{"id":183146,"date":"2025-10-01T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183146\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:29:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-and-stephen-colbert-are-each-others-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183146\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are each other’s guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Jimmy Kimmel Live! doing a week of shows in Brooklyn, New York, it was the perfect opportunity to get the two bad boys of late night together. On Tuesday night, Kimmel and Stephen Colbert appeared on each others\u2019 shows, marking the first interview either had given since getting suspended and canceled respectively. The duo swapped notes on being Donald Trump\u2019s nemeses<\/a> and getting yanked from the air, down to the fact that they both got texts from James Taylor when shit went down. Kimmel asked to see Colbert\u2019s texts, because \u201cI wanna see if JT did a cut and paste on us,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

As the guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Kimmel walked through how he found out about his suspension for the first time. The audience for that day\u2019s show was already seated when the host took the emergency call from the bathroom. They sent the audience home, but ended up taping the show anyway\u2014suggesting that somewhere, there\u2019s a recording of the monologue that ABC deemed too incendiary to air. JKL!\u2018s newly-suspended staff served as the audience, eating meatballs and polenta made by a celebrity chef and listening to Howard Jones perform a somewhat ironic rendition of \u201cThings Can Only Get Better.\u201d Kimmel\u2019s first thought after hearing the news, he said, was \u201cI\u2019m never coming back on the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Thankfully, he did, allowing him to host Colbert<\/a> on his own show. Colbert recounted finding out about his cancellation from the hosts\u2019 mutual manager James \u201cBaby Doll\u201d Dixon, who waited until after Colbert got back from vacation to break the news. When Colbert returned from his hours-long meeting with Baby Doll, his wife joked, \u201cWhat happened, did you get canceled?\u201d She later accompanied him to the next day\u2019s taping as moral support for when he broke the news to his staff and to the audience, who cheered him on as he stumbled through the announcement. \u201cThe audience thought it was a bit. They started going, \u2018You can do it! Come on Stephen! You can do it,\u2019 because I always messed up on the sentence that told them what was happening,\u201d Colbert explained. \u201cAnd then I got to the sentence that actually told them what\u2019s happening, and they didn\u2019t laugh.\u201d Colbert also brought along a clip of the moment he found out Kimmel had been pulled from the air while he was still taping his own show.<\/p>\n

Nexstar still won’t air Jimmy Kimmel Live!, either<\/a>Sinclair will continue preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a><\/p>\n

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The pair had plenty of barbs for Trump throughout the night\u2014Kimmel joked that having both hosts on both shows simultaneously \u201cmight be a fun way to drive the president nuts.\u201d To conclude the interview on The Late Show, Kimmel\u2019s sidekick Guillermo came out to take a couple tequila shots with them. \u201cTo good friends, great jobs, and\u2026 late night TV,\u201d Colbert toasted on the first shot. On the second, Kimmel pronounced, \u201cOne more, to Stephen Colbert!\u201d You can check out the clips below.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Jimmy Kimmel Live! doing a week of shows in Brooklyn, New York, it was the perfect opportunity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-183146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}