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Jon Stewart has something to say about ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show from the air. Stewart is going to take over the news desk for Thursday's episode of 'The Daily Show,' breaking the Comedy Central show's usual pattern of Stewart hosting on Monday nights. The move follows an extraordinary 24 hours in media that play right into some of Stewart's strengths as a commentator.
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00:00Jon Stewart has something to say about ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show from the air.
00:05Stewart is going to take over the news desk for Thursday's episode of The Daily Show,
00:09breaking the Comedy Central show's usual pattern of Stewart just hosting on Monday nights.
00:13The move follows an extraordinary 24 hours in media that play right into some of Stewart's
00:17strengths as a commentator. Stewart previously had a no-holds-barred response to his own parent
00:22company deciding to cancel the late show with Stephen Colbert on CBS back in July.
00:26ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live following a series of events that rapidly escalated on Wednesday.
00:32Kimmel had suggested with a seemingly offhand comment in his Monday monologue that suspected
00:36Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson was a MAGA member. On Wednesday, FCC Chair Brendan Carr
00:42threatened the licenses of ABC affiliates over the comment, prompting affiliate group Nextstar to
00:46declare it would preempt Kimmel's show. Then ABC announced the show would be suspended indefinitely.
00:52For all the latest updates on this story, go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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