Bill Maher defends ‘my countryman’ Jimmy Kimmel, Slams ABC Slams
On HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday evening, Bill Maher gathered behind Jimmy Kimmel, whose late night show this week was suspended by ABC, and Maher shot up the Disney network that more than two decades ago Maher’s “politically incorrect” had canceled after his comments about the 9/11 attacks.
At the start of his monologue on ‘Real Time’, Maher joked: ‘I know why you are happy tonight. I’m still on. Oh, my God. Man, talk show hosts go down like blockbusters in the 1990s. ”
Maher then spoke to the subject of the week: “Well, I think you all heard Jimmy Kimmel, my friend, my countryman, my countryman. He was canned by ABC for comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s murderer.”
“Jimmy, friend, I am with you, I support you, and on the other hand, you no longer have to pretend to like Disneyland. That was always a large part of it for me when I got my look there there,” Maher said. He also said: “Jimmy, just let me say, you have done a great, funny show for two decades. You should be proud of that. If this fire before you go as it did, you will get on a better network for 23 years.”
Kimmel is not even ‘fired’. On Wednesday ABC said: “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was “for an indefinite period in advance.” Variety Reported that Kimmel- and Disney -Execs are in conversation with a compromise to bring the show back in the air.
Maher, noticed that ‘life is damn weird’, noted that September 17 ’24 was until the day that I made comments about ABC who had canceled me from that network and Jimmy Kimmel took my lock … Oh yes, I was even canceled before Cancel even had a culture. ”
Maher referred to one Variety Article of September 30, 2001, Kop: “White house keeps warmth on ABC’s Maher.” Maher, who said that the article is hanging on his wall, said, “This shit is not new. It’s worse, we’ll be on that, but you know, ABC, they are stable. ABC is always saving.”
In September 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, Maher said about ABC’s ‘politically incorrect’ that America had been ‘cowardly’ in his military reaction in contrast to the terrorists who flew to the World Trade Center. “We are the cowards who lobes cruise rockets of 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly,” he said. “Stay on the plane when it hits the building, say what you want, it’s not cowardly.” In response, advertisers, including Sears and Fedex, attracted commercials from the show.
A day later Maher apologized. “I was in no way planning to say, nor did I think that the men and women who defend our nation in uniform are anything but brave and brave, and I apologize to anyone who has wrongly accepted it,” he said. Although ABC remained ‘politically incorrect’ in the air for a while, it has canceled the show in June 2002 after continuous resistance of advertisers.
Related: Jimmy Kimmel and Disney work on reaching a compromise to bring his show back
On the HBO show Friday, Maher also referred to the direct threat FCC chairman Brendan Carr who made ABC and his affiliated companies if they did not do that, they did not take “action” on Kimmel (that is, take his show off the air). “We can do this in the easy way or in the hard way,” Carr said on a conservative podcast.
“I am not intimidated by the FCC,” said Maher. (In contrast to TV stations, HBO is not submitted to FCC -Rulgative Supervision.) Maher added: “And when President Trump looks, I have one thing to say to you. Did you lose weight? You look great.”
Maher continued: “But I mean, this intimidation on the right is just so hypocritical. I mean, everyone is now scared, and they all try to kowtow.” Good morning america “is now turning his name into” Good Morning America, even the scum that didn’t vote for Trump. “
De talkshowhost zei: “De FCC zegt dat ze na misschien de volgende ‘The View’ gaan. Op donderdag zei Carr in een radioprogramma: “Ik denk dat het de moeite waard is om de FCC te laten kijken of ‘The View’ en sommige van de programma’s die u nog steeds in aanmerking komt als bonafide nieuwsprogramma’s en daarom vrijgesteld van het regime voor gelijke kansen dat het congres heeft ingevoerd.” De gastheren van ABC’s “The View “did not discuss the suspension of their Kimmel network on Thursday and Friday broadcasts.
“I am friendly with the ladies on ‘The View’, but they have said nothing about this, nothing. You know, because it was never their thing to weigh the problems,” Maher said. “It’s just, you know, it’s just a cheerful party show. That’s why they rented people in service called Joy [Behar] and sunny [Hostin] and Whoopi [Goldberg]. Girls, let me tell you: go strong, okay? It won’t kill you. I promise! It happened to me and I can go out after this show. We don’t know. We don’t know. “
In the aftermath of Kimmel’s suspension by ABC, other current and former Late-Night hosts have expressed support for him, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart and David Letterman.
– Brian Steinberg has contributed to this article.
