Judd Apatow Pens Earnest Essay About Importance Of Late-Night TV: “The Hosts We Have Now … Are Going To Fight Until Their Last Breath”

Apatow referenced Kimmel’s suspension, the ensuing backlash and consumers rallying behind him, adding that the remaining hosts “are going to fight until their last breath to be allowed to express themselves.”

> “Some people say late-night is dying out, but I hope not. I love the host with the desk, with the band, doing the monologue. I love it when the monologue works. I love it when it doesn’t. I hope one day our country is stable enough that some of the monologues don’t have to be about all the horrifying things that happened that day. So I pray that when all of the entertainment industry is owned by one man in the future — some bizarro creature who’s half man, half robot, who makes all decisions for us in our surveillance state — that he likes talk shows. And even if it doesn’t make economic sense, I hope he lets at least one stay on the air.”