Jimmy Kimmel joins the ranks of Roseanne Barr,…
Jimmy Kimmel’s tenure as a late-night host on ABC is hanging by a thread after a 22-year run at the Disney-owned community, but the involuntary hiatus isn’t the first time the House of Mouse unceremoniously gave the hook to a star after outrage.
This time the outrage over that sparked Kimmel’s elimination is coming from the proper.
The comic, whose eponymous show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” debuted on ABC in 2003, faces an unsure future at the community after he claimed the gunman who killed conservative icon Charlie Kirk was a MAGA supporter — a false declare that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called “some of the sickest conduct possible.”
Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off ABC indefinitely Wednesday after blaming the “MAGA crowd” for Charlie Kirk’s homicide. ABC via Getty Images
But beforehand, the media giant has been fast to give the hook to stars who offended liberal sensibilities.
The highest profile targets had been Roseanne Barr in 2018, “Mandalorian” star Gina Carano in 2021 — and even an ESPN announcer named Robert Lee, who was out of the blue pulled from calling a 2017 University of Virginia recreation because he shares a identify with the Confederate Civil War common.
Barr was cut unfastened from her own self-titled sitcom by ABC over a tweet perceived by many as racist, despite huge scores for the revival of the ’80s and ’90s smash-hit sequence “Roseanne.”
Twenty years after the unique sequence’ run concluded, ABC picked up the show for a tenth season, which was picked up for an eleventh season after a single episode, which drew over 27 million viewers.
But the community modified its plans after a post on social media in which Barr in contrast Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a “cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a ‘Planet of the Apes’ actor.”
Barr later apologized for her “ill-worded” tweet and said “I wish I worded it better,” saying she didn’t know Jarrett was black.
Roseanne Barr was famously fired from her own ABC sitcom in 2018 after a tweet many deemed to be racially charged. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
On Thursday, Barr clapped back at former President Barack Obama when he tweeted that the Trump administration, “after years of complaining about cancel culture” has “taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”
She wrote, “Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?” in a response seen more than 3 million instances.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” by comparability, averaged less than 2 million viewers per show, and the host has refused to apologize to Kirk’s household.
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Disney also sparked backlash for firing actress Gina Carano, who sued Disney in 2021.
She sued — with the financial backing of Elon Musk — after she was axed from the Disney+ Star Wars TV sequence for social media posts evaluating conservatives in Hollywood to Holocaust victims and making enjoyable of people who wore masks during the pandemic.
She was searching for a court to compel Disney-owned Lucasfilm to reinstate her on the sequence or compensate her at least $75,000 in the go well with.
“The Mandalorian” star Gina Carano was fired by Disney in 2021, following by the actress rapidly suing the media giant. WireImage for Disney
It was settled out of court under unknown phrases, though Carano never returned to the show.
Kimmel’s direct timeslot predecessor, comic Bill Maher, was another ex-ABCer who obtained the ax for an ill-timed scorching take.
Maher was canned from his long-running ABC speak show “Politically Incorrect” in 2022 when advertisers began leaping ship after he made controversial feedback just six days after the 9/11 assaults.
Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect” was taken off ABC airwaves in 2002 after he made a remark that 9/11 hijackers “weren’t cowardly” six days after the assaults. ASSOCIATED PRESS
On a Sept. 17, 2001 episode, Maher argued that the terrorists concerned in the plot had been “not cowardly,” instead saying “We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, [it’s] not cowardly.”
Maher apologized, explaining his “cowardly” quip was aimed at US navy coverage, as opposed to the troopers themselves.
But the harm was already carried out, the show was canceled the following June, however ABC claimed it was due to declining scores as opposed to the controversy.
The show was changed in the community’s lineup by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in January 2003.
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