Kimmel Cancelled: No one Noticed

CULTURE • Sep 18, 2025 • DailyDefamer.com Copied!
Jimmy Kimmel panhandling on the street holding a sign that says "Anything helps"

Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA—The number two show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, behind the cancelled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has itself been cancelled. Viewership of late night television has been on a steady decline since comics became just political shills and people could actually choose to watch anything else. Many people didn’t even know it had happened since they hadn’t watched late night television since 2002.

“Kimmel had been the number two show for a long time, literally and figuratively,” quipped James Thomas from Nielsen. “He was a much better number two on The Man Show.” Notably, Thomas doesn't have a team of writers to make his jokes.

Still, a couple of people were somehow shocked to see the low-rated show cease to exist. Fellow forced retiree, Don Lemon, took to TikTok to get his thoughts out, calling it scary and alleging that the right is killing comedy.

Don Lemon is right. The killing of Charlie Kirk in broad daylight in front of his family wasn’t scary in the least, but it is unimaginable how scary it must be for the multi-millionaire Kimmel to be without work in this difficult time.

“He wasn’t being woke,” Lemon later added, “Jimmy was making a joke about how the shooter and victim were exactly the same.”

It was a pretty standard joke for Kimmel and his audience responded as they always do—nervous quiet laughter. In one of his funniest bits, Kimmel stated that if you didn't take the Covid vaccine, you should die.

Kimmel has been working on a new standard of comedy he's called political-statement-based comedy. Like Jon Stewart, similar comics make political statements and then say things like, "what do I know, I'm just a comedian," when pressed further. It's hilarious.

"This assassin joke was the funniest bit Kimmel has ever told aside from that one about Covid," Colbert noted. "People are so sensitive these days. Who cares if a joke has a good premise or punchline? Funny is funny."

ABC pledges to set tens of millions of dollars on fire to honor Kimmel’s legacy and impact on the network.

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