Stephen Colbert mocked Disney exhausting for suspending Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday’s “The Late Present.” His monologue, after all, included bon mots just like the statement that the suspension “proves Disney is #1 in streaming,” as a result of firm leaders had been “pissing themselves” in worry of Trump.
However earlier than the monologue, Colbert started Thursday’s episode with a chilly open that went virtually as exhausting by channeling “Magnificence and the Beast.”
As all the time, the chilly open began with a supercut of current information studies, on this case explaining that Disney suspended Kimmel after being threatened by the pinnacle of the FCC over feedback Kimmel made referencing the person who killed proper wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
Then, the scene modified to characteristic a parody of Lumière, the French-accented candelabra voiced by Jerry Orbach within the 1991 animated Disney basic. Solely this model is, one way or the other, carrying a MAGA hat.
“Hear up. In mild of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, ABC’s guardian firm, the Walt Disney Company, has just a little message for all the staff,” the parody Lumière stated.
Then he started a parody of the breakout music “Be Our Visitor,” referred to as “Shut Your Lure.”
The lyrics had been:
“Shut your entice, shut your entice, we’re warning you to chop the crap. Our Expensive Chief’s pores and skin is thinner than a sheet of plastic wrap. Mum’s the phrase, have you ever heard, kissing ass it what’s most popular. Don’t insult our nice dictator, or he’ll hit you with this turd. The brand new rule at ABC: Don’t make enjoyable of Donny T. And don’t level out that his neck is generally flap. So don’t you make a scene, or point out Jeff Epstein, or your present might be scrapped. Shut your entice.”
Watch the amusing bit under:
Kimmel was suspended on Wednesday by ABC in response to conservative outrage over feedback he’d made in his monologue two days earlier than about Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who murdered proper wing influencer Charlie Kirk. Kimmel stated, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something aside from certainly one of them and doing every part they’ll to attain political factors from it.”
His assumption that Robinson was politically proper wing was primarily based on all accessible proof made public by authorities as of Monday, when he made that remark. On Tuesday, extra particulars got here out that indicated the other could also be true, and that Robinson might have additionally had private motivations. Although there are nonetheless lots of questions but to be answered.
That context was ignored by conservative critics. So it’s on Wednesday, FCC Chair Brendan Carr stoked outrage by threatening ABC and guardian firm Disney throughout a podcast look. Native TV powerhouses Nexstar and Sinclair then each pulled Kimmel from their ABC associates. ABC and Disney suspended the present “indefinitely” shortly after.
