Man Who Helped Save Fallon and Meyers After Trump’s ‘Losers’ Remark

After celebrating the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, President Donald Trump shifted his focus to fellow late-night comedians Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, goading NBC execs to serve them up the same fate.

‘Two total losers, on Fake News NBC,’ he wrote on TruthSocial, hours after the news broke on Wednesday night. ‘Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!’

The comedians have never shied from criticizing the President, but unlike Kimmel, 57, they are believed to be safe – for now – thanks to ‘cash cow’ producer supremo Lorne Michaels, who NBC execs will do anything to keep happy.

‘Jimmy and Seth are likely safe from being cancelled thanks to the connection their shows have with Lorne,’ an insider told the Daily Mail.

Michaels, 80, who created NBC’s big hitter Saturday Night Live, is also the executive producer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, a role he has held since they both debuted in 2014.

‘He helps produce both Jimmy and Seth’s shows and is obviously still with SNL which is an institution NBC would not want to lose. Bosses have a lot of respect for Lorne and as long as he is around, they aren’t going to ruffle any feathers by cancelling Jimmy and Seth’s late-night shows,’ the insider said.

ABC pulled the plug on Kimmel’s eponymous chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday, 48 hours after he ranted about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

On Monday night’s episode Kimmel suggested Kirk’s assassin ‘was MAGA’ – despite investigators saying he held far-left sympathies – and that the Republicans were trying to ‘score political points’.

‘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 and doing everything they can to score political points from it,’ he said.

It was in stark contrast to his social media posts shortly after the shooting on September 10 in which he wrote: ‘Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?

‘On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.’

On Wednesday FCC Chair Brendan Carr urged broadcasters to stop airing his show, hinting he would open an investigation into the vicious comments.

Nexstar Media Group, which owns numerous local ABC affiliates, then came out and branded Kimmel’s comments ‘offensive and insensitive’.

By Wednesday night Disney-owned ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel Live! was ‘pre-empted indefinitely’, without elaborating further.

Insiders told the Daily Mail that Kimmel went ‘nuclear’ and was holding a crunch meeting with network executives.

Kimmel’s daily late-night chat show incorporates political satire, especially in the opening monologues, with the comedian taking frequent pops at Trump since its inception in 2003.

When Trump claimed victory over Kamala Harris in the race for the White House last year, Kimmel bemoaned all was lost, aside from ‘Putin and for polio and for lovable billionaires like Elon Musk, and the bros up in Silicon Valley, and all the wriggling brain worms who sold what was left of their souls to bow down to Donald Trump,’ – who he branded ‘old’ and ‘evil’.

He also condemned Trump’s plans to repeal Obamacare – one of the key tenets of his first successful Presidential campaign – in an emotional monologue in 2015 in which he opened up about his son’s congenital heart condition.

Trump celebrated the news of Kimmel’s suspension – which sparked fury among Hollywood’s woke elite, with stars including Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Stiller, Henry Winkler and Alison Brie defiantly leaping to his defence.

Unions representing writers and actors said the move amounted to an attack on constitutionally protected free-speech rights, and that ABC should not have caved in the face of U.S. government pressure.

‘Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED,’ Trump wrote. ‘Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible.

‘That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.’

Fallon, 50, and Meyers, 51, are frequent critics of the president and his administration. 

Last year, Trump branded Meyers a ‘dope’ after NBC extended his contract through to 2028. He has also made public his distaste for Fallon who faced backlash from the MAGA crowd after a controversial 2016 interview in which he tousled Trump’s hair.

And on Thursday night, Fallon ruthlessly mocked Trump as he addressed Kimmel’s suspension.

But despite being two thorns in Trump’s side, our insider said culling their shows would be ‘the death knell for NBC and their Peacock streaming service.’

‘If it happened, Lorne would look to leave NBC and work with other companies and produce shows with the likes of Netflix or Amazon, and NBC isn’t ready to lose their cash cow,’ they said. 

‘So as much as the President would like to see his former employer NBC make the decision to get rid of Jimmy and Seth, they are safe.’

Kimmel is said to be teeing up a guest slot with CBS star Stephen Colbert, who was canned earlier this summer. His tenure will wrap next year.

Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon have long been considered the big three of late night TV, representing the three major network power players, ABC, CBS, and NBC, respectively.

Last year Kimmel hinted that he may not renew his contract which is up in 2026. ‘I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good,’ he told the Los Angeles Times. ‘That seems like enough.’ 

The Daily Mail has contacted NBC for comment.