{"id":194057,"date":"2025-09-19T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/late-night-rallies-behind-jimmy-kimmel-tonight-we-are-all-jimmy-kimmel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:21:29","slug":"late-night-rallies-behind-jimmy-kimmel-tonight-we-are-all-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/late-night-rallies-behind-jimmy-kimmel-tonight-we-are-all-jimmy-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night Rallies Behind Jimmy Kimmel: \u201cTonight, We Are All Jimmy Kimmel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Late-night television may be under attack<\/a>, but its hosts are sticking together. On Wednesday evening, ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong>\u2019s long-running late-night series Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/a> off the air following comments Kimmel made about the murder of Charlie Kirk<\/a> and pressure from FCC chair Brendan Carr.<\/strong> One day after Kimmel\u2019s immediate and indefinite suspension, late-night hosts, including Stephen Colbert,<\/strong> Jon Stewart,<\/strong> and Seth Meyers,<\/strong> took to their desks and spoke out about the blatant attack on free speech.<\/p>\n

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Colbert knows a thing or two about being silenced by a network. Earlier this summer, Paramount abruptly announced that it was cancelling<\/a> his Emmy-winning CBS late-night show, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,<\/em> after Colbert\u2019s contract expires in May. The decision came as Paramount, CBS\u2019s parent company, was waiting for government approval for an $8 billion merger with media conglomerate SkyDance. At the time, Kimmel and the other late-night hosts rallied around Colbert, appearing together on his show and calling out CBS and Paramount for potentially kowtowing to President Donald Trump,<\/strong> who had made his ire for Colbert and his comedy well-known.<\/p>\n

Now it was time for Colbert to return the favor. \u201cTonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel,\u201d said Colbert to open his monologue. \u201cYesterday, after threats from the FCC chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship,\u201d said Colbert. He then reminded the audience about Trump\u2019s decision in his first week of his presidency to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. \u201cSure, seems harmless, but with an autocrat you cannot give an inch,\u201d said Colbert, to loud cheers from the studio audience. \u201cAnd if ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive. And clearly they never read the children\u2019s book, If You Give A Mouse a Kimmel.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert than addressed Kimmel directly, saying he stands with the comedian and his staff amid the suspension, before joking that the brouhaha surrounding Kimmel has overshadowed The Late Show<\/em>\u2019s recent Emmy win for outstanding talk series. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t let me enjoy this for like one week? Come on,\u201d said Colbert, who was holding his Emmy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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