Jimmy Kimmel ‘Never meant’ to ‘make light’ of the death of Charlie Kirk
The comedian opened the stage for hymns of “Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy” of the audience, opened the long -awaited show with a crack, “If you just come to us, we are the preference of your regularly planned Encore episode of Celebrity Family Feud To bring you this special report “, a nod to the series broadcast instead of his show while you are out of the air.
“I’m happy to be here tonight,” he added.
“I am not sure who had 48 hours a stranger, me or the CEO of Tylenol,” he said laughing.
The voice of the host broke when he opened the murder of activist Kirk and cleaned up the air, unambiguously denounced his dead, but he did not apologize for his comments – for clarifying them.
He continued: “I want to make something clear, because it is important to me as a person and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make the murder of a young man too light,” he said as he fought the tears.
“I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was murdered, sent love to (Kirk’s) family and asked for compassion, and I meant, and I was still doing it, nor was it my intention to blame a specific group of the actions of what was clearly a deeply disturbed individual.
He continued: “That was really the opposite of the point I tried to make. But I understand that for some who thought it was badly timed or unclear or perhaps both, and for those who think I have a finger, I get why you are upset.
“If the situation was reversed, chances are that I have felt the same. I have many friends and relatives on the other side of whom I love and stay close to, although we do not agree at all about politics, I don’t think the murderer who has shot Charlie Kirk represents someone.
“This was a sick person who believed that violence was a solution and it is not ever and too, selfish, I am the person who gets many threats.
“I get a lot of ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my children, my employees because of what I choose to say, and I know that the threats do not come from the kind of people on the right side I know and that I love.”
“So that’s what I wanted to say about that subject,” he added.
Kimmel then turned to the first amendment and explained that he spoke with Comedians in countries such as Russia and from the center -East who said they would be thrown into prison or were worse to make people in power.
“They know how happy we are here,” he explained.
“Our freedom to speak is what they admire the most to this country, and that is something that I was ashamed to say that I was taken for granted until they took my friend Steven (jacket) out of the sky and tried to force the affiliated companies that run our show in the cities in which you live from the air.
“That is not legal. That is not American. That is On-American.”
Kimmel shared a clip of Trump that fiercely announced freedom of expression in 2022.
Then he played a quote from the president, who was this week, in which he said about Kimmel: “Look, he was fired. He had no talent. He is a beating job, but he had no talent. What is more important, then no talent, because many people who have no talent had no reviews, he had no reviews,” which fascinates Kimmel’s audience.
Kimmel, who dressed like a bear next to Sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, who was wearing a banana costume, skiing during a short pre-show, and then joked: “He tried, did his best to cancel me instead, he forced millions of people to look down that ‘Bigly’ deteriorated.
“He may have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this,” where his audience burst into raw applause.
He also expressed his gratitude to ABC because he allowed him freely over the years, but also said that he did not agree with their decision to pull him out of the blue last week.
He said after many conversations: “They welcomed me again in the air, and I thank them for that.”
He also said that because of that decision he believes that the ABC is placing, and Kimmel’s own show staff, in danger with the Trump administration.
“Our leader celebrates Americans who lose their livelihood because he can’t make a joke,” he said.
Later in the monologue, Kimmel fought against the tears again while talking about Kirk’s widow, Erika, who said during her husband’s memorial at the weekend that she forgot her husband’s murderer.
“Erica Kirk forgave the man who shot her husband. She forgave him. That is an example that we have to follow.
“If you believe in the teachings of Jesus, like me, it was, that is, it is a selfless act of grace forgiveness of a mourning widow.
“It touched me deep,” he said, while his voice was shaking.
“And if there is something that we have to take out of this tragedy to continue, I hope we can do that and not this.”
