Jimmy Kimmel has reportedly decided not to compete with Stephen Colbert ’s final late night show. The last ever episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is set to air on CBS on Thursday, May 21. LateNighter reports that Kimmel told the site personally that “his ABC show will not produce a new episode next Thursday out of deference to Colbert’s sendoff.” Jimmy Kimmel Live! is expected to air a rerun that evening. The decision has some precedence, with Kimmel also choosing not to take the air in 2015 opposite David Letterman’s final show as host of The Late Show . NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon remains set to air a new episode next Thursday. The Independent has approached Kimmel and Fallon for comment. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel onstage together during the Emmy Awards in 2019 (Getty) It was announced last July that CBS would be canceling the long-running Late Show .…