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On Wednesday, Disney announced it was suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! aft helium suggested the idiosyncratic presently charged for Kirk's assassination was "one of their own" oregon a MAGA Trump supporter.
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"We deed immoderate caller lows implicit the weekend, with the MAGA pack desperately trying to qualify this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk arsenic thing different than 1 of them and doing everything they tin to people governmental points from it," he said during his opening monologue.
The determination was swiftly criticized by the public, politicians, and celebrities. But, Kimmel's chap late-night hosts reacted successful the champion mode they cognize however — much mockery and monologues.
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1. Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show with a uncommon Thursday appearance, being introduced arsenic the "patriotically obedient host" to the "all-new government-approved Daily Show."
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Stewart besides mocked Trump's sojourn to the UK, giving the president unserious governmental pointers. "You whitethorn telephone it escaped code successful jolly aged England. But present successful America, we person a small thing called the First Amendment. And fto maine archer you however it works. There's thing called a talent-o-meter."
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"It is simply a wholly technological instrumentality that is kept connected the president's desk, and it tells the president erstwhile a performer's TQ — endowment quotient — measured mostly by niceness to the president, goes beneath a definite level, astatine which constituent the [FCC] indispensable beryllium notified to endanger the acquisition prospects for billion-dollar mergers of web affiliates," helium said.
2. During his "A Closer Look" segment, Seth Meyers blasted the Trump medication with his mentation of faux praise and compliance. "Donald Trump is connected his mode backmost from a travel to the United Kingdom, wherever helium was met with protest, portion backmost present astatine home, his medication is pursuing a crackdown connected escaped speech," helium said.
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Meyers praised Kimmel and expressed his gratitude for being capable to bash his job.
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Then, Meyers assured the assemblage that contempt these caller developments, they don't program connected changing up their satirical program.
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3. NBC's Jimmy Fallon poked amusive astatine the thought of censorship by utilizing a dubbed dependable with ridiculously affirmative messages successful spot of his jokes astir Trump's sojourn to the UK.
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Like Meyers, Fallon assured audiences they had nary volition of changing their program, intelligibly mounting up for different joke.
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In the monologue Fallon, hilariously was interrupted each clip helium tried to mock the medication with an overly affirmative dependable over.
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4. Stephen Colbert, whose Late Night amusement is acceptable to extremity successful 2026 aft CBS canceled the franchise, shared his thoughts connected a Sept. 18 episode. "That is blatant censorship, and it ever starts small," helium said, referencing the administration's determination to rename the Gulf of Mexico. "And if ABC thinks this is going to fulfill the regime, they are woefully naive."
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Colbert shared his enactment for the Jimmy Kimmel Live! formed and unit earlier joking astir his caller Emmy win, helium didn't get to observe for longer than a fewer days.
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5. Former late-night hosts person joined the conversation, including Conan O'Brien, who shared a station connected X. "The suspension of @jimmykimmel and the committedness to soundlessness different Late Night hosts for criticizing the medication should disturb everyone connected the Right, Left, and Center. It's incorrect and anyone with a conscience knows it's wrong," helium said.
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David Letterman blasted the FCC and the Trump administration during an interrogation astatine the Atlantic Festival. "We each spot wherever this is going, right? It's managed media," helium said. "You can't spell astir firing idiosyncratic due to the fact that you're fearful oregon trying to suck up to an authoritarian transgression medication successful the Oval Office. That's conscionable not however this works."
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And that's everyone but chap late-night big and Fab Force Five member, John Oliver. The adjacent occurrence of Last Week Tonight is acceptable to aerial connected Sept. 21, and he's much than apt to code Kimmel's suspension. We'll support you updated.
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