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“Blatant censorship,” Stephen Colbert said of ABC’s move to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show after pressure from the Trump administration.
Published Sept. 18, 2025Updated Sept. 19, 2025, 12:26 a.m. ET
Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and David Letterman all said on Thursday that they feared the Trump administration was cracking down on free speech after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show following pressure from the Federal Communications Commission.
Speaking in a monologue during his daily program, Mr. Colbert said, “Tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel,” and declared that ABC’s move to “indefinitely” pull Mr. 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.”
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Jimmy Fallon said on “The Tonight Show,” “I don’t know what’s going on. And no one does. But I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s a decent, funny and loving guy and I hope he comes back.” He then insisted that he would not be censored, before a voiceover provided more complimentary language over Mr. Fallon’s commentary.
