At least one more year of fun :thumbsup:


https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-extends-late-night-deal-disney-2027-1236603725/

I thought late night TV was dead. This news isn't going to make some people very happy.

I think he will go until at least 2028 to reach 25 years.

I am pleased to announce another no-talent year! (https://www.facebook.com/jimmykimmel/photos/i-am-pleased-to-announce-another-no-talent-year/1413166756843751/)

Would Jimmy Kimmel have extended his contract if Trump wasn’t president? (https://www.cracked.com/article_49437_do-we-have-donald-trump-to-blame-for-one-more-year-of-jimmy-kimmel.html?)

Kimmel, who reportedly signed his one-year extension over the summer (https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-extends-late-night-deal-disney-2027-1236603725/) before his ABC suspension, announced he’s sticking around through May 2027 last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “If you’re tired of Kimmel’s act, blame Trump for the extended encore,” says Cracked’s Matt Solomon. “The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host has been making noise for years about retiring, including gripes in February 2024 that he was exhausted by the job...So why not ride off into the sunset? The answer is obvious: Donald Trump. After successfully beating back the president’s calls for ABC to remove Kimmel from the airwaves, signing off now would be waving a white flag of surrender. There’s no way Kimmel would give him that satisfaction, since there’s no doubt Trump would claim he’d won the war.”

ALSO:


Pay attention to how Jimmy Kimmel framed his contract extension (https://latenighter.com/features/bill-carter-jimmy-kimmel-renewal-monologue/): “One phrase from Kimmel stood out: ‘I have decided to extend my contract.’ That wording suggested a choice that belonged to him. And it likely did,” says LateNighter’s Bill Carter. Few performers in recent memory have taken firmer charge of their careers than Kimmel did this year, after a MAGA-sparked backlash thrust the show directly into Trump’s bullseye—and after Trump prematurely declared victory, insisting he’d gotten what he wanted: Jimmy Kimmel gone.”