Jimmy Kimmel ’s late-night comeback wouldn’t have been complete without a sketch riffing on the situation that got him pulled off the air.

The celebrity guest starring in that sketch about a threat-making boss at the Federal Communications Commission ?

Robert De Niro .

The sketch arrived after Kimmel, who returned to ABC Tuesday after several days of being “indefinitely” suspended, broke down the ways that President Donald Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr had threatened his job and the jobs of his whole staff at “ Jimmy Kimmel Live! ”

As part of the big monologue , Kimmel then said that Carr himself had agreed to talk to him from his office in Washington, D.C.

But an intimidating character played by De Niro showed up instead.

After a phone call in which the charact

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