Jimmy Kimmel grew emotional while thanking viewers during the final 2025 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, reflecting that it had been a “strange and hard year.”
During Thursday’s (December 18) opening monologue, the late-night host told his studio audience, “This has been a strange year. It’s been a hard year. We’ve had some lows, we’ve had some highs. For me, maybe more than any year of my life.”
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