Jimmy Kimmel is coming back on the air.
The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, announced Monday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would return on Tuesday, ending a short suspension that began last week.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the Walt Disney Company said in a statement.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”
“We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” it concluded.
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The network took Kimmel’s late-night show off the air last week over comments he made following the killing of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk.
Kimmel said in his monologue last Monday, “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. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
Kimmel has not commented on the news of his show’s return.