Jimmy Kimmel fights back tears during emotional monologue as he returns to live show

Jimmy Kimmel chokes up as he returns to live show Source: ABC

Transcript

00:00If you like me, you like me.

00:01If you don't, you don't.

00:02I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind.

00:04But I do want to make something clear,

00:05because it's important to me as a human.

00:08And that is, you understand that it was never my intention

00:11to make light of the murder of a young man.

00:20I don't think there's anything funny about it.

00:22I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed,

00:25sending love to his family, and asking for compassion.

00:28And I meant it, and I still do.

00:30Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group

00:33for the actions of what, it was obviously

00:36a deeply disturbed individual.

00:38That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.

00:41I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk

00:44represents anyone.

00:45This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution,

00:49and it isn't, ever.

00:52And also, selfishly...

00:58I am a person who gets a lot of threats.

01:01I get many ugly and scary threats against my life,

01:03my wife, my kids, my co-workers, because of what I choose to say.