Jimmy Kimmel joked that his late-night show now has to 'stay on the move so the FCC can't get us' on the Thursday, Sept. 25 episode of the recently suspended show.

Jimmy Kimmel just joined a long list of hosts whose biggest ratings came with their most contentious moments — some survived, others didn't.

Jimmy Kimmel offered no apologies in his return to late-night television, but said he was not trying to joke about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

On traditional television, Kimmel’s return episode scored at least 6.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen measurements. That figure will increase once other forms of viewing are factored in. Kimmel alluded to his ratings performance on Wednesday night, and he mocked President Trump’s recent Truth Social post that bashed him.

Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night TV after a near weeklong suspension brought his show its highest ratings in a decade, Disney has said. Some 6.26 million people tuned in to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday - about triple its average ratings - despite about a quarter of ABC stations in the US not airing it.

ABC announced on Sept. 17 that it had suspended Kimmel's late-night show "indefinitely" after he made comments about Kirk's death.

Vice President JD Vance tried Wednesday to rewrite the history of what happened before ABC suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel last week, saying a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission merely made “a joke on social media” on the subject of Kimmel.

Jimmy Kimmel revealed during his Wednesday, Sept. 24 monologue that Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos sent his staff an ice cream truck as 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' returned to air.