ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk's killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show.

Kimmel, the veteran late-night comic, made several comments about the reaction to Kirk's assassination on his show Monday and Tuesday nights. He said that “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

ABC, which has aired Kimmel's late-night show since 2003, moved swiftly after Nextstar Communications Group said it would pull the show starting Wednesday. Kimmel's comments about Kirk's death “are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,” said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division. Nexstar operates 23 ABC affiliates.

There was no immediate comment from Kimmel.

In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said that “we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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, like CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, has consistently been critical of President Donald Trump and many of his policies on his ABC show. CBS said this past summer that it was canceling Colbert's show at the end of this season for financial reasons, although some critics have wondered if his stance on Trump played a role.

Outside of the El Capitan Entertainment Center in Hollwyood, Calif., Tommy Williams from Jacksonville, Fla., who had planned on attending Wednesday's show told The Associated Press, "They just said that tonight's show was canceled, which made us think something happened at the very last minute, that they could not go on with tonight's show. Maybe there was a car accident or something happened with the guest or someone got sick or, you know, who knows. I was just hoping everyone was OK... But now we're gonna have to find something else to do at 11:35 every night, because late night is just becoming extinct, you know. Yeah, late night and the freedom to speak your mind."