Shortly after ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, late-night hosts and celebrities weighed in on the event in separate statements.
In an episode of The Tonight Present, Jimmy Fallon knowledgeable his viewers that Kimmel “was suspended by ABC after stress from the FCC, leaving everybody pondering WTF.”
He added: “This morning, I woke as much as 100 textual content messages from my dad saying, ‘I am sorry they canceled your present.’ I’m going, ‘That is not me, that is Jimmy Kimmel.’ However to be trustworthy with you all, I do not know what is going on on, and nobody does, however I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s an honest, loving, and humorous man, and I hope he comes again.”
In the meantime, Stephen Colbert opened his present by saying, “I am your host, Stephen Colbert. However tonight, we’re all Jimmy Kimmel.”
Seth Meyers, for his half, urged everybody to “get up for the ideas of free expression.”
“There’s a motive free speech is within the very first modification. It stands above all others,” he added.
Like the opposite late-night hosts, David Letterman was additionally upset over Kimmel’s suspension, saying, “I really feel unhealthy about this as a result of all of us see the place that is going, appropriate? It is managed media. It is no good. It is foolish. It is ridiculous. You may’t go round firing any individual since you’re fearful or making an attempt to suck as much as an authoritarian legal administration within the Oval Workplace.”
Former President Barack Obama, Jean Good, Maren Morris, Sophia Bush, Candace Owens, Ben Stiller, and plenty of others expressed related sentiments and referred to as for a boycott of Disney.
However, Trump and Megyn Kelly have been amongst those that celebrated the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Stay!.