Jon Stewart returned to The Every day Present on Monday night time (September 22), the place he reacted to the information of ABC reinstating Jimmy Kimmel after pulling his late-night present from the schedule final week.
Stewart opened his monologue by poking enjoyable at President Donald Trump‘s new declare that Tylenol used throughout being pregnant causes autism in youngsters, saying, “Younger Jimmy Kimmel is coming again to tv! I’ll let you know, Jimmy Kimmel is flying excessive like Advil at the moment. Acetaminophen is like growth, Advil’s like, ‘What’s up, motherf***ers? You bought a headache, the place are you going to show?’”
The comic then spoke on to his viewers, mocking, “The marketing campaign that you simply all launched, pretending that you simply had been going to cancel Hulu whereas secretly racing via 4 seasons of Solely Murders within the Constructing, actually labored. Congratulations!”
“Wasn’t it attention-grabbing, to attempt to work out all of the tentacles Disney has in your every day life?” Stewart continued. “It’s one factor to swear off cruises, however the Avengers? Nah. How is it potential that by eliminating one firm, I can’t watch Winnie the Pooh or Monday Night time Soccer? Or hearken to early Hilary Duff?”
Kimmel was “suspended indefinitely” on Wednesday (September 17) over feedback he made about Charlie Kirk‘s deadly capturing on Monday’s (September 15) Jimmy Kimmel Stay. This got here after highly effective station group Nexstar introduced it could preempt the present on its 32 ABC affiliate stations late Wednesday.
Earlier that day, Trump-appointed Federal Communications Fee chairman Brendan Carr advised right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson, “We will do that the straightforward method or the exhausting method. These corporations can discover methods to alter conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be further work for the FCC forward.”
Stewart mentioned this turnaround shocked him as a result of he was advised the choice to drag Kimmel off the air “had nothing to do with the Trump administration and their express FCC menace that they may take away the present the straightforward method or the exhausting method.”
He then threw to a clip of a Fox Information correspondent saying, “My gosh, this had nothing to do with Donald Trump not agreeing with something Jimmy Kimmel mentioned or not. If Donald Trump needed to take everybody off the air who had criticisms for him, there would principally solely be a handful of people left on tv.”
“That’s humorous, but it surely additionally could also be a trigger for self-reflection?” Stewart responded. “‘Hey, if everyone on TV is criticizing me, aside from, like, 4 folks, and one in every of them is my daughter-in-law, am I the drama?’”
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