ABC affiliate in Dallas cuts short Jimmy Kimmel monologue criticizing gun laws after the Texas school shooting

• Jimmy Kimmel said his monologue after the Uvalde school shooting was cut short by an ABC affiliate.
• He later accepted the apology from WFAA, based in Dallas, which blamed technical issues.

Jimmy Kimmel said a monologue where he criticised Texas Republican lawmakers in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was cut short by an ABC affiliate in the Dallas region.

He later accepted an apology from the affiliate, WFAA, which said technical issues had been behind repeated interruptions during transmission of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Wednesday, including the monologue.

—Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 26, 2022

Kimmel in a tweet promised to get to the bottom of why his emotional monologue in the wake of the shooting had been abbreviated.

"To my friends in Dallas who are asking: I do not know whether our ABC Network affiliate WFAA cut away from my monologue tonight intentionally or inadvertently but I will find out," Kimmel said in a tweet in which he linked to the monologue for those that "didn't get to see."

—Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 26, 2022

In the monologue, Kimmel had criticised the refusal of Texas Republican lawmakers to act and restrict access to guns in the wake of a series of mass shootings.

The attack in Uvalde left 19 children dead as well as two teachers.

WFAA in a statement apologised for "for technical difficulties that interrupted Wednesday's [episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" at multiple points, including during his monologue on gun control."