US comics slam 'censorship' after Kimmel pulled

Washington: Late night TV comics skewered President Donald Trump and denounced blatant censorship after Jimmy Kimmel s late night show was pulled of...

Washington: Late-night TV comics skewered President Donald Trump and denounced "blatant censorship" after Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was pulled off air over his comments on the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Network ABC's decision to suspend Kimmel "indefinitely" came after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr threatened the licenses of ABC affiliates that broadcast his show.

Stephen Colbert -- whose own Emmy-winning "Late Show" on CBS will be taken off the air next year -- opened his Thursday program with the words "today, we are all Jimmy Kimmel."

"After threats from Trump's FCC Chair, ABC yanked Kimmel off their air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship," Colbert said.

"With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch, and if ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive," he added.