Article continues below advertisementLate-night host Jimmy Kimmel revealed how he responded to the backlash over his "widow" joke. According to fellow late-night host John Oliver, who spoke on the Monday, May 11, episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Kimmel used those words to describe the surge of criticism and calls for his firing that he woke up to following Melania Trump's statement. Kimmel described waking up to a "Twitter vomit-storm" following a conservative media firestorm that characterized his joke as a "call to assassination.