EXCERPT:
KIMMEL: "Thank you for watching. Thank you for joining us here in our home in beautiful Hollywood, California, for what is our final show of the year. And this one has been a strange year. It has been a hard year. We’ve had some lows. We’ve had some highs for me, maybe more than any year of my life, but all of us — I’m crying already. Sorry. But on behalf of all of us here at our show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm, and not just for watching. This year you literally pulled us out of a hole, and we cannot thank you enough personally, professionally —
(Cheering and Applause)
This is not an easy — I know there are a lot harder jobs, but this isn’t an easy job to do, and sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose, and it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong. You know, you grow up reading 'Superman' and you learn the value of truth, justice, and the American way, and then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore. But when I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show and the shows that my friends and colleagues do on the other channels, and that it makes them feel less crazy, it makes me feel less crazy too.”