David Schock

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel gets the last laugh as his heroic return to late night smashes viewership records with the Youtube upload alone racking up 13 million views already. And it gets so much better... The Hollywood Reporter reports that Kimmel's monologue from last night could end up being his "most-watched" ever, a dose of bitter medicine for conservative broadcasting affiliates like Sinclair that refused to air the show. They sided with Donald Trump and now they're reaping the business consequences. As of this writing, the show's official Youtube account has raked in 13,086,809 views in just 13 hours. Currently, Kimmel's most-watched monologue is one from eight years ago in which he discussed his son's birth and health challenges. It has 14 million views. This new video is on pace to exceed those views in record time, likely by end of day today. CNN’s Harry Enten has pointed out that the median Youtube viewership for one of Kimmel's uploads is roughly 240,000. This is a smashing success. While the official Nielsen ratings for television viewership have not yet been released, all indications are that they'll be much higher than the 1.6 million viewers that Kimmel usually brings in. The show itself has been met with universal acclaim (with the marked exception of MAGA world which is absolutely furious of course). Kimmel thanked those who stood by him and defended free speech during his suspension and he brutally tore into Donald Trump and MAGA FCC Chair Brendan Carr. He called Carr "Trump's hitman" and said that his actions are "not legal" and "unAmerican." “The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs," said Kimmel. "Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke," he said. "He was somehow able to squeeze Colbert out of CBS. Then he turned his sights on me and now he’s openly rooting for NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers and the hundreds of Americans who work for their shows who don’t make millions of dollars.” “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominoes. One by one, they’ll go down," he added. Please retweet and ❤️ to congratulate Jimmy Kimmel!