Jimmy Kimmel made a triumphant return to television (in most, but not all, the cities) on Tuesday evening, devoting his monologue to his short but shocking air. The actor approached the front tumult, directly appointing Brendan Carr, the president of the Federal Communications Commission who had triggered Kimmel’s censorship. In a later segment, he targeted Carr in a sketch where Robert de Niro played an anonymous FCC president occupying the Bureau de Carr.
In his opening remarks, Kimmel impressed the value of freedom of expression, saying that he had met actors and talk shows in totalitarian countries who had told him that they could “be thrown in prison to make fun of people in power”. Freedom of expression, “said Kimmel, was” something that I am embarrassed to say that I was holding for granted until they shoot my friend Stephen [Colbert] Apart from the air and tried to force the affiliates who direct our show in the cities in which you live to remove my show. It is not legal. It is not American. It’s not American and it’s so dangerous. »»
“The government should be authorized to regulate podcasts that mobile phone companies and Wi-Fi suppliers are allowed to allow you to download?”
Kimmel also targeted the large authority that Carr claimed through the FCC by making an analogy with the non -traditional media. “Should the government be authorized to regulate podcasts that mobile phone companies and Wi-Fi suppliers are allowed to let you download, to make sure they serve the public interest?” he asked rhetorically.
“10 years ago, it seemed crazy,” said Kimmel. “Brendan Carr, the president of the FCC, saying to an American company:” We can do it the simplest or difficult way “, and that” these companies can find ways to change their driving and act, frankly, on Kimmel, or there will be additional work for future FCC. »»
“In addition to being a direct violation of the first amendment, it is not a particularly intelligent threat to make in public,” said Kimmel. “Ted Cruz said he looked like a mafioso. Although I don’t know. If you want to hear a mafia boss to make a threat like that, you have to hide a microphone in a cold cut and an outside park in a van with a tape recorder all night. This genius said it on a podcast.”
Kimmel thanked his viewers for protesting, as well as various talk-show hosts who had contacted supporting him during his suspension. He also thanked the right-wing commentators and the politicians who, according to him, had put themselves in four to criticize Kimmel’s censorship despite the opposite views, particularly appointing Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and others. He also emotionally praised the widow of Charlie Kirk, Erika, for his “disinterested act of grace” by forgiving the shooter who had killed her husband.
“Perhaps the silver lining is that we have found one thing on which we can agree and perhaps we will even find another. Maybe we can get closer. We agree on a lot,” said Kimmel, before losing a heavy series of politicized subjects. “We agree that our children out of arms, reproductive rights for women, social security, affordable health care, research on pediatric cancer. These are all things that most Americans support. ” The public, who had responded strong and with enthusiasm throughout the monologue, did not seem to understand this joke.
Kimmel has very briefly targeted the Disney Corporation with another joke. “Many people ask me if there are conditions for my return to the air, and there is one. Disney asked me to read the following statement, and, uh, I agreed to do so,” he said, before removing a piece of paper from his jacket and pretending to read aloud, “to reactivate your Disney Plus and Hulu device, open the Disney Plus app on your intelligent TV”.
“The President of the United States clearly said he wanted to see me, me and the hundreds of people who work here, have drawn from our jobs.”
But he then thanked Disney for bringing him back to the antenna because “unfortunately and I think unfairly, it endangers them. The President of the United States has shown that he wanted to see me and the hundreds of people who work here have drawn from our work. Our leader celebrates the Americans who lose their livelihoods because he cannot make a joke. For NBC to dismiss Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers and the hundreds of Americans who work for their programs who do not earn millions of dollars.
“And it’s not just comedy,” continued Kimmel, even if the applause of his studio audience made him mainly inaudible. “He also targets our journalists,” he said, explaining a new Pentagon press policy in preparation. “They want to choose the news. I know it is not as interesting as to muzzle an actor, but it is so important to have a free press, and it’s crazy that we pay no more attention.”
After the first commercial break, the program returned with an “interview” with “Brendan Carr”, from the FCC headquarters to Washington. But instead of the real car, Kimmel “interviewed” Robert de Niro playing an anonymous mafioso who was now the FCC chief, having been appointed by “Sir Trump” to make threatening telephone calls to Whoopi Goldberg and more.
“Perhaps you are the bad guy who to talk to, but it seems that the FCC uses Mob tactics to remove freedom of expression,” said Kimmel in the sketch.
“What [BLEEP] Did you just tell me? De Niro responded.
“I didn’t mean any offense,” Kimmel replied nervously. “You know, you cannot cushion or we will be condemned to a fine by the FCC.”
“I am THE [BLEEP] FCC, “said Niro.” I can [BLEEP] Say anything [BLEEP] I want. “The false presidency of FCC then made a series of comic threats, putting pressure on Kimmel so as not to criticize or simulated President Trump.
De Niro closed the sketch saying: “Good luck with you. And I will look at you, Kimmel. Maybe not on ABC. It’s yours.”
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