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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

The best thing Kimmel could do right now is do what the Right does when it is deplatformed: replatform yourself on another service, go live, and dunk on the administration harder than ABC would ever have allowed him to. Go full South Park on them. Do an hour on Patel lying under oath about Epstein.

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.

Quick, burn all your Antifa membership cards. I'm havin' Pete climb the tree and take the clubhouse down. And don't do the secret handshake in public and whatnot!

🚨 Join us TODAY at 12 PM at the main Disney Gate at 2201 W Alameda Ave in Burbank to protest ABC and tell them to bring back #JimmyKimmel.🚨 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

If you’re calling for civility in a time when fascism is overtaking the country then you are on the side of the fascists

Put @jimmykimmel.com back on the air, wackaflockas. Y'all are a disgrace to every single freedom fry you ate in 2003.

If this shit is okay with you then you've been walked to a sad as fuck place. Come back.

Remember when trans people complained about some of Chappelle's jokes and then he got a multi-million dollar deal to make more Netflix specials? Now THAT was cancel culture!

this is real, and yes that reply that is the head of the FCC

You don't want a new civil war. "Oh, another coward who wants us to work through the system! You just want the status quo!" If you prefer civil war to the status quo that tells me you have no concept whatsoever of what a war would look like or *what the new post-war status quo would be*

We should strike ABC until they relent or for a set period of time as a painful work stoppage. We need to show that ABC can be squeezed from both sides. ABC and CBS have both fired full writers rooms. This is both a serious labor and free speech issue.

🚨 JOIN US TODAY AT 12:00 PM to protest ABC and demand they bring back #jimmykimmellive. 🚨

I want Kimmel back on the air and my friends to stay employed but this is a fucking shakedown

First they came for Colbert but I said nothing because I never had a late night set on Colbert

It's sad 'cause my niece named her daughter Antifa in 2002, and now folks think it's a political thing and whatnot.

There are a whole lot of media and television executives currently operating with conviction that the potential consequences of the present will outweigh the accountability of the future. And no matter what happens, they cannot be allowed to be correct.

Just did this. Very easy to leave a comment.

Welp, so much for the "Antifa After Dark" show I was going to pitch to ABC as a Kimmel replacement.

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

"Hello, 9-1-1? I'd like to report a listening to women problem."

keep capitulating. i'm sure they won't keep moving the line.

it's real

“Nexstar’s reach would grow to 80% of U.S. television households — more than double the FCC’s current 39% cap.” www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The TV networks that are willing to hastily cancel anyone who dares speak are owned by major conglomerates. These companies control so much of our media and can turn it off whenever they see fit, with or without cause. Now is a good reminder to make back ups of downloads & preserve anything you can.

Don't forget, Bill Maher had dinner with Trump and they got along great. We're going to be okay, folks.

Consider this my Ezra Klein diss track.👀

Nothing out of the ordinary about the fate of Kimmel and his staff. A bunch of people losing their jobs thanks to the Trump presidency is something that happens every day.

Yoohoo! Okay, quick clarification: The majority of all silent films are lost. HOWEVER, thousands upon thousands upon thousands were made in the four decades of the silent era. So even with so many gone, there are still quite literally thousands of them to watch.

Super glad comedy podcasters banded together last election to make comedy legal again.

It references a useful article particularly about the law, but once again I feel it have to remind you that it’s not hypocrisy because they never believed it in the first place. Much like not calling when the AI is wrong “hallucinating”, we need to practice good language and political hygiene here.

All the discourse about Kimmel's Charlie Kirk bit seems empty and incomplete without Charlie Kirk around to make a hateful, bigoted remark about it.

I grew up in the evangelical church, and when I tried to say, "Hey, I'm a girl," they had me exorcised. Now, I'm a lot more eloquent a speaker now, but they might still have to try me exorcised.

Nobody who works in comedy at ABC should come into work tomorrow. If your employment is contingent upon government approval and your job can be halted due to deliberate bad-faith misreadings by secondary companies fearful about their own government approval, you should find that worrisome.

La La Land has now joined the Letterboxd Five Million Watched Club 🎹🎵

🚨🚨trailer for CHAIR COMPANY🚨🚨 Created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, starring Tim, premieres October 12 on HBO Max

Ummm. Heh heh. Whoops.

Minor/positive health update. 💪 🐈‍⬛ www.instagram.com/reel/DOuYVQq...

Canceling a streaming service? How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!

Nexstar merger won't go through unless Ed Ames apologizes for the tomahawk throw.

Sometimes I wish I could apologize to John Singleton for thinking the parts of HIGHER LEARNING about the alienated kid who gets seduced by white supremacists then shoots up a campus was kind of over the top back in 1995.

Saw an older white man on here (a coincidence, surely) naysaying a boycott in response to the Kimmel firing because "most people won't know or care about Kimmel being fired" and "when do boycotts work?" Tesla and Target, THIS YEAR. Ignore this nihilistic bs. Every small action adds up.

The marigolds are looking pretty this evening 🌱

I really can’t recommend strongly enough attending an in-person mtg of @demsocialists.bsky.social. Face to face, hands on work is how we defeat the barbarism we’re faced with. DSA is a great place to start: www.dsausa.org/chapters/%E2...

Every part of this is horrible, but what pierced my heart was the unemployed illustrator's parents giving him a birthday card with an AI slop illustration

Uh, right, I have to go now Woody because I'm due back on the planet Earth.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like fall 🧶 Top: Re-Animator (1985) Bottom: Superhost (2021)

the last song performed on Jimmy Kimmel's show was "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down"

"America may not be an actual autocracy. But it increasingly seems to be playing one on TV." [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

Sometimes I look back at those couple of years when everybody was extremely angry about the ubiquity of "pumpkin spice" products and think maybe that was an overreaction

I consumed a lot of true-crime media when I was working on Arden, and HBO's The Yogurt Shop Murders is right up there with the very best. Interested less in the crime than in how cops are bad, how ugly death is, and how our brains betray us a little more with every year that passes. High recommend!

This is like that big joke in 2016 that Subway Jared was going to vote for trump except this is real.

🧵 but you just need the end.

The found footage franchise GRAVE ENCOUNTERS is getting a fresh new reboot, with real-life couple Justin Long and Kate Bosworth on board. The directors of the 2011 original film, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, are both on board:

I can say unequivocally, that I will never reveal the source of my ANTIFA funding, because… I mean… 🤷‍♂️

It was vulnerable and marginalized groups complaining about jokes that got certain rich and famous comedians all up in our shit about cancel culture. Powerful people like Trump and the head of the FCC? Eh, not so much.

Watched Almost Famous last night and Bangs’ lines about how the “industry of cool” just wants you to write sanctimonious stories about the industry’s genius that ultimately destroy an art form hit harder

Bri: Oh my god did you see Melania’s hat? Vincent: Oh fuck, ha ha ha ha Bri: she looks so fucking stupid, I can’t breathe

That Michael Myers sure was handy with a knife

As Wong Kar-wai’s masterful study of desire In the Mood for Love turns 25, Xuanlin Tham looks back on the film’s peerless impact on the way we understand romance altogether. boxd.it/2J6

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is movie of the year www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

"Don’t normalize this, they said...Don’t normalize the dark spirits that have been unleashed. Don’t. But this is what the mainstream media does." -- from a @vulture.com column I wrote 1 week after the 2016 election. www.vulture.com/2016/11/60-m...

These days I can no longer be shocked; *of course* a flashy reporter who spectacularly compromised her journalistic integrity via a played-out Hollywood cliché (getting romantic with her subject) is now entrusted to become an editor -- an editor! -- at Vanity Fair

one interesting dynamic in the suspension of JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, and the involvement of affiliate networks, is that late-night shows, despite declining ad revenue, are important tentpoles for affiliate local 11 o'clock news, which do tend to be profitable. This was behind the whole Leno/Conan thing!

I could go on and on, but in my experience, and from others, it's not that I've just never heard anything bad, it's that every account is GLOWING. He's also really funny and one of the smartest people I've been in a room with. Sharp as hell.

fallon’s monologue tonight: “so, what’s in the news today?” *followed by eight minutes of celebrity birthday jokes* www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

It's true, he really is a great guy

Here's a diversion for you all: contributors to @ebertvoices.bsky.social wrote about 11 of the late, great Robert Redford's performances. My pick is Sneakers. Everybody else's entries are fantastic, and there are some surprises. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

I cannot stress enough how much media consolidation under billionaires is not only part of the discussion about censorship, it is THE discussion. Oligarchs don’t care about ideology, they care about money, and if a leader offers them unlimited wealth, they’ll sell their own mother out to get it

FWIW, I'm happy to boycott reviewing any and all new ABC Fall TV Shows. [Does ABC have any new fall TV shows?]

Late-night's giggling toadie

My face when Fallon is the only one remaining

the current state of media literacy is so bad that millions of Americans apparently cannot identify “the bad guys” in real life

Saturday Night Live stalwart Kenan Thompson is producing a SLEEPAWAY CAMP remake with original writer-director Robert Hiltzik back at the helm:

V/H/S/94 director Ryan Prows’ vampire cop thriller NIGHT PATROL will release in theaters on January 16, 2026, and a new poster has arrived today. The cast includes Jermaine Fowler, Justin Long & CM Punk.

Blurry, through the screen photo of Professor Fate, the stray we are befriending

Good hire. You have to believe that Olivia Nuzzi has gotten embarrassing herself and the entire field of journalism out of her system.

Utterly charmed by this 1498 illustration’s treatment of a waterfall. (From the French edition of Boccaccio’s mythography) My attempt on the right, hey nonny nonny

As opposed to when someone says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, and dumb then builds a whole media empire out of the practice.

[me trying not to be fired] I pledge allegiance to Charlie Kirk, and the United Charlies of Kirkdom. And to the Charlie, for which is Kirks, one Charlie under Kirk, indiKirkable, with Charlies and Kirks for all.

George A. Romero’s daughter Tina Romero puts her own unique spin on the zombie apocalyse in QUEENS OF THE DEAD, and the trailer for the horror-comedy has been unleashed.

The Criterion Channel has announced its October streaming line-up, which includes 14 films from John Carpenter, collections dedicated to 2000s horror and body horror, and more:

Brendan Carr Is Doing Politics the Right Way

(twee corporation that has done evil things since inception does more evil things but so many people have tied their personalities to the twee side that they are shocked, shocked)

One of the many shitty things about monopolies is it makes it super duper fucking easy to pivot to state media

the “do your own research” crowd has really stopped doing its own research, huh

(cough cough, mumble mumble, something about Disney being the only name studio to host Leni Riefenstahl when she visited Hollywood, mumble mumble, corporate culture is forever)

Seriously. Kimmel today isn't as bland as Jimmy Fallon, but he's no George Carlin either. What a time to be surviving whatever this all is

now i'm hungry for almonds

James Gandolfini would have been 64 years old today. It was my great pleasure to write this book about him: mzs.press/SIGNED-Gando...

Ran into the craft store yesterday and, naturally, it was all graveyard tat but there were also strains of We Wish You a Merry Xmas. In mid-September. And I know the trend is to wring hands and shriek that we should not pick on the poor corporations for pushing earlier overconsumption but…

Trump's silencing of news orgs and late-night hosts is breathtakingly corrupt, even by the standards of this administration- a thuggish surge of extortion and intimidation of critical voices which shows no signs of abating. This is a fucking crisis. My latest, for @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link)

This is not what Jerry Lester and Dagmar would have wanted, not at all.

note that there is not a single word in here about Charlie Kirk

Just saying that the fact that these wealthy corporate media CEOs are bending over one by one for Trump like playing cards for the Red Queen is maybe a sign that our massive wealth inequality was a cause for and is now becoming a conduit for fascism