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Free to Be FCC Compliant
Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension from ABC dominated late night monologues on Thursday.
Jon Stewart made a special appearance behind the desk of Thursday’s “Daily Show” to address the situation, going “administration compliant” with a stiff and stunted delivery.
“We’re coming to you tonight from a real [expletive] hole, the crime-ridden cesspool that is New York City. It is a tremendous disaster, like no one’s ever seen before. Someone’s national guard should invade this place, am I right?” — JON STEWART
Stewart scolded the crowd for laughing and threatening to blow his cover while he praised the president through clenched teeth.
“Now, some naysayers may argue that this administration’s speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy, a thin gruel of a ruse, a smokescreen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation; principle-less and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance. Some people would say that. Not me, though. I think it’s great.” — JON STEWART
“You may call it ‘free speech’ in jolly-old England, but in America, we have a little something called the First Amendment, and let me tell you how it works: There’s something called a Talent-o-Meter. It’s a completely scientific instrument that is kept on the president’s desk, and it tells the president when a performers’ T.Q. — talent quotient, measured mostly by niceness to the president — goes below a certain level, at which point the F.C.C. must be notified to threaten the acquisition prospects for billion-dollar mergers of network affiliates. These affiliates are then asked to give ultimatums to the even-larger mega-corporation that controls the flow of state-approved content, or the F.C.C. can just choose to threaten those licenses directly. It’s basic science. Read your Constitution.” — JON STEWART
Seth Meyers similarly mocked ABC’s decision to pull Kimmel off the air by taking a pro-Trump turn during “A Closer Look.”
“I just want to say, before we get started here, that I’ve always admired and respected Mr. Trump. I’ve always believed he was — [responding to audience laughter] no, no, no — a visionary, an innovator, a great president, an even better golfer. And if you’ve ever seen me say anything negative about him, that’s just A.I.” — SETH MEYERS
“And, may I just say, it is a privilege and an honor to call Jimmy Kimmel my friend in the same way that it’s a privilege and honor to do this show every night. I wake up every day, I count my blessings that I live in a country that at least purports to value freedom of speech, and we’re going to keep doing our show the way we’ve always done it with enthusiasm and integrity.” — SETH MEYERS
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