Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert guest-star on each others shows to vent about late-night cancellations

Late-night talk show pals Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert guest-starred on each other’s shows Tuesday night to vent about their respective programs being pulled from TV.The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host, whose coveted late-night show was briefly yanked off air by ABC on Sept.

17 following his controversial comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, recounted learning about his suspension while sitting in the bathroom on a call with network executives.“I’m in my office, typing away, as I usually do, I get a call.It’s ABC, and they say they want to talk to me.

This is unusual,” Kimmel, 57, said while appearing on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”“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 the ABC executives, and they say, Listen, we want to turn the temperature down,” he recalled.“We’re concerned about what you’re going to say tonight, and we decided that the best route is to take the show off the air,” he said, prompting scores of boos from the audience.“That’s what I said.I started booing,” Kimmel replied to the audience.He then recalled telling the executives that he thought the decision to nix the show was not a “good idea,” but lost a vote protesting the decision.

“So I had put my pants back on, I walked out to my office, I called in some of the executive producers, and there were about nine people in there, and I said they’re pulling the show off the air,” Kimmel said, noting his audience had already been seated.“I was whiter than Jim Gaffigan when I came out of it,” he joked.Kimmel — who left the West Coast for a special week-long taping in New York City — recalled believing that his show, which returned to its coveted time slot on Sept.

23, was indefinitely “over.”“I thought that’s it.
It’s over.

It is over.I was like, ‘This is it, I’m never coming back on the ai...