The late night host announced that his interview with the Texas Senate candidate will only air on YouTube

Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on TV after President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, their affiliates, and local stations.

During his Wednesday monologue, Kimmel said that while Talarico would stop by the show for an interview on Thursday, viewers at home won’t be able to watch it on broadcast television. Instead, the interview with the Democratic nominee has been relegated to YouTube.

“Tomorrow night, I’ll be interviewing James Talarico — tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances,” Kimmel began. “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, et cetera, et cetera. I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.”

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    20 hours ago

    [edit: whoops, thread has already come and gone anyway lol, feel free to ignore, I’d just delete (my own comment) cuz useless but that feels sneaky and weird]

    Kinda is if Kimmel says “I’m not coming to work anymore until that goes on the air”

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        20 hours ago

        Haha totally sounds that way, my bad! Nah I just have a tendency to come along commenting on stale ass threads is all, just indicating I did that here.

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          19 hours ago

          I see. No worries.

          You’d be surprised. Some of the more active threads will keep getting new comments for a few days. This one is only 15 hours old and is near the top of All-Active.

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            18 hours ago

            Yeah, cuz of dorks like me and the ensuing “discussion” 😂

            Nah all jokes aside I get it, it’s not that fast paced and it’s a small place. I sometimes do it way more awkwardly but this wasn’t really that, you right.