""Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country, and that's something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen off the air, and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities you live in to take my show off the air. That's not legal, that's not American-that's un-American.""
""Even though I don't agree with many of those people on most subjects-some of the things they say even make me want to throw up-it takes courage for them to speak up against this administration, and they did and they deserve credit for it.""
""I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human, and that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.""
Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air on Tuesday after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week following pressure tied to a joke about the man alleged to have shot and killed Charlie Kirk and an FCC threat from chair Brendan Carr. Kimmel opened to cheering, joked about his recent 48 hours, and thanked fellow late-night hosts, the audience, and even conservative figures by name for speaking up. He asserted that he never intended to make light of the murder of a young man. Kimmel invoked international perspectives on freedom of speech and called efforts to coerce affiliates to drop shows illegal and un-American.
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