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Jon Stewart united with his late night comrades in show of solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel as the Daily Show host delivered a satirical ‘administration compliant’ show.
The talk show comedians spoke nearly in unison on Thursday night as they complained about the Trump administration’s supposed ‘censorship’ of their television domain – which has been notoriously critical of the president.
Stewart returned for an unscheduled appearance on The Daily Show just one day after Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended indefinitely due to remarks he made about Charlie Kirk’s death.
He began Thursday night’s episode by promising a ‘fun, hilarious administration-compliant’ program.
‘Our great administration has laid out very clear rules on free speech,’ Stewart said sardonically.
‘Now some naysayers may argue that this administration’s speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy: a thin gruel of a ruse, a smoke screen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitarian intimidation, principleless and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional Republic governance.
‘Some people would say that. Not me, though. I think it’s great.’