Well, the Kimmel news seems to be going down well…
Across the pond in the United States of America, ABC and Nextstar made the decision to suspend indefinitely the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show. Their reasoning as to why he was cut was due to the fact that they felt certain comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s passing were inappropriate. The specific monologue that received this criticism is below:
There were two comments in particular that Nexstar deemed inappropriate. The first was:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,”
The second, was a joke at the Presidents response when a reporter asked him how he was coping with Kirk’s passing, to which the President said “I think very good, and by the way right there, you see all the trucks. They’ve just started construction of the new ballroom…”. To which Kimmel responded with:
“Yes. He’s at the fourth stage of grief, construction… This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four year old mourns a goldfish.”
All that aside though, this news hasn’t exactly gone unnoticed by the Late Night Talk Show Crew in the USA. With many other hosts and presenters making responses both on and off-air to the news that Kimmel was suspended.
Jimmy Fallon responded to the news during his opening monologue of The Tonight Show. in which he remarked that he wouldn’t let the news of Kimmel being “silenced for criticising the government” stop him from talking about the President. During his monologue as he begun to talk about the Presidents trip to the UK, every time it got to the end of a sentence when Fallon may have said something controversial, he would be censored and his speech replaced with something that praised the president.
Jon Stewart who only hosts The Daily Show on Monday nights, showed up to host a surprise episode of The Daily Show in which he (jokingly) looked intensely nervous and stammered during the opening remarks stating that “we have another fun, hilarious, administration-compliant show”. He continued to say a lot of statements mimicking ideologies of the President to “please father”. Stewart conducted an entire 20-minute segment mocking the president by jokingly praising him and agreeing with him.
Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, who was informed his show will be ending next year, was far less kind and instead decided to criticise FCC chair Brenden Carr for censoring free speech. Colbert went as far as to call out the President for blackmailing media companies in order to silence any critics against him.
Seth Meyers, also commented in a way similar to Jon Stewart in which he claimed he always supported the President and any footage of him saying anything negative was actually deepfaked. He eventually covered the news more thoroughly in which he showed footage of other political figures criticising the decision.
