Deadline: “Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, recently urged Paramount to restore the recent South Park episode referencing Kirk, noting that the late conservative activist ‘loved that he was featured’ on the Comedy Central show.”

Wrote Kolvet: “Hey Paramount, as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park. He told me many times. He would want the episode back up.”

“This is misery. We see where this is all going, correct? It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”

— David Letterman, quoted by Variety.

President Trump said networks giving him negative coverage may deserve to have their licenses revoked, Axios reports.

Said Trump: “I have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me… They give me wholly bad publicity, press. They’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr continued to threaten regulatory scrutiny of broadcast networks over their content on Thursday, this time taking on ABC’s The View, Deadline reports.

“Jon Stewart is tagging back in to host Thursday’s episode of ‘The Daily Show,’ Comedy Central has announced. Stewart normally just hosts Monday episodes of the talk show, with a rotating list of the show’s correspondents on Tuesday through Thursday,” Variety reports.

“But Stewart clearly has something to say in light of Disney and ABC’s decision to bench ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ host Jimmy Kimmel.“