Invoice Maher defends Jimmy Kimmel 23 years after his personal ABC cancellation: ‘This s— ain’t new’

• Invoice Maher defended Jimmy Kimmel on his present Actual Time on Friday following ABC indefinitely suspending Jimmy Kimmel Dwell.
• ABC canceled Maher's earlier present, Politically Incorrect, in 2002 months after he made controversial feedback about 9/11.
• Maher referred to as on The View, which additionally airs on ABC, to "exit robust."

Invoice Maher is standing up for Jimmy Kimmel.

The Actual Time host condemned ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely throughout Friday's episode of his HBO discuss present.

"Nicely, I assume you all heard Jimmy Kimmel, my buddy, my compatriot, he's canned by ABC for feedback he made about Charlie Kirk's murderer," Maher started. "Proper after the FCC man, the top of the FCC, stated he's gonna revoke ABC's license. Lemme simply let you know one thing: I’m not intimidated by the FCC. And if President Trump is watching, I’ve one factor to say to you: Have you ever misplaced weight? You look terrific."

The host went on to watch an eerie connection: Dwell's suspension got here on Sept. 17, precisely 24 years after Maher made feedback concerning the 9/11 hijackers on his personal ABC present, Politically Incorrect, that spawned an analogous controversy, which the comic thinks led to that present's cancellation months later.

"Life is f—ing bizarre," he stated. "It was 24 years to the day that I made feedback on ABC that received me canceled from that community, and Jimmy Kimmel took my slot. Do you know that? On Politically Incorrect. Oh sure! I received canceled earlier than cancel even had a tradition."

Certainly, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell assumed ABC's late-night spot in the course of the week in 2003, the 12 months after Maher's present vacated that very same time slot.

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Maher's controversial remarks got here lower than per week after the assaults on Sept. 11, 2001, when he argued towards the notion that the hijackers had been "cowardly."

"We now have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," Maher stated of American international coverage on the time. "That's cowardly. Staying within the airplane when it hits the constructing? Say what you need about it. Not cowardly."

The present remained on the air for the rest of the season, however quite a few advertisers stopped supporting it, and its decline in rankings resulted within the present's cancellation in June 2002. Moreover, simply as in Kimmel's case, quite a few ABC affiliate stations dropped Politically Incorrect over objections to the host's feedback.

"This s— ain't new. It's worse, and we'll get to that. However ABC, they’re regular," Maher stated on Friday's Actual Time episode. "ABC stands for At all times Be Caving. So, Jimmy, pal, I’m with you, I assist you, and on the brilliant facet, you don't should fake anymore that you simply like Disneyland. That was all the time the nice a part of it for me once I received my ass canned over there."

Maher additionally referred to as out one other ABC present for remaining silent after Kimmel's suspension.

"I gotta say, and I'm pleasant with the women on The View, however they didn't say something about it," Maher famous. "Nothing. You recognize, 'trigger it's by no means been their factor to weigh in on the problems. It's simply an upbeat social gathering present! That's why they rent individuals named Pleasure and Sunny and Whoopi."

Maher then referred to as on The View to face their floor. "Ladies, exit robust, okay?" he urged. "It gained't kill you. I promise you. It's occurred to me, and I could exit after this present. We don't know."

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The comic concluded, "Jimmy, lemme simply say, pal, you probably did an ideal, humorous present for twenty years. You ought to be pleased with that. If this firing goes for you the way in which it did for me, you'll get 23 years on a greater community."

Watch Maher's full monologue above.

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