{"id":176611,"date":"2025-09-23T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176611\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:37:07","slug":"jon-stewart-jokes-about-jimmy-kimmels-return-to-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176611\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Jokes About Jimmy Kimmel’s Return to Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Jimmy’s Hiatus Was Totally Not About Censorship!!!<\/p>\n

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Jon Stewart<\/a> cracked a joke about Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>‘s return to ABC while taking aim at the FCC’s threat to the network that coincidentally — or not — occurred just before “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was yanked from the air.<\/p>\n

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Check out this clip from Monday’s ‘Daily Show’ … Jon says he’s shocked Jimmy’s show is returning, considering he was told the FCC’s threat to ABC — that they could “do this the easy way or the hard way” — had nothing to do with the show’s now short-lived hiatus.<\/p>\n

Instead, he quipped, with a ton of sarcasm … “We just randomly remove one show a week!”<\/p>\n

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He also played a clip of Fox News arguing if Donald Trump<\/a> wanted anyone who disagrees with him off the air, there would be only a “handful” of shows left … which Jon said is the perfect opportunity for some self-reflection.<\/p>\n

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As you’re well aware … ABC pulled “Live!” after the network faced backlash for airing Jimmy’s comments that the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk<\/a> is MAGA. The FCC Chairman swiftly made his threatening remarks, and the show was pulled.<\/p>\n

Jimmy’s late-night colleagues and Hollywood peers stood up for him, and angered viewers stuck it to ABC by canceling their Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, which in turn sent Disney’s stock plummeting.<\/p>\n

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Jon joked about PO’d fans cutting ties with their Disney-affiliated subscriptions, noting … “How is it possible that by getting rid of one company I can’t watch Winnie the Pooh or Monday Night Football or listen to early Hilary Duff?”<\/p>\n

Jimmy is set to return<\/a> to broadcast Tuesday. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Jimmy’s Hiatus Was Totally Not About Censorship!!! Published September 23, 2025 7:51 AM PDT Jon Stewart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-176611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}