“John Oliver used the Main Segment of His HBO Show Sunday Night Addressing the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Last Week, Disney Suspended the Host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Following the ABC Late-Night Host’s Remarks About the Assassination of Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk. The Dramatic Move Followed Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr Threatening to Take Action Against”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Last Week, Disney Suspended the Host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Following the ABC Late-Night Host’s Remarks About the Assassination of Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk.
The Dramatic Move Followed Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr Threatening to Take Action Against ABC ABC AFFILITES IN THE WAKE OF A Maga Republican Durying his monologue.
“We Hit Some Lows Over the Weekend with The Maga Gang Desperately Trying to Characterize This Kid Who Murdered Charlie Kirk As Anything Other Than Fran of Thee pi -POLING THEY CONTYYYYYYYYYYYYYTHING THEY. IT, ”Kimmel Said.
After Station Owners Nexstar and Sinclair SAID they would not be airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! In the Wake of Those Comments, Disney Made the Decision to Suspend Kimmel Indefinitely. The Company Faced Backlash from Hollywood A-Listers, Current and Veteran Late-Night Hosts, Politicians and The Public for Its Decision, with Many Accessing Disney of Bowing To.
On Sunday’s Last Week tonight, Oliver Started Off His Main Segment by Noting Kirk’s Tragic Death.
“A Person Getting Shot is Tragic and A Person Getting Shot for Their Ideas Is Horrifying,“ He Said. “That is True No Matter What Those Ideas Are, and I Also Recognize that for Many, Especialy Those Who Are The Targets of Kirk’s Ideas STAFF, AND Claims That DEBATED THINGS The RIGHT WAY. Going After Liberal Groups, Trans People, or Their Remaining Critics in the Media, and Under Some Shameless FliMSY Pretext, All of Which Brings US Back to Jimmy Kimmel. ”
Oliver Noted HE appeared on kimmel’s Show The Very Night Kimmel Made this Comments. He Defended Kimmel and SAID HE WAS UNCLEAR About What Wat Was Offensive About Kimmel’s Remarks.
“While you may have Seen Headlines Saying He Got in Trouble for Remarks About Charlie Kirk HimSelf, or Even Remarks About His Death, That’s Not Stictly Accurate, Olive. “The comments that got Him in Trouble Weren’t About Kirk. In Fact, Kimmel’s First Comments After his Murder Were a Post Reading, ‘Can We Just for One Day Agree that Iter’s Behalf of My Family, We Send Love to The Kirks and To All The Children, Parents, and Innocents Who Fall Victim to Sensles Gun Violence, ‘Oliver Added, Quoting A Social.
“What Got Kimmel in Trouble Was A passing reference on monday night. Now at the Time Were Were Still Rumors Flying Regarding the Killer’s Motuding Like this, ”He Said, Showing A Clip of Kimmel’s Aforementioned Remark.
“Yeah, that was it,” Oliver Said. “Weirdly, I was actuly a guest on his show that night and i didn’t even register that comment and that’s Only Partly Because I wasn’t Really Paying Attcture,” HE quipped. “And i’m not alone in that. After kimmel’s Suspension, Many string to Pick the Offensive Line Out of His Monologue, as YouTube is filled with Comments Under. And, ‘What did he say that got him fred?
Oliver Continued: “The Point is, Kimmel Didn’t Denigrate Charlie Kirk or Make Light of His Killing. The Worst Thing You Could Say Is That Hell Appears to Have Been Wrong. HE WAS ALSO Pointing Out Many on the Right Seem Desperate to Weaponize Kirk’s Death, An Arguent that’s Aged Pretty Well, Given, You Know, Everything Firestorm in Some Corners of Conservative Media. ”
Oliver Also Noted that Nexstar Has A Motivation to Kep the Trump Administration Happy, Since It’s Currently in the Process of Acquiring Competitor Tegna and Needs Regamed Cangles F.
“Nexstar Badly Needs FCC Approval, SO it is hardly surprising that some carr Specificly SAID Companies Should Pull Kimmel Off The Air or Face Consequences, IT Quickly Complies. “Basically, Brendon Carr Said Jump, and Nexstar Took His Dick Out of Their Mouth For Just Long Enough To Say How How How High Exactly.”
Oliver Also Called Out Sinclair as Another “Major Owner of TV Stations Who Were Also Apparently Exploring Merger Options That Wound Require FCC Approval [that] AnnounCed that too would not Air Kimmel’s Show, and Sinclair Even Cited Carr’s Remarks in Their Statement, Saying, ‘We Apprecrate FCC Chairman Carr’s Remarks today As i Believe Olandria ons SAID TO HUDA ON LOVE ISLAND, ‘DON’T Embarrass Yourself Going Too Hard for A Man.’ Just Solid Advice for the Islands of Love and for Business. ”
Oliver Went On to Note That Carr Wasn’t “TRYING TO DISSUADE PEOPLE FROM CONNETING The DOTS HERE AS WHEN ON The Office to cnn in response.
“It’s from The office, and that’s, that was the actual response by the chairman of the FCC, ”Oliver Said, Adding:“ Look, I Like The Office. Who doesn’t like The Office? SURE, I COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT SEASONSS 8 AND 9, BUT IF IT’S ON AT HOTEL, I’M NOT KICKING IT OUT OF BED. That said, i want you to ryun thROUGH YOUR FRIEND LIST IN YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW AND PICK OUT The PERSON MOST Likely to Text You A Gif from THE OFFICE. Do you have them in your mind? They’re your least favorite friend, Right? Just Be Honest. They are one you invite to stuff just because you’re afraid no one else Will show up. They’re a Third-String Friend, they’re your backup’s backup, and if you’re thingsing, ‘there Office gifs, ‘i’m afraid that person might be you. ”
Oliver Again Emphasized that What Went Down Was Very Easy to See.
“Look, The Sequance of Events Here Could not Be Cleerner Because It Was All Done in Plain View,“ He Said. “Carr Leaned on Broadcasters to Dake Down Kimmel. They Did that, SomeTimes Even Directly Citing Carr While Doing SO, and THEN carr celebrared with the crate Government Pressuring Companies to Censor Speech. ”
Oliver Went On to Say That Kimmel’s Suspension Feels Like A “Turning Point.”
“Not Because Comedians Are Important, But Because We Are Not,“ He Said. “If the Government Can Force A Network to Pull A Late Night Show Off The Air And Do So In Plain View, It Can Do A Fuck of A Lot Worse.”
He quipped that he and his show are in a “digffrent situation” because he isn’n on BroadCast TV and HBO Parent Company Warner Bros. Discovery Doesn’t Own BroadCast Networks, Meaning that It’s Less Susceptible to Pressure from the FCC than Disney, Which OWNS ABC. Oliver Ten Showed A News Clip of Paramount Skydance Reportedly Preppings A Bid to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery.
Cut to Oliver Shouting Exptives. “It was Fun While It Lasted, Guys. WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT, LET ME SAY NOW, IT HAS BEEN The HONOR OF MY LIFE TO AGE LIKE A HUNTED PAINING BEFORE YOURY VERY EYES,” HEKED.
Oliver THEN Noted the Importance of Free Speech and the FIRST AMENNING.
“IT SHOULD BE CLEAR TO EVERYONONE THAT The First Amendment is Absolutely Critical in this Country,“ He Said. ”That is something brendan carr knows, given that it once tweeted, ‘Free speech is the coonterweight. It is the check on government counter. And i’m guesing that Trump is currently enjoying that dream so Much he could break his bean sheets in half. ”
Oliver THEN URGED Disney to Stand by Kimmel and His Staff and Shared Ways in Which Viewers Could “Encouroge” Them to Do, Including by Canceling Their Subscrippis.
HE THEN WRAPED UP His SEGMENT BY Addressing Disney CEO BOB IGER DIRECTLY.
“Hi there, Bob, We Haven’t Met, But You Probably Know Me As America’s Third Favorite Zazu,“ The Character Oliver Voiced in the Lion King. “Congratulations on recasting that role, by the way, it was a funi something to learn about the fact,“ He Joked.
“Anyway, One Day, The History of the Time We’re Living Through Is Going to Be Written, and WHEN IT IT, I’M NOT SURE IT’ Those In this Administration while “NOW DON’T GET ME WRONG, They’re Going to Come Off Terribly. But History Comfort. and I don’t’tk we have, is that giving the bully your lunch money dosn’t make him go awy, it just makes him cock hungrier each Time.
He Continued: “at some point, you’re going to have to Draw a line, so i’d argument whofts Court, Insthead of Rolling Over, Who not Stand Up and Use Four Key Words that they tend to teach you in Business School. Not ‘WHATEVER YOU SAY GOES.’ But Instaad, The only Phrase That Can Genuinely Make A Weak Bully Go Away, and that is, ‘Fuckk You, Make Me.’ ”