Stephen Colbert gave a surprise shoutout to his late-night peer Jimmy Kimmel on Monday, all to make a point about President Donald Trump’s apparent history-erasing influence over the Smithsonian. “Here’s what happened,

Jimmy Kimmel is standing up for Stephen Colbert amid the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Kimmel, whose Jimmy Kimmel Live! is in its 23rd season on ABC, was named last month as a 2025 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Talk Series, joined by The Daily Show and Colbert’s soon-to-end show. Also a critic of Trump and the GOP, he called the decision to cancel Colbert’s show out on social media, writing “Fuck you and all your Sheldons CBS.”