Charlie Kirk’s Producer Torches ‘Unrepentant Liar’ Jimmy Kimmel Over His Comeback Monologue

Andrew Kolvet, the executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, was not impressed with Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback.

Kolvet made that clear in a searing X post on Tuesday morning, during which he ripped the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host for being an “unrepentant liar” who aimed to smear all supporters of President Donald Trump by implying “one of them” killed his friend, conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel, on Tuesday night, returned to his ABC show after a four-day suspension for his aforementioned comment about Kirk. The comedian fought back tears and complimented Erika Kirk for forgiving her husband’s killer, calling it a “beautiful moment,” but he also held off on apologizing to Trump supporters.

Kolvet said Kimmel’s return was nothing more than a “fake and scripted” move to win fan support, and he criticized the comic for failing to apologize. The producer also ripped Kimmel’s argument that both Republicans and Democrats share equal blame for political violence. Here is what he posted:

Yes, Jimmy got emotional. So what. He’s emotional for himself because he almost torched his entire career. Kimmel is an unrepentant liar who tried to blame Charlie’s assassination on the part of the country that just spent the last 2 weeks praying and holding vigils.

What he’s really saying is that he still thinks it’s fair game to slander conservatives. He would rather advance his own political and cultural agenda than confront the truth. The truth is that his own side has been fanning the flames of political assassination for years. The truth is that someone on the left picked up a gun and murdered someone on the right who advocated for peaceful debate.

It’s critical that liars admit they lied. There can be no restoration without that. Anything short of that is a fake and scripted cry line designed to endear him to his fans, not to make right the wrong he committed.

Kolvet, soon after his X post, went on America’s Newsroom on Fox News and reiterated his disdain for Kimmel. “An apology,” Kolvet told Bill Hemmer, was one thing he would have liked to hear from the ABC host on Tuesday night. 

“When somebody like Jimmy Kimmel says that the shooter of Charlie was MAGA, what he is really saying is it’s okay to lie about conservatives. That their lives don’t matter,” Kolvet said. “That his agenda, his political agenda and cultural agenda, is more important than the life of my friend who was just taken from us and robbed from us.”

For those who have missed it, ABC and Disney suspended Kimmel on Sept. 17 for the following comment on his Sept. 15 show:

The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

The comment led to swift pushback from Nexstar and Sinclair, which control a large chunk of ABC affiliates, and FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Sept. 17 said he felt Kimmel’s comment warranted a suspension.

Hours later, Kimmel was suspended — leading to some critics saying ABC and Disney caved to Trump’s administration; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that the president put “pressure” on ABC to suspend Kimmel.

Following all of that, ABC announced on Monday it was lifting Kimmel’s suspension and he returned to his program on Tuesday evening. Nexstar and Sinclair — which control nearly one-quarter of the ABC affiliates nationally — both opted to not show Kimmel on their approximately 60 combined ABC stations.

You can watch Kolvet’s appearance on Fox News above.