Yeah, he was getting paid a crap ton of money. And to give that in perspective, Colbert, who was fired, was losing Paramount $40 million a year. Yeah. ABC has not made their numbers public. So we don't know what the numbers were. But Kimmel had lost even more viewers than Colbert, so you have to assume he was losing ABC even more money than Colbert was doing. So he was a train wreck. He was a disaster. He was unfunny, and he was also bitter and nasty, and he lied about Charlie Kirk. (07:52–08:07)
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Asserts that Jimmy Kimmel lost more viewers than Stephen Colbert, implying greater financial losses for ABC.
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