After Jimmy Kimmel Reside! was abruptly pulled off the air following his feedback about Charlie Kirk, which many deemed inappropriate, many speak present hosts, together with John Oliver, stepped ahead to debate the implications of this transfer, particularly on the First Modification. CBS allegedly canceled Stephen Colbert’s present shortly earlier than this, citing his political commentary.

John Oliver says Jimmy Kimmel is the ‘newest canary within the coal mine’

John Oliver made his emotions abundantly clear concerning the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s present. He claimed that free speech was underneath assault in the US. Within the newest episode of his present, Final Week Tonight, the host condemned the cancellation. He additionally claimed that it was “in no way the primary casualty in Trump’s assaults on free speech.”

Oliver continued, “He’s simply the newest canary within the coal mine,…A mine that at this level now appears extra useless canary than coal (through Enterprise Insider).” Curiously, varied different actors and comedians additionally criticized Kimmel’s suspension, and Oliver devoted most of his episode to discussing it.

Oliver criticized Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Fee. Carr’s response to Kimmel’s statements instantly led to the suspension.

Among the many issues that had been singled out in Jimmy Kimmel’s present, the host notably mentioned, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterise this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from one in all them and doing every thing they’ll to attain political factors from it.” This was the first factor that led to motion towards his present.

Earlier than Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and Jon Stewart had already spoken out about Kimmel’s suspension. However Oliver’s section was extra detailed and extra vital in comparison with what the opposite hosts mentioned. Though Colbert and Meyers additionally spoke intimately about how this suspension was an assault on freedom of speech.

The way forward for Jimmy Kimmel Reside! nonetheless hangs in jeopardy.