Invoice Maher backs Jimmy Kimmel, recollects personal ABC cancellation 24 years in the past

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"Actual Time" host Bill Maher expressed empathy for fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Friday as a former ABC star who additionally landed himself in sizzling water.

"It was 24 years to the day that I made feedback on ABC that bought me canceled from that community, and Jimmy Kimmel took my slot," Maher stated throughout his opening monologue.

"Oh sure, I bought canceled earlier than cancel even had a tradition," he quipped.

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"Actual Time" host Invoice Maher mirrored on his personal firing from ABC whereas addressing the Jimmy Kimmel saga throughout his monologue. (Screenshot/HBO)

"ABC, they're regular. ABC stands for ‘All the time Be Caving," Maher later referred to as out his ex-employer. "So Jimmy, pal, I'm with you. I help you. And on the brilliant facet, you do not have to fake anymore that you simply like Disneyland."

Earlier than his decades-long stint at HBO, Maher beforehand hosted "Politically Incorrect" on ABC, which the community canceled in 2002 after Maher confronted backlash for arguing that the 9/11 hijackers weren't "cowardly" simply days after the 2001 terrorist assaults.

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Invoice Maher beforehand hosted "Politically Incorrect" on ABC till he bought canceled in 2002 over controversial remarks he made shortly after 9/11. ( Dan Watson /American Broadcasting Corporations by way of Getty Photographs)

Kimmel, in the meantime, was pulled off the air after he instructed the accused Charlie Kirk murderer was a Trump supporter.

"Look, I do not assume what he stated was precisely proper. I do not," Maher stated. "We do not agree on that. He [shouldn't] lose his job for it!"

"Was he on the left? I do not know that both… it's a idiot's errand to attempt to say that these nuts who do this stuff are in a crew," he later stated. "This child would not belong in both social gathering. He belongs in a straitjacket. He is an outpatient who shouldn't be out! However you've the best to be incorrect, or have any opinion you need! That is what the First Modification is all about!"

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Maher notably had a heated exchange with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro final week over the alleged murderer Tyler Robinson's political ideology.

Earlier than wrapping his monologue, he provided one closing message for his ABC successor.

"You probably did a fantastic humorous present for twenty years. Try to be happy with that. If this firing goes for you the way in which it did for me, you will get 23 years at a greater community," Maher advised Kimmel.

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Invoice Maher expressed his help for his "good friend" Jimmy Kimmel, who was pulled off the air by ABC following his feedback in regards to the Charlie Kirk assassination. (Randy Holmes/Disney Basic Leisure Content material by way of Getty Photographs)

On Monday, Kimmel instructed Robinson was part of the "MAGA gang" regardless of studies he had a left-wing ideology, which was later reaffirmed in Tuesday's indictment.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from one in all them and doing every little thing they will to attain political factors from it," Kimmel advised his viewers.

He additionally mocked President Donald Trump over an change he had with a reporter about Kirk's demise, saying, "This isn't how an grownup grieves the homicide of any person he referred to as a good friend. That is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?"

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Disney was dealing with mounting stress from ABC affiliate stations across the nation in addition to the Federal Communications Fee (FCC) over its dealing with of Kimmel. The corporate finally determined Wednesday it might preempt his present indefinitely.

Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas might be despatched to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.