Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and David Letterman all warned on Thursday that the country was sliding toward an autocracy after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show following pressure from the Trump administration.

Speaking in a monologue during his daily program, Colbert said, “Tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel,” and declared that ABC’s move to “indefinitely” pull Kimmel’s show off the air amounted to “blatant censorship.”

“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” Colbert said. “If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive. And clearly they’ve never read the children’s book ‘If You Give a Mouse a Kimmel.’”

Stewart’s program opened with a public address announcer introducing “the all-new, government-approved ‘Daily Show’” with its “patriot

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