Jimmy Kimmel's talk show will return to screens in just hours following a "bombshell" announcement by Walt Disney Company.
The firm, which owns US broadcaster ABC, confirmed the 57-year-old's show will return on Tuesday.
Kimmel was briefly banned from the airwaves last Wednesday after being accused of being "offensive and insensitive" in his show last Monday.
He sparked fury by suggesting that conservatives were trying to distance themselves from Kirk's alleged killer Tyler Robinson, 22.
Kimmel's show will now return to its regular slot, Disney confirmed tonight.
In a statement, Walt Disney Company said: "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.
"!It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.
"We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."
Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV screens tomorrow night
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In his controversial show, which aired shortly after Kirk's assassination, Kimmel 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."
Speaking about Trump, Kimmel added: "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish."
"Many in Maga land are working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk," the 57-year-old continued.
Walt Disney Company faced pressure to take the show off-air after Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened to take legal action.
Charlie Kirk was shot and killed earlier this month | REUTERSIn an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, he said: "We can do this the easy way or the hard way".
Carr later praised the move, describing it as "important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values".
However, Kimmel's cancellation sparked fury from American liberals, with some even suggesting it showed echoes of the "Red Scare" conducted by American Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Ex-US President Barack Obama said: "After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like."
Jimmy Kimmel had his show pulled last week | GETTYHe added: "This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent - and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it."
However, US President Donald Trump defended the decision.
Speaking to the press during his second State Visit, Mr Trump said: "Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk."
Republican Senator Ted Cruz broke ranks with the President, arguing: "That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going: ‘Nice bar you have here – it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”