The first episode of the Strike Force Five podcast, written and hosted by the five Late Night Show hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver, was released on Spotify on Wednesday, August 30th.
Five famous hosts have teamed up to raise funds for their staff and show workers who have been left out of work and out of work since the Writers Guild of America strike began on May 2. The WGA, which represents 11,500 screenwriters, joined the protests on July 14 by members of the Screen Actors Guild-Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), resulting in the largest work interruption. American television and film industry after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
In this context, many stars are contributing their own resources to the cause in order to ensure that lesser-known and professional strikers have the opportunity to assert their demands. And two friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are a case in point: In the first episode of Strike Force 5, Kimmel said the two actors offered to pay salaries out of their own pockets for a weekly production of Jimmy. Kimmel Live! An offer that the host, however, chose not to accept, no matter how touching and sincere it was: “I feel like it’s not their responsibility,” Kimmel said.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon