Jon Stewart plans to host Thursday’s The Daily Show, and a day later, ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night performance indefinitely after commenting on his assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Stewart’s featured guest will be Maria Ressa, journalist and author of “How to Defend the Dictator”. Ressa also shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize as she fought for freedom of speech in her motherland in the Philippines.
Stewart is usually only held on Mondays. The Emmy Awards champion hosted the Daily Show from 1999 to 2015, providing a sharp, ironic attitude to politics and current affairs, and interviewing journalists. He returns to the host once a week in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Kimmel made some comments on Kirk’s reaction to “Kill of Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday and Tuesday nights included “many people on Maga land were working very hard to take advantage of Charlie Kirk’s murder.”
ABC paused Kimmel’s performance after a group of ABC-affiliated radio stations said it would not be broadcasted, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said his agency had a strong case aimed at holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co., responsible for spreading the wrong information.
Kimmel has not commented on the suspension. His supporters say Carr misread what the comic says, and he didn’t specifically advise Tyler Robinson – Utah authorities accused Kirk of deadly being conservative.
CBS said in July that it will cancel “the post-production show with Stephen Colbert” next May. The network said it shut down decades-old television agencies for economic reasons. But the news comes three days after Colbert criticized the solution between President Donald Trump and CBS parent Paramount Global, in the “60 Minutes” story.
Colbert’s “The Late Show” ex David Letterman lamented the cancellation.
“I feel bad about it because we all see the perception of that, right? It’s managing the media,” Letterman said during a appearance at the 2025 Atlantic Festival in New York on Thursday. “It’s not good. It’s stupid. It’s ridiculous.”
He added that they should not be fired just because they do not “absorb” Letterman’s so-called “authoritarian” president.
