“The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon on Thursday addressed the ongoing fallout from ABC’s controversial suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s program and said: “I hope he comes back.” Fallon — also a target of President Donald Trump — first joked in his monologue about his dad thinking that he and not Kimmel had been put on hiatus.

ABC announced that Kimmel’s late-night show had been pre-empted indefinitely.

Democrats decried the suspension, with former President Barack Obama saying the government was using regulatory bodies to muzzle dissenting voices.