{"id":164886,"date":"2025-09-24T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164886\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:46:10","slug":"stephen-colbert-on-kimmels-return-our-long-national-late-nightmare-is-over-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164886\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert on Kimmel\u2019s return: \u2018Our long, national, late-nightmare is over\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts discussed the return<\/a> of Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>\u2019s show and Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s continued attempts to crack down on free speech.<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert<\/p>\n

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert<\/a> started with some good news, announcing Kimmel\u2019s suspension has officially ended. \u201cOur long, national, late-nightmare is over,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Colbert called it \u201cwonderful\u201d to hear his ABC rival would return after he was briefly punished<\/a> by Disney for mischaracterised comments<\/a> about the right trying to score political points over the death<\/a> of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

The decision came after a huge spike in people searching how to cancel<\/a> Disney+ and Hulu. Colbert said a similar spike was seen in people searching \u201chow to entertain feral child without Bluey\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the decision to reinstate was \u201cbecause you, the American people were upset\u201d and also \u201cnot just people, also Ted Cruz\u201d, as the Republican also expressed his concern<\/a> over the censorship. \u201cI am shocked that I agree with Ted Cruz on something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, many people also misdirected their complaints to the ABC in Australia. \u201cThey never canceled their popular late-night host, horrifying giant spider,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Colbert said there is still a \u201cwhole lot of ways that Trump is doing bad stuff\u201d, such as asking his attorney general, Pam Bondi<\/a>, on social media to punish his enemies whether there\u2019s evidence of a crime or not. \u201cThat post was definitely meant to be a text,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his \u201cborder czar\u201d, Tom Homan, has been accused of<\/a> accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents. The White House has denied this.<\/p>\n

The past week also saw the administration announce \u201canother dictator move\u201d adding a $100,000 fee to H-1B visas<\/a>, up from the standard $1,500. It will cost an estimated $14bn for US companies, such as Amazon, Google and Apple.<\/p>\n

Colbert joked that it would mean Apple will be \u201creplacing the Genius Bar with the Moron Shelf\u201d.<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

On Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> also spoke about Trump wanting to \u201cprosecute his political opponents\u201d but finding himself initially restricted, so \u201cloyalists started drawing up detailed plans\u201d for getting around the rules.<\/p>\n

He has since been obsessed with punishing critics and exacting revenge despite inflation worrying the US public more.<\/p>\n

The officials who introduced impediments and \u201cwouldn\u2019t go along\u201d with his plans were excised with Trump \u201cfiring people who refuse to go along with his plan of retribution\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meyers spoke about former Trump attorney Erik Siebert claiming he was unable to find anything in his investigation<\/a> of Trump target Letitia James, New York\u2019s attorney general. He quit, with Trump claiming he was fired because of too much support from Democrats.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Meyers joked that Democrats are begging Trump to compromise with them. He joked that they are \u201cbasically high school nerds\u201d who are having to \u201cpre-shove themselves into lockers\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said no matter what your belief system is, \u201cthe president publicly naming a lot of people he wants to put in jail is a bad thing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s attacks on late-night hosts<\/a> and freedom of speech<\/a> on TV continue with threats thrown at them all beyond Kimmel. \u201cThe point is we make jokes about politicians, people in the news including Joe Biden,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was just harder with Joe Biden because he didn\u2019t say much. You, on the other hand, talk all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers joked that he \u201ctalked more than all the other presidents combined\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also spoke about backlash from Cruz and other conservatives to the Kimmel suspension, saying: \u201cIt is possible to stand up to this kind of bullying and censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts discussed the return of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show and Donald Trump\u2019s continued attempts to crack down on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-164886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}