Jimmy Kimmel is joking about hiding from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
During the Thursday, Sept. 25 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the comedian joked about the show heading to Brooklyn next week for a jam-packed week — and how it might help him to stay one step ahead of the FCC following his recent brief suspension.
“We are broadcasting to about 75 percent of the country from Los Angeles, California tonight,” he said toward the start of his monologue, referencing the huge ratings the show has been getting since Kimmel’s return to the air on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
“On Monday, we will be in Brooklyn for a week of big shows from the Brooklyn Academy of Music,” Kimmel continued.
“What we have to do now is stay on the move so the FCC can’t get us,” he jokingly added.
“We’re taking the whole gang, we’re taking Guillermo [Rodriguez], we’re taking Lou [Wilson], we’re taking the band, and we’re gonna take a big bottle of Tylenol just for fun,” Kimmel went on, referencing Donald Trump‘s recent comments about the drug.
The upcoming shows mark the seventh time Jimmy Kimmel Live! has traveled to Brooklyn and broadcast from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, per an ABC release. The show will air from New York from Monday, Sept. 29, through Friday, Oct. 3.
Guests will include Emily Blunt, Spike Lee, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hanks, Kumail Nanjiani, Bruce Springsteen, Stephen Colbert, and more.Jimmy Kimmel on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’.
Kimmel’s latest comments about the FCC come after he mentioned Trump’s reaction to his show getting back on the air during his Wednesday, Sept. 24, monologue.
“You know, a lot of people watched our show last night,” Kimmel said as his monologue began. “I got so many texts from so many people. It made me realize how many of my friends are never watching the show at any other time. Tomorrow, I’ll hear from no one.”
“I did hear from one very special friend, moments after we taped our show last night, the mad red hatter wrote, ‘I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back,’ ” Kimmel said, reading directly from Trump’s Truth Social post. “You can’t believe they gave me my job back? I can’t believe they gave you your job back! We’re even.”
“And there’s more: ‘The White House was told by ABC that his Show was canceled!’ No, they weren’t,” Kimmel said, continuing to read and dissect Trump’s post. “‘Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE and his ‘talent’ was never there.’ “
Someone then yelled from the audience and Kimmel quipped: “Shut the f— up. The freedom of speech is only for me. You do not interrupt the president.”
As he continued to read Trump’s post, Kimmel responded to the “threat” that the president made toward ABC.
“Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE,” Trump wrote in the post, and Kimmel pointed out that Trump’s claim that Jimmy Kimmel Live! “puts the network in jeopardy,” referring to ABC, is a “threat.”President Donald Trump.
In Trump’s post, he wrote, “I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers!”
“Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC,” Kimmel said in response.
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Disney, which owns ABC, announced on Monday that Kimmel would be returning to the air the following day, just shy of a week after the show was put on an indefinite hiatus on Sept. 17, following the host’s recent remarks about the death of right-wing political commentator, Charlie Kirk.
Disney said in a statement, “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.”
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” the statement concluded.
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