Jimmy Kimmel shows suspension: Donald Trump as 'Grandpa'? Late-night host address free speech crisis

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon started their late night shows with humor and support for suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel. Stewart used satire to the indefinite suspension of ABC of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Criticize to criticize! After Kimmel’s remarks on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, AP reported. Colbert used a more serious tone and described the suspension as “blatant censorship”. Fallon had guests Jude Law, journalist Tom Llamas and actor singer Jonathan Groff, but none of them talked about Kimmel’s situation. Stewart and Colbert interviewed guests who could address the censorship problems raised by Kimmel’s suspension. The journalist and Nobel Prize Receiver Maria Ressa spoke to Stewart. When Stewart Ressa, the author of ‘How To Stand Up to a Dictator’, asked for tips on dealing with the present moment, Ressa told how she and her colleagues just kept on the news website ‘Rappler’ when she faced 11 arrests in one year under the then President Rodrigo. “We just kept doing work. We just put one foot in front of the other,” Ressa said. Stewart appears with a special appearance to the skew of Kimmel Suspension Stewart’s performance that opened with a voice -over promised the party line. “We have another pleasant, hilarious program that meets,” it reads. He praised the president and satisfied his criticism of major cities and his deployment of the national guard to fight their crime. ‘Tonight to you from the right (exploding), the crime -oriented Cesspool that is in New York. It is a tremendous disaster as no one has ever seen before. Someone’s national guard has to enter this place, am I right? ‘ Stewart said. ‘The Daily Show’ set was re -changed with decorative golden excavations, in a parody of gold accents that Trump added to the fireplace, doorway, walls and other areas of the Oval Office. Stewart nervously stumbled as if worried about the right talk points. When the audience members responded with an ‘Awww’, he whispered, ‘What are you doing? Stop. You’re going to blow it (exploding) for our blow. ‘ He took on a more silent tone when he began describing Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom and called the president “our great father”. “Look at him. With a corridor, even more majestic than that of the royal horses falling before him, “he said. Stewart usually offers only on Mondays. The Emmy winner helped “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015, with the delivery of sharp, satirical politics and current events and interviews with newsmakers. He returned to the host once a week during the run -up to the US presidential election in 2024. Fallon opened his “Tonight Show” monologist who addresses Kimmel’s suspension. “To be honest with you all, I don’t know what’s going on. And no one does. But I know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s a decent, funny and loving guy, and I hope he’s coming back. ” Swift suspension after remarks about Kirk’s assassination Kimmel made several remarks about the response to Kirk’s murder of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday and Tuesday evenings, including that ‘a lot in Maga country works very hard to utilize the murder of Charlie Kirk.’ ABC has suspended Kimmel’s performance after a group of ABC-affiliated stations said it would not air the performance, and Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr said his agency had a strong case to Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. to hold liable for the distribution of incorrect information. ‘The late show’ holds on Thursday with the animated song ‘Be Our Guest’ of Disney’s’ Beauty and the Beast ‘, but the previous and current address suspension began his monologue, but replaced the lyrics with’ shut your staircase. Shut your trap. ‘ He later addressed Kimmel directly and said he was standing with him and his staff. “If ABC thinks it’s going to satisfy the regime, they’re unfortunately naive,” he said. He also responded to the comments Carr made that it is important for broadcasters to push back the Disney programming “They do not determine the community values.” “Well, you know what my community values ​​are, Buster? Freedom of speech, ‘Colbert told loud applause of his audience. When Colbert talked to New Yorker editor David Remnick about Kimmel’s suspension, he said: ‘What we see now is that the government is acting in the direction of the United States president to put pressure, manipulate, silence and even conclude institutions of the free word.’ David Letterman, Colbert’s predecessor over ‘The Late Show’, mourns the networks of the networks. “I feel bad about this, because we all see where it goes, correct? This is managed media, ‘Letterman said during an appearance on Thursday at the Atlantic Festival 2025 in New York. “It’s not good. It’s stupid. It’s ridiculous. ‘ He added that people should not be fired just because they do not “suck” for what Letterman “calls an authoritarian” president. (With inputs of AP)