{"id":599878,"date":"2026-07-23T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:41:16","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-made-stephen-colbert-a-standing-offer-to-guest-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599878\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Made Stephen Colbert a Standing Offer To Guest Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/topic\/television\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tTelevision\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\u26a1<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tQuick Take<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ignore\">\n<li class=\"ignore\">Jimmy Kimmel asked Stephen Colbert to guest host his show this summer, but while Colbert declined the offer stands anytime he wants to take it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When CBS cancelled late night\u2019s number one rated talk show, fans pitched an amazing idea. Every summer ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel takes an extended break. Rather than air repeats, Jimmy Kimmel Live instead has famous faces fill in for him. Some viewers saw that annual guest host job as the perfect opportunity for Kimmel to have some fun at the expense of CBS and the people who supported <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/cbs-cancel-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\">the network\u2019s shocking cancellation of a popular show critical of the government<\/a>. They wanted Jimmy Kimmel to have Stephen Colbert to fill in for him. It would have been absolutely perfect for a whole lot of reasons. And Jimmy Kimmel agreed. He said he did ask his former competitor if he\u2019d like to do exactly that. Unfortunately, Colbert turned him down\u2026 for now.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Stephen-Colbert.webp\"  class=\"wp-image-1098465\" alt=\"Jimmy Kimmel as a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>CBS<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-ratings-stephen-colbert-guest-host-millionaire-1236817622\/\">Variety\u2018s story<\/a> about how Jimmy Kimmel, himself <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/jimmy-kimmel-return-opening-monologue-video\/\">an unfair target of the federal government last year<\/a>, has been one of the biggest benefactors of CBS shocking cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Kimmel\u2019s ratings are up big time. Colbert\u2019s viewers needed a new late night show and found it on ABC. But we can\u2019t even imagine how big those ratings would be if the man <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/stephen-colbert-the-lord-of-the-rings-movie\/\">currently penning a Lord of the Rings script<\/a> had accepted Kimmel\u2019s offer to return to a late night desk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course, I asked him, and I think it feels premature,\u201d Kimmel told Variety about his offer and why he thinks Colbert politely declined. But that doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t still happen in the future. Kimmel also said he let Colbert know he can host \u201canytime\u201d he wants. And he does mean anytime. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s the summer, I\u2019ll gladly step aside,\u201d said Kimmel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">\n<p>                            <a class=\"youtube-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wZ4lp5enyWw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"youtube-cover progressive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784788875_758_sddefault.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Youtube Video\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"play button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/icon-play-youtube.png\" class=\"play-button\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph ignore\">We don\u2019t care if he eventually says yes during the summer, fall, winter, spring, or a fifth season we don\u2019t know about. This was a perfect idea from the moment someone first mentioned it and it always will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television \u26a1 Quick Take Jimmy Kimmel asked Stephen Colbert to guest host his show this summer, but while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[5703,18,117,19,17,7613,128],"class_list":["post-599878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-colbert","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599878","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=599878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}