Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg guest-hosted Thursday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, even though the show was one of several late-night programs which had pivoted to filming audience-free in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Mayor Pete addressed the elephant in the room — or not in the room, as the case may be — right away in his opening monologue. "My name is Pete Buttigieg, and I am running to be the next host of Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Now, this is a strange night for us, not only because it's my first time hosting a talk show, but because we are doing it without a regular studio audience," he said.
Buttigieg went on to explain that the decision to suspend the show's live audience was made shortly before he took the stage,
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