Jimmy Kimmel is ready to make a comeback to the late-night show after ABC lifted a nearly week-long suspension on Monday.
The TV personality arrived at ABC Studios in Los Angeles for taping on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and was photographed.
He kept his head bowed as he escaped from the black sedan and was escorted inside by security.
Kimmel, 57, wore a buttonless white dress shirt and black pants to rock the sloppy Prigram look.
The Walt Disney Company issued a statement Monday that the TV host’s show will air after comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“Last Wednesday, we decided to suspend production at the show, avoiding further inflammatory conditions that were tense in our country’s emotional moments,” the company wrote.
“This is a decision we made because some of the comments felt badly timed and therefore insensitive. We spent our last day having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” WDC continued.
However, ABC affiliate companies, including Sinclair Broadcast Group, have announced they will not air Kimmel’s show after he apologized and requested that Kirk’s family be donated.
“As we evaluate the show’s potential returns, discussions with ABC are ongoing,” the group wrote in a statement released Monday.
Kimmel’s show was suspended “indefinitely” after talking about Kirk’s alleged murder in a September 15th monologue.
“The Magga gang is desperately trying to characterise the child who killed Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them, and they are doing everything they can to score political points from there,” he said.
The comedian also called on President Trump for discussing the White House renovation, rather than commenting on the death of a political commentator when asked by a reporter.
“He’s in the fourth stage of grief: Construction,” Kimmel said. “This is not a way to grieve someone’s murder that adults call friends. This is how a four-year-old laments the goldfish.”
But Kimmel wrote via social media, “Can you just agree that shooting another person is a scary and monster instead of an angry finger point?”
Several A-list celebrities, including Meryl Streep and Jennifer Aniston, gathered behind Kimmel and labeled his suspension as “a dark moment for free speech.”
