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“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.

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.

Marnie Stern has announced her upcoming LP ‘The Comeback Kid’ and has shared the lead single, ‘Plain Speak’.‘The Comeback Kid’ marks Stern’s first new music in a decade. The LP serves as a follow-up to her 2013 ‘The Chronicles of Marnia’.

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.

As Hollywood waits for the WGA’s official response to the AMPTP’s latest contract offer, a ray of sunlight emerged for comedy/variety writers in the latest back-and-forth.

Posted on X (formerly Twitter), the two-and-a-half-minute sketch, originally shown at the 2010 ESPY Awards, was inspired by the Oscar-nominated film based on the life of ex-NFL player Michael Oher, who was taken in by the Tuohy family as a teenager.Manning stood in place of actor Quinton Aaron’s role as Michael Oher.“She likes to collect football players. And now this quarterback is in a game of life and death,” the text narration read.

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

Craig Ferguson knows a thing or two about strikes. The comedian hosted CBS’ The Late Late Show during the 2007/2008 writers strike.

Tina Fey reportedly has a shot at taking over “Saturday Night Live” for Lorne Michaels.

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.

interview with the New York Times, the producer said, “I have no plans to retire.”A year before that, however, he left the door open to a new phase away from Studio 8H. Michaels told CBS Morning‘s Gayle King, “I think I’m committed to doing the show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years… I’d like to see that through and I have a feeling that would be a really good time to leave.”The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is coming in the fall of 2024, and during that year the all-powerful Michaels will turn 80 years old. When it wraps up, another US presidential election — when “SNL” reliably gets its best ratings — likely featuring Donald Trump will have just ended.

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.

Olivia Munn is learning to love “getting dressed up again”  after  giving birth to her son, Malcolm, in  November 2021 . 

Zendaya may be one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, but according to Tom Holland, she’s one of the worst cooks.

Jon Stewart is back in the late-night Emmy race.

Pete Davidson and Colin Jost have a 5-year plan for the ferry that they purchased together.

Pete Davidson may not have thought it through when he decided to join Colin Jost in buying a massive ferry, but more than a year after the purchase the comedian's got plans in motion, and he admits it's because he's feeling the pressure!While talking to Seth Meyers on his  podcast, the 29-year-old comedian for the first time shared some specifics when it comes to what he and Jost plan to do with the Staten Island Ferry they invested in back in January 2022 (after he and Jost got "very stoned").«So, we just got all the plans built,» Davidson said. «We had them do one of those computer generated, you know, show-you-what-it-could-be type of thing. And now we're out to a few people and it seems like it's all going well, but it's definitely five years away.»The goal, Davidson said, is to transform the ferry into a floating party vessel.«We wanna be able to dock it from April to September, maybe October, in New York and it will be like a restaurant.

Pete Davidson may not have thought it through when he decided to join Colin Jost in buying a massive ferry, but more than a year after the purchase the comedian's got plans in motion, and he admits it's because he's feeling the pressure!While talking to Seth Meyers on his  podcast, the 29-year-old comedian for the first time shared some specifics when it comes to what he and Jost plan to do with the Staten Island Ferry they invested in back in January 2022 (after he and Jost got "very stoned").«So, we just got all the plans built,» Davidson said. «We had them do one of those computer generated, you know, show-you-what-it-could-be type of thing. And now we're out to a few people and it seems like it's all going well, but it's definitely five years away.»The goal, Davidson said, is to transform the ferry into a floating party vessel.«We wanna be able to dock it from April to September, maybe October, in New York and it will be like a restaurant.

What ever happened to the decommissioned Staten Island ferry that Pete Davidson and Colin Jost purchased back in early 2022?

Pete Davidson‘s mom, Amy Davidson, is devoted to her son — so devoted that she once made a burner account to clap back at trolls complaining about his Saturday Night Live performances.

Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s purchase of an old Staten Island Ferry made waves. But plans for the project have been in drydock for a while.