Why Jimmy Kimmel loves YouTube — even though it's helping end late-night TV

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Jimmy Kimmel knows most people who watch his show are doing it on YouTube, not TV.

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Jimmy Kimmel's suspension boosted his ratings to a 10-year high — history shows backlashes can make or break a host

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Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC on September 23, 2025.
Jimmy Kimmel returned from suspension to his biggest audience in a decade, drawing 6.26 million viewers.

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8 of the biggest scandals in late-night TV history

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Kimmel will return to the air on September 23.

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Obama says the Trump administration has taken cancel culture to a 'dangerous level.' See how politicians are reacting to Kimmel's suspension.

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President Donald Trump cheered Jimmy Kimmel's suspension while Democrats like former President Barack Obama are aghast.

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'The View' is known for covering hot topics. Jimmy Kimmel's suspension wasn't one of them.

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Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Sunny Hostin.

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Late-night TV is under threat from Trump and a precarious business model

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Jimmy Kimmel's show was suspended on Wednesday.

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Jon Stewart is coming back to a broken TV landscape

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Jon Stewart is coming back to a much-changed audience from when he last regularly hosted "The Daily Show."

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Welcome back to TV, Jon Stewart. 

It's gotten pretty gnarly since you were here.

Holy crap, look how small and old 'The Daily Show's' audience has gotten

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The audience for "The Daily Show" has shrunk dramatically since Jon Stewart's heyday on the show.

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Will Jon Stewart's TV audience come back? Here's why it may not matter.

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and guest Jon Stewart during Monday's June 17, 2019 show.
Jon Stewart, pictured in 2015, is making a return to conventional TV.

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