Let's have some fun for a change - what will Jimmy open with tonight?

[malaise]

Will he read the 1st Amendment, quote Jack Parr (as someone else suggested) or just tear into him as usual.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Wow I don't watch him enough to know

but that never stopped me from weighing in. I'm expecting a little 1A delineation on what is free speech, satire, humor, the landscape in which it's always existed, and how he really didn't quite say what they said he said. Because Jimmy was being railroaded.

[malaise]

3. I think today's stuck escalator will come into play

In the satire /jokes part😀

[LastDemocratInSC]

2. Perhaps something like "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted".

[malaise]

6. That's the Jack Parr line

😀

[LastDemocratInSC]

23. Louis Rukeyser also used it after being booted from

his weekly PBS Wall Street program in 2005 and upon arriving at CNBC with a new program a few weeks later.

[malaise]

24. Sweet

😀

[UTUSN]

19. Thread winner!!!!

[UTUSN]

4. 1- He won't apologize, none is needed. 2- At some point will give heartfelt thanks to supporters.

3- Will extend, again, condolences to the family. 4- Won't, but in high drama, would *REPEAT* the sentence they distorted against him, that what he said was about MAGAts using the murder as a tool against Leftists, not anything aimed at the dead one.

[malaise]

7. We'll see

Looks promising

[UTUSN]

21. Will take self-credit for #s 1, 2, 3 but the thread winner was the "interrupted" one upthread!

[NCDem47]

5. Jimmy's first line: "Did anything happen while I was away?"

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[malaise]

8. How long were you away

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. If you mean for awhile, then, yeah, something happened,

ABC caved and re-instated Jimmy Kimmel's show, not because it's the right thing to do, but because of the money they were losing due to their brain dead decision to suspend him because of FCC chair Carr's threat against them.

[malaise]

17. Got yah

Good one

[Endlessmike56]

10. I'm back Donnie

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[malaise]

12. Latest - Jimmy Kimmel posts photo with Norman Lear ahead of his return to late night

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/jimmy-kimmel-breaks-social-media-silence-instagram-photo-norman-lear-rcna233256

Jimmy Kimmel broke his silence after his brief suspension from the airwaves, posting a picture to Instagram on Tuesday of a Hollywood figure who once described himself as being on President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list.”

Kimmel shared a photo of himself and Norman Lear, the television producer who was best known for his progressive activism. Lear died in 2023 at age 101. The late-night host captioned the photo, which features his arm around Lear, “Missing this guy today.”

[Paladin]

11. Whatever he says, I hope it's after a 5-minute standing ovation. (nt)

[UTUSN]

13. He just posted: "We are back full of love." - no joke, reported on David MUIR.

[malaise]

14. He also posted a pic

With Norman Lear
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/jimmy-kimmel-breaks-social-media-silence-instagram-photo-norman-lear-rcna233256

[DiverDave]

15. The RAPTURE!

I can see lots of jokes from that.

[malaise]

16. Good one

😀

[malaise]

18. Kimmel's musical guest tonight Sarah McLachlan refused to perform

at Disney doc launch because of his suspension

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/09/22/sarah-mclachlan-lilith-fair-documentary-jimmy-kimmel-disney-cancellation/86290714007/

[malaise]

20. This is fabulous and yes he started with the Jack Parr

quote

[UTUSN]

22. Best line (after KRASNOV clip "no ratings" ) : "I do tonight."