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Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Trump With Epic Photo: ‘Hi Donald!’

Jimmy Kimmel was visited by his fellow late night hosts.

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There was a time when late-night TV hosts on different networks, or sometimes even on the same network, famously disliked each other. NBC saw a bitter battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman in the early ’90s over who would succeed Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show, and then the two men feuded when they were on rival networks. Syndicated host Arsenio Hall once threatened to “kick Jay Leno’s ass,” and the bitterness of the Leno/Letterman fight would repeat itself in 2010 during the Tonight Show succession battle between Leno and Conan O’Brien, with Jimmy Kimmel loudly taking O’Brien’s side from his perch at ABC.

Things have changed a bit since those days, and not only because the common denominator in all of those fights — Jay Leno — is no longer on the late-night scene. Since the rise of Donald Trump in politics a decade ago, most of the current network late-night hosts have emerged as critics of Trump. And when Kimmel was briefly removed from the air earlier this month, the other hosts showed strong solidarity with him.

That was again the case this week, with the Los Angeles-based Kimmel heading to Brooklyn for a week of shows. On Wednesday’s show, he was joined by a pair of New York-based hosts on rival networks: Stephen Colbert of CBS and Seth Meyers of NBC. It included the caption “Hi, Donald.”

Per the New York Times, it was a “united front,” as Kimmel and Colbert appeared on each other’s shows.

“The Tuesday editions of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS were effectively a stunt, a crossover event across New York City that took advantage of the trip that Mr. Kimmel’s Los Angeles production takes to Brooklyn every year,” the Times said. “But the gimmick, in which each played the role of host and guest, had some added significance: It followed a chaotic two-month stretch with one permanent cancellation (Mr. Colbert) and one temporary cancellation (Mr. Kimmel) that set off a fierce national debate about free speech and the Trump’s administration’s repeated attacks on the media.”
On Colbert’s show, Kimmel told the story of the day he found out his show his suspended.

Photo courtesy of an X screenshot. 

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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