Watch: ABC Denies Jimmy Kimmel’s Late Night Show Is Ending After 24 Years
Jimmy Kimmel is not done laughing yet.
Following reports that the comedian’s late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! will endafter this season after 24 years on the air, ABC set the record straight, denying that the show has been canceled.
“This information is inaccurate,” an ABC Entertainment spokesperson told E! News Sept. 8. “Any reports about the future of the show at this point are purely speculative.”
E! News reached out to Kimmel’s rep but has yet to hear back.
In 2022, he signed a three-year deal that continued his show through 2027, though he oscillated on the decision.
“As you know, I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started,” Kimmel, 58, said on the Strike Force Five podcast in 2023. “And now I realize, ‘Oh yeah, it’s kinda nice to work.'”
Joking about how he was going back and forth about retiring, he quipped, “I’m Tom Brady without any rings or any fingers.”
More recently, his wife Molly McNearney—who serves as the co-head writer and executive producer—shared that she would support him if he decided to take his final bow.
“I would be happy to be done with the show and end it in a great way and do my own next thing,” she said on the Aug. 24 episode of Armchair Expert. “But I do care deeply about that show and the people who work there, and I think the voice is really important right now.”
“It definitely appeals to me, for the nervous system of the household, but I also feel Jimmy has like a fly rod in one hand and like a torch in the other right now,” McNearney continued. “It’s like he deserves to go out there and just be on the river and relax.”
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