Jimmy Kimmel Was Both Defiant and Conciliatory in His Return

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“As I was saying before I was interrupted …,” Jimmy Kimmel said upon his return to late night after his suspension, echoing a line delivered by The Tonight Show host Jack Paar when he returned a month after walking off his show over the censorship of a joke. To chants of “Jimmy! Jimmy!” Kimmel delivered the monologue many of us expected: defiant yet conciliatory, without ever being apologetic. Jimmy Kimmel is not the radically political figure the President paints him as, nor has he ever been.

Knowing the audience he would command, Kimmel thanked those who supported him, including people who “don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs. Our government cannot

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