NBC late night host Jimmy Fallon has backed out of Fast Company's Innovation Festival after his competitor Jimmy Kimmel was pulled from ABC's airwaves over comments about Charlie Kirk's assassin. On Thursday,

Jimmy Fallon abruptly pulled the plug on a scheduled engagement just as his TV colleague Jimmy Kimmel had his show axed from the airwaves.

The cancellation comes as the late-night television world reels from ABC’s indefinite suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Jimmy Fallon did open his first Tonight Show after the news broke with jokes about the suspension and kind words for Kimmel (with whom he collaborated on a podcast during the 2023 writers’ strike). What was striking about his monologue,

Jimmy Fallon canceled an appearance just hours after news that ABC had indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, over comments he made about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder.

The network announced it would pull Kimmel's talk show indefinitely following affiliates' decision to preempt the program after his comments on Charlie Kirk's death.

ABC is stupid,” said one ABC source. “They should have edited Kimmel. They know Trump is after him. Their standards department should have flagged it. They should have known better.”