Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has experienced a significant decline in ratings throughout 2025. In August 2025, the show averaged around 1.1 million viewers, which is a 43% drop from 1.95 million viewers in January of the same year. The viewership among the key 18-49 age demographic also fell sharply, with only about 129,000 viewers in August compared to 212,000 in January and even higher earlier in the year. Quarterly data shows a downward trend, dropping from an average of 1.82 million viewers in Q1 2025 to 1.77 million in Q2, with further declines in the summer months. This decline has left Kimmel trailing behind competitors like Stephen Colbert and Greg Gutfeld. The show has been suspended by ABC following controversial comments made by Kimmel, but the ratings trend was already downward before this incident.