When the WGA went on strike on May 2nd, the late night hosts stopped doing their talk shows on solidarity.
Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver got together and started the podcast Strike Force Five to raise money for the strikers.
Now that the WGA strike is over, the hosts announced today they are ready to go back to work on Monday.
FLASH!
THEIR MISSION COMPLETE, THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF STRIKE FORCE 5 WILL RETURN TO THEIR NETWORK TELEVISION SHOWS THIS MONDAY 10/2, AND ONE OF THEM TO PREMIUM CABLE ON 10/1.
OF COURSE, IN A GREATER SENSE, THE STRIKE FORCE 5 WILL NEVER END, BECAUSE STRIKE FORCE 5 IS NOT A PLACE, STRIKE FORCE 5 IS NOT A PEOPLE, STRIKE FORCE 5 IS BARELY A PODCAST…NAY, STRIKE FORCE 5 IS AN IDEA. AN IDEA THAT FIVE MEN COULD TALK ON TOP OF EACH OTHER FOR 12 EPISODES, AND MAYBE SOMEBODY WOULD LISTEN. AS WE SAY GOODBYE, WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE SOMEBODIES.
TRULY, YOU WERE THE HEROES. WE WERE MOSTLY THE HEROES, BUT YOU WERE IN THERE, TOO.
WE WANT TO THANK THE ENTIRE STRIKE FORCE 5 TEAM, OUR WIVES, OUR SPECIAL GUESTS, AND APOLOGIZE TO CONAN O’BRIEN, WHO AGREED TO DO THE POD, BUT STEPHEN FORGOT TO SEND HIM ANY POSSIBLE DATES, AND THEN THE STRIKE ENDED.
GOODBYE FOR NOW, AND HELLO FOR LATER, BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE A FEW MORE EPISODES, UNLESS RYAN REYNOLDS CUTS OFF THE CASH.
THIS IS THE STRIKE FORCE 5 SIGNING OFF AND THE LATE NIGHT 5 SIGNING BACK ON…WHAT WAS THE PASSWORD TO MY WORK COMPUTER AGAIN? BABYSOMOZA?
STEPHEN COLBERT, JIMMY FALLON, JIMMY KIMMEL, SETH MEYERS, JOHN OLIVER
P.S. BOOMPoor Conan. First, Leno, and now the rest of them. He deserves better.
Back to the Five. You know they are super excited to get back and talk about all the GOP news they missed. And so much has gone on in five months.
Jimmy Kimmel was supposed to join his fellow late night talk show and Strike Five Force hosts Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert on Saturday in Las Vegas to do a live performance to raise money for the striking actors and writers.
However, he was struck with something that is preventing him from going. “Well, Las Vegas, I got Covid, and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend’s Strike Force Three show,” Kimmel wrote. “I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick. Thanks to all who purchased tickets, everyone will get full refunds and we will try to reschedule if possible.”
Hopefully, he will be better soon. And that by the time they reschedule, the strikes will be over!
The late night hosts had the summer off because of the strikes and decided to try new things.
Jimmy Kimmel revealed on the Strike Force Five podcast with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver that he tried to get a vasectomy this summer.
What happened? Did he have a sitcom moment where he runs out of the doctor’s office in fright?
Nope. He went in, he shaved, he was ready, but the doctor wasn’t. You see, the first visit is just a consultation.
But the story gets better. He gets into the Uber, and his driver hears that he is going to get snipped. So he tells Kimmel that he should try semen retention instead.
Wait, the driver also told him that he manifested that Kimmel would be in his car, and it happened.
James Corden said goodbye to late night television yesterday. But before he signed off from The Late Late Show, he was visited by the Ghosts of Late Night Present: Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon in his bedroom.
They instructed him that he cannot share the late night secrets with the world. But, they also showed him a glimpse of his future, thanks to the Ghost of Late Night Past, David Letterman.
And if that was not enough, we got a glimpse of what his life will be like in six months. And he is not going to be alone because Trevor Noah got visited by the same Ghosts.
This was a brilliant idea, and I am happy they all agreed to do it. But I have one question, where was Conan O’Brien???
