Jimmy Kimmel to make Christmas Day address on UK TV saying 2025 a really great year for fascism

Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night host briefly suspended over his comments on the killing of Charlie Kirk and his escalating war with President Donald Trump, will deliver a Christmas address this year boasting that 2025 has been “a really great year” for fascism — but only British viewers will see it on air.Kimmel has been tapped to host Channel 4’s “Alternative Christmas Message,” a long-running British broadcast that airs on Christmas Day as a counterpoint to the royal address.“From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year,” Kimmel is expected to say during the message, according to Channel 4.The segment will air exclusively in the UK, though it will likely later be shared online and on social media platforms accessible in the United States.The appearance caps a turbulent year for the late-night host, whose ABC talk show was briefly yanked off the air in September after a political firestorm erupted over remarks he made about the killing of conservative activist Kirk.Channel 4 said Kimmel’s message will reflect on the past year “in a deeply personal and characteristically jovial address,” following his return to television and his escalating public clashes with the Trump administration.A network spokesperson told the UK Guardian that the address will be shaped by Kimmel’s experience on what it called “the front line of America’s battle over free speech.”Kimmel is expected to directly address the political climate and his own fallout with President Donald Trump, whose allies blasted the comedian after his on-air comments sparked conservative outrage.During a monologue on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” days after the Sept.10 killing of Kirk, Kimmel accused figures aligned with the MAGA movement of dishonestly reframing the crime for political purposes.“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said in his Sept.

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