Stephen Colbert pulled out all the stops in defending his late-night competitor and friend Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday. That included pulling out his old Comedy Central character: Stephen Colbert the political pundit and host of The Colbert Report .

Cue the bald eagle screech.

“Hello, nation,” Colbert said in-character. “Daddy’s home.”

The faux Colbert jumped right back into his signature segment, “The Word,” which puts the conservative words coming out of his Republican mouth at odds with contradictory text in a side-chyron. To get us out of this “free-speech crisis,” Colbert suggests we all just…don’t say anything. And certainly not aloud .

Stephen Colbert pulled out all the stops in defending his late-night competitor and friend Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday. That included pulling

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