As ABC’s indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Stay! continues, Kimmel’s fellow late-night hosts took to their very own monologues to mock the Trump administration on Thursday night.
The community pulled Kimmel off the air Wednesday over the comic’s feedback about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination throughout his monologue on Monday evening. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something aside from considered one of them and doing the whole lot they’ll to attain political factors from it,” Kimmel stated on the time.
Whereas Kimmel has but to touch upon the problem, the suspension has set off a nationwide debate over free speech and accusations that ABC and Disney, its father or mother firm, have succumbed beneath strain from the federal government.
Stephen Colbert slammed the community’s determination, calling Kimmel’s suspension “blatant censorship.” “It all the time begins small,” he stated, referring to Trump’s orders to rename the Gulf of Mexico, to the “Gulf of America.” He added, “Positive, appears innocent, however with an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. And if ABC thinks that is going to fulfill the regime, they’re woefully naive. And clearly they’ve by no means learn the youngsters’s guide If You Give a Mouse a Kimmel.”
Colbert then referenced CBS’ abrupt determination earlier this summer season to finish his personal present in 2026 and warned viewers: “This isn’t fully about what Jimmy stated on Monday. This was a part of a plan. How do I do know that? Two months in the past, when the President was tastefully celebrating my cancellation, he posted ‘Jimmy Kimmel is subsequent to go.’”
Elsewhere, Jon Stewart additionally took goal on the Trump administration and supplied a glimpse of what an “administration-compliant present” could appear like and mockingly performed the function of a sycophant and terrified host. Stewart ended his monologue with a track devoted to lauding the “expensive chief” and was joined by the Every day Present‘s rotating hosts and correspondents, with comic Ronny Chieng praising Trump’s “large penis,” regardless of South Park‘s tackle the matter.
Fallon briefly touched on Kimmel throughout The Tonight Present and stated, “I don’t know what’s happening. And nobody does. However I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s an honest, humorous and loving man and I hope he comes again.” After assuring viewers that his monologue would proceed “identical to I usually would,” a voiceover dubbed in flattery for the president over Fallon’s commentary.
In the meantime, throughout Seth Meyers‘s “Nearer Look” phase, he highlighted how “Trump promised to finish authorities censorship and convey again free speech,” however is “doing the other.” The host continued, “It has specialists frightened that we’re quickly devolving into oppressive autocracy within the fashion of Russia or Hungary a lot sooner than anybody may have predicted.”
Meyers immediately addressed Kimmel as effectively, and stated it’s “a privilege and an honor to name Jimmy Kimmel my pal, in the identical approach that it’s a privilege and honor to do that present each evening.“ Meyers continued, “I get up every single day, I depend my blessings that I dwell in a rustic that at the least purports to worth freedom of speech, and we’re going to maintain doing our present the way in which we’ve all the time accomplished it, with enthusiasm and integrity.”
