{"id":2031738,"date":"2025-09-18T14:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2031738"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:01:30","slug":"mike-birbiglia-calls-on-fellow-comedians-to-condemn-insanity-of-pulling-kimmel-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mike-birbiglia-calls-on-fellow-comedians-to-condemn-insanity-of-pulling-kimmel-off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Birbiglia Calls on Fellow Comedians to Condemn \u2018Insanity of Pulling Kimmel Off the Air\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mike Birbiglia<\/a> used his platform on Wednesday night to urge his fellow comedians to speak out about Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>\u2019s late night show being suspended indefinitely.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram<\/a> post captioned, \u201cCalling all comedians,\u201d the stand-up comic succinctly explained why free speech is important \u2014 and also why it\u2019s important to protect it on both sides.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of time in public and private defending comedians I don\u2019t agree with,\u201d Birbiglia wrote. \u201cIf you\u2019re a comedian and you don\u2019t call out the insanity of pulling Kimmel off the air \u2014 don\u2019t bother spouting off about free speech anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funny people such as Padma Lakshmi<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Birbiglia used his platform on Wednesday night to urge his fellow comedians to speak out about Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late night show being suspended indefinitely. In an Instagram post captioned, \u201cCalling all comedians,\u201d the stand-up comic succinctly explained why free speech is important \u2014 and also why it\u2019s important to protect it on both sides. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2031738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mike-Birbiglia-Calls-on-Fellow-Comedians-to-Condemn-\u2018Insanity-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}