Jimmy Kimmel has a surprising supporter in his corner after his late night show was pulled from air and then reinstated following his Charlie Kirk assassination comments.
During her appearance on the Thursday, September 25 edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, guest Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 64, brought her family’s puppy Ethel along.
Explaining why she brought the dog to the interview, Louis-Dreyfus remarked it had been a big week and Ethel was “a big fan of the First Amendment.”
Earlier this month, ABC abruptly pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air two days after Kimmel caused a stir for comments about Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson. (Kirk, a controversial conservative commentator, was fatally shot on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was 31.)
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“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed to Us Weekly on September 17.
In his September 15 monologue, Kimmel, 57, accused conservatives of reaching “new lows” by trying to claim that Robinson, 22, was part of the far-left, after Utah Governor Spencer Cox said on NBC’s Meet the Press one day prior that the alleged killer had a “leftist ideology.”
“The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during his talk show. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
The show returned to its regular slot on Tuesday, September 23 and managed to triple its audience despite not airing in 23 per cent of the country due to media groups Sinclair and Nexstar continuing to preempt the show.
Meanwhile, Louis-Dreyfus also touched on lighter topics while appearing on the late night talk show, including her iconic “bad dance” from her role as Elaine in Seinfeld, which ran from 1989 to 1998.
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She revealed her mother had played a part in the final result that Seinfeld fans see on screen.
“When we first got the script, and it just said, ‘Elaine dances badly.’ And so I was sort of doing things in front of the mirror to see what was really bad,” Louis-Dreyfus explained, revealing she then enlisted the help of her mother.
The actress continued: “She was there helping me with the kids that particular week. And so I came downstairs and I said, ‘Mommy, which is worse?’ And she voted for the one that made it on the show.”
