United Kingdom, Sept. 24 -- Jimmy Kimmel has insisted it was "never [his] intention to make light of" Charlie Kirk's death.

The 57-year-old presenter looked emotional as he delivered his lengthy monologue to open the first Jimmy Kimmel Live! show since the long-running ABC chat programme was pulled off the air last week following his comments about right-wing activist Kirk - who was gunned down in Utah on September 10 -

and Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of killing him.

At the start of Tuesday's (23.09.25) episode, Kimmel said: "I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human, and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man."

After he received ...