Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert like each other too much to be rivals

Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert
(Image credit: YouTube/The Late Show/CBS)

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting his late night show in Brooklyn next week, so he used his East Coast trip as an excuse to pop by Stephen Colbert's The Late Show on Friday.

The two hosts acknowledged their friendship comes in stark contrast to the longtime feud between two ghosts of late night past, David Letterman and Jay Leno.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.