“Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel ,” said Stephen Colbert as he opened The Late Show.

The comedian said he stood with the ABC host and his staff after Kimmel’s show was put on pause following comments about the killer of Charlie Kirk.

He called ABC’s move to “yank” Kimmel off the air indefinitely “blatant censorship”. It always starts small. Remember, in week one of his presidency, call it Gulf of America. Sure, seems harmless, but with an autocrat, you cannot give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naïve.”

He did joke that the Kimmel news overshadowed his recent Emmy win. “You couldn’t let me enjoy this for like one week,” he said.

Colbert spent much of the first half of the show discussing the Kimmel situation and with it he brou

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