{"id":55062,"date":"2025-10-01T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55062\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:55:09","slug":"colbert-and-kimmel-let-loose-on-trump-in-rare-crossover-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55062\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert And Kimmel Let Loose On Trump In Rare Crossover Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and Stephen Colbert<\/a> were each guests on the other\u2019s show in a rare crossover event on Tuesday, where the two frequent critics of President Donald Trump<\/a> opened up about being taken off the air. <\/p>\n

\u201cDid you ever think the president of the United States would be celebrating your unemployment?\u201d Colbert asked Kimmel during the \u201cLate Show\u201d portion of the evening. <\/p>\n

\u201cI mean that son of a bitch, you know, is really unbelievable,\u201d Kimmel said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Son of a Bitch,\u201d Colbert jokingly corrected. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I never imagined that we\u2019d ever have a president like this,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cAnd I hope we don\u2019t ever have another president like this again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert got the news over the summer that his show had been canceled<\/a> and would end in May 2026, while Kimmel was suspended in September after a threat<\/a> from Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr<\/a> and attacks by President Donald Trump<\/a> over comments he made about the suspect in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump celebrated both hosts being taken off the air in gloating posts on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never even imagined there would ever be a situation in which the president of our country was celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cSomebody who took pleasure in that. That, to me, is the absolute opposite of what a leader of this country is supposed to be.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kimmel was brought back days later amid intense public pressure, but he told Colbert he didn\u2019t think that would be the case at all. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that\u2019s it. It\u2019s over. It is over,\u201d he told Colbert. \u201cI\u2019m never coming back on the air. That\u2019s really what I thought.\u201d <\/p>\n

He took Colbert through a minute-by-minute account of getting the news \u2015 in a bathroom, no less \u2015 and then having to tell his staff and his family: <\/p>\n

On Kimmel\u2019s show, Colbert explained how he got the news during a meeting with his manager after returning from vacation.<\/p>\n

The meeting ran unusually long, causing Colbert\u2019s wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, to crack a joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cI walk into the apartment and she goes, \u2018What happened? You get canceled?\u2019\u201d he recounted. <\/p>\n

Colbert also explained how he broke the news to his staff and his audience: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were each guests on the other\u2019s show in a rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,13477,969,93,61,60,3484,1138],"class_list":{"0":"post-55062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","15":"tag-stephen-colbert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}