Overview
- On Stephen Colbert’s show, Jimmy Kimmel said ABC notified him minutes before taping that his program would be pulled, citing a producers’ vote that went against him.
- He described taking the call in a bathroom with a studio audience already seated and later being followed home by paparazzi and helicopters, saying his family was shaken.
- Disney said some of Kimmel’s comments were inappropriate and framed the pause as an effort to cool tensions before resuming the show after intensive talks with him.
- President Trump publicly welcomed Kimmel’s suspension and had earlier celebrated CBS’s plan to end Colbert’s Late Show in May 2026.
- Kimmel posted a solidarity photo with Colbert and Seth Meyers during his Brooklyn run, while Jimmy Fallon now says his Tonight Show is “never really political.”