Jimmy and Stephen, on each other’s shows. Quite a spectacle. And rarified air—each sharing the circumstances and how they felt about getting the news that their shows were canceled or suspended.
I appreciate them both, but somehow Tuesday’s shows were a bit rich for my blood. It’s difficult to explain—two well-to-do late-night hosts commiserating over an experience a negligible percentage of us will ever experience.
The bigger picture, of course, involves us all—their shows were affected because they said things that got under Donald Trump’s skin. And we all know by now that whatever Baby Man deems offensive and hurtful is not likely to escape his attention and eventual wrath, free speech be damned. He and his henchmen and women will see to it that the liberal talking heads will somehow pay bigly.
Except Jimmy’s back, and who knows what yet may happen with Colbert?
Is there, will there be anything left untouched by this amalgam of awfulness, this collection of disillusioned derelicts and pretenders? Godspeed, Stephen and Jimmy and the rest. In some ways, you are our voice in these nightmare times.
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