How Jimmy Kimmel’s relentless mom helped him cope during talk show suspension

The way to her son’s heart is through his stomach.

Jimmy Kimmel revealed his mom, Joann Iacono, tried to comfort him with home-cooked food after his eponymous talk show was briefly suspended from the air.

“My mom relentlessly kept making [food],” he told his guest, Lisa Ann Walter, during Wednesday night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

“She’s like, ‘Can I bring over some pasta e fagioli?’ … She brought cookies with my face on them to the show last night,” Kimmel, 57, added.

His remarks about his mom came after Walter, 62, brought Kimmel a welcome back gift consisting of homemade maccheroni alla pesarese.

The “Abbott Elementary” actress quipped that the dish — made with chopped turkey breast, butter Gruyère cheese, onions, mushrooms, cream and wine — was part of her “plan” to bring “things America loves the most,” which included a “nice home-cooked meal and a great rack.” 

“I figured you were out of work for a few days, you might need some food. I like to help,” Walter joked as the audience and Kimmel laughed.

Kimmel’s late-night ABC show was suspended last week after he discussed Charlie Kirk’s death during his monologue.

The late right-wing political activist was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was 31.

“The MAGA gang are desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said at the time.

Due to his remarks, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was pulled off the air “indefinitely” by ABC.

Sinclair, the media company that operates as the largest ABC affiliate group, demanded that Kimmel issue an on-air apology to Kirk’s family and donate to the podcaster’s non-profit organization, Turning Point USA, to keep the talk show afloat.

However, Kimmel refused.

Days later, Walt Disney Company announced that his show would be back on the air Tuesday night, with Kimmel reportedly returning for the sake of his staffers.

In Kimmel’s first monologue after the suspension, he became emotional while telling viewers that it was “never [his] intention to make light” of Kirk’s murder.

Kimmel’s TV program scored 6.26 million total viewers in its first episode back on the air and became the highest-rated regularly scheduled episode since March 2015.