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Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> has been suspended indefinitely, and once again<\/a>, former late-night hosts are worried about what will become of their old stomping grounds. Speaking to\u00a0The Atlantic\u2019s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, at the Atlantic Festival<\/a> on September 18, David Letterman called Kimmel\u2019s recent suspension<\/a> by ABC \u201cmisery\u201d before sharing how he believes the late-night censorship is just the beginning, and it will soon start to affect everyone else. \u201cIn the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched,\u201d he explained. Letterman, who ended his cable late-night run in 2015, shared his fears for what might happen next. \u201cI feel bad about this because we see where this is all going, correct?\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s managed media. And it\u2019s no good. It\u2019s silly. It\u2019s ridiculous. And you can\u2019t go around firing somebody because you\u2019re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That\u2019s just not how this works.\u201d<\/p>\n ABC\u2019s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely came after FCC chairman Brendan Carr condemned Kimmel\u2019s comments on Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination<\/a>. In response, Sinclair and Nexstar, two companies that independently own 185 and 197 television stations across the US, announced that they would no longer air Kimmel\u2019s show, leading to the suspension. \u201cNexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets,\u201d the company shared<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n In his September 15 monologue, Kimmel suggested that conservatives were trying to categorize the shooter as \u201canything other than\u201d MAGA. He also expressed his condolences for Kirk\u2019s death and shared how appalled he was at some of the reactions to Kirk\u2019s assassination. \u201cHis death has amplified our anger, our differences, and I\u2019ve seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses to this from both sides of the political spectrum,\u201d he said. \u201cSome people are cheering this, which is something I won\u2019t ever understand.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Randy Holmes\/ABC\/Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been suspended indefinitely, and once again, former late-night hosts are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,12997,75,4592,4701,22148,44,714,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-154684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-david-letterman","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","15":"tag-late-night","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}