Kimmel returns to television to mock FCC Chair Brendan Carr

"Jimmy Kimmel made a triumphant return to television (in most, but not all, cities) on Tuesday night, devoting his monologue to his short but shocking removal from the air. The comedian tackled the uproar head-on, directly naming Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission Chair who had instigated Kimmel's censorship. In a later segment, he took aim at Carr in a sketch where Robert De Niro played an unnamed FCC Chair occupying Carr's office."

"The freedom of speech, Kimmel said, was "something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen [Colbert] off the air and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air. That's not legal. That's not American. That is un-American and it is so dangerous.""

Jimmy Kimmel returned to television in most cities and devoted his monologue to his short removal from the air. He directly named FCC Chair Brendan Carr as instigating the censorship and accused Carr of coercing affiliates to take the show off the air. Kimmel framed the incident as an assault on free speech, comparing the risk to totalitarian countries where comedians can be jailed for mocking power. He referenced Stephen Colbert being pulled and called the coercion illegal, un-American, and dangerous. Kimmel later lampooned Carr in a sketch featuring Robert De Niro as an unnamed FCC chair occupying Carr's office.

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