Hollywood Stars & Politicians React to 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Suspension | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

Hollywood is reacting after ABC pulled 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' from the air indefinitely over the host's comments regarding Charlie Kirk's shooting.

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00:00Hollywood is reacting after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live from the air indefinitely

00:05over the host's comments regarding Charlie Kirk's shooting.

00:09Donald Trump took to Truth's social, writing,

00:11Great News for America. The ratings challenge Jimmy Kimmel's show is cancelled.

00:16Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.

00:20Kimmel has zero talent and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that's possible.

00:25The president also called to shut down The Tonight Show and Late Night, saying,

00:30That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC.

00:34Their ratings are also horrible. Do it, NBC, President DJT.

00:39However, former President Barack Obama weighed in to condemn the suspension, writing on threads,

00:44After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level

00:50by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies

00:54unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like.

00:59This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent.

01:04And media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

01:08On Wednesday, ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel Live would be preempted indefinitely

01:12after FCC Chair Brendan Carr condemned Kimmel for saying during his Monday night show,

01:17We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize

01:23this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them

01:27and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

01:30Other Hollywood notables and political figures are also slamming the network's decision.

01:35California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X,

01:37Buying and controlling media platforms, firing commentators, cancelling shows.

01:42These aren't coincidences.

01:44It's coordinated and it's dangerous.

01:46The GOP does not believe in free speech.

01:49They are censoring you in real time.

01:51Hack star Gene Smart shared on Instagram,

01:54I am horrified at the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

01:57What Kimmel said was free speech, not hate speech.

01:59People seem to only want to protect free speech when it suits their agenda.

02:03Though I didn't agree at all with Charlie Kirk, his shooting death sickened me

02:08and should have sickened any decent human being.

02:10What is happening to our country?

02:13Ben Stiller quote tweeted the news and simply wrote,

02:15This isn't right.

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