Jimmy Kimmel’s fellow late-night comedians are celebrating his return to TV following a suspension.
On Monday, September 22, ABC introduced that it’s placing Kimmel again on the air beginning Tuesday, September 23, lower than per week after he was suspended for his commentary about President Donald Trump and the late conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk.
The information sparked optimistic reactions from Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart, all of whom had been amongst those that supported Kimmel, 57, amid the controversy that started final week.
“We do, like, 160 of those a yr or one thing and when I’ve the possibility, it’s all the time good to start out the present with some excellent news,” Colbert, 61, mentioned throughout his monologue on Monday’s The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.
“Only a few hours earlier than we tape this broadcast, we bought phrase that our lengthy nationwide late nightmare is over, as a result of Disney introduced that Jimmy Kimmel Reside! will return to air on ABC tomorrow, Tuesday evening,” the CBS host continued, drawing cheers from the studio viewers.
“Great information for my pricey good friend Jimmy and his superb workers that he can proceed his present,” Colbert added. “You recognize, I’m so joyful for them.”
Holding his new Emmy Award, Colbert mentioned “now that Jimmy’s not being canceled, I get to take pleasure in this once more. … As soon as extra, I’m the one martyr in late evening! Wait. Except, CBS, do you wanna announce something?”
The irreverent host was referring to the community’s current choice to finish The Late Present subsequent Could.
Jon Stewart responded to ABC pulling his late-night rival Jimmy Kimmel off the air attributable to feedback in regards to the homicide of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk. Stewart, 62, opened the Thursday, September 18, episode of The Every day Present by declaring he could be continuing as a “patriotically obedient” host on a “government-approved” present. “We’ve got one other […]
In the meantime, over on NBC, Meyers, 51, celebrated on his present, telling the viewers, “There was an enormous nationwide backlash to Trump’s crackdown on free speech, even amongst conservatives. I haven’t seen a ballot but, however I feel should you requested Individuals if the president ought to be dictating what TV hosts can and may’t say, you’d get about 3 % optimistic and…” — he lower to footage of Trump saying — “97 % damaging.”
And on Comedy Central’s The Every day Present, Jon Stewart referenced Kimmel supporters canceling their Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions to protest ABC’s choice to tug Kimmel from its weeknight lineup.
“I wish to say this critically, that marketing campaign that you simply all launched, pretending that you simply had been going to cancel Hulu whereas secretly racing via 4 seasons of Solely Murders within the Constructing, that basically labored. Congratulations,” Stewart, 62, joked Monday. “Wasn’t it attention-grabbing to try to work out all of the tentacles Disney has in your each day life? It’s one factor to swear off cruises, however The Avengers? Nah.”
