Jay Leno is standing with Jimmy Kimmel despite their rocky past.

While speaking to reporters outside Chris Wallace‘s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Thursday, September 18, Leno, 75, reacted to ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air earlier this week.

“I’m on Jimmy Kimmel’s side on that one,” the former Tonight Show host declared, adding that he could imagine a suspension like this happening during his time as a late night TV host. (Leno helmed The Tonight Show from 1992 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2014.)

“These kinds of things happen all the time,” he said.

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