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Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned to (some) airwaves Tuesday. In his opening monologue, Kimmel reflected on the importance of free speech.

It had been hyped as the monologue of all late-night opening monologues – and so Jimmy Kimmel and his team decided to make that the first joke.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! , back on ABC (or most of the American network’s affiliates, anyway) Tuesday night after a freedom of speech-shocking six-day suspension, began with a meta-montage of news footage about its own imminent return.

“We are in for a monologue that will be a marker in late-night show history,” an unseen commentator from Canada’s CTV News Channel said.

Cut to: Kimmel and sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez in a monkey and banana costume, respectively, deciding to change.

After that cold open, Kimme

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