Fallon Drops Out of NYC Conference Hours After Kimmel Show Suspension

18 Sep 2025, 16:06 · The Fresno Bee

Jimmy Fallon will no longer be making a scheduled appearance on Thursday, September 18, amid the fallout from fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel‘s show being suspended indefinitely.

"Unfortunately, Jimmy Fallon is no longer able to attend today's session," the Fast Company Innovation Festival said in a statement on Thursday, per Deadline.

Fallon, 50, and Bozoma St. John were scheduled to talk about his new NBC series On Brand. Representatives for the festival told a Deadline reporter that there would be no further comment on the situation.

Fallon's exit from the event comes just one day after news broke that Kimmel would be taken off air after his comments about Charlie Kirk.

"Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely," an ABC spokesperson confirmed to Us Weekly on Wednesday, September 17. (A rerun of Celebrity Family Feudaired in place of the late night show on Wednesday.)

Nestar Media, which owns multiple TV stations, reportedly threatened to take Jimmy Kimmel Live! from the lineup. The company told Variety in a statement on Wednesday that they "strongly" objected to "recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk."

Us reached out to Kimmel for comment.

Days earlier, Kimmel, 57, made comments about Kirk - a conservative political activist who was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event on September 10 - and his accused killer, Tyler Robinson.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them with everything they can to score political points from," Kimmel said on Monday, September 15. "In between the finger pointing, there was grieving."

Kimmel went on to show a clip of President Donald Trump talking to reporters about the White House ballroom construction after he was asked how he was coping with Kirk's death. Kimmel commented that Trump was taking the news "hard," quipping, "He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction. It's demolition, construction."

"This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend," Kimmel continued. "This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish."

Kimmel has yet to address the controversy.

Robinson is currently in jail, charged with capital offense aggravated murder and felony discharge of a firearm. He is also facing multiple counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child.

This story was originally published September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM.