"We tape our show at 4:30. I'm in my office, typing away as I usually do. I get a phone call, it's ABC. They say they want to talk to me. This is unusual."
"'Listen, we wanna take the temperature down. We're concerned about what you're gonna say tonight and we decided that the best route is to take the show off the air tonight,'"
"Like a DUI in L.A., three days in jail where I couldn't say anything. I just had to sit quiet and make a lot of phone calls and take a lot of phone calls."
Jimmy Kimmel learned of his show's suspension on September 17 while preparing to tape. ABC executives called and directed that the show be taken off the air that night to 'take the temperature down' because of concerns about his planned remarks. Kimmel reacted with disbelief and initially feared he would never return to the air. The suspension followed a joke about the Charlie Kirk shooting and a warning from FCC chair Brendan Carr that appeared to threaten Disney. Kimmel characterized the suspension as 'like a DUI in L.A., three days in jail' and spent the downtime making and receiving many calls. Stephen Colbert shared a separate anecdote about his cancellation experience.
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