After Jimmy Kimmel suspension, here’s what Colbert, Stewart, Fallon and Meyers said : NPR
Jimmy Kimmel Live! was removed from the air by ABC this week following the threats of the president of the Federal Commission Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr. Kimmel is shown above in Hollywood, California, in 2018.
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Talk-show hosts at the end of the evening warned of the future of freedom of expression in the United States on Thursday, a day after ABC withdrawn Jimmy Kimmel’s program out of the air under pressure from the Trump administration.
Kimmel’s comments on Monday evening on the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk made the administration angry. The end of the evening host, who called the murder “insane” after that, said during her show on Monday evening: “We hit new stockings during the weekend with the gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything he can to score political points.”
On Wednesday, the president of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr threatened the owner of ABC Disney, affirming on a podcast: “We can do it the simplest way or the way.” That night, ABC said he had fired Jimmy Kimmel Live! out of the air indefinitely.
President Trump suggested that other television at the end of the evening should also be withdrawn.
“This leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on the false news NBC. Their notes are also horrible. Make it NBC !!!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Seth Meyers said on Thursday in his program that the president reprimanded freedom of expression.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert gave scathing monologues on the state of freedom of expression in the United States
“We all see where it goes, right?” The late evening veteran David Letterman, said on stage at the Atlantic Festival in New York. “You cannot get started in someone because you are afraid or try to suck an authoritarian – a criminal – an administration at the Oval office. This is simply not how it works.”
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Freshly out of a victory at the Emmy last weekend, Stephen Colbert said: “Tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel.”
“If ABC thinks that it will satisfy the regime, they are terribly naive.”
CBS announced earlier this summer that Colbert’s own show would end next year, for what he said is purely financial reasons. This announcement came just when the owner of CBS, Paramount, asked for federal approval for his own merger with Skydance. This sale was approved after Colbert announced that this season would be the last.
Another merger is under the spotlight after Kimmel’s suspension: Wednesday, the president of the FCC, Carr, warned the broadcast stations and the parent company of ABC, Disney, about the broadcast of the Kimmel show. Nexstar Media Group, which operates ABC stations in the United States, announced that they were drawing the program shortly after Carr’s comments. Nexstar needs FCC approval for a merger of $ 6.2 billion with the Tegna media company.
“A company apparently capitulates the president’s whims in order to ensure that their merger takes place? This has already happened before?” Colbert laughed Thursday evening. “I am told not to answer this question.”
The Daily Show
“We have another fun, hilarious and consistently likely spectacle,” joked Stewart at the top of the show in a rare appearance in the middle of the week.
He sarcastically congratulated Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom, saying that Trump “dazzled his hosts.”
Later, he continued: “Now, some opponents can say that the concerns of the word of this administration are only a cynical ploy, a thin ruse of cunning, a smoke screen to obscure unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation, people without dysthip.”
“Not me, however – I think it’s great.”
Late at night with Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers said on Thursday in his program that Trump’s administration “continues a repression of freedom of expression.”
“And completely unrelated,” joked Meyers, “I just want to say, before I start here, that I always admired and respected Mr. Trump. I always thought he was a visionary, an innovator, a great president, an even better golfer. And if you have ever seen me say something negative about him, it’s just AI.”
Later, his tone was serious: “It is a privilege and an honor to call Jimmy Kimmel my friend in the same way that it is a privilege and an honor to do this show every evening. I wake up every day, I count my blessings that I live in a country that claims at least enthusiasm and integrity. And we will continue to do our show as we have always done it. fact – with enthusiasm and integrity. ” “.”
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Fallon also set a serious tone, noting that “many people” feared that “we will not be censored”.
An off -screen voice welcomed the president, saying Trump “restores our national reputation”.
“To be honest with all of you, I don’t know what’s going on, and no one does it,” said Fallon. But I know Jimmy Kimmel, and he is a decent, funny and loving guy, and I hope he will come back. “”
