Jimmy Kimmel Live! still isn’t going wide, but the ratings don’t show it. The late-night host personally thanked Donald Trump for all the publicity during his September 25 monologue. “Even though we are still being preempted in 60 American cities, on Tuesday we had our second-highest-rated show in almost 23 years on the air,” Kimmel said, to cheers from his audience. “Our monologue from Tuesday night has over 21 million views just on YouTube alone. And I wanna say, we couldn’t have done it without you, Mr. President. Thank you very much.”

After celebrating, Kimmel went into a bit complaining that everybody else wants in on the sweet ratings boost from having your freedom of speech threatened, showing “footage” from Antiques Roadshow with the line, “Hey, Donald Trump, go [ bleep ]

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