{"id":479403,"date":"2026-05-11T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:03:11","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-to-air-rerun-during-stephen-colberts-late-show-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479403\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel to Air Rerun During Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live! will air a rerun next Thursday, May 21, reportedly out of respect for Stephen Colbert<\/a>, who will be hosting the final episode<\/a> of The Late Show<\/a> that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel confirmed the decision to Late Nighter<\/a>, though reps for his show did not immediately return a request for further comment. The Late Show airs in the 11:30 p.m. time slot; with Kimmel going dark in the live realm for the night, Colbert\u2019s only competition will be The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tColbert has hosted The Late Show for 11 years, taking over the show from David Letterman in 2015. While the show has long been one of the most-watched programs in late-night, and earned numerous accolades, including an Emmy and a Peabody Award, CBS decided to cancel<\/a> the show last July.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, the network said it was a \u201cpurely financial decision,\u201d adding, \u201cIt is not related in any way to the show\u2019s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.\u201d Those \u201cother matters\u201d likely referred to the then-ongoing efforts at Paramount (CBS\u2019 parent company) to complete a merger with David Ellison\u2019s Skydance. Considering Colbert was a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, many alleged<\/a> that CBS\u2019 decision to cancel The Late Show was part of a wider effort<\/a> to appease the Trump administration<\/a>, which still had to approve the merger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the world of late-night TV<\/a>, Kimmel and Colbert have long been more friends than rivals. But the two seemed even more bonded after Colbert\u2019s cancellation and Kimmel\u2019s scrap with the Trump admin over a joke about the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk. Last fall, in the aftermath of both events, the two appeared on each other\u2019s shows, using the opportunities to reflect on the chaos engulfing late-night<\/a> TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAt one point, Colbert asked Kimmel if his younger self could have imagined the President of the United States \u201ccelebrating\u201d his brief unemployment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo, I never imagined that we\u2019d ever have a president like this, and I hope we don\u2019t ever have another president like this again,\u201d Kimmel replied. \u201cI never even imagined there would ever be a situation in which the president of our country was celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs. But somebody who took pleasure in that \u2014 that to me is the absolute opposite of what a leader of this country is supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Live! will air a rerun next Thursday, May 21, reportedly out of respect for Stephen Colbert,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,7613,8056,5432,4951,8055,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-479403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","14":"tag-late-night-tv","15":"tag-stephen-colbert","16":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","17":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116556792252109634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}