{"id":2033313,"date":"2025-09-19T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2033313"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:56:10","slug":"stephen-colbert-defends-jimmy-kimmel-slams-disney-amid-show-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-defends-jimmy-kimmel-slams-disney-amid-show-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Defends Jimmy Kimmel, Slams Disney Amid Show Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0453994\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> had <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0170306\/\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s back when <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> announced it was ending <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076301\/\">The Late Show<\/a>. On Thursday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1994637\/\">Colbert<\/a> returned the favor.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0197484\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a> report, Colbert read aloud that \u201csome ABC executives were pissing themselves all day\u201d about backlash to a Kimmel monologue joke from Monday\u2019s show. \u201cOn the bright side, that proves it\u2019s number one in streaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With \u201cpissing themselves\u201d as the setup, \u201dnumber one\u201d and \u201cstreaming\u201d gave Colbert a rare two-punchlines-in-one joke.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0320037\/\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> was suspended on Wednesday, two days after Kimmel attacked Maga Republicans attempting to distance themselves from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6135760\/\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u2019s alleged murderer, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7596039\/\">Tyler Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<p>That perceived mischaracterization of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel had Stephen Colbert\u2019s back when CBS announced it was ending The Late Show. On Thursday, Colbert returned the favor. Citing a Rolling Stone report, Colbert read aloud that \u201csome ABC executives were pissing themselves all day\u201d about backlash to a Kimmel monologue joke from Monday\u2019s show. \u201cOn the bright side, that proves it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2033314,"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-2033313","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\/Stephen-Colbert-Defends-Jimmy-Kimmel-Slams-Disney-Amid-Show-Suspension.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033313","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=2033313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}