Matt Selman, co-showrunner for The Simpsons, lately opened up concerning the present’s method to protecting politics and the return of Jimmy Kimmel Stay! to ABC after its six-day suspension.
For an Leisure Weekly article revealed on Sunday, September 28, Selman defined that protecting the U.S. political panorama on The Simpsons is a bit totally different from late-night discuss reveals and even South Park.
“Whenever you write a present that doesn’t come out till 10 months after you write it, it sort of takes the stress off, as a result of who is aware of what the f— we’re gonna be in 10 months,” he identified. “So like, South Park, they make their present in per week, and even they can’t keep updated on issues. Extra loopy s— goes down sooner than even they can do it.”
Selman additionally talked about Jimmy Kimmel‘s present getting pulled “indefinitely” following his remarks concerning the loss of life of Charlie Kirk. The conservative activist and Turning Level USA founder, 31, was fatally shot whereas talking at Utah Valley College on September 10.
“Jimmy Kimmel’s nice, and I’m glad he’s again on TV,” Selman informed EW. “Censorship sucks. What can I say? Censorship sucks.”
Throughout Kimmel’s September 15 monologue, the late-night host stated, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately making an attempt to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from considered one of them and with all the pieces they’ll to attain political factors from it.” After suspending the late-night present on September 17, ABC reinstated it, and Kimmel made his record-breaking return on September 23.
Of The Simpsons‘ method to protecting politics, he defined, “It’s not our mission assertion to answer the disaster of the second. It’s extra a few city of good-natured dum-dums coping with a altering world, but our characters by no means actually change. The world adjustments round them.”
Season 37 of The Simpsons premieres on Sunday, September 28, at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.