TV’s bevy of late-night talk show hosts took aim at the strikes in their first monologues in 5 months.
15.09.2023 - 23:41 / deadline.com
Bill Maher has faced a lot of criticism after revealing that he was bringing Real Time back to HBO next week.
Called out by a slew of striking writers on social media, the WGA called the move “disappointing” and said that they would picket the show on its return.
But the other question that Maher’s move provoked was whether the remaining late-night hosts – The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Late Night’s Seth Meyers and Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver – would make a similar move.
As it stands, the answer seems to be a hearty ‘No’.
The group has got together regularly after teaming up to launch the Strike Force Five podcast on Spotify, established to help pay for their staffs during the strike. The fivesome has not explicitly talked about returning or not returning to work on the podcast, but it’s clear that they all support the WGA and its fight against the studios.
Meyers, a member of the WGA who has been regularly seen on the picket line, told Deadline earlier this summer, “As a writer who identifies as a writer, there would be no trying to get around [it]. I wouldn’t be looking for loopholes to figure out how to write [the show],” he said.
Deadline has spoken to sources close to some of the hosts and while they would like to return to work, they have no interest in returning to work during a strike.
Could they? Theoretically, yes, under the same rules that allow Maher to return as the host on Real Time.
The difference? Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers and Oliver are more in line with the WGA’s demands than Maher, who previously called some of the WGA’s demands “kooky”.
There’s also far few late-night shows on air in 2023 than there was even a few years ago. Full Frontal’s S
TV’s bevy of late-night talk show hosts took aim at the strikes in their first monologues in 5 months.
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