“Real Time” host Bill Maher on Friday condemned ABC for “indefinitely” suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The program was pulled off the air on Wednesday after Kimmel criticized the right-wing response to last week’s fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
“It was 24 years ago to the day that I made comments on ABC that got me canceled from that network and Jimmy Kimmel took my slot,” Maher said Friday. “Did you know that? At ‘Politically Incorrect?’ Oh yes, I got canceled before cancel even had a culture.”
“This shit ain’t new,” he added. “It’s worse, we’ll get to that, but you know. ABC, they are steady. ABC stands for ‘Always Be Caving.’ So Jimmy, pal, I am with you, I support you, and on the bright side, you don’t have to pretend anymore that you like Disneyland.”
The Walt Disney Company, which operates said theme park, acquired ABC in 1995.
Maher’s former show on the network was canceled in 2002 after he argued that the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks were not cowards. Kimmel’s show was pulled after he said “the MAGA gang” is desperate to paint Kirk’s suspected gunman “as anything other than one of them.”
