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.
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.
Before John Oliver was talking about bleak things are in the White House, he starred in Bleak House. How cute was the 7-year-old in his acting debut back in 1985?
Sex education has been an important part of my life. I can still remember the first time a teacher taught me about it in 5th grade. I remember in 10th grade, kids would hand me their questions that they were too embarrassed to ask in class. When I was in college, I handed out on condoms in the breezeway and gave demonstrations on safer sex. In my adult life, I spent a few years working for a nonprofit that assisted Hollywood with sexual health issues. I know it is important, but others think if we sweep it under the rug it will go away. Sex has been around since the Adam & Eve, and it ain’t going away as much as people want it to. Yet, many parents can’t talk to their kids about it. To make matters worse, they don’t want schools to talk about it either. So where are they are going to learn to protect themselves?
Yesterday, John Oliver took on that issue on his HBO show Last Week Tonight and he elaborated about it better than I ever can. The way he talks about it makes sense, the way I express it comes out with anger. How can states tell kids, it is not OK to be gay? Or tell them that abstinence is the only way. It is the best way, not the only way. We need to protect the next generation. Because let’s be honest how many of you waited until your wedding night? How many of you were prepared for your first time? Don’t you want your loved ones to know how to use a condom, so that their risk of an STD and/or pregnancy is greatly reduced. What happens if you don’t talk to your kids about sex? I don’t maybe something like what allegedly happened to The Duggars.
I am not saying that kids should have sex, I am saying they should be aware of their options. Talking to kids about sex doesn’t mean that they are going to run to do it. It just means they will be prepared when they do.
