Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr during his show on Tuesday, returning from a summer break, and said, "We are still here."The late-night host noted that Tuesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was its 4,000th episode."We’ve done 4,000 of these.Which is, it’s a lot of shows," Kimmel said.
"According to the White House, it’s too many shows."ROSIE O'DONNELL WON'T WORRY ABOUT FCC, BRENDAN CARR AHEAD OF KIMMEL HOSTING, DOESN'T 'PAY ANY HEED TO THEM'"There are those who said we would never last this long.There are even those who used the regulatory might of the FCC to unconstitutionally try to make sure we didn’t last this long.
But we did it the hard way, Brendan.And we are still here," Kimmel said.Kimmel referenced his show's brief suspension and ongoing clash with Carr in 2025.FCC BOSS BRENDAN CARR MAINTAINS EARLY ABC LICENSE RENEWAL IS ABOUT DEI PROBE, NOT JIMMY KIMMEL CONTROVERSYFederal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee oversight hearing in Washington, D.C., on Dec.
17, 2025.(Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)JIMMY KIMMEL SUGGESTS CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN WAS ONE OF THE ‘MAGA GANG’ DESPITE REPORTS OF LEFTIST LEANINGSThe FCC did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement, "Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has be-clowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience.He is so devoid of actual talent that nobody with any commonsense would ever watch him unless it was to laugh at his miserable failures."Carr warned ABC and Disney in September 2025 that the FCC could take action over comments made by Kimmel about the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025."In some quarters, there's a very concerted effort to try t...