Stephen Colbert has criticized ABC and CBS for their “weak” decisions to give in to President Donald Trump and his administration’s demands.
The comments came as the 61-year-old trashed ABC for its sudden decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air.
“Tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel,” the late-night host said in his Thursday taping, according to a source in the audience.
It was Colbert’s first monologue since ABC announced it would preempt Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” after a Trump-appointed FCC chairman threatened to revoke their broadcasting license.
“Yesterday after threats from Trump’s FCC chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship,” Colbert said, adding about Trump, “With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch.”
In a Q&A with the audience before taping, Colbert reportedly compared ABC negatively to his own company, CBS, which canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July.
“I’ll say this for my network: they wouldn’t have done this,” Colbert said.
“Regardless of what you think, that has already been done and how that looks, this is weak,” Colbert declared. “This is blatant censorship.”
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