"If the government can force a network to pull a late-night show off the air and do so in plain view, it can do a shit of a lot worse," John Oliver warned on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," addressing the recent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's ABC program.

Oliver delivered a blistering critique of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) role in Kimmel's removal from the airwaves, calling the pretext "laughably weak." He argued that Kimmel's brief comment about Charlie Kirk's murder, which many viewers struggled even to identify, hardly justified such drastic action.

The comments that got him in trouble weren't about Kirk. In fact, Kimmel's first comments after his murder were a post reading, "Can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On

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