Howard Stern weighed in on Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension from his ABC late-night present following a menace from Donald Trump‘s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr.

“I don’t know what their plan is, nevertheless it seems to be like they may be firing [him],” Stern, referring to ABC and Kimmel, stated on his SiriusXM present on Monday. “After which I learn typically that they’re not gonna hearth him. I don’t know. I’ve spoken to Jimmy. I didn’t ask him these questions, I simply requested him how he was doing personally.”

Stern added, “I simply know when the federal government begins to intervene, when the federal government says, I’m not happy with you, so we’re gonna orchestrate a technique to silence you. It’s the flawed path for our nation. And I ought to know. I’ve been concerned in one thing like this and now ABC is put in the identical place and it’s unlucky that ABC even must be on this place. They shouldn’t need to be on this place. I really feel for them too, on this. However that somebody’s gotta step up and be fucking saying, ‘Hey, sufficient, we’re not gonna bow.’”

Stern additionally stated that he canceled his Disney+ subscription.

“Now it would sound silly, however the factor I did this morning, I’m canceling my Disney+. I’m making an attempt to say with the pocketbook that I don’t assist what they’re doing with Jimmy.”

Stern is the most recent comic/discuss determine to return to Kimmel’s protection. ABC has not stated what it plans to do, aside from that Kimmel’s present can be taken off the air “indefinitely.” Every week in the past, the late-night host had stated throughout his monologue, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately making an attempt to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something aside from one in every of them and with every little thing they will to attain political factors from it.”

That generated a furor on the precise, with Carr chiming in Wednesday on Benny Johnson’s podcast. Carr stated, “We are able to do that the straightforward approach, or the laborious approach. These firms can discover methods to alter conduct, to take motion, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be extra work for the FCC forward.”

Hours later, station group Nexstar stated it was pulling the present from its ABC associates “for the foreseeable future.” Quickly after, ABC introduced the suspension.

Stern’s platform, SiriusXM, falls outdoors the FCC’s oversight. However when he was on broadcast radio, he had a protracted historical past of battles, and fines, for working afoul of the company’s indecency guidelines.