The FCC Preparing Review of Disney and ABC's Broadcast Licenses Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Joke
The FCC is reportedly gearing up to launch a formal review of the broadcast licenses granted to Disney's ABC stations, coming after a MAGA uproar over Jimmy Kimmel's joke about Melania Trump looking like an 'expectant widow.'
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MAGA are the biggest snowflakes.
snowflakesfascist fucking filthA very important clarification.
What's more important than ending DEI!?
"No one can make jokes anymore! Someone will always get offended!"
Obviously this is bullshit, but I wonder what long term affect this will have on "Late Night" TV shows.
If you look at Colbert & Kimmel, they average about 2.5 million viewers an evening. On average their respective monologues also average about the same 2.5 million.
I know Colbert often jokes about the YouTube viewership being underutilized. I wonder, if Kimmel is pulled from ABC/broadcast, could he full pivot to online?
Conan made the pivot to podcasts/YouTube.
I expect Colbert will at some point. Honestly probably something limited similar to Dave Letterman.
Fascist fucks.