Thursday was the first night back for the late-night shows since Jimmy Kimmel was yanked off the air after a conservative backlash to a joke he made about Charlie Kirk’s killer. Kimmel’s removal came after the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcasting license, which, paired with a judge ordering for the deportation of activist Mahmoud Khalil on Thursday, marks a frightening escalation in the Trump administration’s attack on free speech.

Kimmel’s colleagues, however, do not seem too rattled — even though the president wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday , “That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!” Jimmy, Seth, and the other total losers rallied around Kimmel, advocating for free speech and nodding to their

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