{"id":33796,"date":"2025-10-01T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/kimmel-told-colbert-he-got-abcs-call-pulling-his-show-when-his-guests-were-already-seated\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:41:22","slug":"kimmel-told-colbert-he-got-abcs-call-pulling-his-show-when-his-guests-were-already-seated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/kimmel-told-colbert-he-got-abcs-call-pulling-his-show-when-his-guests-were-already-seated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel told Colbert he got ABC&#8217;s call pulling his show when his guests were already seated"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68dca70e1c1f80efbec4a854?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert (L) and Jimmy Kimmel speak onstage during the 71st Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on September 22, 2019.\"\/><figcaption>Jimmy Kimmel told Stephan Colbert his live audience was already in their seats when he got a call from ABC saying his show was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Jimmy Kimmel said his audience was &quot;loaded&quot; in their seats when he got the call from ABC.<\/li>\n<li>He told Stephen Colbert on &quot;The Late Show&quot; that he sent his audience home, but finished the taping.<\/li>\n<li>Disney reinstated Kimmel&#039;s show after the media giant received significant backlash for the suspension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s audience was already in their seats when ABC called to tell him that &quot;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&quot; was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel appeared on &quot;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&quot; on Tuesday night and talked about the moment he got the call telling him the show would be pulled.<\/p>\n<p>Disney, which owns ABC, &quot;indefinitely&quot; suspended Kimmel&#039;s show on September 17 after FCC chair Brendan Carr slammed Kimmel&#039;s comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel said his live taping was at 4:30 p.m. daily, and he received a call from the ABC executives at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So I go into the bathroom, and I&#039;m on the phone with the ABC executives, and they say, &#039;Listen, we want to take the temperature down. We&#039;re concerned about what you&#039;re going to say tonight,&#039;&quot; Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<p>He told Colbert that ABC&#039;s executives said the &quot;best route&quot; would be to take the show off the air.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought, &#039;That&#039;s it, it&#039;s over, it is over,&#039;&quot; Kimmel said. &quot;I&#039;m never coming back on the air. That&#039;s really what I thought.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now, meanwhile, there&#039;s the whole audience, they&#039;re in their seats,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert interrupted, &quot;Oh, wait. I didn&#039;t know that your audience was already loaded.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They were loaded and in their seats, ready for the show,&quot; Kimmel replied.<\/p>\n<p>He said his team sent the audience home, but proceeded with the taping anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel returned to the air to shoot &quot;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&quot; on September 23 after being suspended from the airwaves for a week. Disney brought the show back after facing massive backlash over the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel also hosted Colbert on &quot;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&quot; in an episode that was also released on Tuesday. The duo swapped war stories of finding out that their shows were getting cut.<\/p>\n<p>CBS announced in July that it would pull Colbert&#039;s show off the air from May 2026, and the decision was purely financial.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Kimmel and Colbert did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel told Stephan Colbert his live audience was already in their seats when he got a call from ABC saying his show was suspended. FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel said his audience was &quot;loaded&quot; in their seats when he got the call from ABC. 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