Conan O'Brien speaks up for Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘indefinitely’ shutdown

Conan O’Brien spoke out about Jimmy Kimmel Live! being pulled after the host’s political remarks.

On Wednesday, Sept. 17, an ABC spokesperson confirmed that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was being pulled from the network indefinitely.

The decision was based on remarks the host made in his Sept. 15 monologue about Charlie Kirk, the right-wing commentator who was shot and killed on Sept. 10 at age 31.

Sharing a statement to social media on Friday, Sept. 19, O'Brien wrote words of support for Kimmel.

"The suspension of @jimmykimmel and the promise to silence other late-night hosts for criticizing the administration should disturb everyone on the Right, Left, and Center," he wrote. "It's wrong and anyone with a conscience knows it's wrong."

While O'Brien isn’t hosting a late-night show at the moment, he previously led Late Night on NBC from 1993 to 2009, followed by The Tonight Show from 2009 to 2010. He later fronted his self-titled series Conan on TBS, which ran from 2010 to 2021.

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