David Letterman is sharing insight on Jimmy Kimmel.
One day after ABC announced it suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! over the late night host’s comments regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Letterman shared that he has been in touch with Kimmel.
“I have heard from Jimmy,” the 78-year-old said during a conversation on stage at The Atlantic Festival in New York City on Sept. 18. “He was nice enough to text me this morning.”
According to Letterman—who hosted The Late Show with David Letterman from 1993 to 2015—Jimmy’s message conveyed that he was “sitting up in bed taking nourishment. He’s gonna be fine.”
An ABC spokesperson confirmed to NBC News on Sept. 17 that Jimmy Kimmel Live! “will be pre-empted indefinitely” as a result of Kimmel’s Sept. 15 monologue, which included comments about Kirk’s suspected killer, Tyler Robinson.
“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said on the episode, “and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
