Late-Night Hosts Team Up For ‘Strike Force Five’ Podcast To Benefit Their Out-Of-Work Staff
Something unusual: Late-night hosts team up! Stephen Colbert owns a pair of trousers once owned by the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. It’s a long story, but according to Colbert, his mother dated Somoza before he became a dictator.
In terms of trousers, Jimmy Kimmel once purchased a pair of Gary Coleman’s trousers on eBay.
These are just two of the bizarre facts given by late-night comedians Colbert, Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers in a new podcast called “Strike Force Five” — named after their personal text chain — that debuted on Spotify on Wednesday.
Because both shows have been off the air since the Writers Guild of America went on strike in May, all earnings from the podcast will go to their staff. Mint Mobile and Diageo sponsor the show, and Kimmel stated that the money will come “largely” from them. Kimmel acted as the first moderator, and the hosts will share that role.
“Would it be fair to say that the hosts didn’t get along quite as well as we did in 2008?” Oliver inquired. I realize it’s a ridiculously low standard, but that was a series of dying marriages.”
“What if five of America’s top eleven most-despised talk show hosts all talked on top of each other for an hour?” “You’re about to find out,” Kimmel said at the start of the episode.
“There wasn’t a lot of communication between late-night hosts during the last WGA strike, and as a result, there was a lot of nonsense that went on,” he continued, “so Stephen suggested we get together and talk through our issues or whatever we’re dealing with.”
“Would it be fair to say that the hosts didn’t get along quite as well as we did in 2008?” Oliver inquired. I realize it’s a ridiculously low standard, but that was a series of dying marriages.”
In 2008, the late-night hosts were Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, Dave Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart. Kimmel said their shows were all dark, but Letterman and Ferguson were the first to return to the air, “and we were all mad,” he said.
SOURCE – (AP)
