Ryan Long Torches Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Free Speech’ Defenders

Ryan Long is the anti-Jimmy Kimmel.

The Canadian native tells the jokes Kimmel wouldn’t go near. Long isn’t partisan like the late-night host, and he doesn’t twist the truth to score political points.

Long is funny, daring and inventive. He also smells a rat when he sees one.

That explains a stand-up snippet he shared on his X account. The undated clip finds Long sharing a conversation with a friend related to Kimmel’s one-week suspension.

The Media and the Left, but we repeat ourselves, screamed that Kimmel’s forced vacation was a direct assault on free speech. And, more importantly, Team Trump pulled the strings.

That ignores the fact that two major affiliate companies – Sinclair and Nexstar – decided to remove the show temporarily. There’s also no proof or connection to the government, vis-à-vis Kimmel’s suspension. FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s comments on the matter weren’t remotely helpful, but there’s no evidence ABC or the affiliate companies did his bidding.

Plus, when dictators cancel protesters, they do so … permanently.  More importantly, the very folks crying, “What about free speech?” have been silent for the past decade.

Enter Long.

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— Ryan Long (@ryanlongcomedy) September 23, 2025

“I had a friend, she came up to me and said, ‘Isn’t it crazy that free speech is gone?’ You supported every guy getting kicked off of everything for 10 years!” Long shot back.

“It feels like a friend that was an alcoholic for eight years and just a menace, then coming back to the party after one day sober and being like, ‘you guys need to get your life together,'” he said. “You came to my wedding and s*** on the cake. And the only reason you’re not an alcoholic anymore is because of the ankle bracelet. What are we talking about right now?”

He has a solid point.

Most members of the Media and the Left, but we repeat ourselves, stood down as censorship crushed speech in recent years.

For example:

• Cancel Culture threatened comedians for sharing the “wrong” jokes or just resurfacing decade-old material. Just ask Kevin Hart
• Sensitivity readers have erased passages from works by Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie. Said readers likely erased much more during the editing process of newer works. We may never know the damage done to the arts
• The Twitter Files revealed direct government pressure to censor Americans across the digital landscape
• The U.S. government pressured Facebook to ban or shadow ban news about Hunter Biden’s laptop during the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election
• The Biden administration tried to create a new body to eradicate so-called “misinformation,” but thankfully, it wasn’t successful
• A rodeo clown was drummed out of the business for mocking then-President Barack Obama
• The Left tried to cancel Joe Rogan for sharing alternate opinions on COVID-19, some of which proved 100 percent accurate
• Trans activists, and their media allies, tried to cancel Dave Chappelle for telling trans-adjacent jokes on his Netflix special, “The Closer”
• ABC fired Roseanne Barr for one ugly, racially-charged Tweet for which she swiftly apologized, unlike a certain late-night TV host
• European countries, particularly England, have clamped down hard on social media-related speech
• Disney fired Gina Carano for sharing a Nazi analogy that pleaded for empathy, ignoring nastier posts shared by her “Mandalorian” co-star, Pedro Pascal
• The Hollywood Blacklist 2.0 continued apace
• Conservative speakers faced relentless attacks on college campuses, often requiring sizable sums for security personnel. Ben Shapiro recently shared his security team pressed him to wear bulletproof vests during select appearances. Riley Gaines hid for hours while thugs raged outside
• Jewish artists faced cancellation threats, and worse, for simply appearing on stage and/or performing
• Artists self-censored for fear of professional reprisals. Some even memory-holed their own work
• Charlie Kirk, one of the most active proponents of speech and free debate, was gunned down by a Leftist thug and the stars ignored the topic at the Emmys
• Oh, and Hollywood celebrities cheered when social media giants kicked President Donald Trump off their networks following the Jan. 6 riot

Long has faced Big Tech censorship along the way for telling jokes, and he’s hardly alone. Did Kimmel and pals ever stand up for their fellow comedians?

That’s rhetorical.