Wanda Sykes speaks to Sherri Shepherd.

Wanda Sykes is adding her two cents to the outcry from the comic community following ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show.

Sykes, 61, was scheduled to appear on Kimmel's show the evening it was pulled from the air after jokes from a previous monologue angered Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr.

In an appearance on Sherri Shepherd's talk show Sept. 22, Sykes said she was shocked by the move and found it concerning for the future of free speech in America.

"I was getting ready, I was heading to the car, and my publicist called me and was like 'Don't come, the show has been preempted,'" Sykes told Shepherd.

"Online, I saw all the stuff and texted with Jimmy a little bit," she continued, adding, "It was crazy.

"I felt for Jimmy, and I know how much Jimmy loved his crew, they're great people over there, so that's a lot of people out of work," Sykes said, alluding to the production workers and writing staff that also paused work when Kimmel's show was "indefinitely" suspended.

"Then it's just scary 'cause you're like 'Damn, what's happening to freedom of speech,'" she explained. "You have a right to say whatever you want to say, and yes, there are consequences but it should come from the people, it shouldn't come from the administration telling companies what to do. That's the scary part."

Kimmel's program was pulled after he made a comment some saw as implying the man who shot conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was a member of the MAGA movement. The suspect's mother has since said his politics had become increasingly left-leaning prior to the shooting.

When, in response, Carr suggested that the companies owning local broadcast stations should take action, Nexstar and Sinclair, which lay claim to a large number of the ABC affiliates, pulled Kimmel's show. ABC then stepped in and suspended the program indefinitely.

Sykes went on to say that she had no plans to censor her own comedy, despite increasing pressure from the Trump Administration to squelch criticism.

"By now, if you come to my show, you know what you gon' to hear," she said. "If you show up to my show and you're like all upset about it, you messed up again. You jumped on the wrong pony."

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