Jimmy Kimmel comeback breaks his YouTube monologue views record | Jimmy Kimmel
For low viewers: Jimmy Kimmel’s return monologue is now the most displayed on Youtube.
About 30 minutes segmentKimmel agreed to be suspended by the ABC owner Disney under the pressure of Trump administration, clarified his words about Charlie Kirk’s murder and passionate free speech, and received more than 14.9 million opinions in 16 hours.
Many Jimmy Kimmel Live! Sketches, interviews and other short clips attracted tens of millions of opinions throughout the year, but the segment of Tuesday night marked the record audience for one of the comedian monologues.
The previous most watched monologue came from another emotional situation in Kimmel’s 2017. clarified His son Billy’s birth with a congenital heart condition that requires open heart surgery. Other high -viewed monologues, Kimmel’s Will Smith’s reaction to the famous Chris Rock slap (13m landscapes) in 2022 Oscar, the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas in 2017, and Trump’s thoughts about last November (9M views).
The increase in the audience comes after Disney was suspended under the pressure of the President of Trump on the comments of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on the shooting of right -wing activist Charlie Kirk. The decision quickly became a cultural glare point, and a national screaming about condemning the Free Speech and Trump administration’s bullying tactics. Disney reversed the course on Monday following the pressure of Republicans such as Free Speech lawyers, consumer boycotts, unity protests, and even Ted Cruz.
Kimmel’s show is foreseen at the dozens of ABC affiliates of Sinclair and Nexstar, looking for FCC approval for a $ 6.2 billion merger. Jimmy Kimmel Lives! Usually an average of about 1.6 million broadcasts per night, but New York TimesExperts expect Nexstar and Sinclair to be much higher for Tuesday’s show, although he eliminates about 20% of the broadcast audience.
Shortly before the broadcast of the show on Tuesday, Donald Trump has been thrown into the landlord for a long time and criticized ABC for allowing him to return to the broadcast.
“I can’t believe that ABC fake news has given Jimmy Kimmel back to his job” written In fact, social. “The White House was told that his show was canceled by ABC! Then and now something happened because the audience went, and his ‘talent’ was never there.”
“I think we will test ABC on this issue,” he added.
“Let’s see how to do it. When I went after them, they gave me $ 16 million. This sounds even more profitable, Tr Trump said, apparently referring to the settlement he reached with ABC News in a slander case against the network last year.
On his return, Kimmel was not a conciliatory or hot. “Anti-American” he made it suspended-“This show doesn’t matter,” he said. “It was never my intention to illuminate the murder of a young man,” he said. “I don’t think there’s something funny about it.”
“It is not to blame any group for what actions – this was deeply uncomfortable,” he added. “This was the opposite of the point I was really trying to do, but it was bad time or uncertain or perhaps to some of both of them. And I understand why he was upset for those who think I am pointing to my finger.
Kimmel also praised Kirk’s widow’s wife Erika Kirk for presenting the defendant killer at a memorial ceremony at the weekend.
“Look, I never thought I’d be in such a situation,” he said. “I barely paid attention at school. One thing I have learned from Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern, a government threat to silence a comedian that the president does not like… Let us let these politicians tell us what we want and let them tell them what we want.”
Jimmy Kimmel live! Nexstar’s 28 affiliated organizations and Sinclair’s 38, except for 38, will be broadcast as usual on Wednesday night. Nexstar Say on Wednesday Diversity “‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ It continues to evaluate the status of our local television stations and the demonstration will be prevented.
