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Late-Night Hosts Resign En Masse after Trump Address

“We can’t do it any better than that,” Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon said in a joint statement.

Dec 19, 2025
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By R. U. Kiddingme, Comedy Correspondent

New York, Washington, and Brentwood — America’s late-night talk show hosts resigned Thursday after President Trump delivered what they called a “master class in comedy.”

The president — who has long demanded that ABC, NBC, and CBS fire their hosts — finally got his wish after his economic address Wednesday.

Colbert declared it, “the finest example of unintended humor ever delivered. How can we possibly top that? America no longer needs us.”

“We used to say covering this administration, the jokes write themselves. But Trump is like ChatGPT: he writes our jokes for us — the hallucinations make them even better,” Fallon chuckled.

The trio unanimously agreed Trump’s claim — “I’ve…ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle East” — deserved the “Joke of the Year” award.

“Where does he come up with this stuff?” Kimmel marveled. “That’s better than Eddie Murphy’s Delirious. God forbid Trump ever wears a bright oran…

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