Overview

• Returning from hiatus, Jimmy Kimmel called President Trump’s July post about late-night hosts “alarming” and mocked him during Tuesday’s monologue.
• Kimmel questioned CBS’s rationale for ending The Late Show, suggesting the timing benefited Paramount’s $8 billion Skydance deal; CBS insists the move was purely financial.
• Kimmel said his show will tape at the Brooklyn Academy of Music the week of Sept. 29, with Stephen Colbert slated to appear.
• Colbert resumed new Late Show episodes this week, hosting John Oliver as the pair jokingly toasted “to late-night shows… while supplies last.”
• Trump previously celebrated CBS’s July announcement and wrote that he hoped he “played a major part,” also predicting Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon would be “next.”