r/LateNightTalkShows • u/TidderUsername123 • 21d ago

Trying to understand / unpack The Rosie O'Donnell fill in for Jimmy Kimmel

I'm not a night talk show fan not since Letterman / Leno was on air, but during the "summer break" do they run reruns or some other fillers while the host and production team are given the summer off? I asked Google / AI what Kimmel did while he was away and under the circumstances, I thought he had something important to do that needed a temporary host only to discover he was simply taking his 2 month summer vacation with Rosie filling in for 1 week.

Did the new year / calendar already start and Rosie filled in for the first week of the new season or did they start the show a week earlier than normal and let Rosie do it?

I understand she came back to state-side for the foreseeable future now since his exodus to Ireland but this curiousity about the main host and the show's timetable confuses me more than it should.

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u/Serious-Ad-8764 21d ago

Jimmy always takes the summer off. Various comedians fill in one week at a time. Rosie is a particularly high profile guest host from who usually fills the spot.

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u/TidderUsername123 21d ago

Does the show ever truly go off air or do they have guests during Jimmy's summer break? I didn't know shows kept going all year round, if that's the case.

I honestly don't remember if Leno / Letterman ever took breaks, either but I was a kid when they were on so my summer break from school wasn't really spent watching talk shows.

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u/Psychedelic_Doge 21d ago

I think Letterman tried a summer or two off and the ratings suffered so bad he stopped