The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
This machinery of niceness reaches points of fracture, but only occasionally. The most infamous was back in September 2016, when Fallon hosted Donald Trump. He sat with the then-candidate, not to interrogate or even lampoon him, but to perform a brief, cozy skit culminating in Fallon mussing Trump’s hair. The moment was not just a lapse in judgment; it was the ultimate, logical end point of the show’s ideological structure.
Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/780471/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel-live-charlie-kirk
Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.