All of the late night comedians addressed ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday shows, but CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s reaction on The Late Show was especially bad. Not only did Colbert not see any problem in what Kimmel said, but he also teamed up with CNN host Jake Tapper and The New Yorker editor David Remnick to warn about the decay of press freedom in the Trump era.
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In the next segment, Colbert brought back his old Colbert Report character. The satirized conservative version of Colbert boasted, “Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, nation. I return tonight to rescue you from this free speech crisis. And I'm going to scream the answer loud and proud, no holds barred, with tonight's triumphant word: Shhhhhh! Nation-folk, America is facing perhaps its greatest crisis in 249 years.”
Fake Colbert did not seem to care about what Kimmel actually said:
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