The second half of September was an eventful time for Jimmy Kimmel, to say the very least. Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! was pulled off the air by ABC after media group Nexstar introduced that episodes can be preempted, leading to uproar from viewers and celebrities alike. The speak present was lastly introduced again to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 23 within the 2025 TV schedule, and the episode resulted in some very spectacular rankings that made sure elements of his first monologue again even funnier.
Scores For Jimmy Kimmel Dwell’s Return To Late Evening
It was at all times a secure wager that the September 23 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! would attain a big viewers, with non-regular viewers anticipated to tune in out of curiosity and/or assist after Jimmy Kimmel had spent almost per week off the air because of the suspension. In accordance with. ABC, Kimmel’s first episode again reached an viewers of 6.26 million complete viewers in Dwell+Identical calculations, with an 0.87 score in the important thing 18-49 age demographic. That 0.87 marks the speak present’s highest-rated recurrently scheduled episode since March 2015.
Contemplating that the present was nonetheless preempted in markets together with Seattle, St. Louis, and New Orleans (to call only a few), these numbers are lacking potential viewers throughout 23% of households in the US. The day after, the monologue had amassed 26 million views throughout social media and YouTube. On the time of writing, the monologue has been seen greater than 22.2 million instances on YouTube alone.
Suffice it to say that loads of folks tuned in, and I am curious to study if Kimmel’s rankings will stay larger than they have been earlier than his suspension. As of September 26, the preemptions by media teams Nexstar and Sinclair have been confirmed to be ending, so the complete market ought to have entry by subsequent week. And dang it, Kimmel himself predicted the rocketing rankings in his monologue on Tuesday evening.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Monologue Jokes About Scores
I’ve to present credit score to Jimmy Kimmel and the writers for his present, as a result of I really feel that his first monologue again struck the appropriate stability between emotion and humor. Kimmel thanked many individuals, together with fellow late evening hosts who spoke up in assist of him. Then, after the episode performed a clip of President Trump claiming that Kimmel “had no rankings,” the host mentioned “Nicely, I do tonight.” Kimmel continued:
You virtually must really feel sorry for him. He tried his finest to cancel me. As an alternative, he compelled hundreds of thousands of individuals to look at the present. That backfired bigly.
Kimmel went on to handle the “circumstances” for his return to the air, then cracked a joke about Disney wanting folks to “reactivate your Disney+ and Hulu accounts” after a slew of cancellations from these with Disney+ subscriptions within the earlier days. In a enjoyable twist, Stephen Colbert over on The Late Present – which airs on the identical time on CBS that Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! does on ABC – mentioned this in his personal monologue that evening:
I am gonna say because of everyone watching in right here and to everyone watching from dwelling, who I feel may simply be my spouse Evie as a result of everyone else might be watching ABC, as a result of tonight Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves.
Since The Late Present pre-tapes and Kimmel information dwell, it is truly attainable that Stephen Colbert was watching the ABC broadcast dwell together with the opposite 6+ million folks! All in all, I would say that Kimmel had a triumphant return to tv with a reasonably nice monologue that ran for nearly a full half hour.
Colbert’s The Late Present has nonetheless been cancelled, however Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! appears to be secure in the meanwhile, in addition to The Tonight Present starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Evening with Seth Meyers over on NBC. If you wish to see extra of Kimmel, you could find episodes of his present on weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.