{"id":5587,"date":"2025-09-19T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:56:54","slug":"late-night-solidarity-how-comedys-biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5587","title":{"rendered":"Late-Night Solidarity: How Comedy\u2019s Biggest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kimmel\u2019s Suspension Sparks Industry Uproar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension from ABC after comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination has become a flashpoint over free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics accused him of speculating about the shooter\u2019s motives,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and FCC Chair Brendan Carr called his remarks \u201csome of the sickest conduct possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump praised ABC, writing: \u201cGreat News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Late-Night Hosts Respond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Fallon voiced support: \u201cJimmy Kimmel\u2026 is a decent, funny and loving guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I hope he comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Colbert called the suspension \u201ca blatant assault on the freedom of speech,\u201d declaring: \u201cTonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seth Meyers joked that any negative comments about Trump were \u201cjust AI,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while affirming: \u201cIt is a privilege and honour to call Jimmy Kimmel my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Veteran Voices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Letterman warned against \u201cmanaged media,\u201d saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t go around firing somebody because you\u2019re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broader Stakes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon Stewart, Kamala Harris, and other public figures framed the suspension as part of a larger assault on media freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Colbert put it: \u201cWith an autocrat, you cannot give an inch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimmel\u2019s Suspension Sparks Industry Uproar Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension from ABC after comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination has become a flashpoint over free speech. Critics accused him of speculating about the shooter\u2019s motives, and FCC Chair Brendan Carr called his remarks \u201csome of the sickest conduct possible.\u201d President Trump praised ABC, writing: \u201cGreat News for America:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}