All of the late night comedians addressed ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday shows, but CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s reaction on The Late Show was especially bad. Not only did Colbert not see any problem in what Kimmel said, but he also teamed up with CNN host Jake Tapper and The New Yorker editor David Remnick to warn about the decay of press freedom in the Trump era.
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Eventually Tapper would join the show, and he would try to compare what happened to Kimmel to what happened with Colbert, “Look, what happened to you, we think we know what happened. But it was all behind closed doors, right?”
Colbert hedged, “The network had a rationale that these shows had run their course in terms of their economic usefulness,” but Tapper wasn’t convinced, “The timing was, as the kids say, sus.”
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