ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert guested on each other’s respective Tuesday shows, and the former’s recent suspension was naturally a topic of interest. However, the reason why ABC suspended Kimmel in the first place went unmentioned, but there was still plenty of attacks on “that son of a bitch,” President Trump, and mutual back patting.
On The Late Show, Colbert asked Kimmel, “How did you find out?”
Kimmel responded by unintentionally undermining the idea that the Trump Administration had something to do with his suspension, as he confirmed reports that ABC was concerned he would make the situation worse, “Okay, so it was about 3:00. We tape our show at 4:30. I'm in my office, typing away as I usually do. I get a phone call. It's ABC. They say they want to talk to me. This is unusual. As far as I knew, they didn't even know I was doing a show previous to this. So, I have a lot of people, I have, like, five people who work in my office with me, so the only private place to go is the bathroom, so I go into the bathroom, and I'm on the phone with ABC executives, and they say, ‘Listen, we want to take the temperature down. We're concerned about what you're going to say tonight, and we've decided that the best route is to take the show off the air.’”
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