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Watch: Jimmy Kimmel announces a summer break from hosting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, Matt Damon crashes his show saying he has been ‘waiting to get on’

Jimmy Kimmel has announced that he will be taking a few months off from hosting his popular late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live after hosting the gig for nearly 18 years. He announced on Thursday that he will be stepping away from the show starting July 6 and will not return till September when he hosts the Emmys. 

The show will not go off air and will be taken over by a variety of guest hosts while Kimmel is said to be taking time to spend with his family. He said, “Tonight is my last new show of the summer. There’s nothing wrong, I’m healthy, my family’s healthy, I just need a couple of months off. I've been doing this job for almost 18 years. While I'm gone, a cavalcade of capable people will be filling in for me."

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The show’s new host has not been revealed but ABC has promised exciting new guests who will be taking over from Kimmel. That’s when Matt Damon, Kimmel’s longtime partner in comedic feud emerges from a bedroom in Kimmel’s house wearing a robe and a mask, drink in hand and says, “What am I gonna do? I haven’t been on (the show). I’ve been back here three months waiting to get on,” referencing to their long-running joke of him waiting to get on the show every night. That’s when the segment ends after Kimmel spots his wife, Molly McNearney, walking out of the room that Damon emerged from and said, “I am going to get a divorce and we’ll be back with Pharrell Williams.”

Back in 2017, Kimmel had briefly left the show when his son was born with congenital disease and had to go through multiple open-heart surgeries. During that time Jimmy Kimmel Live was hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, Dave Grohl, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Tracee Ellis Ross, Neil Patrick Harris and Melissa McCarthy. The Live! guest-hosted shows will air from July 6. 

(Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live) 
 

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