Late-Night Hosts Switch To Podcasting To Fund Out-Of-Work Staff; Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers & Oliver Set Spotify Series

Bill Maher has faced a lot of criticism after revealing that he was bringing Real Time back to HBO next week.

Bill Maher is going back to work without his writers.

The late-night power players behind the new “Strike Force Five” podcast are temporarily losing two members for a special live on-stage event.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Three of the “Strike Force Five” are taking their show on the road. Late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel will host a one-night-only event, dubbed “Strike Force Three,” at the Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 23 — marking the first time the trio have been on stage together at the same time. Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, John Oliver and Seth Meyers recently launched the podcast “Strike Force Five,” as a way to help support the staffs of their respective shows.

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

McKinley Franklin editor “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” has been acquired by CBS to temporarily take over the 12:37 a.m. timeslot vacated by “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” That timeslot will eventually be replaced with a new version of the former Comedy Central series “@midnight” — but after the Hollywood strikes are resolved. For now, “Comics Unleashed” will fill the slot in a limited run with nightly airings beginning on Monday, Sept.

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.

Long-running syndicated comedy talk show Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen is joining the CBS fall late-night lineup for a limited run during the strikes. The show will air nightly with two back-to-back episodes each night beginning Monday, September 18 from 12:37-1:37 AM, ET/PT following repeats of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on the CBS network and streaming on Paramount+. The Late Late Show formerly aired in the timeslot. All late-night shows have been airing repeats since the strikes began.

Some very big Hollywood stars started off on Saturday Night Live!

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.

Whelp, it looks like you can add The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to the list of talk shows allegedly fostering a toxic work environment. Just like Ellen DeGeneres and James Corden before him, several current and former employees have come forward about their horrible experiences working for Jimmy Fallon. Get ready, Perezcious readers, because there are a lot of bombshell details to cover here!

Jimmy Fallon is the latest late-night host being called out for his alleged workplace behaviour in a new bombshell Rolling Stone exposé.

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

EXCLUSIVE: Amber Ruffin has another scripted project in the works with NBCUniversal.

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.

ongoing Writers Guild Of America (WGA) strike took place.Speaking on the newly launched Strike Force Five podcast on Spotify – featuring Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver – Kimmel spoke of his initial plans to retire from hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this year, though his perspective on the matter has since changed due to the ongoing writers’ strike.“I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started,” Kimmel said on the premiere episode of the Strike Force Five podcast. “And now, I realize, Oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work.”Seth Meyers quipped in response: “Kimmel, c’mon, you are the Tom Brady of late night… you have feigned retirement.” However, Kimmel insisted that he was serious about retiring: “I was serious, I was very, very serious.”In early May, the WGA announced that it was going on strike; Hollywood’s first in 15 years.

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 almost stepped away from the late night television.