Jimmy Kimmel Expresses Gratitude After Challenging Year

Jimmy Kimmel opened his final monologue of 2025 by sharing his gratitude with viewers for supporting him through an unprecedented year.

In September, Jimmy Kimmel Live was indefinitely suspended by network ABC after Kimmel was targeted by the Trump administration. The late-night show was brought back to air relatively quickly after a public backlash, and Kimmel has continued to trade blows with Donald Trump since.

“This has been a strange year. It’s been a hard year,” Kimmel acknowledged. “We’ve had some lows, we’ve had some highs. For me, maybe more than any year in my life.”

The host began to tear up as he continued, “But on behalf of all of us-I’m crying already, I’m sorry. On behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm.And not just for watching. This year you literally pulled us out of a hole, and we cannot thank you enough, personally, professionally.”

“I know there are a lot harder jobs, but this is not an easy job to do,” Kimmel said. “And sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts,so much damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose,and it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong. You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way, and then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way is even more.”

He added, “But when I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show and the shows that our friends and colleagues do on the other channels and it makes them feel less crazy, it makes me feel less crazy too.And I think that’s an vital thing.”

Before getting into the gist of his…