Jimmy Kimmel Marks 4,000th Show, Defies FCC Chair Brendan Carr Over 2025 Suspension
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 9
Jimmy Kimmel Marks 4,000th Show, Defies FCC Chair Brendan Carr Over 2025 Suspension
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 9
Summary
Jimmy Kimmel used Tuesday’s 4,000th episode to declare “we are still here,” framing his return from summer hiatus as a rebuke to FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
The jab revived their 2025 clash, when Carr warned ABC and Disney of possible FCC action over Kimmel’s comments about the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk and said the company could handle it “the easy way or the hard way.”
Disney briefly suspended Kimmel last year over those remarks, though former CEO Bob Iger later said the move was based on the comments being “in bad taste,” not pressure from the Trump administration.
Kimmel also targeted President Donald Trump in the monologue, mocking his summer record, inflation and the Iran war, extending the show’s broader political confrontation beyond the FCC dispute.