Kimmel dismisses Senate questioning FCC Chair Brendan Carr as ineffective

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel dismissed Senate questioning of Federal Communications Fee (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday, saying nothing would seemingly come of it.

Kimmel joked that the listening to was the results of an “undesirable trip” he took in September, joking that Carr is “the powerful man who threatened the corporate I work for and stated we might do that the simple method or the onerous method.”

Carr appeared earlier than the Senate Commerce Committee and testified for the primary time since his feedback in September about ABC’s therapy of Kimmel over his controversial feedback on the homicide of Charlie Kirk.

Noting that the listening to aired on C-SPAN3, Kimmel joked, “You recognize it is dangerous when you may’t even make it to major C-SPAN.”

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Jimmy Kimmel dismissed Senate criticism of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (ABC/JimmyKimmelLive)

“In the long run, not one of the Republicans confronted the commissioner. Nobody noticed this. Nobody admitted something. Nothing was accomplished to forestall it from occurring once more. Nobody is held accountable and your freedom of speech is barely assured relying on what you need to say. It was not the bipartisan effort we anticipated,” Kimmel stated.

FCC Chairman Carr didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

Kimmel additionally stated he could not imagine he was the topic of a Senate listening to.

“It was so bizarre to see me making bagels for my youngsters this morning. If you happen to informed me 30 years in the past that the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation can be holding a listening to on me, would I assume I bought drunk on a aircraft and tried to pressure the door open in mid-air?” he joked.

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Federal Communication Fee (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photos)

Kimmel was briefly suspended for feedback he made in September about Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter, however returned to the air just a few days later.

The suspension sparked criticism from each events, with some conservatives expressing concern about Carr’s feedback on ABC.

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Jimmy Kimmel, winner of the Excellent Host for a Recreation Present Award for “Who Needs to Be a Millionaire”, attends the 2025 Artistic Arts Emmy Awards on the Peacock Theater on September 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Photos)

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stated on the time that Carr’s feedback had been “harmful as hell.”

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“I believe it is extremely harmful for the federal government to place itself within the place of claiming we will resolve which speech we like and which we do not, and we will threaten to take you off the air if we do not like what you say,” Cruz stated on his podcast.