Comedy hosts including Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert criticize Kimmel’s suspension

The late evening comedy hosts reacted with the mockery of the Trump administration one day after the Jimmy Kimmel show was drawn after his comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Jon Stewart returned to “The Daily Show” with a program “approved by the government” and called President Donald Trump as “our grandfather” and “Dear Chef”. He joked about Trump’s recent visit to the United Kingdom and played a clip for the question of a journalist on Kimmel and if freedom of expression was attacked in America.

“How dare, sir!” How dare you, sir! ” Stewart howled. “What outfit are you, Sir, La Tribune Antifa-Herald?”

When the public has hooked or expressed his dismay, Stewart in a panic tried to silence them. A group of correspondents delivered a message in unison and poured the president with excessive praise as if they lived in a dictatorship.

Disney said on Wednesday that he suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” After Kimmel made comments on the accused person of the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The president of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, threatened to take action.

“We hit new stockings this weekend, the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points,” Kimmel said in his monologue on Monday evening.

Kirk was fatally killed in a Utah University on September 10 by a shooter who fired on a roof, officials said.

Stephen Colbert, whose spectacle “at the end of the evening” ends entirely in a decision which, according to criticism, was motivated by concerns concerning the Trump administration, said that he was standing with Kimmel and his staff.

“It is a blatant censorship, and it always starts small,” said Colbert, and he referred to the efforts of the administration to rename the Gulf of Mexico. “And if ABC thinks that it will satisfy the regime, they are terribly naive.”

Jimmy Fallon of NBC made some jokes Thursday in the episode of “The Tonight Show”, then became serious for a while.

“To be honest with all of you, I don’t know what’s going on. And nobody does it,” he said. “But I know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s a decent, funny and loving guy, and I hope he will come back.”

Fallon, who then swore the show would not be censored, described Trump’s United Kingdom’s visit to the United Kingdom but with another voice only surviving positive messages. NBC is a division of NBCUNIVERSAL, which is also the parent company of NBC News.

The assassination of Kirk sparked a furious response and fingertips, some on the right blaming the left and calling for remuneration. The suspect’s mother told the authorities that he had “started to look further on the left,” said a probable report. A pretended text message is from the suspect published by the authorities says that he “had enough of his hatred”, referring to Kirk.

The event chain on Wednesday which ended with the production of the show seemed to begin when Carr made the spectacle of Rightwing Podcaster Benny Johnson and called for the suspension of Kimmel. He threatened that there could be a punishment for companies if they “do not find ways to take action on Kimmel”.

Carr has cited an obligation of “public interest” for dissemination licenses.

A few hours later, Nexstar Media Group announced that its affiliates ABC would preempt Kimmel’s show. Disney, who owns ABC, then announced that he was withdrawing the show from the air indefinitely.

Nexstar awaits the FCC approval for an acquisition of $ 6.2 billion from Tegna.

Trump suggested on Thursday that measures could be taken against other networks.

“If they are against 97%, they only give me bad publicity or the press – I mean, they get a license. I think maybe their license should be removed,” Trump told journalists on Air Force one. “It will be at Brendan Carr.”

The FCC License of individual broadcasting stations but not television or radio networks, such as ABC.

There was a rapid reaction to the suspension of Kimmel’s program, including former President Barack Obama and the legendary Talk show host David Letterman, as well as others who criticized the decision as an attack on freedom of expression.

On ABC, where Kimmel’s show appears normally, an episode of “Family Feud” was broadcast on Thursday.