Jimmy Kimmel said that his barrage of jokes on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” aimed at former President Donald Trump cut his audience in half over the last 10 years — and that ABC was not happy about it.
Speaking on Stitcher’s Naked Lunch podcast on Thursday, guest Kimmel remembered acknowledging his dwindling audience, telling the network, “I have lost half of my fan[base], maybe more than that.”
As he told hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild, “10 years ago, among Republicans, I was the most popular talk show host, at least according to the research that they did.”
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