"If this firing goes for you the way it did for me, you'll get 23 years on a better network," Maher said on the Friday episode of HBO's 'Real Time.'

"We don't know anything," the unidentified employee tells PEOPLE exclusively on Friday, Sept. 19, just two days after ABC made the decision to "indefinitely" pull Jimmy Kimmel 's show off the air after the host's recent remarks about the late right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk. "We're all on standby."

"If you’re in Hollywood and don’t want to say anything in support publicly … well, f*** you,” says the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ staffer.

Kimmel was suspended Wednesday by Disney, ABC’s parent company, after Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr pressured local affiliates to “take actions on Kimmel” over comments the comedian made about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated Sept. 10.

After FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to take action against Kimmel—and Nexstar Media said it would preempt Kimmel’s show—ABC announced that ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ “will be preempted indefinitely.”

FCC Chair Brendan Carr told Hannity that ABC affiliates were right to drop Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday, saying broadcasters must serve the public interest and not politics.

Sen. Ted Cruz called it "unbelievably dangerous" for FCC Chairman Brendon Carr to pressure ABC to pull Jimmy Kimmel's show off the airwaves.

ABC has indefinitely pulled "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" from its network following comments made by the host. The decision is part of a much larger picture of the business of local and national TV.