BREAKING:”Jimmy Kimmel is thrown a bone by ABC as his contract is extended one more year… after being taken off air for Charlie Kirk comments” see more…

Jimmy Kimmel is thrown a bone by ABC as his contract is extended one more year… after being taken off air for Charlie Kirk comments

Jimmy Kimmel’s contract has been extended another year The Daily Mail can confirm after he was taken off air for his controversial Charlie Kirk comments back in September.

The 58-year-old host will continue hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live until May 2027 after signing a one-year deal with Disney’s ABC network.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Kimmel’s representatives for comment and has yet to hear back.

Kimmel was famously booted off the air on September 17 over his comments about Kirk’s assassination.

The host said that ‘the MAGA gang’ was attempting to portray the suspect in Kirk’s killing ‘as anything other than one of them.’

Regardless, Kimmel returned to the airwaves on September 23.

Jimmy Kimmel ‘s contract has been extended another year The Daily Mail can confirm after he was taken off air for his controversial Charlie Kirk comments back in September

American right-wing political firebrand Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10 during a debate event for his organization Turning Point USA.

Kimmel announced the news to his staff on Monday according to sources for Bloomberg who were the first to report the news.

It has been said that the comedian’s contract was originally set to expire in May of next year.

Kimmel and ABC had come to terms on the extension months ago and had delayed announcing their plans out of respect for fellow host Stephen Colbert.

CBS had announced in July that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert would end in May 2026.

The two late night chat show hosts are chummy and also share the same manager James Dixon.

As he was taken off the air in September, ABC’s parent company, Disney, announced that it had suspended the show to ‘avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotionally charged moment for the country.’

According to Variety, ABC’s decision came after Nexstar Media, which operates dozens of affiliate stations across the country, threatened to drop Kimmel’s show from its programming lineup.

The dispute quickly became a flashpoint in the ongoing debate over free speech, political satire and the limits of late-night comedy.

But, after ‘having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,’ ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel Live! would return to its airwaves.

The late-night staple has been on air for nearly two-and-a-half decades as it made it’s debut in January 2003.

Kimmel has experienced a personal tragedy recently as his best friend and bandleader for the chat show Cleto Escobedo III passed away at 59 last month.

The condition occurs when the heart fails to pump enough blood to the rest of the body to sustain life, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

While cardiogenic shock was listed as the immediate cause of death for Escobedo, several other underlying factors were also listed.

The musician had reportedly been suffering from cirrhosis of the liver caused by alcohol use, in which long-term drinking can cause the organ’s health tissue to be replaced by scar tissue, which prevents the liver from functioning properly.

Other underlying causes of Escobedo’s death reportedly include vasodilatory shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation.