Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert Mock Report That Trump Requested DOJ, FCC to Stop 'SNL' and Late Night Jokes

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Kimmel and Colbert used their Tuesday night monologues to address a recent report that former President Trump attempted to use the resources of federal agencies to “probe or mitigate” presidential satire and parodies of him.

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00:00Little did I know, I'm up here goofing on him. He's asking the feds to do who the hell knows what.

00:05Late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are putting Donald Trump on blast

00:08after reports that the former president attempted to probe or mitigate presidential satire and

00:14parodies of him. Kimmel addressed the report during his show on Tuesday saying,

00:18President Snowflake asked to send the authorities in to stop us from making fun of him.

00:22Not only that, he wanted Guillermo to pay for the wall.

00:25The report published by the Daily Beast details Trump's inquiries into whether the federal

00:29communications commission, the Department of Justice and the U.S. courts could be used to

00:34investigate and potentially stop, quote, late night comedy mischief makers from cracking jokes or making

00:40fun of him. According to the Daily Beast, Trump took his initial request to his lawyers and advisors in

00:452019 after having previously tweeted something similar that same year, saying in part,

00:49it's truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny, no talent can spend all of

00:55their time knocking the same person, me, over and over without so much of a mention of the other

01:00side. While representatives for Saturday Night Live had no comment about the claims made in the

01:05report, Kimmel did. Remember on the old Batman show, the penguin had those henchmen and the bowler

01:11hats and the tight black shirts? This is what Trump wanted, a goon squad, a bunch of tough guys to

01:17rough people up. While the Daily Beast report addresses that Trump's inquiry was about late night

01:22generally, it specifically names SNL and Jimmy Kimmel Live, much to the offense of the late show host,

01:28Stephen Colbert.

01:28Folks, this is dangerous, disturbing, un-American, and why do I get lumped in with other comedy

01:36mischief makers?

01:38Colbert also blasted Trump's reaction to, quote, our terrible impressions of him.

01:43There has not been a presidential overreaction like this since Nixon sent Navy SEALs to assassinate

01:49the Smothers Brothers. However, before the late night host took to the stage, Trump released

01:54a statement blasting the Daily Beast report as fake, but also took the time to acknowledge his

01:59pick for his favorite impersonator. I did say, however, that Alec Baldwin has no talent,

02:03certainly when it comes to imitating me. The statement which Kimmel displayed during his

02:07segment continued, the one who had what it took was Daryl Hammond. For more on this story,

02:11head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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