Late-night shows address Jimmy Kimmel suspension with humour and solidarity

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon opened their late-night shows connected Thursday utilizing a operation of humour and solidarity pinch suspended ABC big Jimmy Kimmel.

Stewart opted for satire to critique ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely pursuing comments he made astir nan assassination of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk.

Colbert took a much superior approach, calling his suspension "blatant censorship".

Fallon praised Kimmel and vowed to support doing his show arsenic usual. Then an announcer said complete him and replaced astir of his critiques astir US President Donald Trump pinch flattery.

Their guests nan time aft Kimmel's suspension — which besides came 2 months aft CBS said it would cancel Colbert's show — varied widely.

Fallon's guests were character Jude Law, journalist Tom Llamas and character and vocalist Jonathan Groff — nary of whom addressed Kimmel's situation.

Stewart and Colbert interviewed guests who could reside censorship concerns raised by Kimmel's suspension. Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa said to Stewart.

When Stewart asked Ressa, nan writer of How to Stand Up to a Dictator, tips connected coping pinch nan existent moment, Ressa recounted really she and her colleagues astatine nan news tract Rappler "just kept going" erstwhile she was faced pinch 11 apprehension warrants successful 1 twelvemonth nether Philippine then-President Rodrigo Duterte.

"We conscionable kept doing our jobs. We conscionable kept putting 1 ft successful beforehand of nan other," Ressa said.

Stewart makes typical quality to skewer Kimmel suspension

Stewart's show opened pinch a voice-over promising adherence to nan statement line.

"We person different fun, hilarious administration-compliant show," it said.

He lavished praise connected nan president and satirised his disapproval of ample cities and his deployment of nan National Guard to conflict their crime.

"Coming to you coming from nan existent (expletive), nan crime-ridden cesspool that is New York City. It is simply a tremendous disaster for illustration nary one's ever seen before. Someone's National Guard should invade this place, americium I right?" Stewart said.

The Daily Show group was refashioned pinch ornamental golden engravings, successful a parody of golden accents Trump has added to nan fireplace, doorway arches, walls and different areas of nan Oval Office.

Stewart fidgeted nervously arsenic though he was worried astir speaking nan correct talking points. When nan assemblage members reacted pinch an "awww" he whispered: "What are you doing? Shut up. You're going to (expletive) rustle this for us."

He took connected a much stilted reside erstwhile he started describing Trump's sojourn to nan United Kingdom, calling nan president "our awesome father".

"Gaze upon him. With a gait moreover much majestic than that of nan royal horses that prance earlier him," he said.

Stewart usually hosts only connected Mondays. The Emmy victor helmed The Daily Show from 1999 done 2015, delivering sharp, satirical takes connected authorities and existent events and interviews pinch newsmakers. He returned to big erstwhile a week during nan run-up to nan 2024 US statesmanlike election.

Fallon opened his Tonight Show speech addressing Kimmel's suspension.

"To beryllium honorable pinch you all, I don't cognize what's going on. And nary 1 does. But I do cognize Jimmy Kimmel, and he's a decent, funny and loving guy, and I dream he comes back."

Swift suspension aft remarks connected Kirk's assassination

Kimmel made respective remarks astir nan guidance to Kirk's sidesplitting connected Jimmy Kimmel Live! connected Monday and Tuesday nights, including that "many successful MAGA onshore are moving very difficult to capitalise connected nan execution of Charlie Kirk."

ABC suspended Kimmel's show aft a group of ABC-affiliated stations said it would not aerial nan show, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said his agency had a beardown lawsuit for holding Kimmel, ABC and web genitor Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation.

Kimmel has not commented. His supporters opportunity Carr misread what nan comic said and that obscurity did he specifically propose that Tyler Robinson — nan man Utah authorities allege fatally changeable Kirk — was conservative.

In July, CBS said it would cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert adjacent May. The web said it unopen down nan decades-old TV institution for financial reasons.

But nan announcement came 3 days aft Colbert criticised nan colony betwixt President Donald Trump and Paramount Global, genitor institution of CBS, complete a 60 Minutes story.

The Late Show hosts past and coming reside suspension

Colbert started his speech connected Thursday pinch nan animated opus Be Our Guest from Disney's Beauty and nan Beast, but replaced nan lyrics pinch "Shut your trap. Shut your trap."

He later addressed Kimmel directly, saying that he stands pinch him and his staff.

"If ABC thinks that this is going to fulfill nan regime, they are woefully naive," he said.

He besides responded to remarks Carr made that it is important for broadcasters to push backmost connected Disney programming "they find falls short of organization values."

"Well, you cognize what my organization values are, buster? Freedom of speech," Colbert said to large applause from his audience.

When Colbert talked pinch New Yorker editor David Remnick astir Kimmel's suspension, he said: "What we are seeing now is nan authorities acting astatine nan guidance of nan president of nan United States to put unit on, to manipulate, to soundlessness and moreover to unopen down institutions of nan free word."

David Letterman, Colbert's predecessor connected The Late Show, lamented nan networks' moves.

"I consciousness bad astir this, because we each spot wherever spot this is going, correct? It's managed media," Letterman said during an quality connected Thursday astatine The Atlantic Festival 2025 successful New York.

"It's nary good. It's silly. It's ridiculous."

He added that group shouldn't beryllium fired conscionable because they don't "suck up" to what Letterman called "an authoritarian" president.

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