Jimmy Kimmel may have been silenced by ABC on Wednesday, when the network indefinitely suspended the comedian’s late-night show after apparent pressure from the Trump Administration, but his fellow hosts weren’t quiet about it on their late-night shows.
Kimmel’s peers, including Stephen Colbert , whose own CBS show was cancelled in similar fashion just a couple months ago, responded to the news with biting humor and clear solidarity.
Colbert: ‘We are all Jimmy Kimmel’
“Welcome, one and all, to The Late Show . I’m your host Stephen Colbert,” Colbert began his program on Thursday night, “but tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel.”
“I still have a show though, right?” he quipped toward the side of his set. “OK, good.”
In recapping Kimmel’s suspension, which he called “blatant cens