Minutes before NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon was slated to appear on a New York conference panel Thursday, organizers announced he was out of the lineup.

“Unfortunately, Jimmy Fallon is no longer able to attend today’s session,” the Fast Company Innovation Festival said in a statement.

Fallon and marketing executive Bozoma St. John had been slated to discuss Fallon’s new advertising-focused NBC series On Brand . Representatives of the festival at the New York venue told a Deadline reporter there would be no comment on the situation beyond the statement.

The schedule shift came the morning after the jolt of ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel from the air indefinitely, the most dramatic reaction yet to public comments about the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk . The T

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