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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack. This is the bonus episode for Friday Morning. I’m going to cover the late night reactions to what’s happening with Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, just to keep everybody straight on what’s happening on the feed. The episode before this is the normal Friday episode.
I had recorded it before any of this Kimmel stuff started, so that’s in the feed in case you missed it. On Thursday afternoon, I dropped two Kimmel related episodes, a bonus episode and then a crossover episode I did with Mike Chisholm on The Letterman Podcast where we really broke down what’s going on here and you can hear a lot of my personal thoughts on that. Episode’s about an hour long. All right, on late night, let’s start with John Stewart. He did a very administration friendly version of the Daily Show on a very gaudy gold trimmed set.
For this John Stewart clip, and almost every clip I’m going to play today, I have trimmed them for both pace and language. A lot of the hosts were getting long applause breaks, and you know, I want I want to keep things moving, So almost everything I’m going to play in this episode has been edited, but I’m keeping the integrity of what was said intact. Here’s John Stewart opening the Daily Show. From Comedy Central. It’s the all new, government approved Daily Show with your patriotically obedient host, John Stewart.
My name is My name is John Stewart, and welcome to the Daily Show. On I’m gonna guess Monday, I don’t know. We have another fun, hilarious administration compliant show. What are you doing? Shut up?
Coming here tonight for crime written Sethpool. It is new. It is a tremendous disaster like no one’s ever seen before. Someone’s National Guard should invade this place? Am I right?
And here’s some more from John. Now, the visit Dingland couldn’t have gone better for our president. Finally a country affording our great leader the respect and deference that any sun God would command. We saw the dismissal of a very well known show host in America last night. Mister Kimmel is pre speech more under attack in Britain or America?
How dare you, sir? How dare you sir? What outfit are you with? Sir, the Antifa Herald Tribune, why I wouldn’t even line my parent’s cage with your rag?
And then John explain how all this works.
There’s a very. Reasonable explanation for what befell the scally wagg Kimball. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago.
So you know, you can call that free speech or not. 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 ometer. It’s a completely scientific instrument that is kept on the President’s desk, and it tells the president when a performer’s TQ talent quot measured mostly by niceness to the President, goes below a certain level, at which point the FCC 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 could the flow of state of proof content or the FCS can just chose treated those licenses directly. It’s basic science. Lead your Stephen Colbert opened up his show, Let’s listen. Welcome one and all to the Late Show. I’m your host, Stephen Colbert.
But but tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel, I am. I still have a show though, right, okay, Yesterday, after threats from Trump’s FCC chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship. And it always starts small, you know, remember like in week one of his presidency, Gulf of America, call it Gulf of America. Sure seems harmless, but with an autocrat you cannot give an inch.
And if ABC thinks the this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive and clearly they’ve never read the children’s book. If you give a mouse a Kimmel, and to Jimmy and to Jimmy, just let me say I stand with you and your staff one hundred percent.
And also you couldn’t let me enjoy this for like one week.
Just come on. And the thing to which he refers to a can I enjoy this for the week was his Emmy. Here’s another clip from Stephen Colbert. This decision came after senior executives at ABC, Disney and affiliates convened emergency meetings during which multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed. As one source at ABC put it, they were pissing themselves all day.
On the bright side, that proves Disney is number one in streaming. Now, this this, all, this may seem bad, but Carr was quick to reassure everyone, posting, while this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values. Well, you know what my community values are, buster freedom of speech. Oh and Stephen also brought back his conservative Stephen Colbert character. I’m gonna cut this pretty tight because the graphics are doing a lot of the work for the laughs while he stays in character.
So I’ll really clip this down. Hello Nation, Daddy, Tom Yip, So drop trout and lay across my lap because I’m going to spank you with freedom until i can see the American flag reflected in your shiny, swollen asses. Thaks, gentlemen, my friend’s nation. I returned to you tonight to rescue from this free speech crisis. I’m gonna scream the answer loud and proud, nation folk.
America’s facing perhaps its greatest crisis. And two one hundred and forty nine years you see people, people are saying things that hurt Donald Trump’s feelings. Now, usual, ladies and gentlemen, usually in the TV biz, if people are upset with you over something that you’ve said or done, the eyeballs and the advertising go somewhere else. That’s called capitalism. But in this.
ABC case, the FCC had no choice but to slap down the invisible hand of the market. Now you might think the Constitution coddlers out there argue that Americans are born with certain God given rights like life and liberty, and of course the pursuit of happiness. But what about the pursuit of Donald Trump’s happiness? And yes, it’s true, the words Donald Trump aren’t in the Constitution. But ladies and gentlemen, ladies, gentlemen, I can say they are because I have freedom of speech.
So just how do you balance your rights with your duty not to make the commander in chief fill his depends with tears? On Thursday, it happened to be David Letterman had a scheduled appearance at the Atlantic Festival, so they asked him about all this. Well, this is a misery. And in the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched. But this is me.
For thirty years, I did this for a living, so I see this happen. They took care of Colbert. That was rude, That was inexcusable. The man deserves a great deal of credit. He’s in the Hall of Fame nine times, and to be manipulated like that because the Ellison family, I didn’t want to trouble Donald Trump with this move, so they got rid of him.
Not only got rid of him, got rid of the whole franchise. You’re not gonna have to worry about anything, Larry, it’s all gone. It’s fine, good night.
And then my good friend Jimmy Kimmel, you know, I just I feel bad about this …
Correct. It’s managed media, and it’s no good. It’s silly, it’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian, criminal administration in the Oval office. That’s just not how this works.
The worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno, had the audacity to weigh in on Late Night. Here’s Jay Leno. Look, I’m a huge proponent of free speech place I’m I’m Jimmy Kimber’s. Could I have ever imagine something like. This happening when you wand here?
Yeah? Yeah, these kind of things happen all the time. But you know, you don’t get canceled saying popular things get canceled. You know sometimes usually it’s the truth that winds up getting canceled. I think Jimmy will land on a scene.
He’s a talented guy, he’s funny, and let’s see what happens. I maybe you might be on just a couple of weeks. Again, it’s a comedian talking. If they don’t like it, don’t watch it. I mean it doesn’t seems well, that’s the market.
I mean, let the people decide if people like a show, it stays on the air. I mean, that’s as simple as that. I mean, I enjoyed Jimmy. I like all the guys. I think they’re really talented.
I like jokes. That’s why I watch. Does the future of comedy in good hands? Yeah, it’ll be all right, don’t worry about it. Yeah, Jimmy Fallon tends to catch a lot of guph for not being as edgy as the other at late night host.
Normally I will defend Jimmy Fallon. Today I’m not going to defend Jimmy Fallon. Hey, Jimmy Fallon, come on dude. Well, guys, the big story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the FCC, leaving everyone thinking WTF. This morning, I woke up to one hundred text messages for my dad saying I’m sorry they cancel your show.
Heyo, that’s not me, that’s Jimmy Kimmel. But to be honest with you all, I don’t know what’s going on, and no one does. But I do know Jimmy Kimmel and he’s a decent, funny and loving guy, and I hope he comes back. Jimmy then did a setup, saying he was going to do his monologue just like I normally would, but with the punchlines of his jokes about Trump replaced by an announcer to make them inoffensive. Speaking off air during an audience Q and a late night or says, Fallon said he had texted with Kimmel and he loves both Kimmel and Colbert, adding we need to entertain and we need people to be happy in this crazy world.
Seth Myers, who you know, you’ve heard my opinions on Seth Myers. Anyway, here’s what he did. 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, and I’m you’re gonna have a conversation out at them.
I’m very disappointing in. The way. This is a pivotable pivotable. This is a pivotal. This is a pivotal and pivotable.
That’s how big it is. This is a pivotabal point. This is a pivotal is a big moment in our democracy, and we must all stand up for the principles of free expression. There’s a reason free speech is in the very first Amendment. It stands above all others.
You might even say it’s the Ultimately, this has been a closer life. On Wednesday night, Greg Guttfeld reacted to all this. His guest was doctor Drew, who said, for thirty years I’ve known Jimmy, I knew this was coming. Gutfeld is the only show that works on late. These other models just don’t work.
The fact that they’re only representing one point of view and is so far from reality. They won’t let reality come in. There’s going to be a consequence. I’m delighted to see that. I’m sorry, but I’m delighted, says doctor Drew.
Greg Guttfeld said, I don’t think Kim will expected any pushback at all. He’s in his bubble, comfortable, he goes even if he’s wrong, who’s gonna come after me? They agree with me anyway? Earlier on that day, Guttveld was on Fox News The Five and said of Kimmel, he didn’t imply kirk shooter was mega. He said it.
If he doesn’t address what he did, he’s done. This is a great case, though, of cognitive dissonance. How could such a smart, successful person be so wrong? I think it’s helpful to let’s listen to what Jimmy Kimmel actually said. We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and everything they can to score political points from.
And in between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flag at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this. Idols are down the hatinger friend Charlie, Sir, personally, how are you holding up for the last day. And a half, sir, I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks.
They’ve just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which. Is something they’ve been trying to get as you know, for about one hundred and fifty years, and it’s going to be a beauty. Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief construction. There’s demolition. Construction.
This is not how an adult grief’s the murderer of somebody called a friend. This is how a four year old morn’s a goldfish. Guttfeld called Kimmel the bad guy in the movie. He was stuck with the delusion about Trump supporters for years. I hate to tell you, buddy, but the guy who shot and killed Charlie Kirk was more likely a fan of yours.
And that is a bonus episode. I will be back this afternoon with more. There’s so much going on here. I just wanted to get the late night clips out and I haven’t had a chance to process it. So right now, the plan is another bonus episode later today on Friday, a normal Saturday episode, another Kimmel related bonus episode on Saturday afternoon, a normal Sunday morning episode, and then we’ll take it from there and I will continue to update you in the feed.
New listeners, I appreciate you stay on board. Hit that follow button. Ongoing listeners, Thank you. This is I love doing this as Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast, and I said, we hate that we have to do this, but this is the corner on which I’ve chosen to open my store, and we’ve got a massive, massive comedy topic and we are going to talk about it, all right. I’ll be back later this afternoon.