In return to ABC show, Kimmel denies he was making fun of Kirk assassination

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night television show Tuesday night after nearly a week-long suspension with a monologue filled with jokes and a smattering of choked-back, teary apologies.

The ABC host got emotional when explaining that he did not mean to come across as making fun of the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“You understand that it was never my intention to make light of a murder of a young man. I don’t think there’s anything funny about it,” he said. “Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what, it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual that was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.”...