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Jimmy Kimmel Live! may be coming to an end. While getting ready to host the Oscars for a fourth time, Kimmel spoke about the possibility of walking away from the ABC late-night series once his contract ends in two years.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! series was renewed through its 23rd season in September 2022. The renewal made Kimmel one of American television’s longest-running talk show hosts. The series premiered in January 2003.

Kimmel said the following about ending his time on the ABC series, per The Los Angeles Times:

“It’s hard to yearn for it when you’re doing it. [Laughs] Wednesday night, I was very tired and I had all these scripts to go through — I had to revise and rewrite all these pitch ideas for the Oscars — and I was literally nodding off onto my computer. In those moments, I think, ‘I cannot wait until my contract is over.’ But then, I take the summer off or I go on strike, and you start going, ‘Yeah, I miss the fun stuff.’ …

I think this is my final contract. I hate to even say it, because everyone’s laughing at me now — each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good. That seems like enough.”

Kimmel also spoke about what he would do next if he does end Jimmy Kimmel Live! He said the following:

“I don’t know exactly what I will do. It might not be anything that anyone other than me is aware of. I have a lot of hobbies — I love to cook, I love to draw, I imagine myself learning to do sculptures. I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms in my own bed, I’m going to think, ‘Oh, I was never able to get to this, and I was never able to get to that.’ I just know it about myself.”

What do you think? Do you enjoy Kimmel’s late-night series? Would you be sad to see it end?