This text was initially printed by The Epoch Occasions: Jon Stewart, Colbert, Different Late-Night time TV Hosts Tackle Kimmel’s Suspension
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers hosted their respective late-night reveals and commented on Jimmy Kimmel’s ouster.
A number of late-night TV present hosts on Thursday addressed ABC’s choice to droop fellow host Jimmy Kimmel after he made feedback concerning the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk earlier within the week.
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers hosted their respective late-night reveals on Sept. 18, with most expressing solidarity with Kimmel. Earlier this week, Kimmel made an announcement on Monday’s monologue, saying that “the MAGA gang [were] desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something aside from one among them and doing all the pieces they will to attain political factors from it.”
Prosecutors and officers say the suspect held left-wing views.
CBS’s Stephen Colbert began his present by stating that “we’re all Jimmy Kimmel,” and stated that he believed Kimmel’s elimination was a “blatant assault on freedom of speech.”
Colbert had his personal present canceled earlier this 12 months by CBS executives, with the community saying that it was for monetary causes. It should finish in Might 2026.
Meyers, the host of NBC’s “Late Night time,” began his present by saying the Trump administration is “pursuing a crackdown on free speech.”
“It’s a privilege and honor to name Jimmy Kimmel my good friend, in the identical manner it’s a privilege and honor to do that present each evening,” he additionally stated.
Kimmel’s suspension was carried out by ABC, which is owned by Disney, after broadcasting networks Sinclair and Nexstar stated they wouldn’t carry the late-night present on their stations following his feedback about Kirk and the suspected murderer.
The Federal Communications Fee (FCC) has not taken any motion in opposition to ABC in response to Kimmel’s feedback, in accordance with an Epoch Occasions overview. Its chairman, Brendan Carr, stated this week that ABC ought to take motion in opposition to Kimmel, whereas he famous that ABC, NBC, and CBS are over-the-air broadcasters that use public airwaves and are topic to particular guidelines that require them to serve the “public curiosity.”
Carr, who has stated that cable information networks corresponding to Fox Information and CNN will not be topic to the identical guidelines, stated in an interview with CNBC on Thursday that Kimmel gave the impression to be deceptive the general public along with his feedback on Monday.
Other than Colbert and Meyers, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon stated that Kimmel is “an honest, humorous, and loving man,” whereas each he and Jon Stewart of “The Each day Present” used sarcasm to criticize the Trump administration on their respective reveals.
“Now some naysayers might argue that this administration’s speech issues are merely a cynical ploy, a skinny gruel of a ruse, a smoke display screen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of energy and unitary intimidation, principleless, and coldly antithetical … to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance,” Stewart stated. “Some folks would say that.”
President Donald Trump instructed reporters within the UK that he believed Kimmel was sacked by ABC on account of “very dangerous scores” together along with his remarks about Kirk. “He was fired for an absence of expertise,” Trump stated.
Whereas hailing Kimmel’s suspension, Trump additionally pointed to Colbert’s scores in a put up on Fact Social on Wednesday, whereas calling for the ousters of Fallon and Meyers.
“Their scores are additionally horrible. Do it NBC,” he wrote.
Kimmel has not commented on the matter. The Epoch Occasions has contacted ABC for remark.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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