New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The famous "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show has been taken off-air by Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network over his remarks about the assassination of US President Donald Trump's ally Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk, a US right-wing activist and commentator, was fatally shot in the neck earlier in September at an event at a Utah university in what the governor had described as a political assassination.

During his monologue on the late-night show, Jimmy Kimmel had said, "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Kimmel has consistently been critical...