Ben Stiller welcomed the glorious return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on social media.

Kimmel’s renowned talk show returned to ABC yesterday (September 23), after an enforced week-long hiatus that had appeared to be permanent.

ABC first halted the show ‘indefinitely’ following the host’s monologue on Charlie Kirk’s killing.

However, after the network’s parent corporation, Disney, was publicly threatened with boycotts, with Tatiana Maslany of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Lost creator Damon Lindelof among the vociferous stars, the decision to cancel Live! was reversed.

However, the House of Mouse’s bank was still hurt, losing almost $5 billion in stock value.

Reacting to Kimmel’s first appearance on TV since the scandal, Meet the Parents and Dodgeball star Ben Stiller tweeted, X: “What a brilliant monologue from Jimmy Kimmel.”

Stiller had earlier responded to Kimmel’s termination with a scathing three-word message on the same social media platform: “This isn’t right.”

In his return speech, the four-time Oscar host took aim at US President Donald Trump, who had played a key part in his removal from television.

“You almost have to feel sorry for him; he tried his best to cancel me, and instead he forced millions of people to watch the show,” said Kimmel with a laugh.

“The president of the United States has made it obvious that he wants me and the hundreds of other employees here sacked. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their jobs because he cannot take a joke.

“One thing I did learn from Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern is that a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American,” according to him.

Kimmel then clarified his views on Kirk’s terrible death, implying that his attacker was a MAGA supporter.

“I want to make something clear because it is important to me as a human, and that is that it was never my intention to make light of the mu3der of a young man,” he stated while trying to keep from crying.

“I don’t think there is anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was ki9led, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it, and I still do.”

The 57-year-old also discussed widow Erika Kirk’s act of forgiveness during her husband’s burial ceremony last weekend.

“Erika Kirk forgives the guy who shot her husband. “That is an example we should follow,” he stated.

“It moved me greatly. And if there is anything we can take away from this tragedy, I hope it is that rather than this.”