David Letterman has weighed in on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! being indefinitely pulled off the air after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened ABC over feedback made by Kimmel concerning the dying of Charlie Kirk.
In line with Deadline, Letterman known as the transfer “distress” whereas talking at The Atlantic Pageant on Thursday. “It’s ridiculous,” he mentioned. “You’ll be able to’t go round firing any individual since you’re fearful or attempting to suck as much as an authoritarian prison administration within the Oval Workplace, that’s simply not how this works.”
Then, Letterman leaned into his expertise with cracking jokes about six completely different US presidents: “The purpose is thrashing up on these individuals, rightly or wrongly, precisely or maybe inaccurately within the identify of comedy, not as soon as had been we squeezed by anybody from any governmental company, not to mention the dreaded FCC.”
“This man [at] the FCC mentioned, ‘We are able to do issues the simple approach. We are able to do issues the exhausting approach,’” he added. “Who’s hiring these goons? Mario Puzo?”