Jimmy Kimmel was in the bathroom when he spotted the late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
The comedian demonstrated “A strange… emotional roller coaster” on Tuesday in “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“Want to hear everything?” Kimmel, 57, asked fellow Stephen Colbert.
“It was around 3am. We tape the show at 4:30am. I’m in the office – I’m always like that. I call. It’s ABC. They say they want to talk to me,” he began.
“This is rare,” Kimmel continued. “As far as I know, they didn’t even know that I was doing a show ahead of this. There are five people who work in my office with me, so the only private place to go is the bathroom.
“So I’m going into the bathroom and calling ABC executives,” Kimmel recalls. “They said, “I want to hear and lower the temperature. I’m worried about what you’ll say tonight. I decided that the best route is to remove the show from the air.”
When the audience began booing loudly, Kimmel said, “That’s what I said. I started booing.”
The former recalled that “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” host told ABC executives that he didn’t think pulling the show was a “good idea.” But they voted and Kimmel lost.
The host of the late-night talk show said he had returned to his office and told his executive producer about the show’s suspension.
Kimmel said the audience at his show “already in their seats” while all this was happening.
After they were sent home, Kimmel stayed on the set for a few hours before leaving herself.
“I have 20 paparazzi cars, a TMZ and people jumping in front of me on my way home. We’re just trying to get home. … There were two helicopters flying,” he said.
“We’ve arrived home, we’re shaking. The kids are standing up. My daughter is 11 and says, ‘You can sell a love bus,'” Kimmel joked. “It was so sweet. My son was naked and started running around the house.”
He said the next few days were like “prison” and he couldn’t make a statement, but he had to make lots of calls.
Kimmel’s late-night ABC show was suspended on September 17th after discussing the death of Charlie Kirk in his monologue.
The late right-wing political activist was shot dead on September 10th while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was 31 years old.
A few days later, the Walt Disney Company announced that Kimmel’s show would return to the air.
He claimed that Kirk’s death “nothing interesting” in his tearful return last week. This has captured total viewers despite the fact that the show is not available in 23% of our television households, as Nexter and Sinclair are ahead of it.
