“This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this,” Jimmy Kimmel said in his opening monologue below, when his late night talk show returned to ABC after a week-long suspension.

“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. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihood because he can’t take a joke.”

“…One thing I learned from Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern is that a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American”

Included in the video are guest appearances from his favorite thuggish president and a supportive comment by Ted Cruz, as well as a skit with Robert De Niro as the mob boss commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission