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Another Comedian Comments After ABC Decision
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Another Comedian Comments After ABC Decision

It’s a rare moment of poetic justice when the very machinery of cancel culture turns against one of its most favored operators. But that’s exactly what we’re witnessing with Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from Jimmy Kimmel Live! — a show that, for years, shed its comedic veneer and transformed into a sanctimonious platform for progressive politics and thinly veiled contempt toward anyone right of center.

ABC and Disney’s decision to suspend Kimmel came on the heels of grotesque comments he made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative commentator and activist gunned down in a politically charged act of violence. Rather than mourn the tragedy or even exercise basic decency, Kimmel used his platform to spew falsehoods and mock grief itself.


“We hit some new lows over the weekend,” Kimmel said, claiming conservatives were trying to distance themselves from the alleged killer, Tyler Robinson — even though every known fact contradicts Kimmel’s narrative. The suspect has been documented as having anti-conservative, anti-Trump leanings, and yet Kimmel eagerly regurgitated the left’s baseless framing: that the right was somehow to blame.

And he didn’t stop there.

Kimmel proceeded to mock President Trump for honoring Kirk by ordering flags flown at half-staff. “This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish,” he sneered — not a punchline, but a political jab. And while Kimmel framed his segment as satire, viewers saw it for what it was: naked contempt for his political opponents, served with a smug grin and broadcast across the country under the guise of entertainment.

The backlash was immediate and overwhelming. Conservatives flooded social media with demands for Kimmel’s termination. But perhaps the most striking commentary came from none other than Roseanne Barr — the very woman whose career ABC torched over a single tweet. When MSNBC’s Chris Hayes absurdly declared the Kimmel suspension a “straightforward attack on free speech from state actors,” it was Roseanne who delivered the devastating counterpunch, mocking the selective outrage with surgical brevity.

It was a perfect, ironic twist.

Let’s recall: in 2018, Roseanne was fired from her own show over a tweet that was deemed “abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values.” Disney wasted no time. The decision was swift, merciless, and widely celebrated by the same voices now howling in defense of Kimmel. Roseanne apologized. It didn’t matter. Her career was flattened overnight, and her wildly successful show was gutted and rebranded.


But now, Jimmy Kimmel — who has had carte blanche to insult, lie, and pander for years — finally crossed a line. And it took the network’s own affiliates, not the executives in Burbank, to say enough is enough. Ratings were already in decline. Kimmel’s pivot from comedian to political mouthpiece was well underway. The audience was tired, and the advertisers were watching.

Kimmel’s suspension may not be permanent (yet), but it’s deeply telling that ABC acted not out of corporate moral clarity, but in response to affiliate pressure — a reminder that local stations, not just social media mobs, can still influence the trajectory of a national figure. And perhaps this is the moment when the curtain is finally pulled back on legacy media’s dangerous double standards.

Roseanne Barr lost everything over a single tweet. Jimmy Kimmel spent years spewing venom, and it took a murder for ABC to blink.

Written by Arthur Higgens - September 18, 2025