Jon Stewart responds to Jimmy Kimmel’s return to air

Jon Stewart has reacted to Jimmy Kimmel’s anticipated return to late evening tv, congratulating everybody who boycotted Disney in assist of the late present host.

“That marketing campaign that you just all launched, pretending that you just have been going to cancel Hulu whereas secretly racing by means of 4 seasons of Solely Murders within the Constructing, that basically labored,” quipped Stewart on the Day by day Present. “Wasn’t it fascinating to try to determine all of the tentacles Disney has in your day by day life? It is one factor to swear off cruises, however the Avengers? How is it doable that by eliminating one firm, I can not watch Winnie the Pooh or Monday Night time Soccer? Or hearken to early Hilary Duff.”

He then sang a number of traces of Duff’s “So Yesterday” earlier than shortly chopping himself off, stating that “Disney could be very litigious.”

Stewart additional addressed claims that the Trump administration had nothing to do with ABC’s determination to droop Kimmel. Such assertions come despite obvious threats from Federal Communications Fee (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr to revoke ABC’s broadcast license until it took motion in opposition to Kimmel.

Talking to Fox Information, host Lara Trump said that if “if Donald Trump wished to take everybody off the air who had criticisms for him, there would principally solely be a handful of people left on tv.”

“That’s humorous,” mentioned Stewart. “However it’s additionally perhaps a trigger for self-reflection? ‘Hey, if everybody on TV is criticising me apart from, like, 4 individuals, and considered one of them is my daughter-in-law, am I the drama?'”

To conclude his monologue, Stewart supplied a blunt message for Trump’s defenders.

“You do not have to bend over backwards attempting to make Trump’s authoritarian energy grabs look like the rule of legislation,” mentioned Stewart. “He doesn’t give a fuck any extra. He is saying it straight up. Trump is saying, ‘the individuals like dictators.’ Trump is saying, ‘I hate my opponents, and I need them punished.’ And Trump is saying, ‘I will use all of the levers of presidency at my disposal to perform that aim.’ 

“So you will get on board with that and say, ‘I am with that,’ or you may be a part of the remainder of us and battle like hell for this constitutional republic.”