Guillermo Rodriguez, the popular sidekick to Jimmy Kimmel on his late night show, was spotted "looking downcast" in an alley behind the show's studio in the moments after ABC suspended the program on Wednesday, September 17, according to photos obtained by the New York Post. Rodriguez, 54, wore a T-shirt and sneakers in the photos, which showed him staring at his phone, then getting into his car and driving away with the windows rolled up. The Post reports other staffers on the show soon followed him out of the parking lot with their gear in tow. Also on Wednesday, NBC 4 Los Angeles captured video of Kimmel, 57, climbing into the backseat of a waiting black Chevy Silverado that soon whisked him off the lot as well. Rodriguez began working on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2003 when he was a parking lot security guard. He was working three jobs at the time, and it wasn't until he was caught taking a nap on the clock that he got his big break. What Did Jimmy Kimmel Say About Charlie Kirk? Comments Explained "When I got this job, I was in the parking lot and I was sleeping in [Dicky Barnett's] car, the announcer," Rodriguez recalled to People in 2021. "He opened the door, he goes, 'What are you doing here?' I go, 'I'm trying to sleep - I'm so sorry!'" "Dicky went straight and told Jimmy, 'Listen, this guy was sleeping in my car,'" he continued. "And Jimmy said, 'We got to put this guy in the show.'" ABC confirmed to Us Weekly on Wednesday that it has taken Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air "indefinitely" amid backlash from comments the host made on Monday, September 15, about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and his accused killer, Tyler Robinson. "The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said. "In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving." Jimmy Kimmel's Planned Guests This Week Before ABC Pulled Show Off Air Kimmel also showed a clip of President Donald Trump talking about White House ballroom construction when asked how he was coping with his friend's death. "He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction," Kimmel said. "It's demolition, construction." "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend," he added. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish." Robinson turned himself in to police earlier this month after Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10. He has been charged with capital offense aggravated murder and felony discharge of a firearm. He also faces multiple counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child. Us Weekly has reached out to ABC and reps for Kimmel for comment. Neither Rodriguez nor Kimmel has publicly addressed the suspension.