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Stephen Colbert dramatically declared “we are all Jimmy Kimmel” during his Thursday night taping of “The Late Show” in a cringey monologue about ABC’s firing of his fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
“Tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel,” the lame duck CBS host opened the episode wholly dedicated to his peer during its taping in Midtown Manhattan.
“Yesterday after threats from Trump’s FCC chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship,” Colbert, 61, told the audience.
“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” the host said in apparent reference to President Trump.
CBS announced in July that both Colbert’s tenure and “The Late Show” itself would be ending after his contract expires, but the funnyman had relatively kind words for the network before the show’s taping.
“I’ll say this for my network. They wouldn’t have done this. Now regardless of what you think, that has already been done and how that looks, this is weak. This is blatant censorship,” Colbert said during a Q&A before the taping.
Kimmel himself had a similar reaction to CBS giving Colbert the hook back in July.
“Love you Stephen. F–k you and all your Sheldons CBS,” Kimmel wrote on his personal Instagram story during a summer vacation from his ABC show, appearing to reference CBS’s hit “The Big Bang Theory” spinoff, “Young Sheldon.”
Unlike Kimmel, Colbert will have time to say goodbye to his audience, with the historic late night program dropping its final curtain at the end of May 2026.
The ABC host, 57, was yanked from the air on Wednesday after he controversially claimed in a monologue Tuesday that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was “MAGA.”
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