Jimmy Kimmel remains ready and willing to poke fun at his own suspension from last year, and the ABC host did exactly that with Tyler Perry recently.
As Perry took the stage, Kimmel first pitched him a goofy movie, based on a story from two members of the audience. But, as the interview properly got going, Perry took a minute before diving in to express how glad he was to be on Kimmel’s show. The moment drew a big laugh from both Perry and the audience. The host was, of course, feigning ignorance about the fact that he was briefly suspended last year in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Indeed, fans and friends of Kimmel, both in the industry and outside it, rushed to the late night host’s defense at the time, eventually pushing back enough to get him reinstated.