BREAKING NEWS! Adam Carolla Reacts to Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Cancellation

Oh, Steve Wilkos in here. Dawson's in here. The Steve Wilkos show, by the way, it's NBC, and you can check your local affiliates for that.

All right, Dawson, what's going on out there? Well, Jimmy Kimmel ignited a firestorm over his comments about the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin. So Disney is pulling ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely. Next, our media, which owns hundreds of television stations, announced it would preempt Kimmel's show on all of its affiliates for the foreseeable future. They

say Kimmel's comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse. We do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located.

So when all this was breaking, I was on the road in traffic, doing a thing kind of half out of town. And I was listening to talk radio. So I love talk radio, but talk radio tells you what's going on when it's happening. And Mike August, who's Booker and friend and I was meeting him at the event, he's

a sports radio guy. I don't get the sports radio guys, but okay. But he didn't, so, but he's very, you know, he worked for Kimmel's show for 15 years. He's very finger on the pulse of what's going on. This guy, that guy, Jimmy, he knows what's going on at the Kimmel show and he was there for a long time. He also knows what's going on in late night show business,

you know, because James, baby doll Dixon, my agent, was is Colbert's agent. It was Mike's former partner, and Jimmy's agent. Also, it was crazy. James Babydoll Dixon represent, you know, seven weeks ago, we had two guys that were

like the king of late night, and now both gone, both on, you know, over a decade, so and so forth. So anyway, I'm hearing about this on the radio. And so I call, Mike calls and he goes, how far away are you from the, from the gig? You know, I got another hour in traffic.

And then he brings up Kimmel for some reason. He's something like, oh man, what's this Kimmel thing? He says something sort of innocuous. And I go, oh yeah, man, that's crazy, right? And he goes, what? And I go, yeah.

And so then I tell him, I think he knows that Kimmel's been pulled off. He does not know. So then I go, I said, you know, you know what would be funny? Every time I talked to O'Reilly, O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly always says to me, Connecticut, right? I talked to Bill O'Reilly.

Last week.

Last week. He goes, hey, tell your buddy Kimmel to put me on the show. Tell your buddy Kimmel, roll in it. Every time, tell your buddy, I'd be great on the show. Go tell your buddy that. And Kimmel was slated to go to New York, go to Brooklyn.

So he goes, he's going to be in here. Tell your buddy, whatever. So just because I think it's funny, and I know Jimmy's show's been pulled, I tell Mike, hit up O'Reilly and tell him good news. I got him booked.

He's coming to New York. Colbert's his lead, but he's going to bump Colbert. I got you in there instead. And Jimmy goes, sorry, Mike goes, you want me to do what with O'Reilly? I go, just hit up O'Reilly.

Tell him good news. I got him booked on Kimmel show. He goes, you got him booked on Kimmel's show. He goes, you got him booked on Kimmel's show? I go, yeah, yeah, tell him that, tell him that, it's funny. Well, I don't get it. Why did you book him on Kimmel's show?

I thought he, Kimmel said okay. So this goes on for 10 minutes. I go, Mike, it's a joke, it's a joke, it's funny, right? He goes, why is it funny? And I go, because it's a funny joke because because O'Reilly's always hit me up and I'll now be funny if you told him I got him booked. And he goes, I don't get what's funny about that. I go, it's funny because Jimmy's show got canceled. And he goes, what? I go, yes, Jimmy's show got

canceled. He goes, what are you talking about? I go, what the fuck,, yes, Jimmy Show got canceled. He goes, what are you talking about? I go, what the fuck, Mike? Don't you have a radio? You got a phone? I've been on the road for an hour. I've been on the road for an hour.

He goes, I go, just don't say, how far are you from the gig? He goes, five minutes. I go, just go there, park your car, get your phone out and call me back. And then he calls me back and he's like, holy shit, holy shit. And I'm like, now you can see how funny

that O'Reilly joke is, right? And he's like, well, yeah, now I get it. So I said, we'll hit O'Reilly anyway, cause this is gonna be funny. Cause I just want to do this. And then, you know, Mike's

talking, you know, when affiliates, he was saying, I think it was Conan had one affiliate in Boston drop him. And that's when the domino effect started happening with Conan. But, you know, he knows the nuts and the bolts of TV and late night and affiliates. And once X amount of affiliates,

once the affiliates drop you or a group drops you, then you get dropped. Now, so then I'm very weird about sending texts to people that are in the middle of stuff because I feel like they're being flooded with text. And then it feels like a burden to them

because they feel compelled to answer your text in a pile of texts that they're getting.

I would imagine you were on the receiving end of that. I was. Yesterday.

I got onto a group thing with all the guys who worked there and stuff like that. The usual suspects, the guys I watch football with and stuff, but I also had a gig. So I basically- Shut it off.

I just have to go perform and be on stage and do whatever I'm doing. I can't sit around and get a private room and look at my phone. It happened right when I got there. But there was a break.

And I said to Jimmy, I just sent him a text, because you want to be on record as understanding or knowing or whatever. So then I just sent him a text that just said, thinking about you, hope you're OK. And then I always write,

I don't know, maybe this is a reverse psychology thing, but I always write, you don't need to reply because I just want, it's like, it's like, you know, your dad died, you know, hey, Steve, sorry, handle your business. I'm just, I understand, you for, it's a tough time for all of us. You know, I'm just, I'm thinking about you.

I'll lead with that sometimes. No need to reply, just making sure you're cool.

All right, he wrote back 18 seconds later, which is how Jimmy does. He just writes back, you know, and maybe he's passive aggressive. Maybe it's my no need to reply makes him reply faster, but he just replied and he's like,

wow, strange times out here, whatever. And then I wrote, I wrote, I told my book O'Reilly on the show. I said, look, as long as you're replying, I'm going to just tell you I booked O'Reilly, but I'll make a joke.

And then he just wrote back, I'm being followed by a helicopter. And I was like, oh, wow, these are strange times, you know? Wow. So, you know, I just said, you know, stay safe, you know, good.

You know, I think a lot of people want me to comment on it. My feeling is this, I don't think he should have been fired. It's a weird thing. 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. Because that's what, we're living in a time where something happens. Nancy Pelosi's husband gets hit with a hammer.

This side says he's had a MAGA hat on. That side says he's some kind of nudist hippie from hate Ashbery. You know, that's all we do now. I don't feel like it's necessary,, that's all we do now. I don't feel like it's necessary, but that's all we do. But, you know, also,

and I don't like the government getting involved and I've heard every side of the story. And in general, I just want people to speak and then the ratings will do the talking and you can support them or not support them And that's what you want to watch. You can watch it or you can watch Gutfeld and listen to him

Bash Kimmel, you know, or however you want to do it. That's the world. I'd like to live in but It's not the world we're living in and I understand people's arguments

and It's not the world we're living in. And I understand people's arguments.

And my thing is just, my perspective is different just because I know Jimmy. And I know Jimmy to be a very good guy and a generous guy. And I've always said that about him. And I realized that while everyone else knows Jimmy as a caricature,

I know him as a person, you know? So when people, you know, when I run into the people that don't know Jimmy as a person, you know, 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, and I know you, you know, I know Dennis Prager is a very sweet man, lovely, lovely man, but these guys on the other side think of you as a cartoon character.

And then at a certain point, there's the assassin who thinks of Charlie Kirk as a cartoon character, not a dude. I know him as a guy, sweet guy, fair guy, family guy, good American. But that guy looks at him as a cartoon character and that's why he gets to kill him, you see?

And so I know Jimmy as 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, we disagree on pizza toppings as well, but it doesn't mean we don't talk, you know?

And that's the word I don't get. Because I lean conservative, Jerry was super liberal guy and we would have discussions all the time, but we loved each other. I mean, I loved the man. He loved me. I mean, I saw him a month, you know, and we'd talk about not burning somebody. You know, Jerry came to see me. I know he knew this was the last time he was ever gonna see me. He didn't burn me with hey Steve I'm dying right he wanted to see me one more time, but he was not going to burn and you know

That's just the way it was but my point is like we all these years We you know we spent 30 years together, and we had opposing views, but I loved him. He loved me We loves getting together being together now It seems like if you have opposing views, people are cutting you out. Like, I don't want you in my life anymore.

You don't think like me, which to me is like craziness, right? People are cutting their own mothers off, their parents off, because you don't, you know, you see these kids on TikTok, I won't have anything to do with my parents anymore

because, you know, they think opposite of me. It seems it's it's a it's a larger operation. Yeah. Splitting up the families, dividing everyone against each other. Strange times man. I mean you're cutting people that you love out of your life because they don't

think like you. It's crazy. I don't, first off I don't get what's in it for you you know what I mean like I would like to enjoy Thanksgiving you know what I mean? Like, I would like to enjoy Thanksgiving, you know what I mean? And we can watch a football game and eat some turkey and drink a little bit. We don't need to talk about any of this stuff. I think for me, it's always been a thing where it's always he said, she said, but I think there is a division to be made or delineation to be made, which is, there are people that are on the left and the right and the left people, nobody thinks Jon Stewart is an evil guy.

They think of him as, I disagree with this guy politically. They even will say he's talented, he's smart, he's bright. I'm sure he's a good dad. I'm sure he's a good dad. I'm sure he's a good husband. He's a good dude. I disagree with him.

I disagree with whatever his policies are. Okay, that's fine. But, you know, when you start getting into this guy's evil, well, then we're going to a different place because the disagreement, whether it's at Thanksgiving

with your niece and your nephew, if you're a Steelers guy and they're Ravens fans, that's fine, that's how the world comes down. It would come down to everyone's a fan of something, you're a Chevy guy, I'm a Ford guy, whatever we do. But if you're a Chevy guy and I'm an evil guy, and you're a Pittsburgh guy and I'm an Chevy guy, I'm a Ford guy, you know, whatever we do. But if you're a Chevy guy and I'm an evil guy,

and you're a Pittsburgh guy and I'm an evil guy, and you like anchovies on your pizza and I'm an evil guy, well, at some point, I can't come to Thanksgiving. And at an extreme point, I'm gonna need to be put down. And that's the problem. And I think that's the division that we're talking about,

which is the right and the left go, oh, you guys sling just as much mud as we do. Right. But we're calling people stupid or low IQ or slow or sleepy or whatever he's doing. You're going with the evil part.

And that's when the bullets start flying.

I think they've also underestimated just how, just how much this country has, I guess, come together behind Charlie Kirk and how this is incredibly wrong. Would you like to see what Kimmel said?

Yeah, I've seen it.

I've seen it, but we can-

We'll leave the long cut in there, because we can play it.

It's him going after Trump... Well, it's not necessarily just going after Trump. It's after everyone who voted for Trump. I guess that's where the MAGA problem is, yeah.

We had 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. In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism.

But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.

I condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?

I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's gonna be a beauty.

Yes.

He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction.

Demolition. There's nothing wrong with that, in my mind. Yes, that's why we left it. Inaccurate, but like I said, I can't turn on Jimmy because he made my career, and I know him as a person. I just

was talking to him before this just sort of he was at the Emmys I Just said what's going on? I'm at the Emmys. I sit here for four hours not win anything and it was just a human funny conversation Rennie Harlan the the famous film director, is out there. Got here a little early, so I'm gonna wrap it up

just a beat early and get Rennie out here. Steve, the show on NBC, no danger of being pulled by the affiliates.

No, because when they tell me something, I listen.

You can go, should we go, you can check your local affiliates, right? you can check your local affiliates, right? Yeah, we're all over.