Jimmy Kimmel is looking back on the fateful moment he learned his late-night show was suspended.
While appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday night, Kimmel, 57, said he went through an “emotional rollercoaster” when ABC briefly axed “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last month because of his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination .
“It was around 3:00. We tape our show at 4:30. I’m in my office typing away as I usually do,” the comedian explained. “I get a phone call — it’s ABC, they say they want to talk to me.” 9
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“This is unusual. As far as I knew, they didn’t even know I was doing the show previous to this,” he joked.
Kimmel said that he went to the bathroom to take the phone call in private — and quickly learned the network wanted to pull t