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Disney bosses are scrambling to convince Jimmy Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric before putting his show back on the air as the company scrambles to manage fallout from his fiery monologue about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The Walt Disney Company is quite well-renowned for creating some of the greatest films of all time, with every decade or so for the last 100 years featuring an all-time classic or two. But that does not mean that they have not made a dozen or so stinkers ...
This is, of course, much nicer language than Disney used for Carano during the lawsuit, when it accused her of making online statements that “grotesquely trivialized the Holocaust,” and argued that being forced to filter its ideas and scripts through an actor with her stated views would curtail its own freedom of expression.
Jimmy Kimmel's tenure as a late-night host on ABC is hanging by a thread after a 22-year run at the Disney-owned network, but the involuntary hiatus isn't the first time the House of Mouse unceremoniously pulled the plug on a star for saying something it didn't like.
Executive producer Rob LaDuca has wanted to bring back the much-loved “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” for years, and this summer, he finally got his wish. After a 10-year hiatus, the show is back every Friday on Disney Jr.