Jimmy Kimmels sure to be long, tedious and unfunny goodbye has finally started

Fresh from his two-month summer break, Jimmy Kimmel returned to air last night as Page Six reported that his show will end after next season.“His contract is not getting extended,” a source said, and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will reportedly say sayonara in May 2027 after 24 years on air.With the news swirling, Kimmel did what he does best these days — went on a politically charged rant about Trump.“Donald Trump and I have one thing in common.We both accomplished nothing all summer long,” he said, bashing our 47th president on the war with Iran, gas prices and inflation.

He added that Trump was trying to “keep us from voting in the midterms.”So many yuks.(An ABC spokesperson later claimed Page Six’s “information is inaccurate.”)What a metamorphosis Kimmel has undergone in that nearly a quarter century.He went from slightly chubby, sarcastic everyman to a bitter partisan preacher, repeatedly delivering the same sanctimonious sermon: orange man bad.He has long ceased being entertaining.

And a show like that sure is costly.Page Six reported ABC honchos has “been offering veteran execs early retirement packages as part of restructuring and cost-cutting across the company.”Remember when late night television was a humorous and breezy format that helped us unwind before we met Mr.

Sandman?The jokes were topical and had broad appeal while taking lighthearted hits at both sides of the political aisle.Then Trump was elected in 2016 and Kimmel and his then CBS counterpart Stephen Colbert turned their shows into MSNBC-after-dark, ranting against the right while explicitly elevating Dem politicians.Want to understand Kimmel’s level of self-importance? Just look at what his wife and executive producer Molly McNearney said last year on the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast about losing relationships with relatives because they voted for Trump.“It hurts me so much … my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them...