'Last week tonight' host John Oliver Blasts Disney about Jimmy Kimmel crust: 'Give the bully your lunch money ...'

John Oliver speaks against ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, and directly appeals to Disney CEO Bob Iger. On September 21 episode of HBO’s last week tonight, Oliver devoted his main story to Kimmel’s suspension and called it a dangerous precedent for free speech. He described the FCC-driven pretext for the suspension as “laughably weak”, adding: “Kimmel did not deprive Charlie Kirk or bring his murder to light.” “We hit some new lows over the weekend, while the Maga gang desperately tried to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk than anything other than one of them and did everything in their power to achieve political points from it,” Kimmel said. Kirk’s death and media fallout “A person being shot is tragic and a person shot for their ideas is horrible,” Oliver said. Oliver argued that some are now “willing to claim Kirk’s death to do things they have been doing for years … that we all bring back to Jimmy Kimmel.” Why Kimmel was suspended, Oliver emphasized that Kimmel’s suspension is not about mocking Kirk. “Kimmel’s first remarks after his murder were a lecture …” On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to the senseless gun violence, “he notes. Instead, the problems of Kimmel come from a ‘passing reference’ about the ideology of the shooter. “Yes, it was it,” Oliver says, calling the setback produced. FCC pressure behind the move was suspended after FCC chairman Brendan Carr criticized comments made by the late-night host on September 15 following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel said the “Maga Gang” is trying to bend the blame and “score political points” from Kirk’s death. Carr accused Kimmel of misleading viewers about the political commitment of Tyler Robinson, the accused shooter, and ABC warned to act. Days later, Nexstar Media stopped airing Kimmel’s performance on its ABC subsidiaries, and ABC announced an indefinite suspension. Oliver: “A Turning Point for Free Speech” Oliver, which was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The night of the remarks said he didn’t even notice the comments as controversial. “The worst thing you can say is that he was wrong about the ideology of the shooter, who OK,” Oliver said. “But he also pointed out that many on the right seem desperate to weapon the death of Kirk – an aging that has been aged, you know, everything that has happened to Kimmel ever since.” Oliver called this a case of the pressure from the government on private companies: “Kimmel is by no means the first accident in Trump’s attacks on free speech. He is just the latest canary in the coal mine – a mine that at this point now looks more dead canary than coal.” He added: “It feels like a turning point. If the government can force a network to pull a late-night show off the air, and can do it in a clear view, it can do much worse.” Disney CEO Bob Iiger Oliver urged ABC to “do the right thing” by reinstating Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He also encouraged viewers to cancel Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions in protest. “They have to stand by Kimmel and his staff,” Oliver said. Oliver addressed Iiger directly and warned: “If you give the lunch money, he doesn’t let him go away. It just makes him hungry every time. At some point you will have to draw a line. So I’ll argue, why don’t it draw here?”