Jimmy Kimmel is opening about the recent suspension of his talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live .

The 57-year-old host made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night (September 30), and recalled the moment when he learned his show was being put on hold indefinitely.

“It was about 3:00. We tape our show at 4:30. I’m in my office, typing away as I usually do. I get a phone call, it’s ABC. They say they want to talk to me. This is unusual,” he recounted of the afternoon (September 17). “As far as I knew, they didn’t even know I was doing a show previous to this, so 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

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