He has presented the Oscar awards four times. The Emmy, three. But perhaps one of his monologues was never expected with as much expectation as this Tuesday, seven days after the last broadcast of his night program and eight nights since and the motivations of the alleged murderer of the Trumpist activist Charlie Kirk caused a controversy that ordered by his chain, ABC, and assumed by the owner multinational, Disney.
That decision placed the comedian in the second era of Donald Trump, and this Tuesday at about 23:35 (East coast time) he returned, a day after, with an emotional and challenging monologue of almost half an hour (instead of the us Amendment, criticized the attacks on the White House press and, in tears, praised the “greatness” of Kirk’s widow, who on Sunday said she had forgiven her husband’s murderer.
Kimmel started his monologue with the phrase: “As I was saying before they interrupted me …”. Then, he threw himself into the attack and asked for an apology in a broken voice. “Our government should not be able to control what we say or not on television,” he proclaimed. “I’ve been thinking about what to tell tonight, and I don’t think it’s going to make the difference much: if you like it, you like it; if not, no. But there is something that I want to make clear, I care as a human being. And you understand that it was never my intention to make fun of the murder of a young man.”
The comedian, containing the emotion, said that the day they killed Kirk hung a message on his Instagram account by sending his family and asking for compassion. “And I said it seriously. I still say it. It was never my intention to blame any specific group of the actions of an individual clearly unbalanced. I tried just otherwise.”
Kimmel was. This: “We have touched back on the weekend with the magic gang [de las siglas Make America Great Again, volvamos a hacer grande a EE UU] Trying to characterize this boy who killed as something different from one of them, ”said Kimmel the night before the last Tuesday the authorities offered more details about the trip to the” leftism “of Tyler Robinson, the young man from a Mormon and Republican family who faces the death penalty for allegedly shot in the neck to the junior leader Maga while he spoke at a university of Utah.
“I understand that some felt annoying, or did not understand it, or both. And for those who were pointed out, I understand your anger. If the thing had been the other way around, the same had happened to me,” Kimmel continued in the monologue of his return. In addition, he claimed to have “many friends and family on the other side”, with quotes in the fingers and in reference to the Republicans, “whom I love and feel close despite not agreeing with them. I do not believe that Charlie Kirk’s murderer represented anyone. He was a sick person who believed that violence was the solution and no, never is.”
The humorist thanked his audience, who had called him these days to support him, the comedians of countries in which censorship is state policy, but also those of their competence, who came out in their defense in their programs, and also to those responsible, for allowing, in 23 years and more than 4,000 programs to criticize and “widen the limits of humor”, but not only. “Above all, I want to thank those who do not support me, or my beliefs, but still support my right to share them,” Kimmel said, before reviewing voices from the right that these days have taken their face for him. “I never imagined that Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, not even my old friend [el senador] Ted Cruz would be who, believe it or not, would say something so beautiful of me. Valentía is needed to raise the voice against this administration. They did it and deserve recognition. ”At another time, the television star abounded in that idea, when he said that he had learned from some of the great comedians of this country, from Lenny Bruce to Howard Stern, that” there is nothing more antiestadounidense to cancel a comedian. ”
Before the resurrection of Kimmel, whom he was already buried, Trump published a message on his social network a couple of hours before the beginning of the program in which he expressed his disbelief for the news: “ABC told the White House that he had been canceled!”
“Why would they like someone who does it so badly, that it is not funny and that endangers the chain by presenting 99% garbage in favor of the Democrats. I think we are going to exam[Son] A panda of losers!
Trump did not save the aggressiveness with his outburst. And that the show Kimmel did not pass it in the White House … not even in the rest of Washington. Two chains of local television stations affiliated with ABC that cover around 25% of the territory – Sinlair, whose owner is a recognized Trumpist, and Nexstar, the most widespread by the United States and the one that was at the origin of the first suspension—
Among the places where the content was veiled was the capital (in fact, Kimmel highlighted him in his monologue), where Sinclair preferred to replace a boring news program. In a city where politics is a drug that has a good part of its population, the same addicts that are usually at that time stuck to the CNN, to the MSNBC OA Fox News with the nth twist of the theme of the day spent all afternoon seeing how the Kimmel monologue did not miss. Looking for a pirate signal? Driving to the nearby Baltimore? Or waiting for the deferred retransmission on YouTube?
Nor could the monologue on his television Brendan Carr, president of the Federal Communications Regulator (FCC are its acronym in English), who pressed ABC for the suspension, and also lives in Washington. Carr said last week in a podcast that the comment was worthy of a dismissal. He also said: “We can do it for good or bad.” That afternoon, Nexstar, who has 200 stations that pass the contents of ABC and is pending the approval of the FCC of a phenomenal business in his hands, said he took Kimmel from Antena. Disney’s property replied that decision shortly after.
In his monologue on Tuesday, the official took the worst part. Kimmel resurrected a tweet in which Carr defended the political satire as he does not go from freedom of expression and said that “it is the most shameful thing the Republicans have” next to that Tesla truck of angular lines (the word game works best in English when comparing Carr and carcar in Spanish).
At the end of the monologue, Robert de Niro, the Gánster for the antonomasia of the films, passed through the president of the FCC in one of the funniest moments of the night. Then, in his usual tone, he criticized the president, specifically. As one more day.
After Colbert
Trump had already put Kimmel in the Dianaen in Julio that his program, in neighboring CBS, will end at the end of this season by decision of the chain and after he had a defamation. Consequently, the president immediately celebrated Kimmel’s disappearance from the grill. He blamed her for “the lack of talent” of the comedian since his program “has no audience” “good”, Kimmel replied on his return, destined for the euphoria of the public: “Today I have it”. “To which he added:” To cover this success, he will have to [el multimillonario pederasta] Epstein”.
In the two days of the cancellation, Trump went further: since “the chains” that emit night entertainment programs are against him, he told reporters in the White House, “maybe it’s not a bad idea” to take away the licenses, because “they use them illegally, incorrectly already purpose in a horrible way” by criticizing him.
The only idea of canceling the speech of a comedian for criticizing the president based on pressing a private chain made the alarms jump in a country, from which Kirk himself was an absolutist. Carr (and Trump) also received harsh criticism among leading Maga leaders, such as announcer Tucker Carlson, Senator Ted Cruz or the influencer Ben Shapiro. Kimmel also reflected it in his speech.
In a more serious tone, Kimmel said: “The president of the United States was clear: he wanted to see me, and the hundreds of people who work here, fired from our work. Our leader celebrating that his compatriots lost their ways of life because he cannot bear a joke.” And he continued: “He was able to get Colbert out of the CBS, now he has put his eyes on me and now he wants the NBC to dismiss Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers and hundreds of Americans who work there and do not win millions of dollars. And I hope that, if that happens, or there is the slightest insinuation of it, you will do ten times more noise than this week. In addition, he stressed that Trump also goes against journalists, “he demands, harasses them.” He acknowledged that putting that question of relief is not as striking as canceling a comedian, but that it is essential: “It is very important to have a free press, it is crazy that we are not paying more attention.”
This Monday, Disney reversed the suspension. “We have spent the last days having deep conversations with Jimmy and, after them, we have reached the decision that the show Return on Tuesday. ”In his opening monologue, Kimmel, who thanked the owners for that decision, joked about the frightened subscribers that the controversy treated the platform. He pretended that he had been put as a condition to read a statement of the company … which turned out to be the instructions to reactivate Disney accounts and his Hulu subsidiary.
