August 19, 2025 • 5 mins
In the Hollywood Shuffle, Jimmy Kimmel defends Stephen Colbert, and shares a story of how he saved Matt Damon's life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Juicy news, hot gods, every stay on top in the
high woots shovel.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, so you know, late night TV is definitely declining,
and Jimmy kim Will put up a big billboard in
La saying that he was going to vote for Stephen
Colbert for the Emmys because the M's are coming up
on September fourteenth or something like that. So basically, basically
it's his statement that he disagrees with what CBS and
(00:35):
Paramount just did to Stephen Colbert's show, basically going to
take it off the air next May. So he did
an interview with Variety, and I'm gonna read you a
couple of his answers because it's very interesting to me.
Can I ask you guys a quick question before you
do this to shoot? Is it ever not just blow
y'all's mind that Jimmy Kimmel has a job that he
takes off three months like a school teacher. Yeah, but
(00:57):
I also, like John Stewart did this for a long
time at the Daily Show, So you know, if you
get it worked out in your contracting and do whatever
you want.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, No, I get it. If I was him, I
would certainly take it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm just like I mean, we know people in our
industry who take a lot of vacation, exactly an entire summer.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I mean, really, how much do those guys you're talking
about takeoff?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It seems like close to a month.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, maybe more.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well those guys that have have also been there for
forty years ago forever, But it feels like more.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But it could be same as it's always been. In
the interview, this will be the voice of the interviewer.
There have been.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Reports that Colbert's show was losing forty million a year.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What's your take on that, Kimbell said, I just want
to say it, the idea that Colbert's show was losing
forty million a years beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders don't
know what they're talking about. They seem to only be
focused on advertising revenue and have completely forgotten about affiliate fees.
Suddenly he's losing forty million a year. The first ten
years I did a show, we weren't making any money
(01:57):
and we had five times as many viewers on ABC
as we do now. I also agree, the math to
me does not check out that they're hemorrhaging forty million
a year. If they were doing that. This decision would
have been made during COVID, you know, not now out
of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It just seems to me that like most and hey man,
every business is different. I'm not going to pretend like
I know the TV business, but like, hey guys, we're
losing forty million dollars, so let's cut our budget in half. No, don't,
let's leave it this way for a decade. What business
operates like that?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very interesting, But that's hearing it from someone who
would know, because it's a part of the job, and
they talk about's on the Larry Sanders Show and everyone
who's gotten this job. Oh, I didn't realize that you
are suddenly in charge of or have a lot of
say in budgeting and managing so many people. What about
the narrative that late night television is dead, He says,
(02:50):
network television is declining. There's no arguing that, but more
people are watching late night television than ever before. People
may find that shocking. When Carson was at his peak,
he was getting around nine million viewers night. But people
are still watching late night, just in different places and
at different times. Our monologues get between two and five
million views, sometimes more every night Seth Myers gets two
million on YouTube alone. We're not even talking about Instagram
(03:12):
or the other platforms. John Stewart on a Monday night
will get five million views. Then you add into the
TV ratings. So the idea that late night is dead
is simply untrue. People just aren't watching it on network
television in the numbers they used to, or Live for
that matter. So the advertising model may be dying, but
late night television is the opposite. If you really look
at how people are watching these shows, it's right up
(03:32):
there with the top shows on Netflix and Hulu. Yet
in the media you'd think this is a rotting corpse.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think it has to do with the evolution of
media and how it used to be. You know, you'd
buy television or radio and then the social media would
be added value. Just let me get added value for that.
Now it's like, no, we just want impressions, cobble it
all together and sell it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's all. You know. One thing at SNL is really
big on and has been big on and really in
the last five to ten years, is it's not so
much what happened in the live show, but are do
we have a sketch Er two that pops and Weekend
Update will that Pop? On YouTube? Yeah, and then they
monetized the crap out of that clearly, you know, so
there's a lot of good income resources to come from that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But I was just kind of kind of interesting. Yeah,
the advertising model is different because if you have about
eight minutes of spots for thirty minutes when people consume
it on social media or on YouTube or whatever, there's
not eight minutes worth of spots and whatever they're watching
for every thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Just as someone who listened to our show on Spotify
during a long road trip last week, a lot of
Big three ads on our spot on our podcast.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Hell yeah really yeah, Okay, so it's nice to have
ice Cube in town with our friend Nancy Leader. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I was like, we should have been on last one.
The question was you have an untold Matt Damon story?
Can you share it? He said, Matt Damon was over
at my house one night for dinner. I made pork ribs.
He came late, was very hungry and started eating fast.
He started choking on a pork rab. It was stuck
in his throat for about an hour and a half.
His brother was there. I said, we've got to get
into the hospital because if he dies in my house,
(05:08):
I'm going to go to prison for us my life,
for murder. I'll never really explain this is anything other
than a murder. We did a lot of youtubing and
finally concluded that eating little bits of bread was the
way to get that rib to work its way down
into his stomach.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The bread saved him. What a great made up story.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know, man, I could see Matt David going
to town on a pork rib.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, I can see that, but I can't see
Matt Damon choking. So they spend an hour and a
half on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
All right.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Coming up next, True Crime Turner is back catfishing in
the world of sports.
Juicy news, hot gods, every stay on top in the
high woots shovel.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, so you know, late night TV is definitely declining,
and Jimmy kim Will put up a big billboard in
La saying that he was going to vote for Stephen
Colbert for the Emmys because the M's are coming up
on September fourteenth or something like that. So basically, basically
it's his statement that he disagrees with what CBS and
(00:35):
Paramount just did to Stephen Colbert's show, basically going to
take it off the air next May. So he did
an interview with Variety, and I'm gonna read you a
couple of his answers because it's very interesting to me.
Can I ask you guys a quick question before you
do this to shoot? Is it ever not just blow
y'all's mind that Jimmy Kimmel has a job that he
takes off three months like a school teacher. Yeah, but
(00:57):
I also, like John Stewart did this for a long
time at the Daily Show, So you know, if you
get it worked out in your contracting and do whatever
you want.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, No, I get it. If I was him, I
would certainly take it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm just like I mean, we know people in our
industry who take a lot of vacation, exactly an entire summer.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I mean, really, how much do those guys you're talking
about takeoff?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It seems like close to a month.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, maybe more.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well those guys that have have also been there for
forty years ago forever, But it feels like more.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But it could be same as it's always been. In
the interview, this will be the voice of the interviewer.
There have been.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Reports that Colbert's show was losing forty million a year.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What's your take on that, Kimbell said, I just want
to say it, the idea that Colbert's show was losing
forty million a years beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders don't
know what they're talking about. They seem to only be
focused on advertising revenue and have completely forgotten about affiliate fees.
Suddenly he's losing forty million a year. The first ten
years I did a show, we weren't making any money
(01:57):
and we had five times as many viewers on ABC
as we do now. I also agree, the math to
me does not check out that they're hemorrhaging forty million
a year. If they were doing that. This decision would
have been made during COVID, you know, not now out
of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It just seems to me that like most and hey man,
every business is different. I'm not going to pretend like
I know the TV business, but like, hey guys, we're
losing forty million dollars, so let's cut our budget in half. No, don't,
let's leave it this way for a decade. What business
operates like that?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very interesting, But that's hearing it from someone who
would know, because it's a part of the job, and
they talk about's on the Larry Sanders Show and everyone
who's gotten this job. Oh, I didn't realize that you
are suddenly in charge of or have a lot of
say in budgeting and managing so many people. What about
the narrative that late night television is dead, He says,
(02:50):
network television is declining. There's no arguing that, but more
people are watching late night television than ever before. People
may find that shocking. When Carson was at his peak,
he was getting around nine million viewers night. But people
are still watching late night, just in different places and
at different times. Our monologues get between two and five
million views, sometimes more every night Seth Myers gets two
million on YouTube alone. We're not even talking about Instagram
(03:12):
or the other platforms. John Stewart on a Monday night
will get five million views. Then you add into the
TV ratings. So the idea that late night is dead
is simply untrue. People just aren't watching it on network
television in the numbers they used to, or Live for
that matter. So the advertising model may be dying, but
late night television is the opposite. If you really look
at how people are watching these shows, it's right up
(03:32):
there with the top shows on Netflix and Hulu. Yet
in the media you'd think this is a rotting corpse.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think it has to do with the evolution of
media and how it used to be. You know, you'd
buy television or radio and then the social media would
be added value. Just let me get added value for that.
Now it's like, no, we just want impressions, cobble it
all together and sell it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's all. You know. One thing at SNL is really
big on and has been big on and really in
the last five to ten years, is it's not so
much what happened in the live show, but are do
we have a sketch Er two that pops and Weekend
Update will that Pop? On YouTube? Yeah, and then they
monetized the crap out of that clearly, you know, so
there's a lot of good income resources to come from that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But I was just kind of kind of interesting. Yeah,
the advertising model is different because if you have about
eight minutes of spots for thirty minutes when people consume
it on social media or on YouTube or whatever, there's
not eight minutes worth of spots and whatever they're watching
for every thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Just as someone who listened to our show on Spotify
during a long road trip last week, a lot of
Big three ads on our spot on our podcast.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Hell yeah really yeah, Okay, so it's nice to have
ice Cube in town with our friend Nancy Leader. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I was like, we should have been on last one.
The question was you have an untold Matt Damon story?
Can you share it? He said, Matt Damon was over
at my house one night for dinner. I made pork ribs.
He came late, was very hungry and started eating fast.
He started choking on a pork rab. It was stuck
in his throat for about an hour and a half.
His brother was there. I said, we've got to get
into the hospital because if he dies in my house,
(05:08):
I'm going to go to prison for us my life,
for murder. I'll never really explain this is anything other
than a murder. We did a lot of youtubing and
finally concluded that eating little bits of bread was the
way to get that rib to work its way down
into his stomach.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The bread saved him. What a great made up story.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't know, man, I could see Matt David going
to town on a pork rib.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, I can see that, but I can't see
Matt Damon choking. So they spend an hour and a
half on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
All right.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Coming up next, True Crime Turner is back catfishing in
the world of sports.
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