Joe Rogan says Jimmy Kimmel's joke about president grieving Charlie Kirk was funny

Joe Rogan discussed the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show on his podcast released on Tuesday. He called the situation “wild” and even said the joke that Kimmel made about U.S. President Donald Trump grieving Charlie Kirk was funny.

Rogan spoke to comic Andrew Santino during a three-hour episode, in which both the host and his guest touched upon what happened to Kimmel many times.

“This whole Jimmy Kimmel situation that is happening right now…Very wild.” said Rogan. “I definitely don’t think that the government should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can or cannot say in a monologue.”

He warned that allowing this to happen to Kimmel meant that it could happen to anyone. “You don’t want to give that power away all of the sudden,” he said.

Kimmel’s show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was pulled from the air on Sept. 17 after he made comments about the murder of Kirk. The 31-year-old political activist and Trump ally was fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 in Orem, UT. His alleged killer, Tyler James Robinson , has been charged with aggravated murder.

Kimmel’s comments made in monologues on Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 poked fun at how Trump was grieving, comparing him to how a “four-year-old mourns a goldfish.” Kimmel also accused the “MAGA gang” of 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.”

“It was funny,” said Rogan, referring to the goldfish joke. Kimmel showed a video clip of Trump being asked about Kirk’s death by reporters. Rather than discussing Kirk, the president flipped the conversation to discuss a new ballroom being constructed at the White House.

It was the set up to the joke that was the problem, said Rogan. Kimmel tried to make it a “knock on MAGA people” and the insinuation that the suspect was part of the “MAGA gang” was “inaccurate according to the narrative.” A day before the monologue, Rogan said family members of the alleged killer said he had been “wrapped up in hardcore leftist ideology.”

After six days, Kimmel’s show was back on the air on Tuesday evening .

Speaking to the audience, he said it was not his intention to “make light of the murder of a young man.” He also said that his show is not important, rather, what is important is that “we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” (Some stations barred the episode from airing and would continue to do so, the New York Times reported .)

Rogan said it was “crazy” for “people on the right” to be supporting the suspension, “because this will be used on you.”

“That’s the most toxic s–t I keep seeing online, where people are like, ‘Yeah, shut ’em down,'” said Santino.

Later in the episode, Rogan said he believed that the suspension helped Kimmel.

“It makes his show bigger. There’s much more support. I’m sure there’s a lot of hate as well, which is not fun,” he said. “My suspicion is they suspend it for a short amount of time and then they bring it back. He comes back to a standing ovation.”

Kimmel did receive a standing ovation on Tuesday night after his monologue.

He didn’t back down from making jokes about Trump. He mentioned the escalator stopping while Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were in New York for the UN General Assembly, as well as a teleprompter mishap. Kimmel referred to Trump as “Ramble-stiltskin,” for his wide-ranging, off-the-cuff “rant” at the UN.

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