Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel revealed Wednesday he would be interviewing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday under "unusual circumstances.""Tomorrow night, I’ll be interviewing James Talarico — tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances," Kimmel said."You know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, etc., etc.
I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself."Kimmel pointed to his interviews with President Donald Trump in 2015 and in 2016.JIMMY KIMMEL RETURNS FROM LENGTHY HIATUS WITH DEFIANT MESSAGE TO FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR"Now that he’s president, his FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations, based on traditional simple editorial decisions, guest bookings it would seem they don’t like.And so, out of consideration for our local stations, especially our ABC affiliates in Texas who have to deal with this nonsense, my interview tomorrow with James Talarico will not air on television.
It will be posted on YouTube instead.It will not be on TV.
So if you want to learn about a candidate for the Senate tomorrow, you’ll have to go to the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ YouTube channel where you will see it in its entirety tomorrow night," Kimmel said.Jimmy Kimmel revealed on Wednesday that his interview with James Talarico will only air on YouTube, citing FCC threats during "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on September 9, 2026.(Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)He added, "And thank goodness we have that, because in the America we live in right now, this is the best we can do.
Until November, of course.Make sure you register to vote, by the way, because that’s the most important thing you can do."COLBERT LASHES OUT AT CBS, SAYS CANCELLATION ‘REINFORCED...