Howard Stern and Jimmy Kimmel did not hold back while discussing their thoughts on ex-Live host Regis Philbin and his drama with the hit show.

On the Monday, October 21 episode of his Sirius XM show, the Shock Jock brought up ABC’s talk show, Live with Kelly and Ryan.

“Don't you think they should have Regis on that show once a year at least? I don't understand why they don't,” Stern questioned.

“Why the abandonment?” co-host Robin Quivers asked.

“Why the abandonment?” Stern, 65, echoed.

“You think he still wants to be on?” Kimmel, 51, asked.

“Yes, I do,” Stern replied. “I think he would've liked to at least be associated in some way with the show and remind people that he's the guy who started that whole thing.”

RadarOnline.com readers know Philbin, 88, founded Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee in 1988.

When Kathie Lee Gifford left in 2001, he remained as co-host and executive producer to what then became Live with Regis and Kelly.

Philbin was eventually ousted in 2011, but the show went on without him.

Kelly Ripa stayed on, and in 2017, Ryan Seacrest was brought in as her co-anchor. The show is now called Live with Kelly and Ryan.

his feud with Ripa.

When asked if the two still kept in touch, he candidly replied: “Not really, no.”

“Never once did they ask me to go back,” he added, despite the fact that he hosted the daytime talk show for 28 years.

“She got very offended when I left. She thought I was leaving because of her,” Philbin said of Ripa. “I was leaving because I was getting older, and it wasn’t right for me anymore.”

At the time, Philbin was also asked if he would ever make a Live! comeback.

“I don’t know. How often would it be? Would it be every night? Every day?” Philbin said. “I do miss it. There are times when I really miss it, and wish I’d never stopped. But, you know, I just figured it was time to let go.”

But as Radar exclusively reported earlier this year, Philbin has been asking Gifford, 66, to caught avoiding him at a star-studded cocktail party in 2017.