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Late-night staffs should see a few more dollars in their pocket after three of the major hosts are planning a Las Vegas extravaganza.

It’s been two weeks since the launch of “Strike Force Five”, the featuring late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver.

Following the release of a new Rolling Stone exposé, in which two current and 14 former staffers at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” opened up about host Jimmy Fallon’s alleged erratic behaviour and the reported “toxic workplace” at the late-night show, multiple current producers and assistants at the show gave statements to ET saying that the article “misrepresents” their experiences in the same workplace.

Move over, Justice League and The Avengers. There’s a new group of superheroes in town, and they’re already making a splash.

Strike Force Five, alongside fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Seth Meyers.“I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started,” Kimmel said. “And now, I realize, oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work. You know when you are working, you think about not working.”Meyers, 49, then inquired, “C’mon, you are the Tom Brady of late night…you have feigned retirement….

“Strike Force Five” is a go.

Jimmy Kimmel found help in one of Hollywood’s strongest duos: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are willing to open their wallets in order to aid many of Jimmy Kimmel‘s staff at Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Jimmy Kimmel just revealed he was about to retire from his late-night show until it was paused due to the WGA strike.

“What would happen if five of America’s top 11 most-beloved talk show hosts all talked on top of each other for an hour? You’re about to find out,” said Jimmy Kimmel in the opening of Strike Force Five, a podcast from the major late-night hosts.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jimmy Kimmel claims he was ready to hang up his spurs as ABC’s late-night talk show host earlier this year — but the WGA writers strike changed his perspective. Kimmel made the revelation on the first episode of Spotify’s “Strike Force Five” podcast, which went live Wednesday (Aug.

Five of your favorite late night talk show hosts are teaming up for a good cause.

Television’s late-night shows have all gone dark since the Writers Guild of America voted to strike back in May, but now several of those hosts are joining forces for a new creative project that will raise money to help pay their out-of-work staffers.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Five rival late-night TV hosts — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver — are teaming with Spotify for “Strike Force Five,” a limited-series podcast discussing the WGA writers strike, which is on the cusp of entering its fifth month. Proceeds from the podcast will go to staffers on each of their shows, which have been suspended because of the strike. “Strike Force Five” will launch Wednesday, Aug.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver are launching a limited podcast series about their experiences navigating the writers and actors strike.

What are all of the late-night stars up to right now?

TV late-night comedy scribe Greg Iwinski, 38, was still only an aspiring writer when Hollywood writers held their landmark strike in 2007-2008.

Felipe Torres Medina, a writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, organized a comedy writers picket outside 30 Rock in New York that saw the cream of the late-night crop turn up to fight for a “fair” deal.

John Oliver digs deeper into the news and cultural phenomenons than seemingly any other show on the air.From the size of Donald Trump’s hands to Chuck E. Cheese’s pandemic side hustle to setting up a fake church for the tax benefits, Oliver has lifted the veil on topics far off the beaten path for nearly a decade.And now he’s taking it to the stage.From July 23 through Aug.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast hosts Michael Schneider, Clayton Davis, Emily Longeretta and Jazz Tangcay gathered on Wednesday, just hours after the Television Academy announced this year’s Emmy nominations, to dissect the news — from the big winners like “Succession,” to the shocking omissions (no Harrison Ford or Elizabeth Olsen), and then the nice surprises (wow, “Jury Duty”!). The nominations were telling on a number of fronts — including the current assessment that we may very well see a beat “Succession”/”Ted Lasso” dominance. Did the voting procedural changes help bring in a wider group of nominees? No. And will voters pick straight tickets of “Succession” and “Ted Lasso” nominees? Quite possible. Who will win the “SNL”/”Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” smackdown? What are our favorite faceoffs this year? (How can one pick between birthday celebrations for Norman Lear and Carol Burnett, for example?)

Jon Stewart may have replaced John Oliver in the Outstanding Talk Series category at the Emmys but HBO’s Last Week Tonight is still up for four awards.