Jimmy Fallon is going dark on Stephen Colbert’s last day as a late-night host.
Instead of producing a new episode, NBC will air a rerun of “The Tonight Show” on May 21, which marks the final episode of Colber’s “Late Show” following its cancellation by CBS last year. Fallon joins Jimmy Kimmel in the show of late-night solidarity, as ABC confirmed on Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would be bowing out to give “The Late Show” its largest possible audience on its last night.
Kimmel and Fallon, alongside “Late Night” host Seth Meyers and “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver, appeared on “The Late Show” on Monday — a reunion of “Strike Force Five,” the podcast the five late-nighters hosted during the concurrent Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023. Proceeds from the podcast went toward supporting the crew members of all five late-night shows as they went without pay while production was paused.
During their visit to “The Late Show,” Kimmel brought up his own suspension by Disney in the fall amid comments he made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“We have a lot of shows. 30,000 people watching each one, and it adds up. People watch us on YouTube now. People have a lot of different options and they keep coming to us,” he said. “I will tell you, when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney+. Why aren’t people canceling Paramount+? Because you never had it in the first place?”
