Stephen Colbert dramatically declared “we’re all Jimmy Kimmel” throughout his Thursday evening taping of “The Late Present” in a cringey monologue about ABC’s firing of his fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
“Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel,” the lame duck CBS host opened the episode wholly devoted to his peer throughout its taping in Midtown Manhattan.
“Yesterday after threats from Trump’s FCC chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That’s blatant censorship,” Colbert, 61, advised the viewers.
“With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch,” the host stated in obvious reference to President Trump.
CBS introduced in July that each Colbert’s tenure and “The Late Present” itself can be ending after his contract expires, however the funnyman had comparatively sort phrases for the community earlier than the present’s taping.
“I’ll say this for my community. They wouldn’t have executed this. Now no matter what you suppose, that has already been executed and the way that appears, that is weak. That is blatant censorship,” Colbert stated throughout a Q&A earlier than the taping.
Kimmel himself had a comparable response to CBS giving Colbert the hook again in July.
“Love you Stephen. F–ok you and all of your Sheldons CBS,” Kimmel wrote on his private Instagram story throughout a summer time trip from his ABC present, showing to reference CBS’s hit “The Massive Bang Concept” spinoff, “Younger Sheldon.”
Not like Kimmel, Colbert can have time to say goodbye to his viewers, with the historic late evening program dropping its remaining curtain on the finish of Might 2026.
The ABC host, 57, was yanked from the air on Wednesday after he controversially claimed in a monologue Tuesday that Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer Tyler Robinson was “MAGA.”
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