Comedian and podcast host Adam Carolla has been friends with Jimmy Kimmel for some time now, and recently weighed in on Kimmel’s suspension following comments he made about Charlie Kirk.
What did Adam Carolla say about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension?
Carolla, who co-hosted The Man Show with Kimmel from 1999-2004, now hosts his own podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, and is known for his now mostly right-leaning views. However, Carolla characterized Kimmel’s comments as “inaccurate,” and went on to defend his longtime friend.
“I think a lot of people want me to comment on it. It’s a weird thing,” Carolla said (via THR). “The right and the left are always sort of misinterpreting things. He was inaccurate about something. It wasn’t like he was necessarily attacking Charlie Kirk. He was trying to dump it on Trump and inaccurate about it.”
Carolla went on to say that he knows Jimmy as a “good guy,” and said the pair still keep in touch despite their differences.
“I know Jimmy to be a very good guy and a generous guy, and I’ve always said that about him. And I realize that while everyone else knows Jimmy as a caricature, I know him as a person,” said Carolla. “When I run into people that don’t know Jimmy as a person, [Bill] O’Reilly or Dave Rubin, Dennis Prager, and they go, ‘what’s up with your buddy Jimmy?’ Well, I know him, so that’s why I don’t think of him like you think of him. But on the other hand, they think of you as a cartoon character too… I know Jimmy is a human and I know how good he is and I know how decent he is, and we disagree politically, but who cares? We disagree on pizza toppings as well, but it doesn’t mean we don’t talk.”
On Wednesday night, ABC halted production on Jimmy Kimmel Live after the FCC openly threatened to take action against the network and its license following Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. During his last show as of now, Kimmel commented on the potential political leanings of Kirk’s killer as well as how the MAGA movement was reacting to it.
“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,” said Kimmel during his monologue.
So far, Kimmel’s show is considered on indefinite pause. Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns ABC affiliate stations alongside Nexstar, has said that in lieu of Kimmel’s upcoming Friday show, ABC will air a special memorial service to Kirk that other affiliates are free to also run. The company also demanded that Kimmel apologize for the comments and make a “meaningful personal donation” to Kirk’s family, as well as Turning Point USA.