Kimmel „is a decent, funny and loving guy,“ the NBC host says
Jimmy Fallon showed solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday with a gag mocking the Trump administration’s attacks on free speech.
Fallon said, “a lot of people are worried that we won’t keep saying what we want to say, or that we’ll be censored, but I’m going to cover the President’s trip to the UK, just like I normally would.” Then he introduced a: Whenever the joke mocked Donald Trump, his announcer interrupted to censor the punchline.
But before getting there, Fallon started off by paying tribute to Kimmel.
“Well guys, the big story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the FCC, leaving everyone thinking, ‘WTF.’ But to be honest with you all, I don’t know what’s going on — no one does. But I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he is a decent, funny, and loving guy. And I hope he comes back,” he said.
Then came the fake censorship. Fallon noted, for instance, the way Trump was trolled during his trip to the UK this week by images of the president with Jeffrey Epstein.
