The stakes couldn’t have been higher for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ’s first show back after his recent suspension by ABC , following comments he made last week about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Rather than obfuscate, however, he chose to address the issue head-on. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” Kimmel said in the opening monologue of his show on Tuesday night, becoming visibly emotional. “I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.”

It was, really, the only not-funny moment of the night, as Kimmel went on to host an hour of television that felt like nothing so much as a direct confrontation of President Donald Trump (who had celebrated Kimmel’s suspension on his social media platform Truth Social, promising that

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