Late-night hosts rejoiced Monday after Walt Disney Co. introduced that “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” can be again on the air Tuesday.
“Just some hours earlier than we tape this broadcast, we bought phrase that our lengthy nationwide late nightmare is over,” Stephen Colbert mentioned on “The Late Present” Monday night time, “as a result of Disney introduced that ‘Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!’ will return to air on ABC tomorrow, Tuesday night time.”
He adopted that with a sequence of whooping cheers.
“As soon as extra, I’m the one martyr in late nights,” he added dramatically, clutching the Emmy Award he received shortly after listening to he wouldn’t be coming again subsequent season. “Wait, until CBS, you wanna announce something?”
Over at “The Day by day Present,” Jon Stewart thanked viewers for bluffing about canceling their Disney+ accounts: “That marketing campaign that you simply all launched, pretending that you simply had been going to cancel Hulu whereas secretly racing by 4 seasons of ‘Solely Murders within the Constructing,’ that actually labored. Congratulations.”
Seth Meyers continued the celebration of Kimmel’s return to the airwaves on his “Late Night time” section “A Nearer Look.”
“An enormous nationwide backlash to Trump’s crackdown on free speech, even amongst conservatives,” Meyers mentioned. “I haven’t seen a ballot but, however I feel for those who requested Individuals if the president must be dictating what TV hosts can and might’t say, you’d get about 3% optimistic and —” Meyers then minimize to a clip of Trump saying, “97% detrimental.”
Final week, Disney suspended Kimmel after the host mentioned , partially, that “the MAGA gang” was “desperately making an attempt to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from one among them and doing every part they’ll to attain political factors from it.” On Monday, Disney launched an announcement concerning the scenario.
“We have now spent the final days having considerate conversations with Jimmy, and after these conversations, we reached the choice to return the present on Tuesday,” the assertion mentioned.
The present was initially suspended indefinitely after Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” The businesses that function ABC-affiliated stations took the motion after the Federal Communications Fee Chairman Brendan Carr mentioned on a podcast that ABC needed to do one thing about Kimmel’s feedback.
The Hollywood group rallied behind the comic, protesting outdoors the El Capitan Leisure Centre, the place the present is filmed. Film, TV and stage stars, together with comedians, administrators and writers, signed an open letter from the American Civil Liberties Union, urging Individuals to battle to defend their constitutionally protected proper to free speech.
Disney apparently heard the folks and introduced Kimmel’s return. However which may not finish the drama. Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group mentioned on Tuesday they won’t run “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” even when ABC will.
So, seize your bucket of popcorn, drink a cup of espresso and tune in.
