David Letterman is weighing in on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late-night TV.
The comedy legend slammed ABC’s recent decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” while speaking at the 2025 Atlantic Festival on Thursday, Sept. 18.
“This is misery,” Letterman, 78, said during a panel at the annual event, per Variety. “I feel bad about this.”
“We see where this is all going, correct?” he continued. “It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”
“In the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched,” Letterman added.
The former “Late Night” host then commented on President Donald Trump, whom he claimed may be behind Kimmel’s indefinite suspension.
“The institution of the president of the United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show,” he said, adding that Kimmel’s indefinite removal “was predicted by our president right after Stephen Colbert got walked off.”
Letterman, meanwhile, said that he was texting with the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host earlier in the day and insisted that Kimmel is “going to be fine.”
“He’s up in bed, taking nourishment,” the former “Late Show” comedian joked.
ABC suddenly pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” on Thursday night, just hours before Kimmel, 57, was set to begin his nightly broadcast.
An ABC spokesperson confirmed to The Post that “‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ will be pre-empted indefinitely” due to comments the comedian made during his Monday night monologue regarding conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Kirk, a married father of two, was shot dead on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10. He was 31.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.
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