We literally just did this with a different talkshow host, and he was back at work after, what, a week? Now that the networks have learned how their audiences respond to politically-motivated talkshow host firings... I don't see this going anywhere

I guess it's mostly for the chilling effect... Kimmel and Seth are big enough names, but what about less known people, would they feel free about joking about the sexual-assaulter-in-chief in public, or would they censor themselves?

It's the grind.

Each successive cancellation wears down the public.

Eventually people start being cancelled and there is no fight back.

It's in the authoritarian playbook. Forgot the page to provide citation.