“I’m your host Stephen Colbert, but tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel.”
That’s how Stephen Colbert kicked off The Late Show on Thursday night, in the wake of the news that Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been indefinitely suspended.
“That is blatant censorship,” Colbert says in the clip above. “And it always starts small. You know, remember like in week one of his presidency, Gulf of America. ‘Call it Gulf of America.’ Sure, seems harmless. But with an autocrat, you cannot give an inch. And 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.
“To Jimmy, just let me say, I stand with you and your staff 100 percent,” Colbert adds, before reaching off camera to grab his recently won Emmy Award. “And also, you couldn’t let me enjoy this for like one week?”
Watch the other late night hosts’ reactions to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.
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