Friday, September 11, 2026

Jimmy Kimmel Racks Up Over 6 Million Views on ABC-Banned Talarico Interview and Monologue: Four Times the Normal Rating

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ABC didn’t want Jimmy Kimmel to show his interview with Democratic Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico.

The network forced Kimmel to put the interview on YouTube, instead, the way CBS had dealt with Talarico and Stephen Colbert last February.

Well, it backfired, of course.

Between the Talarico interview, and Jimmy’s monologue from the regular, there have been over 6 million views on You Tube.

A regular Kimmel show averages 1.5 million viewers.

So Kimmel quadrupled his audience, and made ABC look foolish.

Talarico is getting closer and closer to beating Ken Paxton in the November election. By banning him, ABC made people curious about his position. In the interview. Talarico makes a lot more sense than Paxton, who has lists of negatives against him.

If you missed the YouTube interview, it’s worth watching.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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