. And I think that\u2019s an important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore getting into the get of his monologue, Kimmel noted, \u201cI also think it\u2019s important that we as Americans let our friends in other countries who watch the show on YouTube, on Instagram, Hulu, wherever, know that a lot of us are not okay with what is happening. There is still much more good in this country than bad and we hope that you will bear with us during this extended psychotic episode that we\u2019re in the middle of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tJimmy Kimmel Live will return in 2026. Earlier this month, Kimmel\u00a0renewed his deal<\/a> to host\u00a0the show until May 2027. The deal was reportedly finalized over the summer \u2014 before ABC\u2019s September\u00a0suspension\u00a0of\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!, following a monologue in the wake of\u00a0Charlie Kirk\u2018s murder.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThat suspension, which came after heavy pressure from the Trump administration, conservative activists, and network affiliates, was billed as \u201cindefinite.\u201d\u00a0 It ended up lasting just a few days, after it prompted a ferocious backlash of its own, with consumers apparently canceling their Disney<\/a>+ subscriptions\u00a0en masse<\/a>\u00a0and actors and other showbiz figures\u00a0condemning<\/a>\u00a0ABC and its parent company, Disney.<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel\u00a0returned<\/a>\u00a0to the show with a studio audience chanting his name. His 17-minute monologue, in which he said it was \u201cnever my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,\u201d drew 6.26 million viewers, making it the most-watched regular episode in the show\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel opened his final monologue of 2025 by sharing his gratitude with viewers for supporting him through…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":457515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8811,7299,69,171,36397,11171,50812,63863,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-457514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fcc","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","15":"tag-late-night-tv","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457514","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=457514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}