Talk show icon Jay Leno has supported Jimmy Kimmel after he was taken off air following political backlash, despite bad blood between the pair.

“I’m on Jimmy Kimmel’s side on that one,” Leno told reporters on Thursday during a ceremony honoring journalist Chris Wallace with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kimmel once said Leno had “sold out” and “humiliated” him on his own talk show.

ABC suspended Kimmel’s show indefinitely on Wednesday, following MAGA backlash to a joke he had made on Monday about Donald Trump mourning the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

When asked if he could have imagined an incident like the Kimmel furore when he was on air, Leno said on Thursday, “Yeah, these kind of things happen all the time.”

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