For more than two decades, Jimmy Kimmel has been a nightly constant, laughing through elections, scandals, and heartbreak with the ease of someone who always planned to be there tomorrow. Now, at 56, he’s openly wondering if tomorrow on Jimmy Kimmel Live! should even exist. “That seems like enough,” he said about the show’s 21-year run, and it didn’t sound like a joke. It sounded like a man feeling the weight of time.

He isn’t teasing a blockbuster new project or a political run. Instead, he talks about cooking, drawing, ordinary hobbies that suddenly feel radical for someone who’s lived under studio lights. The uncertainty is jarring: no farewell tour, no scripted exit, just the possibility that in a little over two years, he’ll simply walk away. And maybe, for the first time, the punchline is that he finally chooses a life no longer lived on camera.