Late night host Jimmy Kimmel will be back over airwaves on ABC Tuesday night, although some local television affiliates still won’t carry Jimmy Kimmel Live! over his comments made last Monday about the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in Utah Sept. 10.

In Kimmel’s week off the air, some GOP elected officials have broken with the Trump administration over comments made by President Donald Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

“Jimmy Kimmel, I think, originally got canceled because he wasn’t funny, he said something offensive, and his ratings were low,” U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) said Monday. “However, the FCC chairman also made some intimidating comments on a podcast, that was also inappropriate.”

Republican U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell

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